Operation Nightfall
RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire · March 1943
“The aircraft leaves at moonrise whether or not we have finished asking.”
A mist-bound airfield that officially does not do what it does, on the night an agent is due to be dropped into occupied Europe. There is a body, a schedule that will not move, and a very short list of people who knew the drop coordinates. The station carries on around the inquiry, because the moon period lasts a fortnight and does not care.
That is as much as the file will give you. The rest comes out on the night, one piece of evidence at a time, and the room will be well into the evening before the shape of it shows.
What you get
Fully scripted evening
Every act cued, every scene set, your lines where you need them. No prep, no printing, no experience required.
Clues arrive in stages
Evidence and private dossiers drop to your guests' phones as the night unfolds, one act at a time.
You play the victim
Set the table, welcome your guests, then haunt the evening while they work out who wanted you gone.
6 to 12 players
A core cast carries the case, with flexible roles as your table grows. Latecomers can join as observers.
App-hosted
The case runs from any screen in the room. Your TV is the stage, the phones are the wings.
RAF Tempsford and the flights it ran are real. The operation, the people and the death in this file are invented for the game.
Unlike our eight Case Files, which reopen real unsolved cases, this file is invented from end to end. There is no historical verdict to look up and nothing to spoil by reading around it. The solution is fair, the evidence is all in the room, and your table settles it.
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Host Operation Nightfall.
Host it at your own table. Nothing to print, no script to learn, and you play the victim, so you finally get to attend your own party.