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lily's world XD Websites

The in-game web is a period recreation of the mid-2000s internet: social profiles, forums, search engines, an archive and a handful of organisation pages. This directory lists the sites the investigation sends you to, what each one is for, and the point in the story where it opens up. Puzzle answers stay on their own pages.

Quick answer

Four sites carry the main route: Lily's World for the blog, Palster for the early social profile, Seclink for the encrypted chat, and the Radiant Path site for everything about the organisation. Around them sit the period extras the puzzles route through, including two forums, a lost-web archive, a video site, a photo app and several separate lookup tools. Every one of them exists only inside the game.

What the in-game web actually is

A browser window inside the game renders a fictional early-2000s internet, and the investigation runs through it. Knowing which site does what is the fastest way to stop guessing at a puzzle.

The browser is a desktop app, and it behaves like one: you type an address, you follow links, and pages can carry links that are easy to miss because they sit in a styled footer or behind a colour change. Two layers sit inside it. The first is the web pages themselves; the second is the set of desktop apps that never leave the machine, such as the mail client, the messenger, the journal and the monitoring tools.

Overlapping browser windows in lily's world XD showing a Palster profile page from the in-game websites.
The in-game browser and its period styling. A Palster profile, a Web Watch advert and a photo album can sit open at once, and several clues hide in the page furniture rather than in the body text.Screenshot from the official Steam listing.

Social sites, forums and archives

These carry the human side of the story: what Lily posted, what other people said back, and what the web kept after she stopped writing.

Social, community and archive sites, with the point where each one opens.
SiteWhat it isWhen it becomes relevant
Lily's WorldLily's personal blog, with a photo collage and a background-colour controlEarly. It is the first thing you read, and the colour control is the start of a puzzle chain.
PalsterAn early social network in the MySpace mould, with profiles and testimonialsEarly, once you have a login for it. The profiles on it carry details that later puzzles depend on.
FlutterA short-message feed, the period stand-in for TwitterMid-game. Two accounts post on it, and one of them holds the clue for a locked folder.
5StarA forum board with a vent section and a section about the Radiant PathMid-game, while you are tracing how other people saw the group. One thread there reframes the whole story.
GirlsOnly ForumA forum where Lily keeps her own threadMid-game, and it reopens later once the four-digit step is done.
Life After CultsA support forum for people who have left high-control groupsLate-mid game, when Lily posts her identifier there rather than on her own blog.
Throwback ArchiveA snapshot service that serves older versions of pages you already knowAround the same stage. An older version of the blog holds one of the game's hidden numbers. One set of guides calls this site Throwback Machine instead, and neither name is official.
LoopsterA video-sharing site in the early YouTube styleMid-game, when an account and a video on it become part of the trail.
HostyAn invitation-hosting serviceMid-game, around an invitation for an event the story is building toward.
InstapixA photo-sharing appMid-game. It surfaces inside one of the game's mini-games rather than from the browser.
live laugh love againA personal blog written by Evelyn TanMid-game, reached from her Palster profile. It is where a family relationship in the story becomes explicit.

Radiant Path pages and organisation sites

The organisation's own site is several pages deep, and most of the second half of the game runs through it.

Organisation, clinic and business pages, grouped by the role each one plays.
Page or siteWhat it isWhen it becomes relevant
The Radiant PathThe organisation's main site, carrying a flyer and a link to its feed accountMid-game onward. The flyer is where the link to the feed account is printed, at the very bottom.
Members AreaA login-walled section of the Radiant Path siteLate. It needs a member login, and one walkthrough records the forgot-password route as an alternative way in.
Divine Leaders and ResourcesInternal pages describing the organisation's figures and its materialLate, once you are inside the members section and reading around it.
Radiant RetreatA page about one of the organisation's eventsMid-to-late, as the story ties that event to a real location and to a business listing.
CommuneA members-only area of the site with its own knowledge checkLate. Reaching it depends on the members login and on details gathered earlier.
Ohio SiteA section covering the organisation's activity in one stateLate, immediately after the commune check, and it is the step before the Incident Report.
Incident ReportThe late-game form that asks for two identifier fieldsLate, after the Ohio site. Its fields are covered on the Incident Report page.
Recent Ex-MembersA page listing people who have left the organisationLate, when cross-checking names you have already met.
Hope Therapy CenterA clinic site with a team pageMid-game, when a name from elsewhere needs confirming against a staff list.
Oberon Plastic SurgeryA practice site with a visiting-card imageMid-game. The activation code for one login is printed on the card image rather than written in the text.
BizsearchonlineA business-registry lookupMid-game, when you need to see which names an organisation trades under.
SeekleA search-results page reached by following a link rather than typing an addressMid-game, as a stepping stone between the registry and the next address.
UpgigA job boardMid-game, where a posting ties a person to an organisation.

Lookup and utility pages

The smaller tools that exist to turn one piece of information into the next. Several are single-purpose and one page deep.

Lookup tools, with the input style each one expects.
SiteWhat it isPractical note
MedboardA physician-licence lookupEnter the licence exactly as printed, separators included. Dropping a dash can fail the search.
findrealpeople.comA people-search engineSearch the initials-and-surname form you were given, then narrow the results down.
CallNowA phone-calling siteUsed to dial a number and reach a voicemail. It is the only place the call happens.
SeclinkAn encrypted messaging serviceBehind an eight-digit code. The late-game fork happens inside a conversation here.
findthisiris.comA small download page printed on an imageDocumented by one source only, so treat the spelling as unconfirmed.
lilybfftest.comThe personality-test link used to recover an accountAlso documented by one source only. The test itself is the memorable part, not the address.

Desktop apps that are not websites

These never load in the browser, and two of them only appear after the story changes the machine.

  • Email, with inbox, drafts and sent folders; the sent folder matters more than most players expect.
  • Messenger, holding the long conversation with Iris.
  • Audio, where recordings sit, including one named after a person.
  • Journal, with dated entries, one of which carries a link you need.
  • Web, the browser itself, and the app that everything in this directory runs inside.
  • Web Watch, a monitoring tool that keeps flagged history and blocked-site records.
  • Recovered Files, which appears after the computer resets and gathers the monitoring data back up.
  • Notes, which holds a code after the reset that it did not hold before.
  • Gallery and Calculator, both used at least once as puzzle furniture rather than as decoration.
  • Dress Up Game, Maze Game and one long-form interactive story, which are the three game-like apps on the desktop.

The desktop changes over the course of the story, so an app that is missing early is usually a state you have not reached rather than a bug. Notes in particular is worth reopening after the reset, because the code it gains is easy to miss if you only looked at it once at the start.

When the browser fights back

A few known annoyances around the browser, and what is and is not known about each.

  • The website window can stick to the top of the screen and cover the Study Guide, Music and Save icons. There is no official fix; guides covering it decline to hand out save-resetting steps, and closing and reopening the window is the usual first attempt.
  • A page that should show a link sometimes needs a new tab before the path to the blog appears. This is reported rather than documented, so treat it as something to try when a route looks empty.
  • Spelling matters more than it should. The organisation's site is Palster in game, and the misspellings Palaster and Plaster both circulate in player posts; if a search fails, compare your typing against the in-game page rather than against a forum.