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Chapter 1 is the first chapter of Paper Lily, following the prologue and preceding Chapter 2. It follows Lacie, a suicidal girl, as the primary character.
Plot
This is the plot of the True Ending. Other endings may include differences in the plot.
Lacie speaks to herself about how the first item on a list is the hardest to cross off. The player is given several choices on what to order, but as she waits for her order, Lacie overhears people talking about her and storms out, going home. At home, Lacie crosses off a list of things she wants to do before she dies, then prepares for a ritual using instructions given to her in a golden letter and asks her brother Hiro to leave for the night. At midnight, Lacie follows the ritual, summoning a bus to take her away.
Lacie falls asleep on the bus, but then remembers advice she found on online forums telling her to not take the bus to the end and gets off at the next stop. She finds herself just outside a forest and passes through it, passing a large tree. She finds a treehouse, where she meets a demon named Rune. Rune tells Lacie that a figure called Red may be able to break a curse on her. Lacie makes it past a locked site and comes out at a lakeside within the forest.
At the lakeside, Lacie finds a goldfish that is supposedly responsible for keeping the area alive. Lacie finds a mer-like creature on a dock, which she shoos away before hitching a ride on a small boat there. The boat takes her to a door with room for many doorknobs. One doorknob takes Lacie to two moths, who wish to kill their younger brother for being too annoying. Lacie disposes of it (potentially non-lethally) and is rewarded with another doorknob.
Following this doorknob, Lacie passes out and wakes up in a cell. Escaping the area through a vent, she finds herself in the middle of a facility. There she meets Sai. Sai drops the first swear in the game and leads Lacie away as a primal demon appears. They find themselves in what appears to be an operation room, where they hide until the primal leaves.
Further exploring the facility, they come across a house and enter, only to be imprisoned by its inhabitant. After breaking free, she explores the house and discovers the story of Miss Knives until bringing her to a complete mental breakdown, destroying the house, which is revealed to just have been an illusion brought about by Knives' psychic powers.
Lacie eventually comes across another door with room for more doorknobs. She puts in the Return Doorknob and goes home.