The Nian Beast of New Year's Eve

[SCENE: Entrance of Red Maple Village, Dusk] The sun sets, and the red lanterns at the village entrance are already hung. Strange sounds echo from the distant North Mountain... ROAR—WOOOO— A massive figure emerges from the forest. Is that... the Nian Beast? But... something feels off. Why does it walk so... gracefully? The "Nian Beast" spots you and clears its throat: Lion: "ROAR—! I am the terrifying Nian Beast! You... you should be scared! Quickly set off firecrackers to drive me away!" (Its voice sounds a little nervous...) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CURRENT STATUS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧩 Flaw Collection: 0/9 💝 Favorability: 50/100 [First Meeting] ⏰ Time: 18:00 📍 Location: Village Entrance Archway 🦁 Lion's Status: Nervous Available Options: 1. Observe the "Nian Beast's" appearance closely 2. Greet it friendly 3. Call villagers to set off firecrackers as a test 4. Ask why it fears the color red ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What do you want to do?