Hammermouth Games

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Vatican Vigil

A night watch over a small walled church compound, in a fictional war in the 1970s. Guests are lodged under your roof, and there are men out in the dark. You walk the grounds; you can act only on what you have seen, heard, or been told.

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Vatican Vigil is a work of fiction. The compound, the people and the war are invented. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Holy See, Vatican City State or the Catholic Church.

The compound from above on a winter night: snow on the roofs and in the courtyard, lamps burning by the walls, the garden and the city beyond. — The compound from above, on a winter night.

From the game

The gatehouse on a snowy night: a figure waiting outside the gate grille, a guard and the commander with a torch inside, a lamp burning over the approach. — Someone waiting at the gate grille.

A searchlight beam sweeping over the snowy roofs from the city beyond the walls, a figure with a torch on the lookout below. — A searchlight from the city, over the roofs.

The kitchen in the service wing: supper on the stove, the dog by the counter, the commander at the door with a torch, snow in the courtyard under a lamp. — Supper on the stove in the service wing.

The service wing in the orange of its emergency lamps: smoke rolling from the generator, sparks at the fuse board, the commander looking on with a torch, snow outside. — The generator smoking under the emergency lamps.

Inside the infirmary on a winter night: the commander beating down a fire among the beds by torchlight, a fire extinguisher and a bucket at hand, snow outside the windows. — Putting out a fire in the infirmary.

Inside the infirmary on a winter night after a bomb: the wall by the door broken in, a beam and rubble fallen among the beds, dust hanging in the commander's torchlight. — The infirmary after a bomb.