Take a seat
Choose a name and a role. Step into Vigil, already forty-seven turnings old, or open a private table for your own circle.
2 minNo account needed
Public world open · Cycle 49 live
The Last Lantern
The sea is forgetting the world. One town is still lit. What your table chooses becomes canon for everyone who comes after.
Runs in the browserAbout 4 minutesFirst three turnings free
47turnings survived
312choices made canon
6turnings this season
0resets for the next player
The shared chronicle
A world that keeps its promises.
Vigil has been played for forty-seven turnings. The people who sat here before you left their choices in the room. That is why the sea-gate is barricaded, why the archive is missing its founding page, and why the boy on the shore is still waiting.
Names leave. Consequences stay.
How it plays
Four minutes.
One turning.
You sit. The table shows you the roads. The world remembers which one you took.
Make one choice
Mara argues for one road. Enna for another. Your vote carries the Lantern's weight; the circle's dissent stays in what happens next.
3 choices1 carries
Live with it
The outcome goes into the chronicle. The Keeper remembers. A character may change their mind. The next turning begins somewhere slightly worse, or better.
Permanentfor this world
The Keeper
An AI narrator with a memory.
The Keeper carries the whole chronicle: who you burned, what the town forgot, which promise is still owed. It can answer as a character, open a private scene, or shape an ending, and still hold the thread.
01
Continuity over volume. Better models mean deeper callbacks, not more text to scroll past.
02
Canon stays human. Turnings are authored and player-approved. The Keeper improvises around those decisions.
03
Costs stay bounded. Bounded Keeper calls. Cached consequences. No infinite generation loop.
Participation
Buy the season.
Keep the world.
One charge per season, so the bill stays predictable. The demo is free. The shared world is what you pay to stay inside.
The Public Table$0
The first three turnings of Season I, in the public world of Vigil.
- Play immediately, no account
- Vote on the canon of a shared world
- Keep your chronicle for this browser
Season Pass$12
All six turnings, the full finale, and your name in the season chronicle.
- Everything in the public table
- Full Season I: six turnings, one ending
- Season archive export and founder pricing on Season II
- Bounded Keeper calls, no generation loop
Founder's Table$29
A private world for up to six keepers, with its own chronicle and invite code.
- Everything in Season Pass
- Private table and custom world name
- Exportable group chronicle
- Founder's mark, permanently
Sandbox checkout in this prototype. Prices in USD. Season Pass is a one-time charge, not a subscription. The public world stays free to enter.
Why this can work
People pay to belong to this world, with these people, and this accumulated history. The Keeper is how that history feels alive. The history is the product.
Cycle 48 is open
The tide is at the gate.
Vigil has kept the light for forty-seven turnings. It needs one more keeper.
Or join the live shared table →
Free to play · runs in the browser · your choices persist here