// THE PREMISE
What this world is
You are the new mister of Pro Voltuna, a fourth-tier club in a walled hill town in southern Tuscany. The town once watched this club spend four impossible seasons in the top flight, and it has buried the club twice since: bankrupt in 1994, bankrupt again in 2011, carried back both times from the amateur leagues on its own shoulders. Twice dead, twice dug up. It is the last week of August. First training is tonight. The first match is Sunday, and the piazza wanted the club legend who runs the youth sector, not you.
The club is caught between three futures. A foreign fund with no name anyone uses, registered somewhere far away, holds an exclusivity that runs to December: its money would clear every debt Pro Voltuna has, and its term sheet takes the badge, the archive, the name, and the boy. The boy is a seventeen-year-old the whole town has already hung, in its mind, on the wall of Bar Aurora, and a second-division club has made an offer that dies when the mercato closes in twelve days. The president, who paid the club's debts in 2011 and has been whistled for it ever since, wants only two things from you: reach January alive, and do nothing that lowers the boy's price.
You win this town the way it expects, one conversation at a time: a fading captain, an unforgiving old regista, a curva that grants a new mister three matches of faith and then judges, a bar where reputations are decided by which table you are given. Calcio here is argued like chess, nightly, under the photographs of 1973. Winning the next match is one task. Deciding what kind of club survives this season is another.
// PLAY PROFILE
What this world plays like
Take your first training session and meet the town's expectations. The piazza wanted youth-sector legend Amedeo Scardigli in your chair. Decide how to work with him, a fading captain, and a curva offering three matches of faith.
The mercato puts a sharper question on the table. Keeping the boy may please the town and endanger the finances. Selling him may clear an immediate problem without settling who the club belongs to. Listen to the president, the fund's representative, and the people around Bar Aurora before committing to a position.
You can pursue the season, the club's ownership struggle, or a derby that carries the town's history onto the pitch. Start with a football decision and the conversation it requires; the next training session and the future of the badge need not have the same answer.
// FACTIONS IN MOTION
Principal factions
The official leadership of the football club, led by its indebted local president. They are trapped between the financial demands of their external backers and the passionate, historical expectations of the town, forcing them to make unpopular decisions to ensure the club's basic survival.
The hardcore 'ultra' supporters who occupy the north stand of the stadium. They see themselves as the militant guardians of Pro Voltuna's soul ('la maglia'), enforcing the unwritten codes of loyalty through intimidation, protest, and elaborate displays. They are the living embodiment of 'Campanilismo' and are deeply hostile to the financialization of the sport.
An informal but powerful council of club legends from the glorious 1969-1973 Serie A era. Their authority is purely moral and historical, passing judgment on the club's present from the tables of Bar Aurora. They are the keepers of memory and the ultimate arbiters of what it means to be 'Voltunesi'.
The official supporters' trust, founded during the club's 2011 bankruptcy and refounding. Representing ordinary fans and small local businesses, they advocate for transparency and fan participation in the club's governance. They embody the town's collective power and memory of having saved the club once before.
The opaque, Milan-based representatives of the 'nameless' Luxembourg investment fund bankrolling the club. They are data-driven financiers who view Pro Voltuna as an asset portfolio, focused exclusively on generating 'plusvalenza' (capital gains) through player trading. Their goals are purely economic and they are indifferent to the town's culture or history.
// KEY FIGURES
People you'll meet
// SITES OF RECORD
Places that matter
The ancient, walled heart of Voltuna, a maze of narrow alleys paved in stone, opening onto the main piazza. Ochre and travertine buildings lean against each other. Life is lived publicly here, on doorsteps and at cafe tables.
Poured from concrete and travertine in 1931, the stadium sits just outside the town walls, overlooking the river. One main, curved stand bears the stains of ninety winters. The pitch, however, is immaculate.
The flat, hazy plain below the hill town, where the tanneries process leather. The air smells of chemicals and work. This is where the club was born, among railway clerks and leather workers.
A newer, more sprawling town on the plain twenty minutes down the valley. It has the regional railway spur and a large outlet mall. Its football club is younger, richer, and built on commerce, not history.
A secret place, somewhere in the foundations of the old town. It is dry and smells of old leather and mothballs. Wooden trunks and carefully wrapped parcels line the stone walls.
// STORY PASSAGE
A passage from the published profile
The roar of the small but fierce Voltunesi crowd washes over the pitch as you stride to the technical area. The sun is still high, casting long shadows as the first whistle blows. Barely a minute passes before the stadium erupts: Nicolò Vitale, sharp as a stiletto, carves through the Terrenera defense and slots it home. GOAL! Pro Voltuna 1-0! The stands thunder.
Selected story passage. Your choices can lead elsewhere.
BEFORE YOU ENTER
Choose a first decision
Start with a person you want to meet, a place you want to see, or a problem you want to understand. You make choices through written actions and read the Narrator's response. The people and places above introduce this world; they do not promise a fixed sequence of scenes.
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