• SANDRA enters her GRANDMOTHER's wagon to tell her a raven is among the gypsies. The grandmother explains the raven's presence, linked to the disappearance of JULIA, Sandra's twin sister, last seen in town with a young foreigner. According to the legend, it has come to help the chosen one fight against evil but will nourish itself on the one who harbors its powers.
• Sandra then is the one who must rid the community of the growing evil that has taken her sister. The raven has chosen her as she inherited half of her deceased mother powers which had in turn been passed down by the grandmother, the other half being held by Julia.
• The grandmother warns Sandra that she and the raven will merge into one at nightfall.
• She then spreads a number of tarot cards on the table and tells Sandra to turn five over. The cards announce a part of Sandra's future as well as the main elements of her quest. One of the cards reveals a hanged man representing a minor menace.
• The grandmother informs her that BORIS, the old bear leader, will show her how to tame the raven and will speak to her about the Ancestral Talisman.
• She says that Sandra must now seek advice and benediction from the old Jesuit, at the church a few miles from the camp.
• Sandra exits the wagon and the raven flies away. She comes across Boris who blocks the path leading to the church. If Sandra approaches the bear at his side, it will amuse the gypsy girl by clapping its paws and standing upright on two feet. Boris explains that she will need the talisman which she will find at the top of a rock, she may only retrieve it with the help of the raven. But the raven has flown away into the forest. Boris gives her an ancestral dagger so she may defend herself from the creatures of the forest.
• Sandra takes a path behind the camp and turns into the forest. She arrives at a clearing where she sees the ruins of a house. The word “guilty” is written in red on the crumbled down wall. In front of the house, the raven is perched on a branch where a corpse is swinging with a dagger driven through its heart.
• She approaches and pulls out the dagger. The hanged man suddenly opens his eyes and seizes Sandra by the neck, in the struggle the frayed rope snaps. She manages to beat the corpse away with her dagger, then kills it. The raven spreads its wings and follows Sandra on the path back where she will be met by other nightmarish creatures.
• Back at camp, Boris, tranquilly sitting on a tree trunk smoking his pipe, still blocks the path leading to the church. She questions the old bear leader who speaks about the pendant (the Ancestral Talisman that the priest will later recognize) which the raven must retrieve to show that she is indeed the chosen one.
• He explains that he will “tame” the raven whenever she has slain enough monsters and retrieved their souls. This will increase her force against evil.
• He transmits the first ability (the command of the raven), Sandra then sends the raven to fetch the talisman. From this moment on, the raven will settle on Sandra's shoulder whenever she stands still.
• Boris tells her that at all costs she must reconstitute the 4 elements of the TALISMAN which will pay the tribute for the protection of the raven (the first being a form of repentance), otherwise the raven will take possession of her soul as payment. He tells her that he will meet her in town with the grandmother.
• In the camp she may also speak to other gypsies whom she will meet later in Prague.
• A priest, reading from a prayer book, is giving a funeral service in the graveyard. Sandra arrives in time to hear condolences being made by the chief commissioner in person (PETROV) to the parents of the child in the coffin. She hears too bits of conversation referring to wolves, ogres and such like. In the background we see some children running out of the church with an old maid shouting after them . The crowd breaks up as Sandra approaches the priest.
• Sandra and the Jesuit's conversation about the growing evil is suddenly interrupted by creatures rising from the tombs. She tells the priest to take his book and get into the church while she fends them off.
• Sandra rushes into the church to find chairs in disorder and goblets upset, the priest is gone. At the nave she hears a thumping sound. Marks on the floor (or traces of blood) tell the player the alter has been shifted and that the priest must be held below.
• On observing the alter, the player will notice a head engraved in the stone. In the room he will locate an object (a host) in a statue's hand. This statue is surrounded on either side by two stained glass windows representing two monsters. The statue is high up and calls for the utilization of the raven to take the object from the hand. As soon as the item is retrieved, Sandra can insert it into the mouth of the head engraved on the alter which opens ajar then jams. Two monsters jump through the stained glass windows to attack Sandra.
• Night falls and Sandra merges with the raven to become the ANGEL OF DARKNESS .
• After the fight, she uses all her newfound strength to shift the alter further so giving her access to a staircase. The Angel of Darkness descends, the alter closes behind her.
• She breaks through a cracked wall to gain access to a series of passages leading to a great hall under the cemetery. Crowley, the magister templi , would like to find out what seduces men's souls, what gives them faith so he may put an end to the spiritual resistance among the population of Prague, and thereon all the populations of the world. He asks the priest to tell the prayer that weakens his sect. As a demonstration of his power, the master raises a hand and points to the crucifix on the wall, the stigmata start to bleed. The priest, before the power of the master, pretends to concede. He asks for his missal to read the prayer. After some deliberation the Grand Master, itching to satisfy his curiosity, orders the book to be given to the Jesuit.
• The priest takes the book and tears out the page of prayer, suddenly the assembly is alerted at Sandra's presence. While she is fighting the priest stuffs the page into his mouth and swallows it.
• A young woman (Julia) huddles up to the Grand Master while he invokes an enormous creature which he orders to kill Sandra and to take the priest dead or alive. He then leaves with Julia who, perched on his arm, gives a last glance at Sandra .
• She kills the monsters but finds the priest mortally wounded. He notices the pendant around her neck, recognizes her as the Angel of Darkness and realizes that the threat is worse than even he feared. He beseeches her to take him to the church before he dies.
• The priest has just enough time before he expires to state what he knows of the Grand Master who has great influence over her sister, Julia. He also tells her she may use the prayer he swallowed against evil, it will uphold her faith. Before dying he utters the name of a Circle and a certain Matthew Franciscus.
• The Angel of Darkness has no choice but to cut open the priest's gut to retrieve the page of prayer. The sun rises through the broken window and Sandra recovers her human form as we hear footsteps coming at the main door. She is surprised by a young man who calls to her with the name of her sister. She corrects him and asks him where her sister can be found, but the man gives a sardonic laugh and flees. She runs over to the entrance and picks up the broken pieces of a wax figurine the man dropped .
• By the church entrance there is a holy water basin where she washes her hands, she then exits the church and makes for Prague.
TALISMAN part 1: The prayer (form of repentance).
• Boris is waiting on the square in front of the grandmother's caravan, in the background there is a bunch of street kids playing with the bear.
• Boris greets Sandra who asks him why the sunlight burns her eyes. He speaks of the influence of the raven.
• Sandra may speak to the children (who will give a generic reply) or else enter the caravan to question the grandmother about the Jesuit's prayer.
• Outside, Sandra evokes the figurine dropped by the young man with the foreign accent. Boris says that the grandmother may be able to comment on it. A boy (Tytcho, the leader of the street urchins), on seeing the pieces of the statuette, interrupts the conversation with an ironic remark concerning a candlestick maker. (From here on, when Sandra passes by the candle shop, she will see the candlestick maker, out of breath, entering the shop.)
• Boris takes up his conversation again and proposes to fetch something (provisions for the grandmother, such as wood) leaving Sandra Pepin (the bear) who will protect her and the grandmother. Indeed, the old man is wary of the men who have been lingering around the square. In return Sandra must watch over the animal, winter being cold and fur coats rare! He says he will be back tomorrow.
• But Sandra is forced to leave the bear attached to a post on the square in order to inquire at the candlestick maker's.
• A one-armed man with an eye patch says she is not the only one in search of church wax to make pretty figurines, he knows a man who pays well for it. In return for the information concerning the sculptor, the candlestick maker asks her to retrieve his glass eye that the street urchins have stolen. He has just run after the little rascal who heads the gang but in vain.
• She finds the bear and the kids on the square. If she tries to approach the kids straight away they will not speak about the eye but about the bear who won't clap for them. Sandra may then move closer to the bear and make it do a trick so making the children more friendly, more cooperative, and Tytcho will evoke their little farce without going into the details. He takes out the eye from his pocket, tosses it into the air like a marble while teasing the gypsy (if you want it, here it is come and get it) before running away. She is momentarily prevented from running after him by the other kids who deliberately get in the way.
• Sandra catches up with Tytcho who recounts the little farce : the candlestick maker refused to pay for the last delivery of church candle wax so they stole his glass eye. He ends up telling her more or less where he threw the eye during the chase and, on leaving, he cheekily quips she owes him a favor.
• In return for the eye the candlestick maker tells her the that the sculptor's workshop must be situated somewhere in “Upper Prague” but that she will no doubt find the young man more easily down at the riverside. He adds, while sniffing something in his hand (a twitch he has) that he used to see him often with and pretty young lady who looked a lot like Sandra but who was so kind… Indeed he has kept a pleasant memory of her… Suddenly, there are noises of men and a painful roar coming from outside.
• Sandra runs back to the square where four men are stoning the bear in order to capture it. Following the death of the priest and by order of the chief commissioner (Petrov), all dangerous animals are to be put down. Sandra asks them to stop, one of the men named DALEK teases Pepin further and the cord attaching him to the post snaps. Dalek makes a run for it with Pepin on his heels while the other men attack Sandra. After the fight Sandra says to herself that the bear will undoubtedly find its way back to Boris and turns her attention to a cape left behind by one of the aggressors. She may pick it up and use it as a disguise to get into the men only tavern down by the riverside.
• If she enters the caravan the grandmother will evoke the incident.
• Only with her disguise may she enter the men only tavern, the raven has to stay outside (“no pets allowed”). If she has already saved the prostitute she will know that the barman has the code to get into the opium den, if not she will have to figure it out for herself. Either way, she will quickly realize that she will have to physically threaten the barman to make him talk about the sculptor who goes by the name of Franz. After some “gentle persuasion” then, he will tell her to cast an eye behind the Chinese laundry further along the quay. He will also tell her the “password”.
• To get to the opium den she has to follow the sordid back streets full of low-life, dealers and peddlers. Along the way she comes across a prostitute being molested by two brigands. On seeing the gypsy, the prostitute calls for help using Julia's name. Sandra may chose to save the prostitute.
• If Sandra manages to save her she will be rewarded by the prostitute telling her the whereabouts of Franz' (the sculptor) studio, “but,” she says, “as his lordship lives in Upper Prague even she can't go there, unless you go by the underground passageway,” (which used to be possible before the series of disappearances). She tells Sandra she can see for herself. If Sandra enters the underground passageway she will see that it is obstructed by a wall with a crack in it (or a an iron gate). The prostitute tells her to try in the opium den behind the Chinese laundry and points the way, Franz is bound to show up there sooner or later.
• If Sandra has not yet been to the tavern the prostitute will tell her that the barman knows the code.
• Furthermore, judging from the prostitute's way of speaking the player will understand that she knows Julia and Franz in an “intimate” fashion.
• If she knocks on the door without the code nothing will happen .
• To enter she will have to be in possession of the password (from the tavern). With the password the door is unbolted and she is shown through another door into an opium den.
• She is told to take a pipe, a divan and enjoy the show – an erotic shadow play of the devil fornicating with a cross between a goat and a woman.
• Shortly after, the sculptor (Franz) arrives and makes his way towards an office across the room. Lounging on her divan, Sandra can only make out voices from within the office without understanding the words. She will have to get up and climb on some crates in order to see and hear what is going on behind a high window looking down to the office. These crates are placed behind a partition out of sight of the doorkeeper.
• She hears that something must be delivered at a certain place tomorrow night without fail or Franz will never see Julia again. The sculptor is told he will be paid once he has delivered the merchandise.
• Franz comes out of the office, orders a pipe and takes a couch. Sandra has to climb down from her spying place and approach Franz to trigger the conversation. On seeing her he at first is speechless then laughs sardonically saying he hopes her friend has recovered from his bellyache. But she wants to find out about Franz' intentions for tomorrow evening. With a twinkle in his eye he tells her to follow him to his studio so they can speak more easily. He tells her that if she can get into the opium den then she can get through the gate leading to Upper Prague where she'll find his studio (in fact, his intention is to lose her as he does not want Julia to be tempted back to her family) .
• He makes off first to “avoid attracting too much attention” leaving her to foot the bill. Before she has time to protest the tavern barman enters and denounces her. Franz sneaks out leaving her alone to sort things out. She will have to fight her way out of the opium den. Night falls through a skylight but she quickly realizes that she cannot merge with the raven as it is perched outside. This has the effect of foreshadowing the episode where the raven is stolen (day 4). Inside the opium den after the fight she may also look for clues on the sect and localize “life-enhancers” for the moment inaccessible.
• Once outside she merges with the raven to become the Angel of Darkness.
• She may go back inside the opium den and destroy elements in the scenery preventing her from retrieving the life-enhancers (she will retrieve them by day in her human form).
• As the Angel of Darkness she now has the necessary force to break through the cracked wall. She descends into a labyrinth of passageways and must face the creatures of the night to get to the other side.
• She climbs a flight of stairs and, coming into the morning light, collapses on the ground at the entrance leading into Upper Prague.
• Sandra is awoken by the raven lightly tapping her ear with its beak. She must locate Franz' studio, the middle-class passers-by look haughtily down on her but if she insists she will find someone to tell her the way.
• The door of the building is closed. She will have to send the raven to a second floor window where, thanks to the “raven's view”, she will see Franz asleep in bed and a key placed on a bedside table. But first she will have to go back to the square to find Boris in order to gain the ability allowing her to see and hear through the raven.
• She will be prevented from getting back to “Lower Prague” by the iron gate separating the two districts (on the surface).
• If she tries to get back by the underground passage she will find it blocked twenty meters from the entrance by debris. Furthermore, she will be attacked by monsters still on the prowl there.
• Otherwise she will come across Tytcho (and gang) and ask him how he managed to get through the iron gate. He tells of a secret passage in Tyn street. But since yesterday evening they don't dare go back through it to their den because of the spooky eyes they saw in the dark. Tytcho proposes to show Sandra the way providing she protects them.
• If Sandra has killed enough monsters Boris will invest her with another ability (raven's view). If her death card is not complete she will have to track down and kill more monsters.
• She goes to see the grandmother in the caravan who turns over a card indicating the next part of the talisman (rebirth and communion).
• The raven brings back the key to Sandra who can then enter the building.
• She goes up the stairs and silently enters the large room full of sculptures where Franz is still asleep. Her moving near him triggers an RTC where the sculptor awakes.
• Sandra tries to reason with him saying they must become allies to fight against whatever it is that has taken her sister and is plaguing the city. He retorts he couldn't care less about the city, it's Julie he's after. He explains how he met her and about their dabbling in black magic and then how the sect butted in. He says that Julia is the cutest little lady in all Prague. He says he is taking her back to Paris with him as soon as he has delivered what those “cranks” (the sect that has captured her) want, and without the intervention of her family. He warns that Julia has no intention of going back to the gypsy caravan.
• He unveils a statuette made of church candle wax, he explains it is for a nuptial ceremony that those cranks are organising for their boss, a certain Crowley. He has yet to make a second statuette before this evening.
• He has distributed other miniature figurines to those invited to the ceremony. He places the “guest list” on the table but prevents her from getting to it.
• There is also the bust of Julia, he jokes that he is now faced with the carbon copy and gives more information on his relationship with Julia.
• There is another statue with a cloth placed over it. If she asks Franz will uncover it explaining that it is a miniature Golem, that no respectable sculptor would stay in Prague without making a Golem. He recounts the story of Rabbi Löw and laughs sardonically about rumours of the “Ogre of Prague”. Having dabbled in black magic he considers it a mere farce and mockingly states he will hand over his soul as quick as a turn of the hand to anyone capable of conjuring up scary monsters. He blames the disappearances of late on hungry wolves – the winter has been particularly harsh.
• He looks at his watch and tells her that he has to finish up if he doesn't want to be late for the wedding. He gives her a clue as to the whereabouts of the ceremony but says she will never be allowed in without an “invitation”. She must therefore find a figurine.
• Once outside, she sends the raven up to the studio and so may read the guest list and the place of the ceremony (the Jewish cemetery) . The name of Dalek (one of Pepin's aggressor's) appears on the list.
• She locates Dalek and asks him where Pepin is. Dalek, taking a step back, tells her the bear will no doubt end up finding its master, then takes up a weapon and attacks the gypsy. After the fight Sandra explores the place and finds the figurine.
• Sandra hands her invitation to the guard who opens the gate. She makes for the building on the other side of the cemetery.
• She sends the raven in through a high window (from perch to perch) to see inside the building.
• There is a ceremony with Crowley, Julia, several members of the sect and a giant sculpture of a Golem. Crowley is holding up the two statuettes to the full moon evoking the prayers of the faithful invested in the wax they are made of. Franz lets out a sardonic laugh, defies Crowley's “fireworks” and demands that Julia be released. He takes out a revolver but is quickly overpowered while Julia goes into a rapturous trance .
• Meanwhile, outside the building night falls, the raven returns to Sandra who transforms into the Angel of Darkness.
• She enters the building and manages to find the main hall. Sandra (the Angel of Darkness) attracts the attention of her sister by brandishing the talisman, Crowley animates the Golem by putting a host (chem) into its mouth and orders it to slice off Franz' head with its hoe. Franz, suddenly realising that Crowley's magic is true, begs for mercy.
• Julia recognizes Sandra (among other things, through the Ancestral Talisman) with a leer, introduces her tall, dark and handsome husband and bids Sandra to join her circle of friends. Franz, meantime, gets his head sliced off. Julia laughs, saying he had such a loveable head, Crowley offers it as a wedding present, Julia is so looking forward to there wedding night of sexual alchemy and fertility.
• Crowley orders the disciples to seize Sandra and commands the Golem not to mutilate her too much, but to bring her carcass back to him, she is family, after all, perhaps he can make a merry match with the sculptor. The newly wed leave hand in hand behind a screen of smoke.
• Sandra must destroy the Golem. Taking the chem from Golem's mouth will immediately turn it back into a statue . She takes the chem.
TALISMAN part 2 : The host (rebirth and communion)