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After resolving a dispute between the ghosts of H. Yeats, Enid Blyton, Mary Shelley, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. They also come across Raxa, an occultism and computer science college student also investigating the occurrences on the Library, who reports a strange glow coming from a stack of microfilm.Īs McQueen uses a viewmaster to investigate the microfilm, he spots an old case newspaper report with an eye-like drawing, that suddenly makes McQueen start seeing ghosts of popular literary authors across the Library, including Aleister Crowley, W.B. They approach Devon who is talking to a floating book, but he pretends to know nothing on the matter. As they ask the local Librarian, Doris, she suspects a frequently visiting child, Devon, is behind the occurrences. McQueen and Dooley arrive at the Twin Lakes Library to return some overdue books when they discover a storm with a mysterious purple vortex happening above the building, whose lights are also constantly flickering. Alice is returned to her parents as McQueen and Dooley, now recovered, return to the precinct musing "what sort of paperwork covers this mess". McQueen quickly grabs the paint thinner and splashes it on the doorway corner while McPhiend is within, trapping her in the Darkside. McQueen manages to fool McPhiend into getting him and Alice to the real world, under the pretense of having to drag Dooley within as well. However, Alice, while exploring, unintentionally entered the doorway as the shelf holding paint thinner collapsed and sprayed at the wall, cleaning a part of the drawing and closing the doorway, trapping Alice within. It is revealed that McPhiend intended to use the doorway to trap both Alice's parents and take Alice into custody as a legal guardian, thus gaining access to the Jones' inheritance. McQueen completes it using the page as reference, opening a door to the Darkside in which he finds Alice within.Īs they prepare to leave, Alice and McQueen are cornered by McPhiend, who knocked out Dooley while he was at door cover duty. As McQueen and Dooley search the house, they discover both a blacklight lamp and pencil, which they test at the upper attic, revealing a door-like drawing on the wall. When McQueen goes to interrogate McPhiend in the master bedroom, he notices something under the bed, discovered to be a page related to occultism. The child, Alice, has not been seen for over a day and there was no witnessing of her leaving the house, even though she was under the direct care of her babysitter, Nanny McPhiend. McQueen and Dooley are called in to investigate a missing child occurrence in the home of the wealthy Jones family. All cases but "Buy Hard", " Polterguys" and " Baits Motel" (which are part of the Bonus Cases made available with an update) are available with the game.Ĭases Malice in Wonderland It also draws strong influence from buddy cop, science fiction and horror movie genres. The game is known for its satirical nature, drawing multiple references to pop culture, including its case names such as " Buy Hard" or " Don of the Dead". Owing to this, the Twin Lakes' police department keeps its own (though underfunded) branch known as the Darkside Division, headed by Detective Francis McQueen and his partner Patrick Dooley, who investigate such cases. Darkside Detective is set on the fictional city of Twin Lakes, a metropolis known for its occasional reports of criminal activity though several of them are discovered to be of a supernatural nature, as the city is linked to an otherworldly ghost world reflection of itself known as the 'Darkside'.
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