After a trip to the beach and a demonstration for the board, our intrepid scientists, or at least, some of them, have taken it upon themselves to visit the museum. This is another odd scenario in The Rise of the Golden Idol. Ancient Artifacts doesn’t have you solving a murder or naming people.
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Instead, you’ll be figuring out what happened here and learning far more about the capabilities of this ancient, mystic technology housed within the I.D.O.L., named only a few scenarios ago. This is quite a difficult one, so there’s no shame in using our careful clues and hints to push you in the right direction.
All Word Locations
There’s only one screen in this scenario, and it contains all 47 words you’ll need to complete it.
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Location |
Words |
|---|---|
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Man on the left |
Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, I.D.O.L., Memories, Take, From, Give, To, More, Disk, Echo, Secunda |
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Woman on the right |
Jack, Fled, Aurelia, Work, Oriel, Toussaint, Echo, Secunda, Nowak, Petrified |
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Man on the ground |
Rowan, Doyle, Taser, Spear, Threw, Aurelia, Winston |
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The disk on a pedestal |
Disk |
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The flying saucer |
More, All, Together |
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The huge statue on the left |
Memories |
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The console on the left |
Work |
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The case on the bottom |
≈ 1 minute, ≈ 1 day, ≈ 3 days, ≈ 1 month |
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The I.D.O.L. |
I.D.O.L., Lenses |
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The broken display case |
Grabbed, Sirencry, Alerted, Harmonite, Placated, Veilforge, Concealed, Vaporon, Vaporized |
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The statue next to the case |
Dhustan, Lok |
All Events I Solutions
This story panel deals with the reasons that the characters came to the museum in the first place, and what went on before the events we see before us.
- We can see three people in front of us, but there were actually four. Who is the missing person likely to be? Think about who the woman is and where you’ve seen her before.
- The I.D.O.L. was used, but on who? How many times was it used? The recordings you can listen to have the answers to this.
- Examining the I.D.O.L. shows that multiple lenses were used simultaneously, tied together with tape. Finding the tape will help with some details, but you’ll need to think hard about what using multiple lenses might do to the effects of the machine.
- Why were multiple lenses used? What did the scientists predict, and what was the reality?
- The disk, which you can learn much about here, is sitting on a pedestal. Why?
All Drawing Solutions
This scenario splits its events panels up because the Drawings panel requires that you learn more about what actually went down before events proceeded.
- The drawings show eight pictures that tell a story, said to be a cautionary tale, about how the memory-giving/taking process can be used as a punishment.
- Knowing what you now know about the crystal and its effects, you need to come to a logical conclusion about what these drawings actually depict.
- You know from the exhibit that the person holding the artifact here is Ock. You also have ‘Crow’ and ‘Deer’ as names to work with. How would you attribute these names based on the pictures?
- You should already have some ideas about the lights on the disks and their meaning. Think about what the difference between an ’empty’ disk and a ‘full’ disk would mean.
All Events II Solutions
Now that you know about the true, ghoulish implications of the power the scientists have been experimenting with, you can make some final conclusions about the scene before you.
- Think about what happened at the end of the last panel. Has an identity changed? If so, to whom?
- The smashed display case is finally important here – an object has been taken. There are clues inside the case as to how you might tell one from another.
- Was the device functional?
- What happened when the display case was smashed?
- Check out the item on the floor and examine it closely.
- This panel explains the dialogue – once you’ve clocked what’s happened, it reads like a factual, if lame, joke about the situation.
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