Haunted Hotel: Silent Waters

**Haunted Hotel: Silent Waters** is the twelfth installment in the *Haunted Hotel* series by Elephant Games.

## Plot

College students Bobby, Clark, and Maggie are having a friendly picnic in the woods when they find themselves caught in a rainstorm. They seek shelter in a nearby abandoned hotel, where they find themselves taken prisoner by ghosts. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is driving on a bridge when he has a sudden psychic vision of the fatal quarrel between two men. He crashes his car and wakes up in a locked room.

The man, whose name is Jim, soon learns that he is in the old Silent Waters Hotel, which belonged to the Hillmark family. It was a successful venture during the lifetime of its original owner, but when he died, he left controlling ownership of the hotel to his son Lucien. He made Lucien the heir because he was a hard worker who contributed many ideas to the hotel's success; Lucien's brother Maurice, meanwhile, was more of a slacker, though their father's will stated that he would always be guaranteed a place at the hotel. Maurice took this very personally and attacked his brother in a jealous rage, which is what happened in the vision that led Jim to crash his car. Maurice accidentally fell to his death, while Lucien survived the fight, but the hotel has been abandoned since Lucien died. Maurice haunts the property and has killed others who trespassed there.

Maurice attacks the three students. He injures Bobby, then takes Maggie hostage and convinces Clark that he will release her if Clark can subdue Jim and bring him to Maurice to be possessed. Maggie is Clark's girlfriend, so he agrees to the terms and attempts to capture Jim. When this fails, Maurice possesses Clark instead. Lucien's ghost joins the fray and provides Jim with an amulet that will protect him from the worst of Maurice's power. Jim is able to defeat Maurice, and a grateful Lucien assures him that he can deal with Maurice from this point onward - he will never harm anyone else again. The game ends with Jim and the three students leaving the hotel, and Bobby says that they would never have made it without Jim.

### Bonus Chapter

Jim is out with his girlfriend Sarah when they are menaced by a trio of muggers. He fights valiantly to protect Sarah, but is stabbed in the process and dies. Sarah flees to the nearby Silent Waters Hotel to hide, while Jim's ghost tries to figure out how to help her. He finds the muggers talking to their boss, who tells them to eliminate any witnesses, and he knows he has to save Sarah. Working his way through the old hotel once again, Jim manages to outwit the bad guys and summon the police. A weeping Sarah, wrapped in a blanket, bids him farewell, telling him that he is her guardian angel and has taught her what love really is, and that she'll never forget him. He touches her cheek one last time before departing into the afterlife.

## Characters

* Jim: An ordinary man who finds himself caught up in the strange events at the Silent Waters Hotel - both before and after he dies.
* Bobby, Clark, and Maggie: A trio of college students who take refuge from bad weather in an old hotel only to run afoul of the ghost there.
* Lucien Hillmark: The older son of the hotel's owner, who inherited the building after his father died. Now he's a benign ghost trying to thwart his brother.
* Maurice Hillmark: The younger son of the hotel's owner, who was jealous of his brother and died trying to kill him. Now he's a vicious ghost.
* Sarah: In the bonus chapter, she is Jim's girlfriend who witnesses his murder.

## Trivia

* This is one of just three *Haunted Hotel* games to have absolutely no connection to any other game in the series. It neither references any of the other installments, nor is it referenced by any of them. In fact, it has no characters or locations in common with *any* other Elephant Games property; it is a completely stand-alone work.
* Jim's name is never mentioned in the main game. It's only in the bonus chapter, when we see him meeting Sarah for the first time, that we learn his first name; his surname is never given at all. The only reason we know that he is also the player character from the main game is because in the voice credits, he listed as simply "The PC" (player character).
* Both Lucien and Bobby are voiced by Chris McCann. Chris is better known to Elephant Games fans as being the voice of Dorian Brown in the *Detectives United* games.
* Clark is voiced by Jesse Adam. A few years after this game was released, Jesse would become very familiar to many Elephant Games fans as the voice of Rick Rogers, the protagonist of the *Paranormal Files* series.

## External Links

* *Haunted Hotel: Silent Waters* at the Elephant Games website
* *Haunted Hotel* at TV Tropes
* Elephant Games on Facebook