Rise of the Golden Idol: Complex Walkthrough

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

Rise of the Golden Idol: Complex Walkthrough

Scenario 4: A High-Rise Tragedy


Ground Floor

  • Square Window on Left, Lobby:
    • Hesper Towers resident Directory: Winthrop, Sawyer, Nakana, Ozola, Wright, Steensen, Bird, Knox, Colms
    • Bulletin Board: Research Study, Cheyenne, Spencer, Picnic, Issa
    • Laundry basket: Colms
  • Round Window on Right, Laundromat Man: Patience, Earnest, Stabbed

First Floor

  • Left Apartment, 1A, redhead woman: Lovana
  • Right Apartment, 1B:
    • Conspiracy board: Memoires, Photo
    • Diary, purple: Constance, Offered
    • Message Machine: Colms, Received, Research Study

Second Floor

  • Left Apartment, 2A, Note on door: Kai, Took
  • Right Apartment, 2B, measuring marks on entry way: Jane

Third Floor

  • Left Apartment, 3A, Cat food package: Spencer Wright
  • Right Apartment, 3B:
    • White board schedule: Picnic, Sonny, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Kenneth
    • Letter on table: Kenneth, Bo

Forth Floor

  • Left Apartment, 4A, Mother: Sawyer
  • Right Apartment, 4B:
    • Blonde: Picnic, Threat, Threatened
    • Brunette: Sonny, Darcy
  • Roof, smoking woman: Sabrina, Forgot, Dumped

Hints:

  • If you see an obvious conclusion, think twice. This is the most straight forward suicide I’ve ever seen
  • The Photo scroll asks you to identify who took these photos and on which day. Did anything in these photos change between days?
  • Whoever took the photo for the picnic had their had partially in frame and they have a band aid on their finger
  • According to the clock in 2A, it’s 7:15. It’s likely the evening, as several people are siting down for dinner.
  • The bulletin board says that Issa and his son were not at the picnic
  • If we look at the research poster on the bulletin board, three slips have been taken.
  • When you see someone with a switchblade getting a red stain out of their shirt, it’s natural to be suspicious, but it could be from any red mess.
  • The mother says that there was a gun shot a half hour ago, or 6:45 PM. This death was recent
  • Assigning everyone to their apartment will make naming everyone so much easier
  • The directory lists the inhabitants of B4 as having different last names, which means that the inhabitants of every other apartment all share one last name per apartment
  • The letter in B3 says that Bo saw something at the picnic, so he must have been there
  • The B4 game night is set up for three people, but only two are currently playing. Did someone leave?
  • The mother says that Sawyer will be there soon and her fridge says inspections are on Tuesday at 7:20 PM. If it’s 7:15 PM, then it must be Tuesday
  • If someone threatened me, I’d be on my best behavior. Anyone acting recklessly must be real stubborn or have something wrong with them cognitively
  • The dead man’s apartment got a phone call saying that someone will “go up there and remind you” of their agreement at the picnic. Whoever shot him came from downstairs
  • A recurring motif throughout this chapter is people with OPIG wristbands either forgetting (Declan forgetting the rules of his job) or remembering things they shouldn’t know (Arhtar doing a Spieldance). Is something deeper afoot?
  • Whoever’s memories she received, they were from someone threatened with a gun on the day of the picnic. Who meets that description?

Names, Photos, and Residents Scroll:

Events Scroll:


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