Mystery Trackers: Raincliff

**Mystery Trackers: Raincliff** is the second installment in the *Mystery Trackers* series by Elephant Games.

## Plot

In the abandoned town of Raincliff, it's said, there are genuine phantoms who don't take kindly to visitors. A group of university students decide to take a road trip to investigate the phenomenon, only to end up vanishing. The Mystery Trackers send in one of their top agents to rescue the students and learn the truth behind the stories once and for all.

Gradually, the detective pieces together the truth. The so-called phantoms are a trio of siblings - Arabella, Mortimer, and Dorian Brown - who are part of a family with invisibility in their DNA. Normally, it happens that once in each generation, a child is born with the ability to turn invisible at will, and such is the case with the siblings' father Rafael. However, Rafael's children inherited a variant of the condition, and each of them gradually became more and more transparent as they grew older, each becoming fully invisible by their teens. When they want to be seen, they dress in black robes and masks in order to give themselves faces - Mortimer as a plague doctor, Dorian as a mime, and Arabella as a porcelain doll. After the death of their mother Angelina, their father developed murderous hatred for his visible neighbors and killed several of them before his children could subdue him and lock him in a hidden room in the family mansion. The survivors in Raincliff fled, leaving the town abandoned except for the Browns, and the siblings act like ghosts to scare away anyone who does come into town.

The detective also learns that the family is in possession of a rare strain of black roses, whose pollen can cause people to lose their memories. When the college students arrived, Mortimer and Dorian captured them and are keeping them locked up. Their plan is to use the roses to wipe their memories, so they forget all about the 'phantoms of Raincliff', and then release them unharmed outside of the town. However, Arabella has fallen in love with one of the students, Ingvar Vasa, and doesn't want him to forget her. (It's possible that she was the one who reached out to the Mystery Trackers to help the students, but this is not made entirely clear.) She covertly aids the detective in rescuing the students; once they're all in their van, she waits behind the driver's wheel while the detective deals with her brothers. The detective first scares away Mortimer, who is guarding the watchtower, and then climbs the tower to neutralize Dorian, who is watching the town gate and prepared to shoot out the van's tires. The detective uses a tranquilizer to put Dorian to sleep, then signals to Arabella to drive away with the students now that the road is clear.

### Bonus Chapter

After the events of the main game, the detective is still in Raincliff to deal with its other, greater problem. Rafael Brown has escaped imprisonment and is out for revenge against his children and humanity in general. He first kills Mortimer, then captures Dorian and ties him to a torture wheel. The detective is able to rescue Dorian, but fails to prevent Rafael from escaping from Raincliff in an airship. However, the airship crashes and Rafael perishes in the fire. The ending montage shows that Arabella escaped Raincliff, married Ingvar Vasa, and had a son named for her brother Mortimer. Dorian, meanwhile, accepted an invitation to join the Mystery Trackers and eventually becomes one of their top agents.

## Characters

* The player character: An unidentified field agent in the Mystery Trackers.
* Mortimer, Arabella, and Dorian Brown: The "phantoms of Raincliff," a trio of siblings cursed with permanent and total invisibility, who try to scare away anyone who comes to their town.
* Rafael Brown: "The Headless One," father of the siblings, who has a murderous hatred of people who aren't invisible and has killed many in the past; his children try to keep him locked away.
* The prisoners: Five college students who have come to Raincliff to investigate the rumors of the phantoms. The Brown siblings captured them and are planning to wipe their memories. The detective comes to rescue them and find out what's really going on in this abandoned town.

## Connections

* Dorian becomes a Mystery Trackers field agent at the end of the game. He is mentioned a few times throughout the series, and appears onscreen for a short time during the events of *Silent Hollow*. He later becomes one of the three player characters of the *Detectives United* series.
* Mortimer Brown returns in *Detectives United: Phantoms of the Past* as the primary antagonist, much to his brother's chagrin.
* Raincliff is also the setting of the later installment *Mystery Trackers: Raincliff's Phantoms* as well as a portion of *Detectives United: Origins*.

## Trivia

* Raincliff is not given a specified location in this game. However, a map seen in *Detectives United: Origins* indicates that it is most likely situated in Scotland.
* This game indicates that Mortimer is the oldest of the three Brown siblings, and Dorian is the youngest, with Arabella in the middle. The *Detectives United* series later retcons this so that Arabella is the oldest, and Mortimer and Dorian are twins. That series also changes the bonus chapter of this game, making it that Mortimer Brown was not killed by his father.

## External Links

* *Raincliff* at the Elephant Games website
* *Mystery Trackers* at TV Tropes
* Elephant Games on Facebook