In this religious fantasy game, you play as Father Blake Blade of St. Patrick's Parish in Boston. And since the Fall, you're also a demon slayer and one who communes with saints. St. John Vianney tells you a sloth demon dulled your sword and did other mischief while you slept, but your Communer duties will have to wait until you find out what Bishop DiAngelo wants you to do.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 4 of the game.
SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction game. Please make an honest effort to play the game before reading this walkthrough.
St. John Vianney tells you that as you slept, a demon dulled your sword, stole your whetstone, put a boulder in your garden, and possibly other mischief as well. You need to SHARPEN your sword and get EXORCISING.
The demon is still nearby, and for a short while (at least three turns), you can ask John about any topic.
> ask him about demon.
> ask him about sword —or— ask him about whetstone.(Demon took whetstone towards the river.)
> ask him about exorcising.(You do it by hitting the possessed with the flat of your sword, yes?)
> ask him about boulder.
John disappears.
> x sword. take it. x anvil.
> x bed. x desk.
> x book. read it. take it.
> x dresser. open it.
> x window.
> s.
Rectory Office
> x Colleen. x wallpaper.
> talk to Colleen.(The Bishop waiting for you in the sacristy.)
> ask her about bishop.
> e.
Church
> x board. x list. read it.(pray for Barbara Galikowski)
> x pews. x altar.
> nw.
Sacristy
> x Bishop. talk to him.
The Bishop gives you three tasks to complete: deal with the boulder in the garden, escort Brother Allen to the friary across the river, and perform the Sacrament of the Sick on Barbara Galkowski who's in the Worchester hospital.
After completing a task, tell the Bishop about it or give him an item to prove you did the task.
Also note that the Bishop's orders take priority over your duties as a Communer.
> x wardrobe. open it.
> x cupboards. open cupboards.(You're out of oil of the sick. You need to get some olive oil and ask the Bishop to bless it.)
> x sink.
> se. d.
Reliquary
> x Christian. talk to him.
> ask him about himself.
> ask him about Lagos.(He hugs you when to suggest a way he can correspond with his family.)
> ask him about girlfriend.(It's Katie, our best singer, from Haiti by way of New Orleans.)
> x box.(has padlock)
> x glove.(grants bilocation.)
> x sandals.(grants levitation.)
> x medallion.(grants weight manipulation)
> x tunic.(grants communication with animals)
> x bone.(You can forge metal with it.)
> x silk cloth.(helps women become pregnant)
> x cellphone.(helps with healing)
> Christian, unlock case.
> take medallion.
> u. w. w.
Kitchen
> x shelf.(olive oil is missing)
> x stoves. x pots. x trapdoor.
> e.
Rectory Office
> ask Colleen about olive oil.(She hands you some.)
> x oil.
> ask Colleen about Barbara.(You know Barbara as Basha. Colleen gives you a Polaroid.)
> x Polaroid. read it.
> s.
Street
> x shop.
> nw.
Garden
> x boulder. x petals. x well. x bog.
> invoke medallion on boulder.(The boulder is now very light.)
> push boulder.(You push it into the bog and you find a worm.)
> x worm. take worm.
> se. n. e. d.
Reliquary
> put medallion in case.
> take sandals.
> u. nw.
Sacristy
> tell Bishop about boulder.(He saw.)
> show oil to Bishop.(He blesses it.)
> se. w. s. e.
River Street Area
> x Allen. talk to Allen.(He hasn't been eating.)
> x bridge. x gap.
> invoke sandals on bridge.
You levitate you and Allen over the gap. At the friary, he gives you the rosary. You return the same way.
> x rosary.
> w. n. e. nw.
Sacristy
> give rosary to Bishop.
> se. d.
Reliquary
> put sandals in case.
> take glove. invoke glove on polaroid.
Hospital
> x Basha. x tin.
> read book.
> ask Basha about confession.
> anoint Basha with oil.
At the end, Basha asks both Saint Patrick and Saint Faustina Kowalska to pray for them. She gives you the tin of perogies, "one for each of you"
Then you're back at...
Reliquary
> put glove in case. take tunic.
> invoke tunic on worm.(fail: You cannot talk to worms.)
> u. nw.
Sacristy
> give tin to Bishop.
The pierogies are perfect. Faustina visits you and tells you Barbara is safe and home. That means she's in Heaven. You tell the Bishop. He hands you a pierogi, takes one for himself, and Faustina takes the third. You eat, toasting Basha.
Faustina then tells you to expect Cosmas and Damian in a day or two. That will involve HEALING.
You are now free to take care of Communer business.
> se. w. s. e. d.
Riverbank
> x carp. invoke tunic on carp.
It can fetch the whetstone for me in exchange for food.
> give worm to carp.(You now have the whetstone.)
> x whetstone.
> sharpen sword.(no, do it in your bedroom, in private.)
> u. w. n. n.
Bedroom
> sharpen sword. x it.
> s.
Rectory Office
Your door slams shut and jams. Colleen is acting strangely.
> x Colleen.(She's blocking the entrance to the church.)
> exorcise Colleen.(The demon is now on the street.)
> s.
Street
A Rustboy, Jaxon, tells you your demon went into Demon Alley to the southwest. Another demon is heading here from the west; he'll hold it off.
> sw.
Demon Alley
There's ten other demons here! Jaxon arrives with his shotgun and the other demon's head. Then you feel heat behind you. Saint Michael evens the odds in your favor.
*** The End ***
Extras
Characters
Father Blake Blade is the protagonist, the priest of St. Patrick's Parish in Boston, and the first Communer.
Jehanne, aka Joan of Arc, explains in the prologue that you will be visited by many saints, and given the ability to invoke saintly powers via their relics.
St. John Vianney visits you in your bedroom to tell you what a sloth demon did while you slept.
Colleen is the parish secretary. She's in the rectory office doing paperwork.
His Excellency, Bishop Nick DiAngelo, awaits you in the sacristy. He has some parish duties for you to perform before your Communer duties. You resent his authority, but you also took a vow of obedience, so you will obey his orders.
Christian is the security guard of the reliquary, the Grand Knight of the local Knights of Columbus council, and the only man you know who can match you in a fight. He moved here from Lagos, Nigeria.
A worm is in the divot where the boulder sat in the garden.
Brother Allen, looking pale and gaunt, waits at the bridge for you to escort him to the Cambridge friary on the other side of the Charles River.
Barbara Galikowski, who you know as Basha, fell ill when visiting her son. She's a-bed in the Worcester General Hospital.
Saint Faustina Kowalska is a Polish saint. After you and Basha ask her to pray for you both, Faustina visits you in the sacristy.
A carp tells you it can fetch your whetstone from the riverbed for a snack.
An ochre-coloured sloth demon dulled your sword, stole your whetstone, put a boulder in the parish garden, and possesses Colleen.
Ten more demons of various shapes and sizes await you in Demon Alley.
Jaxon, a Rustboy with a shotgun, aids you in your fight with the demons.
St. Michael the Archangel, wielding a huge flaming sword, arrives at game's end to defend you in battle, as you asked him to do when the game started.
Mentioned:
Pope Sixtus VI sacrificed himself to save a family from a demon.
Pope Sixtus VII, the current pope, founded The Order of the Communers, after an investigative panel verified your claims and a priest from Toronto proved you weren't the only priest granted Communer abilities.
Saint Bernadette aided you with your dealings with the investigative panel.
St. Christopher was a real person.
St. Patrick, aka Paddy, is the patron of your parish, but his statue doesn't look much like him.
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, aka Padre Pio, gave you one of his gloves so you can bilocate with it.
St. Joseph of Cupertino was known to levitate. You have his sandals.
St. Bartholomew the Apostle could change an object's weight. The medallion contains a bit of his incorrupted skin.
St. Francis of Assisi could speak to animals. You have a piece of his tunic.
St. Eligius of Chaptelat showed you where to find a shard of his toe bone. With it, you can forge metal without a forge.
St. Gerard Majella of the Kingdom of Naples is the patron saint of the unborn. Cloths touched to his robe may help women become pregnant.
St. Carlo Acutis is mostly known for healing-related miracles. You have his cellphone.
Kathy is our best singer, from Haiti via New Orleans. She and Christian are now dating.
The Rustboys are a sizeable gang that worships metal. Their territory is just west of your parish.
The Daughters of Wadjet are notorious for flinging flaming boulders from their catapults.
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin have a friary in Cambridge.
Christian's family in Lagos includes his mother, three older brothers, an older sister, his siblings' spouses, and at least eight nieces and nephews. His father died when he was two.
Cosmas and Damian will visit in a day or two.
Rats are sometimes in the root cellar.
Belphegor, a Prince of Hell, is named as the progenitor of sloth demons.
Only God may judge.
Inventory
Relics
All the relics are kept in the plexiglass case in the reliquary. Ask Christian to unlock the case for you.
CAUTION: You cannot carry more than one relic at a time.
To use a relic, INVOKE relic ON something.
a glove. St. Pio's fingerless glove grants biolocation, the ability to be in two places at once.
In the reliquary, while also carrying the book and blessed oil, invoke the glove on the picture to travel to Barbara's side in the hospital.
a pair of sandals. St. Joseph's sandals grant levitation.
At the River Street area, invoke the sandals on the bridge. (Not on yourself as you might think.)
a medallion. St. Bartholomew's medallion grants weight manipulation.
In the garden, invoke the medallion on the boulder to reduce its weight.
a scrap of tunic. St. Francis's tunic scrap grants animal communication. The animal understands your question, and you get mental images from the animal in response.
At the riverbank, invoke the tunic on the carp to communicate with it.
The following three relics are never inventory items, but for completeness's sake, here are their summaries too.
a toe bone. St. Eligius's bone shard grants the ability to forge metal.
You won't take the bone because you don't expect to need it today.
a silk cloth. This cloth that once touched St. Gerard Majella's robe may help women become pregnant.
You won't take the cloth because this is the one relic you cannot invoke.
a cellphone. St. Carlo Acutis's cellphone helps with healing.
You only use this phone in dire emergencies mostly because its battery is low and you have no way to recharge it. No such emergency happens in this game, so you won't even take the phone.
Other items
Castout. It's the sword on the anvil in your bedroom. Unfortunately, while you slept, a demon dulled it.
After you re-obtain your whetstone, return to the relative privacy of your bedroom and SHARPEN CASTOUT there with it.
In the rectory office, when Colleen is acting strangely and blocking the church tunnel, EXORCISE COLLEEN with the flat of your sword.
Your swordsmanship will be put to excellent use during the battle with a dozen demons at game's end.
a book of rites. It's on the desk in your bedroom.
Take it and read it to learn how to perform the Rite of Anointing and Viaticum.
Make sure you have this book with you when you visit Barbara.
a cruet of olive oil. In the rectory office, ask Colleen about oil. She gives it to you, saying she took it for a salad she never had.
In the sacristy, give or show the oil to the Bishop. He blesses it for you, and it's now oil of the sick.
In the hospital, after you ASK BASHA ABOUT CONFESSION, ANOINT BASHA WITH OIL.
a worm. It's in the garden after you push the boulder into the bog; see medallion.
After finishing all of the Bishop's chores to his satisfaction, and after talking to the carp (see tunic), go to the riverbank and give the worm to the carp. It gives your whetstone back to you in exchange.
a rosary. Brother Allen gives this to you after you escort him safely to the friary; see sandals.
In the sacristy, give the rosary to the Bishop, as proof that you aided Brother Allen.
a picture. In the rectory office, ask Colleen about Barbara. She tells you that you know Barbara as Basha, the pierogies lady, and then Colleen gives you this Polaroid of her.
In the reliquary, while holding both the picture and the glove, INVOKE GLOVE ON POLAROID to bilocate yourself to the hospital.
a tin. In the hospital, Basha gives you this tin of pierogies after you perform the Sacrament of the Sick on her; see book, oil, picture, and glove.
In the sacristy, show or give the tin to the Bishop. You, the Bishop, and Saint Faustina Kowalska each eat one of the pierogies in Basha's memory.
a whetstone. It's in the Charles River; a demon threw it in there.
At the riverbank, while holding the tunic, INVOKE TUNIC ON CARP to learn that your stone is in the river, and that the carp will fetch it for you for some food.
After all your tasks with the Bishop are completed, return to the riverbank and give the worm to the carp to get your whetstone back.
Return to your bedroom (where it's less likely demons will be spying on you), and SHARPEN CASTOUT there with the stone; see Castout.
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
This walkthrough is provided free of charge since the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations. Please consider it a thank you for your support!
I create larger walkthroughs too! Please visit my Patreon account if you're interested in helping me create more interactive fiction walkthroughs. I appreciate all the help I can get! Thanks again.
Ko-Fi is a way to send me small one-time donations. Every little bit helps, and thank you!
