Chapter Four, The Trials Walkthrough

The saga of the Golden Idol continues with Chapter 4 of The Rise of the Golden Idol, the sequel to the popular point-and-click title The Case of the Golden Idol. At this point in the story, players know about the artifact’s checkered past, and it’s time to move into the present and future.

The settings in this chapter are unique, moving away from the lab and the Harmony Foundation to more random venues. Examples include an apartment building, an aviary, and a private living room. This time, however, players get to see the results of experiments with the Golden Idol, and the subjects of these tests often suffer a grim fate.

Chapter 4 only unlocks once the previous sections have already been completed. This includes the scenarios along with the texts and puzzles that close the Chapter.

Chapter 4

The Trials

• Some new information is introduced about the human experiments

Chapter 4 is one of the longer sections of TRotGI, and there’s a fair amount of new information for players to find and understand. There are four scenarios, but the advantage is that they aren’t that long or complicated, and players can still use the previous chapters for reference.

Feathered Frenzy

A Deadly Attack At The Aviary

Names

It’s recommended that the player finish this section first to make Triggers and Events easier. Most of them are the names of birds and the three people involved haven’t appeared before.

• Row 1: The Masked Grouse, The Red-Breasted Heron, The Bleary-Eyed Flower-Piercer, The Deathrattle Lory
• Row 2: Nythalic’s Herald, Declan Astor, Crystal Moore, Marcie Palmer

Triggers

This scenario starts by focusing on the birds instead of people. The solution to this puzzle can also be used to solve the Names section.

• The Deathratte Lory – Declan Astor’s body
• Nythalic’s Herald – The Deathratte Lory
• The Bleary-Eyed Flower Piercer – the yellow bracelet
• The Masked Grouse – broken eggs

Events

This is one of the longer text puzzles, but it tells the basic story of the scenario and is easy to put together once the other sections are completed.

• Paragraph 1: Marcie Palmer, cried, discovered, hatchling, overheated
• Paragraph 2: Declan Astor, bracelet, stolen, The Bleary-Eyed Flower-Piercer, Declan Astor, feed, The Masked Grouse, eggs, bush
• Paragraph 3: The Masked Grouse, attacked, Declan Astor, killing, screams, mimicked, The Deathrattle Lory, agitated, Nythalic’s Herald, attacked, Crystal Moore

The sections entitled
Symbols
and
Transfers
appear in the first scenario but can’t be completed until all four are completed.

Backstage Drama

Pandemonium At The Stardust Variety Hour

Names

All of these characters are new, so previous references won’t help in this puzzle. Luckily, there’s plenty of documentation scattered around the screen to determine who is who.

• Row 1: Regina Littlemore, Dante Longo, Jamey Albright, Atharv Reddy
• Row 2: Vilmar Prado, Cameron Flake, Nola Rockow, Mitchell Burgin

Rankings

Part of solving the Rankings section isn’t only about who did win, but who didn’t. Starting with the lower ranks, as opposed to the winners, is helpful in this puzzle.

1. The Burpist
2. The Ventriloquist
3. The Juggler
4. The Ballerina
5. The Munchkin
6. The Magician

Events

The Events section describes what happened just before the player entered the scene, and it’s fairly obvious once the Rankings are determined.

• Paragraph 1: Cameron Flake, sabotaged, Regina Littlemore, scratching, record, Mr. Vlad
• Paragraph 2: Vilmar Prado, released, Lily Belle, cage, sabotage, Nola Rockow, Nola Rockow, poured, soda, trumpet
• Paragraph 3: Regina Littlemore, attacked, Dante Longo, show, rigged

Speildance

Atharv’s Winning Act

Events

This very brief chapter includes a familiar face from the Auction House and is connected to the artifacts that she purchased and was pursuing. This Events puzzle includes a video for reference and the words are only missing from the second sentence.

• The dance translated to knowledge opens forbidden doors. Beware evil fools who steal keys.

Complex

A High-Rise Tragedy

Names

This high rise has a lot of tenants, so this is one of the longest lists of names in RotGI that the player has to fill out. Use the pictures along with the clues inside the apartments to help.

• Row 1: Sonny Sawyer, Lavona Colms, Sabrina Knox, Issa Nakana, Constance Winthrop, Patience Winthrop, Kenneth Ozola
• Row 2: Cheyenne Bird, Bo Stensen, Spencer Wright, Jane Knox, Kai Nakana, Earnest Winthrop

Residents

This is fairly simple to complete after the player has completed the names section and looked at the apartments.

Photos

This brief section is more about finding out who was taking pictures and when.

• Photo 1: Kenneth Ozola, Saturday
• Photo 2: Cheyenne Bird, Sonny Sawyer, Tuesday

Events

Information for this section is mostly found in the tenants’ apartments, contained in notes, photos, recorded messages, and snippets of dialogue.

• Paragraph 1: picnic, Kenneth Ozola, threatened, Sonny Sawyer
• Paragraph 2: Sonny Sawyer, forgot, threat, research study, Lavona Colms, received, memories
• Paragraph 3: Sonny Sawyer, took, photo, Cheyenne Bird, Kenneth Ozola, Sonny Sawyer

Symbols And Transfers

Finishing Chapter 4

• Unlocked when all the Chapter 4 scenarios are complete

Symbols

These symbols are connected to the experiments and trials involving the Golden Idol. Many of these symbols also appeared in Chapter 3: The Machine.

Starting from the top, the Symbols are:

• 1 day
• 1 minute
• 1 month
• 3 days
• give
• take
• memories

Transfers

After the symbols part is done, players can use the information to complete the Transfers text. Most of this data comes from the Complex scenario.

The final scenario, Chapter 5, only unlocks after these last two text puzzles have been completed.