Slaughter Gulch is an abandoned settlement in the Mojave Desert region of the State of California. It is the central location of Alone in the Dark 3.
History[]
Background[]
Slaughter Gulch was built on an area formerly known as "The Field of Braves", a burial site of the local Mojave Natives. A prospector named Jed Stone came to these fields, buried his hands in the Mojave graves and found himself a golden bird.
Word then spread around and a host of prospectors came and dug the ground for eleven days, and slaughtered the local Natives. The town was founded on the site and named after the massacre, Slaughter Gulch. With Jed in charge, he invested heavily in economy and science, with the intention of making Slaughter Gulch the most prosperous town in the region, hiring convicts for workmanship and rising buildings over sacred ground. Slaughter Gulch thrived with its intense gold mining and transportation, which were very profitable activities after founding a train station.
At its peak, it reached a population of 111 (as indicated in the wooden sign at the entrance).
Despite all the success and prosperity, the town came to an unexpected end, when a government agent and a Railroad Company representant were, for unknown reasons, lynched by Jed Stone and his thugs. Tobias MacCarthy, along with the honest prospectors in town, chased them to the mountains, where they were later killed by falling rocks, due to an explosion, which most likely led to the downfall of Slaughter Gulch, leaving the town abandoned and taken by the elements.
Since then, the town started to fall apart and the soil started to cave in, with a big part of the town being completely swallowed by the ground, leaving what once was a "true paradise" completely disconnected from the world.
Events of Alone in the Dark 3[]
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Location[]
- Slaughter Gulch, according to its map, is located in a mountainous region, in the middle of a canyon.
- It is very likely located in Sierra Nevada, which is located within the Mojave Desert, in the Californian portion, where the game takes place, and holds all the needed similarities.
- As Sierra Nevada was essencial to the Californian Gold Rush, this possibility seems even more likely to be true.
- It is also possible that it is located near the American River, due to its proximity to San Francisco, where Carnby lives and works.
Layout[]
Slaughter Gulch consists of a main street that connects the entire town, with a Saloon, the Town Hall beside a Cemetery, the local Jail and Sheriff's Office, and the Inspection Station at the far end. The town has smaller streets between the buildings leading to what seems to have been a church and other businesses, with only the façades remaining in front of a bottomless gorge that surrounds most of the town.
On the other side of the town, there is a Train Station, with an unfinished train track that was originally supposed to leave town. On the other side of the track, there is a water tank.
Places[]
Main Street[]
Saloon[]
- Barroom
Cellar[]
Jail[]
- Lefty's Cell
- First Corridor
- The Drunk's Cell
- Second Corridor
- The Sheriff's Office
- Ground Floor Corridor 1 (Jail)
- Ground Floor Corridor 2 (Jail)
Hotel[]
- Corridor
- Photo Lab (1st Floor)
- Emily Hartwood's Room (1st Floor)
- Rooftop
Town Hall[]
- Ground Floor
2nd Floor[]
Bank[]
General Store[]
Inhabitants[]
- Jedediah Stone
- Duke Elwood
- John Elwood
- Sherrif Jack Dawson
- The barkeeper
- Tim Burris
- Hutchinson
- Li Tung
- Lefty
- Undead
- The Mutants
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