The Sins Of New Wells

The final challenge that the first DLC of The Rise of the Golden Idol presents is one of the most difficult that we’ve seen in the Golden Idol duology. Unraveling starts off with a very bizarre sight that must be deciphered piece by piece, and it only gets more complicated from there.

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This is another non-standard case for the game that doesn’t have you looking for the words that you’ll use to break the case wide open. Instead, you’re tasked with solving some very peculiar mysteries from the off, with the memory disarranger from previous episodes not being very helpful at all.

All Attack Solutions

You begin this scenario with only one small scene to analyse, though it’s obviously one warped and transformed by the Disarranger. It’s up to you to nail down exactly what’s happening before you – though in the observer’s eyes. Don’t worry about truth just yet.

• You know that there’s a pair of robots – what could those be referring to in this image? Analyse all the speech you can see to help parse any orders.
• The snake has been shot by a crossbow, what had the snake been told to do? That will inform you of the crossbow wielder’s purpose.
• What the heck is the reason this scene looks like this?

A pair of robots told the snake to attack the balloon.

The crossbow wielder shot the snake to protect the balloon.

This is a scrambled memory.

All Memory Match Solutions

Solving the previous panel will unlock the next two, as well as a new area to explore. We’ll first look at the Memory Match panel, which has you deciphering what the objects and features of the first scene actually correlate to.

• Take note of the actual times of the two scenes you can witness. The scrambled memory occurs after the second scene you unlocked does.
• The face on the balloon should be familiar to you. Where would this person be that could help you decipher the rest of the scene?
• One robot is sending little bugs to another. Are these people or machines?
• A big pair of lips is one of the things you need to identify – do lips denote its identity or its function? Similarly, what might a big scroll denote when looking at the words available to use?
• The monstrous thing has one eye. Who might this be?
• A crowd of featureless eyes and ears makes a pretty good metaphor for a certain group of people.
• We’ve learned that certain devices can be very dangerous. Identify the location of the scene in question and the identity of the dangerous snake in the scrambled memory should become clear.
• No one uses a crossbow in reality, but some people use something that does a similar thing. This should narrow down who the crossbow wielder is.
  • As a very big hint: who is the hero of this DLC?

Moira	emitter	speaker	roster
Security	receiver	microphone	reporters

The gun is being used by Roy

All Conference Solutions

There are four paragraphs to solve in the Conference panel, all dealing with the events that lead from the earlier time to the later time.

• What was the reason behind the press conference in the first place? Look at the person who was to speak at the conference for clues.
• The Heritage Project is relevant here – who is linked to it, and what might be the controversy here? Remember the involvement of gangs.
• The memory scrambling weapon is of great importance throughout this entire scenario. Who developed it, and why might they use it, and against whom? Who speaks of the flaws of killing?
• Someone plays the hero, obviously. Trace their steps throughout this story to see that they didn’t just save the balloon from the snake.
• The snake was shot, but why? What happened to the snake to make it so deadly, and how did this happen? Think back to the person responsible for the weapon.

Moira Meredith planned to announce her resignation, and that Hildegard Bauer had been using the Heritage Project as a cover to manufacture drugs.

Hildegard Bauer planned to stop Moira Meredith by scrambling her memory.

Roy Samson warned Moira Meredith and her security that sound could be dangerous. After talking to Greg from Sonic Solutions, Roy Samson worried that the microphone could become a speaker.

After returning to the conference and looking at the roster, Roy Samson realized a Bauer gangster had disguised himself as a sound technician and attached a receiver to the microphone, so Roy Samson shot the microphone.

Completing this panel, along with Memory Match, will unlock the next panels and the third and final time. This will lead you to a scene between Echo Secunda and Roy Samson.

All Echo Secunda Memory Solutions

Examining Echo Secunda, who you should recognise from the main game, will let you put his scrambled memories in order.

• This story tells the story of Echo Secunda’s journey that begins during the events of the main game. Head back to the prologue to remember what happened there.
• The events that follow on from the prologue hit the following events that are important to Secunda’s story: his discovery of the I.D.O.L., the final moments where we saw the I.D.O.L. at the TV station, and then the events of this DLC’s scenarios.
• We learned what horses represent in the previous scenario.
• A sword is a weapon, even if it’s broken, yes? What is the weapon in this game?
• Sometimes a chicken leg is just a chicken leg. What could this denote here?
• Many of the scenes depicted here will correlate very closely to a previous episode. Secunda is a bearded man – maybe he’s the bearded man who was missing from a certain car chase.

A green man being strangled.	A man with a key walking towards a horse.	Two men carrying a chest to a horse and carriage.	Following the horse and carriage.	Two men carrying a chest from the horse and carriage into a castle.
Two people with swords attacking the castle.	The chest being thrown from the castle.	Retrieving the broken sword from the chest.	Thinking about a chicken leg.	Stealing chicken in a bag with three tigers looking on.
Three tigers having shot the horse with an arrow.	Using the broken sword to topple a tree.	Being captured by three tigers.	Being brought before a queen.	Conversing with the queen.

Once you’ve solved the pictorial sequence of events, you’ll be able to decipher what those events actually depict.

• Where did Secunda escape from?
• What do the sword and castle represent? A weapon getting broken is something that happens at the climax of the main game’s narrative.
• The broken sword is still a weapon, what does this imply for Secunda’s actions?
• One of the tigers is missing a hand. Who else in the DLC is missing a hand? Check the dog track!
• Secunda went from prisoner to accomplice. What could have been said to secure this upgrade?

After escaping the asylum, Secunda followed the I.D.O.L. to the TV Station. He salvaged its last working parts to create the Disarranger.

When he was captured by the Czars, Secunda offered to help Hildegard by turning the Disarranger into a more powerful weapon.

All Roy Samson Memory Solutions

Just like in the previous section, this one deals with Roy Samson’s memories, which have now been scrambled.

• The scenes in Roy’s memory have a few things that can help you put things in order. First, he begins with glasses on and they get knocked off. Second, he begins with a gun and then doesn’t have it.
• The green monster doesn’t seem to represent a person. What could it be representing?
• Compare the gap between the two buildings in reality – does anything look like this in the scrambled memory? Does this give you any information as to chronology?
• Both Secunda and Roy are currently in disarray. Why might this be?
• The real life scene has two pairs of earmuffs on the ground. This is incredibly relevant. Look at what else is on the ground, too.

Holding a gun outdoors.	Holding a gun in a corridor.	The corridor with the green creature far away.	The corridor with the green creature a bit closer.
Being attacked by Secunda suddenly from the right.	Knocking Secunda’s helmet off.	Wrestling with Secunda with gun in hand.	Secunda taking the gun away.
Secunda pointing the gun at the observer.	Hitting the device on the left, which glows with electricity.	Secunda dropping the gun with light being emitted.	The light from the device getting incredibly bright.

As before, this sequence of events should be quite clear once you’ve worked out what’s being represented here.

• This sequence of events is clearly depicting what happened right before the scene in reality.
• What sort of building do the pair appear to be inside?
• What were both men wearing that they are no longer wearing? Why might this be important?
• The two men fought – what was the exact series of events?
• What is the current state of the Disarranger?

After the arrest of Hildegard Bauer, Roy Samson saw that Echo Secunda had escaped into an abandoned store.

Roy Samson followed Echo Secunda, but was ambushed.

During the fight, Echo Secunda and Roy Samson both lose their earmuffs.

Echo Secunda then took Roy Samson‘s gun and prepared to shoot.

Suddenly, Roy Samson activated the Disarranger, which scrambled both of their memories.

As his final act, Roy Samson took back his gun and shot the Disarranger.

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