In this guide, you’ll find all the hints and solutions for the Chapter 2: The Pursuit in The Rise of the Golden Idol.
Rise of the Golden Idol: Chapter 2 The Pursuit Walkthrough
Chapter 2: The Pursuit has 4 cases. Each case has its own walkthrough with the full word list, hints and the solution, so pick the one you are stuck on below. The Chapter Scroll solution for The Pursuit is at the bottom of this page.
Chapter 2 Case Walkthroughs
- Scenario 1: Garden Retreat Walkthrough
- Scenario 2: Behind Bars Walkthrough
- Scenario 3: Blockbuster Release Walkthrough
- Scenario 4: Going Once! Walkthrough
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.
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