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Lillian Prune
Lillian

Gender

Female

Eye color

Blue

Hair color

Black

Known relatives

Ethel Prune (mother), Mr. Prune (father, deceased), Henri Dijon (uncle), Rudolph Dijon (cousin), Gloria Swansong (cousin), Gertrude Dijon (aunt)

Lillian Prune is Ethel's daughter, the niece of Colonel Henri Dijon, and Laura's college friend from the Tulane University in New Orleans. She is twenty years old.

Description[]

Lillian's father died when she was young in 1908. The way her uncle, Henri Dijon, treated her whenever she came to visit him made her not only think of him as a father figure, but also made Lillian mistakenly believe that she was the special one among those at his estate, Misty Acres.

At some point, perhaps resulting from her father's death and her mother's alcoholism, she encountered an unspecified mental illness and was admitted into an unknown mental hospital. She grew to believe that her family, along with her uncle's employees at his estate, had conspired to get her out of their way. At an unknown point, she was released from said hospital, though she has not fully recovered. A rebellious and assertive flapper, she smokes and hangs out in speakeasies with young men. Outgoing to the point of obnoxiousness, Laura senses loneliness and insecurity in her.

Lillian consider's Celie as the only person within the family that she can trust.

Game Progression[]

Act I[]

After freshening up in the bathroom, Lillian goes back to her room and chats with Ethel about Gertie, Rudy and Gloria's entitlement to the Colonel's Will.. The two have a disagreement over how to deal with them.

Act II[]

Lillian chats with Celie in the Kitchen. As the cook prepares the bread for tomorrow's meal, the two have a private discussion about the family.

Act III[]

Lillian reads a book to some dolls in the Playhouse.

Act IV[]

Laura catches Lillian looking at the Colonel's collection of weapons in the Study Room. Lillian tells the protagonist not to get into trouble when exploring the Estate.

Act V[]

In the Colonel's Bedroom, Lillian chats with her uncle about her perceived status of being "special." She eventually discovers that he raised her in favor of her mother, Ethel, with his view of her being that she was Ethel's "insecure, whiny kid." Angered at this revelation, Lillian coldly tells him, "Au revoir...Uncle Henri!", before leaving his room.

Act VI[]

Back in her room and unwilling to talk to Laura, Lillian writes in her diary. Her diary entry implies that everyone conspired to turn the Colonel against her so they can place her back in a mental institution and put her "out of the picture".

Act VII[]

Lillian talks with her dolls in the Playhouse. She also has seven tally marks on the chalkboard.

Act VIII[]

Laura discover's Lillian's dead body at the Hedge Garden. Strangely, Lillian is wearing the Colonel's uniform.

Major Spoilers[]

NOTE: MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE GAME YET.

Lillian is also the hidden main antagonist of Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest.

She first appears when she asks her friend Laura Bow to accompany her to Misty Acres. Sometime after arriving at the estate, Lillian snaps and begins a killing spree, believing that the easiest way to restore her perceived status as Colonel Dijon's favorite person among everyone in the estate is by making herself the only other person living there. As the game progresses, Lillian murders Gertrude Dijon, Wilbur C. Feels, Gloria Swansong, Ethel Prune, Fifi, Jeeves, and Clarence Sparrow, killing each of them through various yet brutal methods (see table below for details). Additionally, after every murder she commits, she cleans up most of the evidence of the crime before dumping the corpse of her victim down the estate's old laundry chute. This creates a pile of dead bodies down in the old underground laundry room that the player can discover later on in the game.

Lillian's perfume can also be detected in a passageway upstairs.

Leaving a note for Rudolph Dijon asking him to meet her in the hedge garden, it was there that she made her attempt to fatally shoot him. However, Rudy fought back, and after a struggle, he shot Lillian in the chest in self-defense, killing her and ending the murders. Her body is discovered by Laura sometime after her death.

The table below shows the victims that Lillian was able to kill before her death.

Victim Cause of Death
Gertrude Dijon Broke neck after being forcibly shoved out upstairs window
Wilbur C. Feels Hit over head with a fireplace poker.
Gloria Swansong Strangled with her own feather boa
Ethel Prune Hit over head with a rolling pin.
Fifi Drank Cognac laced with fatal dose of Dr. Milliken’s Miracle-Sleep Powder
Jeeves Drank Cognac laced with fatal dose of Dr. Milliken’s Miracle-Sleep Powder
Clarence Sparrow Stabbed in chest with dagger

Lillian's Diary Entry[]

May 27th (that's today!)

Dear Diary,

I'm so terribly upset! I can't believe
Uncle Henri would do this to me! I
thought I was like a daughter to him
and now I find out I'm no more
important than any of those other
creeps! They can't get away with it,
you know...they just can't! Between
you and me, Diary, you know they
have to go...
...because of what they all did to
me. I KNOW they were all in it
together to have me put away in the
nuthouse. I was never crazy, they
just wanted me out of the picture!
Now they have to...

Scoring[]

In order to attain the Super Sleuth rank, Laura has to visit Lillian in the dollhouse in the Acts III and Act VII, observe her interest in Henri's weapons collection in Act IV, spy to their arguing in Act V and "steal" her diary from her suitcase in Act VII. If not, the on-line help system will say You don't know Lillian as well as you think!

Behind the scenes[]

Lillian Prune (Hoyle 3) is one of the bad guys in Hoyle 3.

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