The Rise of the Golden Idol – Chapter 3 Story 1 Questions and Answers

This is not exactly a guide, but rather an analysis of mistakes based on a specific example of a game with questions and answers.

Questions and Answers

What am I doing wrong and where did I go wrong?

You have 3 mistakes in paragraph 1, and 4 in paragraph 3.

More specific questions/hints:

• What kind of parts were used to build the artifact? Why do you think the adjective is what you’ve put there?
• What happened when Tesa tried to use the artifact on Tim during the repossession? What does that indicate that the artifact actually does?
• Who realised the artifact might do something, and what would need to happen to it before you could activate it? Refer to the chapter menu items and the clues they contain.
• If Marie delayed testing, what was she in charge of that did happen?

Okay, whether there are any more mistakes?

You now have 2 mistakes in paragraph 1 and 2 in paragraph 3.

Okay, let’s go a bit deeper here.

• Why do you think Tesa’s artifact took heat?
• Tim Spender wasn’t the one who realised the artifact might work if rebuilt. Who mentioned this possibility in one of the chapter notes?

Is Jack Nowak the first person in the third paragraph?

It’s not Jack either. Do you remember the note about how Tesa had put the pieces together? The one that mentioned her making Gavril’s translation error.

I just figured out who the person was. Guess I wasn’t reading closely enough. As for why I think it takes heat. I’ve played the first game, so I have a general idea of how the idol works and what it does. Absorbing heat, and giving it back was on of its abilities. Are you saying that’s not was is supposed to go in that slot?

Forget what you know from the first game for a second, and keep in mind this one is designed to be solvable if you’d never played it. What actually happened when Tesa flipped the switch?

It did nothing.

Oriel’s note specifically mentioned that she didn’t connect the pieces properly. It’s not that that isn’t something the artifact can do, it’s that the one that Tesa built wasn’t made correctly to allow for that.

And let’s be honest, it would have been pretty ludicrous if a random crazy historian had been able to make an actual functioning Golden Idol just by sticking a bunch of parts she stole into a monkey.