Shadows on the Vatican
by 10th Art Studio && Adventure
Productions
Walkthrough by MaGtRo February
2012
Gameplay: This is a third person
point and click game.
Before the game starts, see the game settings: display and
sound selection frame. The display frame has device, colors and run in window
choices. The sound has a choice of sound device.
The main menu has comic strips at right that opens, new
game, load, save, options and quit selections.
The options menu has shadows and dialog (subtitles)
selections. The right side has volumes for main, music, FX and voices
adjustments. Click on the save and exit comic strip at top or the back strip
at bottom when selections are completed.
The tutorial on how to play the game can be selected at
start of the game.
The main menu is accessed by the ESC key.
Dialogue can be skipped by left clicking.
The space bar shows all hotspots.
The M (case sensitive - must be capitalized) key shows the
map.
The inventory is at top of the
screen.
ACT 1: GREED
Africa 1996: Dellerio watches over
children greeting the arrival of a helicopter in an African village. James is in
the helicopter. Armed men in vehicles arrive and kill Dellerio. James mourns his
mentor, His Eminence Dellerio.
Meet James Murphy. James is an ex-priest and is now a
medical doctor from Chicago.
Rome 2010: Select to do the tutorial or
not.
Flat:
The phone rings. Pick up the cell phone on the
counter right of the stove.
Cristoforo: James talks to
Cristoforo, his friend from his former priesthood in Rome. Cristoforo wants to
meet at the bar downstairs to talk about the mysterious call for help he sent
to James.
Mario: Mario the owner of the bar
arrives. Talk to him completely.
Learn that this is his brother in law's apartment. He
loans James his brother in law's car. Mario gives him the car
keys.
James notes that Mario has a wound on his arm from
repairing the car.
Treat Mario's wound: Go to the
bathroom at right. Look around.
Take the first aid kit from the open cabinet above
the sink at left. Check-right click the first aid kit in inventory to get:
cotton, peroxide, scalpel and gauze.
In inventory at top of the screen has bible and
wallet already.
Go to the shelves left of the shower and take the sewing
kit (needle and thread) and silicone tube.
Exit the bathroom.
Sterilize the needle by turning on the stove and using it
on the stove. James automatically turns off the stove.
Combine the needle and thread in
inventory.
Use the cotton with the peroxide bottle. Use the soaked
cotton on Mario.
Use the needle and thread on Mario. Apply the gauze on
Mario.
Bar:
Mario shows James his bar. Mario gives James a good bottle
of Grappa. Look around.
Exit the bar to wait for Cristoforo. Get a call from
Cristoforo. He wants to meet James at Santa Brigida's House at Piazza
Farnese instead. He sounds terrified.
Press the space bar and see that the red car is James'
car. Use the car keys on James' red car.
Map: See the map of Rome. You can
jump to any location shown by the pictures. The map can be accessed using the
upper case M key.
Piazza Farnese:
Hear a scream. A nun finds a bleeding Cristoforo.
Cristoforo is taken by the paramedics. He says to James "you were
right".
Guest house: Look at Cristoforo's things
on the floor. See psalm book, strap, notepad, book and blood on the
floor.
Check the book or notepad and the nun stops you. After the
nun's fear of being accused, take the notepad.
Right click to read the notepad in inventory. Click on the
3 7 9 5 written on it.
Right click the book and see that it is In God's Name, a
David Yallop's Essay. Take the book.
Left and right click the blood and stairs.
Left and right click the psalms book and the strap. James
concludes that Cristoforo was pushed down the stairs.
Exit at right hallway to go to the
hospital.
Hospital:
James looks at Cristoforo. On the way out, James passes
Cardinal Brehmen.
Learn about Cardinal Brehmen, the direct superior of
Cristoforo.
Piazza Farnese:
Go back to the Guest House at Piazza Farnese. Enter Santa
Brigida House left of the Church.
Nun: Talk to the nun by clicking
on the pictures below.
The nun is alone at the Guest house. Sister Candida
BigMouth usually helps at lunch. Cristoforo has been here for 5-6 days and
stayed in the library the whole time.
Keys: Left and right click the
window of the key cabinet. Learn which one is Cristoforo's room and see his
bunch of keys. Aside for the room key, the other keys were added by
Cristoforo.
Ask the nun for the keys and she
refuses.
Learn what Cristoforo is researching:
Book: Right click the book in
inventory - In God's Name, a David Yallop's Essay. The book discusses the
death of Pope Giovanni 1, Vatican Bank, the relationship of the Holy See and
Free Mason.
Take the bookmark-Holy Picture of St. Alessio Falconieri
and automatically the other holy pictures used as book markers. Then
read the close-up of the open book; turn the page.
Learn about the US Justice Dept. investigation of
evidence, counterfeit bonds and deposits to the Vatican Bank.
Another page is about a secret meeting that led to Uncle
Giacomo Lercaro's support of Cardinal Montini being elected pope. Learn about
the influence of Umberto Ortolani in the Vatican.
Learn of the sale of the Veneto branch of the Vatican Bank
by Paul Marcinkus to Roberto Calvi of Milan.
Learn how Albino Luciani entered the seminary and what
influenced his life.
Read about Luciani's activities when he became pope; his
investigation into the corrupt and dishonest practices in the
Vatican.
Calendar: Right click the
calendar right of the exit and behind the nun that shows that each day is a
celebration of a saint.
Click the bookmarks taken from the book on the calendar
behind the nun.
Right click the bookmarks in inventory to learn the days
of celebrations:
St. Alexis Falconieri - Feb 17.
St. James the Apostle - May 3
St. Joseph - March 19
St. John of Nepomuk- Jan 5
St. Stanislaus of Szczepanow - April 11.
Decode the bookmark clues:
Combine the bookmarks and the book in inventory to
automatically place the bookmarks in place.
Open the book again with the bookmarks in
place.
Using the day as the line number and the month number as
the position of the word in that line, decode the clue.
Click each word so that James will circle it.
St. Alexis Falconieri's day is Feb 17 (2-17). The second
word on line 17th is cooperative.
St. James the Apostle - May 3 (5-3). The fifth word of the
third line is Ostia.
St. Joseph - March 19 (3-19). The third word on the 19th
line is bank.
St. John of Nepomuk- Jan 5 (1-5). The first word on
5th line is credit.
St. Stanislaus of Szczepanow - April 11 (4-11). The 4th
word on the 11th line is of.
James combines it to form Cooperative Credit Bank of
Ostia.
Exit the guest house.
Cooperative Credit Bank of Ostia:
Go to the Bank of Ostia. Left and right click active
characters and the book on the coffee table.
Anna: Talk to the elderly woman
sitting down. LOL. Mom tells Paola to hurry up. Continue to talk to Anna
Marano. Learn about her husband, the former employee at the bank.
Paola: Exit the conversation and
then talk to Paola.
The bank has no other branch except for this one. The
staffs are usually the children of former staff. Learn about Paola's father
displeasure that Paola is working at the bank.
The bank receives funds for charity from the IOR-Vatican
Bank.
James comments that Cristoforo was following this
clue.
Anna: Talk to Anna Marano-mom
again. Anna says that a man- Cristoforo talked to her at her home and asked
her the same questions that James asked Paola.
Learn that Cristoforo got a book that has some pages with
notes written by her husband in exchange for the Book of Prayers that is on
the coffee table.
Cristoforo states that that book of prayers was given to
him by a priest friend named James.
Anna wants proof that James is the same friend before she
would allow James to check the book.
Show Anna the bible in inventory.
Book of Prayers: Pick up the
book on the coffee table.
Right click the book in inventory. Read and click on the
inscription: When you will roam in the darkness, look at the Cross and the
light will extend its longer arm to show the way. James wrote down the
inscription on the notepad.
Check the lump under the inscription. Use the scalpel to
cut the lump and get a small medal.
The medal shows Pope Leone I. James wrote down on the
notepad the Latin Inscription on the back of the medal.
Return the book to Anna. In return, James must have a date
with Paola. LOL.
Exit the bank and go back to James'
house.
Investigate the medal clue:
Enter the flat.
Check the notepad and turn the pages to see James' notes.
Click on the notes to hear James talk about them.
The Latin inscription is translated as The Church of St
Leone of Leprignano.
Do a search about the Church of St.
Leone:
Use the laptop on the table. Click on the web search
engine.
Click on the Latin inscription to automatically type in
Leprignano. Click "search".
Learn about Pope Leone the Great and the new name of the
village - Capena.
The attractions are an ancient abbey, tower and the
church. Close the pages and then click the red button at bottom left of the
laptop screen.
Church of St. Leone in Capena:
Click shift M to access the map. Go to Capena.
James automatically talks to the church keeper inside the
church. Talk to him completely and learn Cristoforo was here several days ago.
He was interested on the lower level-inner area.
Check the drape in the inner area. Use the medal on the
drape and see that they are both St. Leone.
Check the window in that area. It is different.
Try to take the drape and the church keeper stops James.
Give him a donation by clicking the wallet on him. He gives a postcard
and leaves James alone in the church.
Drape: Take the drape.
Examine it in inventory. See a hole on the medallion the pope is wearing and
he is carrying a cross.
Use the drape on the window but James can't reach
it.
Use the drape on the candle snuffer at outer area to get
drape and candlesnuffer.
Use the drape on the candle snuffer on the
window.
Position the drape on the window:
Right click to rotate the drape.
Remember the inscription on the book of prayers.
When you will roam in the darkness, look at the Cross and the light will
extend its longer arm to show the way.
Position the longest arm of the cross on the horizontal
bar of the window.
The light beam focuses on a niche on the base of the
archway.
Check the niche: There is a
hexagonal opening on it. James needs a key.
Exit the church and James automatically place back the
drape.
Get Cristoforo's keys:
Go back to Piazza Farnese and the guest house.
See the nun take a swig from a bottle and hides it behind
the plant.
Click on the bunch of keys in the cabinet.
Check the bottle behind the plant. It is empty.
Give the nun the bottle of Grappa. After some trade of
secrets, pick up the bunch of keys from cabinet.
Right click it and see that there is a hexagonal key in
the bunch.
Open the niche: Go back to the
church in Capena.
Use the hexagonal key on the niche. James takes a
diary and a cell phone.
Diary: Examine the diary. It is
the banker Marano's diary. Read the diary.
Learn of the directed funds and DreamRes. James notes it
down. Robert Evola is the owner of DreamRes.
Cell phone: Check the cell phone.
James says that it has a file that can be opened only by a computer and needs
a PIN code.
Check the cell phone & DreamRes:
Cell phone: Go back to James'
flat.
Use Cristoforo's cell phone on the laptop. It wants the
PIN code.
Enter using your computer's keyboard, the number that is
written on his notepad - 3795. Press "enter".
Open the movie file. See a man offered 50000 to get the
papers and then threatened Cristoforo. There is another man in the
background.
James took a copy of the frame-photo of the meeting
that has both men.
Dream Res: Use the laptop again
and do a web search for DreamRes.
DreamRes is a real estate company especially in Sardinia
and Antigua Island. See a picture of Evola, the owner of the real estate
company.
Find the criminal:
Study the film clip. Note that the baddie is standing by
P(arking)) sign.
The other man behind him is gray haired and smoking a
cigar.
Let's check roads that we have been. Go outside the flat.
No P sign.
Piazza Farnese: Jump to Piazza
Farnese.
See the P sign in front of the Amato Gioielli-jewelry
store sign left of the guest house.
Use the photo of the meeting on the jewelry store. James
says this is where the meeting occurred.
Jewelry store: Use the intercom.
A man comes out.
The man is gray haired and holding a cigar.
While talking to him; click the photo of the meeting in
inventory.
Then click the witness-blurred smoking man in the
picture.
Then click the criminal in the picture. The witness did
recognize the criminal but denies it.
Confirm the witness: The man
throws the cigar on the ground and goes back in the store.
Pick up the cigar.
Combine the cigar with the photo of the meeting. James is
convinced that the jeweler is the witness.
Use the intercom again. Talk to jeweler again. Click on
the cigar in inventory.
The jeweler is convinced and says that the criminal is
Maurizio Tarzo aka Massimino. He owns a nightclub at the rough part of town
called Raja.
Follow Massimino:
Jump to Raja nightclub. See that Massimino leaves with his
bodyguard.
Follow the car by clicking on the arrows.
Click arrow that points to: right -
right - left - right - up - left - right - down - down - down -
right.
Massimino meets with a man about an
item.
Get car identification:
The bodyguard stands outside beside the luxury car of the
man met by Massimino.
See a drunken person walk the street and the bodyguard
looks down the street.
Divert the attention of the bodyguard:
Place Cristoforo's cell phone on the bush right of James'
red car.
James hides behind the gray car.
When the bodyguard faces forward, move behind the trash
can beside the luxury car and bodyguard.
Use James' cell phone. James automatically rings
Cristoforo's phone in the bushes. The bodyguard checks that side of the
street.
Click on the luxury car to get James find clues to the
owner's identity. Then click on the license plate. It is dirty.
Use the soaked cotton on the license plate. James enters
the number in the notepad. One character is still unreadable. James enters the
info in the notepad.
Automatically be on the map.
Find the owner of the luxury car:
Get help from Mario: Go back to James'
house. Enter Mario's Bar.
Talk to Mario. James tells him about Cristoforo and asks
him for help in tracing the license plate.
Mario calls a relative named Anita that works at the
police dept. Anita does not have the time to check the license plate since it
is missing one character but she gives access to the Motor Vehicle site with
her log in and password. James enters the info in the notepad.
Find the vehicle registration: Go
to James' flat. Use the laptop.
Click on Motor Vehicle Department icon. Type in using your
computer the user and password on the notepad to enter it on the login data
frames. Click "enter".
Type in the incomplete license plate info as stated on the
notepad - VK-3C*G2. Click "enter".
Check the 2 luxury cars registered in Rome. See that
VK3C7G2 is owned by Evola.
Roberto Evola is the owner of DreamRes. Get his address
also. Aha! Close the page.
Click on the red power button at bottom
left.
Get inside Roberto Evola's mansion:
Go to Evola's mansion -Villa Marina.
Look around. Check the electronically closed
gate.
Click on the camera at left end of the fence.
Left and right click the damaged fence. James can't reach
it but he can use it to gain entrance to the mansion.
Click the garbage bin. Now that the damaged fence is a
plausible entry point, James pushes the garbage bin under the damaged
fence.
Try to climb to the damaged fence but the camera will see
James. Use the scalpel on the camera. James cuts the camera.
Click on the damaged fence to climb over the
fence.
Stop Evola from burning documents:
Evola is burning papers in the fireplace.
Look around and see the chimney of the fireplace Evola is
using to burn the documents.
Use the scalpel on the sheet covering the car to get a
sheet.
Climb the scaffolding. James didn't make it up and needs
leverage.
Use Cristoforo's keys on the scaffolding. James climbs up
to the roof terrace.
Seal the patio door with the silicon tube. Use the sheet
on the chimney. Watch what happens.
James gets Cristoforo's briefcase. Learn about the money
diverted by the Ostia Bank to Evola; without any given to charity. Massimino
uses the IOR account to money launder.
As Silvia:
James arrives in front of his flat.
A woman identifies him from a picture and rushes to get to
him. She is hit by a car.
James tries to help her and sees a gun. She asks not to be
taken to the hospital. James brings her to his flat.
Learn about Silvia.
Answer James in any way.
James asks about the picture of himself and
Cristoforo.
James is frustrated in not getting any straight answer
from Silvia. He turns off the light and goes to bed.
Make a trap: 2 hrs. later, Silvia
says that she didn't finish the job and that they will send another to do
so.
Turn on the lamp on the coffee table at center of room
beside the sofa.
Click on the boxes beside the door and she mentions
preparing a trap.
Take the blanket draped over one of the
boxes.
Take the mop-rag by the window.
Pick up the pillow from the sofa.
Combine the mop-rag with the blanket. Combine that with
the pillow to make a puppet.
Use the puppet on the couch. This will fool for a short
time the ones they will send for her.
Turn off the lamp. Hide behind the boxes at left
corner.
Someone is coming.
Watch what happens.
See excerpts from the next episode - Wrath.
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