The Rise of the Golden Idol: Chapter 2 The Pursuit Walkthrough

In this guide, you’ll find all the hints and solutions for the Chapter 2: The Pursuit in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

The Rise of the Golden Idol: Chapter 2 The Pursuit Walkthrough

Hints and solutions for all cases in Chapter 2: The Pursuit.

Garden Retreat – The Zen Center Rendezvous

Today, we need to complete an overview before we can complete the usual scroll. No one is named here.

Scene 1, Outer Garden

Radio: Rock, Rug, Hit, Pulled, Kiss, Fell
Gardener: Stolen, Property, Asset, Seizure, Someone’s, Death, Nervous, Breakdown
Credit Card: OPIG, Branch

Scene 2, House:

Framed Article: Historian, Harmony, Foundation
Empty Safe: Click on the paper for Safe, Opened and on the golden chunks for Artifact
Suitcase: Click on the bills for money
Opened Drawer: Drawer, Spray, Sprayed. Check the can for Hair, Pepper
Phone:
Message 1: Ex-Husband, Return, Artifact, Exchange, Forgiveness
Message 2: Auditor, OPIG, Rob
Message 3:Colleague, Dragonfly, Inn
Calendar: 1-0

Overview Scroll Hints:

Odd hour to do some gardening. Why is the shovel so dirty?
The message machine says that one of 3 people want to visit on Friday and that two of them ought to be delayed to September. Only one person came that night. Did they leave any traces?
Who lives in this building? Their clothes and personal effects are likely somewhere on the premises
Many organizations leave their name or logo on the front entrance or gate
The moon tonight is a waning crescent. That comes after a half moon and before a new moon
Is that a blood stain on one of the rocks?

Event Scroll Hints:

Someone tried to empty out the safe into a suitcase. There’s a paper in the safe listing 7 pieces and a pointy-earred idol.
There’s a pair of shoes on the front porch, but there’s only one person here. How did someone leave this building without putting their shoes back on?
If we accept that the woman outside is the woman on the newspaper, then we must note that she appears to dye/tint her hair in her photo. Are there any blue or green hair products around here?
The woman outside has a green print on one of her hands. Would that have rubbed off on any evidence?
People love to steal hotel towels, don’t they?

Behind Bars – An Alarming Incident at Sternwall Prison

Scene 1, Cells

Left Cell:
Cache beneath desk: Glue, Clay, Scissors, Sculpture
Left Cell Desk, Letter: Alfred, Bradley, Steven, Aria
Board Between Left and Middle Cell: Pakenham, Utley, Beswick, Blythe, Henry
Middle Cell Barred Window: Window, Bars
Cache under bed: Sheets, Kempton, Sainsbury
Left Guard: Over, Gun
Right Guard: Kendal, Smith, Gun
Notebook on Right Guard: Julia, Patrick, Climbed, Percy

Scene 2, Outside:

Chalk Message on left: Jeremy
Window above prisoners, office cork board: Jason, Robert, Jimmy, Arthur, Daniel, Racketeering, Murder, Kidnapping, Homicide
Leftmost inmate: Over
Scarred inmate: Dug, Under,
Rightmost inmate: Gun
Guard: Utley, Gun
Drainpipe: Drainpipe, Saw Blade
Custodian at fence: Pliers, Wire Cutters, Henry, Wakefield

Hints:

According to the map, this floor has 5 cells, but we only see 3 of them.
The custodian outside is holding pliers, but there’s 2 empty spaces in the Sternwall toolkit he’s holding. It looks to be a similar shape to a wire cutter or pliers. Where’d it go?
Looking at the outside of the building, it appears that every cell has a barred window. If we can’t see a window in the cell, it must be covered by a poster or something similar
The window with the sawn through bars must be the one the escaped prisoner had
The escaped prisoner, of course, isn’t here, so we don’t have a face to put his name to
To escape, the missing convict needed three tools and three people needed to bring them to him
One of the inmates outside has a note telling him to forget “what you think you heard.”’ Has anyone reported hearing worrying sounds?
The cell poster has a group of numbered colored drowning and then a bunch of symbols with exactly the same color. We could turn a line of numbers into colors then symbols, if we only had a number
The list of prisoners in the office gives first names to faces, crimes, and prison sentence lengths.
If we can nail down the location of the prisoners and get one of their names, we can use the cell name list to name the other 4.
The leftmost prisoner says he’ll be out in a year, which means he isn’t in prison for life.
The journal says that Kempton likely cheats at gambling. He likely has some sort of rigged game of chance on his person or in his belongings
Common sense check: a prison guard, no matter how trusting, is not going to bring an inmate a saw blade. He might bring something a little safer, though
We just heard about the Harmony Foundation, so it’s funny that a book donated by them shows up in a cell.
The redhead prisoner is neighbors with Utley, the prisoner being mocked by the guard outside
The Message scroll is throwing you a massive bone – the secret message is six numbers long.
The cell on the left and the middle have matching teacups. It’s nice to think that they’re sharing, but it might be quid pro quo
The book the Harmony foundation sent isn’t in the best shape; it’s spine is practically falling off

Blockbuster Release – An Immersive Experience at the Drive-In

Today, we have to complete the first event scroll to unlock the second.

Words:

Scene 1, left side of drive in

Projectionist booth:
- Poster: Escape, Neptune, Taken
- Toolbox: click on red wire for Cut, Red
- Projectionist: Cunningham, Fire, Fix
- Projector Troubleshooting Guidelines: Projector, Started
- Camera Lens: click on blue crystal for Crystal
Blonde Cosplayer on left: Beck, Mason
Power box:
- Examination sheet: Lemmons
- Lock: Broke
Car on Fire backseat: Wire Cutters, Paint, Blue
Man in Blue vest: Bet
Note on Blue Vest man: Mike, Jenny, Lose
The Blonde Cosplayer on right: Win
Note on her: Chen, Lendl, Cinema
Car in middle, front licence plate: Vincent
Man driving car in middle: Champ, Transom, bills for Money
Car with pirate
- Pirate: Laura,
- Blonde: Transom, Marini, Bertrand

Scene 2, Right side of Drive In

Screen: Screen
Crashed Car front: Car Crash
Space Storm Poster on right: Porbo, Captain, Block
Box Office:
- Banned For Life Photos: Augie, Tamine, Banned
- Employee Schedule List: Andy
- Phone Receiver: Sarah, Stole
- Clipboard: Costume, Doug, Baxter, Parker, Annie, Kishimoto, Tom, Powers, Tooth
- Yellow Note: Weird Lady, Buy, Exit, Head

Events 1 Hints:

When you got here, the first you noticed was likely the fire and the car crash, but the first event scroll wants the leadup to those events.
The duffel full of mysterious instructions is a good place to start.
Just to make life difficult, there’s 8 people dressed for the costume contest: 2 as the blonde, 2 as the alien, 2 as the blue vest, and 2 as the robot. Figuring out the movie character names will help us name characters
The poster says it’s 5/1, which means the power box was just examined that day. If that’s the case, what’s the deal with that green wire?
According to the listing in the office, maintenance is working the projection booth
The Neptune Difference Poster shows that the projector uses a red crystal, but the Crystal in the machine is blue. What happened there?
The costume contest associates a name with a corresponding costume and prize. A popcorn bonanza honestly seems nicer than winning a figurine of Marini. Who wouldn’t want a car full of popcorn?
The two aliens have different interpretations of the design: one has sharp teeth and the other blocky squares
If there’s no red crystal on the scene, then maybe someone’s altered it’s color. Look for other colors of crystal
Augie Tamine has been banned for life and would not be allowed to enter if anyone were to see their face. Is anyone here dressed in such a way that you can’t see their face?

Events 2 Hints:

The crux of the argument between those two people is that they bet something was going to happen in the film, it didn’t, and so one of them replicated it in the real world to technically win. What did they repeat?
Whoever was in the booth left in such a hurry that they left the phone off the hook and spilled their coffee. What had them so frantic?
Why is the woman in the crashed car muttering that no one can leave?
The screen clearly shows that something has gone wrong with the projection. It’s distorted and the color’s all blue
Augie says he didn’t plan for a fire tonight, so someone else must have started it

Going Once! – A Shocking Murder at the Auction House!

Scene 1, Auction 7:45 PM

Blue Circle stand: Nils, Wilmington
Oriel Toussiant: Robbie, Outbid
Jumping Woman: Steal, Stealing, Stole
Redhead: Albion, Adria
Sitting Blonde: Mask, Lemuria
Cane: Cane
Speaker: Sell, Gavel, Keys
Man in Apron’s clipboard: Robbie, Froberg, Bogart

Scene 2, Upstairs , 7:15 PM

Circuit Box: Circuit Box
Security Guard: Knightley, Keys

Scene 3, Downstairs 8:40 PM

Person on Left: Oriel, Seal
Second person on left: Lanka
4th person, with a tin cup: Tess. Check autograph for Erwin and Summer
5th Person: Moumaati
Sixth Person: Statue, Pushed
Animal on floor: Creature
Mask on floor: Mask
Clipboard on bar: Toussiant, Dasilva, Nevari

Scene 4, Upstairs 8:40 PM

Item on floor: Totem
Check in Safe: Aurelia, Winston

Hints:

When you see murder victim upstairs, the obvious guess is that they’re the security guard. Is that right? Are they holding anything that proves their identity?
Who is standing where in the blackout? This is the smoking gun for the killer’s identity
If you played the first game’s DLC, you’ll recognize that the pink text the blonde woman speaks in is for the Lemurian language. If not, there’s her plane ticket
The prologue Constriction took place in 1977 (Morh Brakka’s patient list) and this auction is in 1974 (Lemurian woman’s plane ticket/check in safe). Oriel Toussiant has not yet been institutionalized.
The blonde with the prominent cheekbones and Farrah Fawcett hair resembles the Marini Figurine and the lady on the TV guide from the last two scenarios. Is she famous?
The little statue should look familiar: it’s the one the colleague had to obtain for the historian back in Garden Retreat
The cocktails sold here have distinctive glasses and colors.
At the point of the auction, the third lot, the Darkhand mask, is currently being bid on. The first two lots have been sold and the last two have yet to be bid on
With the exception of the redhead who carries a checkbook, all of the auction customers carry their money in cash. If they bought any of the lots (or a cocktail), it would be subtracted between the auction and the moment of the blackout
The victim upstairs has a book of lots, their prices, and a letter-number corresponding to the buyer. 1/5 were bought by A-4, 2/3 by S-3, and 4 by M-5. What does the letter-number combination stand for?
Whoever the killer is, they have a note on them saying that someone else will distract the security guard. Two people are scheming tonight
The safe upstairs has 7,000 and a check for 6,500, which happens to correspond to the prices in the log book for lots 1-3. We can assume that at the time of the murder, the first 3 lots were paid for and retrieved and the murderer interrupted the 4th. Why then?
There’s an easy example to use to solve for the letter-number combos. There’s a check in the safe for 6,500 by Aurelia Winston. This corresponds to Lot 1 and the fact that it corresponds to a check points to the red head downstairs in the forth seat. Therefore, we can say that A-4 is for Aurelia in the fourth seat. This means there’s a S in the third seat and a M in the fifth seat
If Nevari bought 3 SSS cocktails, then why is the copper mug held by the security guard?

It’s hard to hint who the killer is without explaining who is who in the blackout.

Blackout, 1st Floor

First person on left is Aurelia (Checkbook and the seal she bought)
Second person is Summer (spent 7000 and refers to a Lanka centerpiece)
Third person is Oriel (Bought the absinthe and has 3,090 (3,100 – 10))
Fourth person is Erwin (has summer’s autograph)
Fifth person is Tesa (She has 17,910, as she bought three SSS, so (18,000 – 90)
Sixth person is Moumatti: says she bought the statue and is holding a martini and 19,980 (20,000 – 20).

Who does that leave to be the victim and killer?

Chapter Scroll

First, let’s recap those four scenarios:

Scenario 1: 08/17/74. At the Harmony Foundation, Historian Tesa Nevari has her colleague come over from the Dragonfly Inn with a pointy-earred idol. At the last moment, he attempts to steal the idol and the 7 artifact pieces from her, leading to Nevari killing him and burying the body.
Scenario 2: 11/15/73 (newspaper in chapter select). Murderer and thief Arthur Blythe escapes prison, in part due to a saw blade sent to him in a book from the Harmony Foundation
Scenario 3: 5/1/74 (movie poster/ power inspection log). A “crazy lady” wants a unique crystal from a drive-in theater. The owner refuses to sell, so her henchman, Augie Tamine, steals the crystal
Scenario 4: 8/13/74 (Check in safe). Tesa Nevari and accomplice Arthur Blythe head to an auction to purchase a Lemurian idol, but are outbid. They scheme to steal the idol, leading to Arthur murdering the auction host and stealing the idol.

New Evidence:

An annotated history book on Lazarus Herst and the Golden Idol
A murderer who killed a coworker for stealing artifacts and selling artifacts from Lemuria escapes from Sternwall
Someone claims in an interview that they’ll put the idol together right
Someone in glasses at the Dragonfly Inn tells a Robbie Frobert that looks nothing like the one we just saw that he won’t be needed for work.

The Corkboard scroll wants us to assign faces and names to the various roles/names we’ve seen throughout this chapter, while the Story scroll wants a synopsis of events.

Hints:

The phone call of a person in glasses telling Robbie to not come in that day (especially if you consider the clipboard on “Robbie” in that scenario saying that it’s his first day on the job) imply that “Robbie” is not the accomplice’s real name. If that’s true, then what is it?
If someone just needed muscle or a henchperson, they could have hired anyone. What makes Arthur Blyhte uniquely worthy of breaking out of prison?
Does the blue crystal in the Garden Retreat suitcase look familiar, now that you’ve done the other cases?
We know Tesa didn’t take the idol with her out of the auction, as she needed her colleague to bring it to her in the Garden Retreat.
If that’s the case, then what does it mean that Going Once! ends with Arthur holding the idol?
It was never said that the roles on the corkboard are different people. Multiple names and roles can refer to one individual.
I was going to make a joke back in scenario 3 that Augie Tamine sounds like a pharmaceutical, but that actually might be right on the money.