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The mystery ofThe Rise of the Golden Idolcontinues to Chapter 3, entitled “The Machine.” Previous chapters told the story of who has been in contact with the mysterious artifact and how it became a conduit for negative emotions, culminating in violence, murder, and often an untimely death. Players will need the information from the previous chapters to finish “The Machine.” It’s easy to exit back to the main screen with the television sets and review the previous scenarios. The most pertinent and crucial data can be found in the completedStorysections.
Chapter 3
The Machine
Continuing with some of the story threads from Chapter 2, now the player learns more about the Idol’s more recent past and how it became connected to theft, murder, and madness. The plot includes more than a few familiar names from the previous chapters.
A Dangerous Technology Is Unleashed
Prints
Six pictures of various fingerprints need to be matched with their owners.Players can determine themusing color and location.
Controls
There are six possibilities for who touched the controls and when, but the player only needs three of them. It’s helpful to finish the names first but the player can also use thePrintsto determine the right pictures.
Names
Four of these characters have appeared before, which makes this one of the easierNamessection to finish.
Westlake
Events
This could be one of the easiest Events sections to complete provided the others have already been completed. It’s more about the events of the second screen than the first.
Hierarchy And Story One
After finishing this scenario, the sections labeledHierarchyandStory 1will still be incomplete. They’ll fill in more information as the player progressesthrough each scenario.
A Hippie Movement Refuses To Roll Over
Many of these names are new and aren’t repeated again, but one or two are from previous chapters and the playerwill likely recognize them.
Paths
This is the path of the mystery substance that rolled from the bird bath to the Amstel’s backyard.
The wrecked bike is the property of protest organizerPenny Coolidge.
Two short paragraphs form the Events part of this scenario and tell the story of the protest and the mysterious ice wheel.
HierarchyandStory 1will appear again with more information but are not solvable yet.
A Bizarre Operation Ends In Bloodshed
Almost all of these characters are returning from previous chapters and scenarios, and this one explains more ofwhat happened to the Golden Idol.
Symbols
This is a small chart set into Tesa Nevari’s beehive haircut. The spaces are both dark green and blue, indicating that words from either group can finish the puzzle.
This is one of the longer events sections to complete, but at least the paragraphs are short.
Motive
This small puzzle appears after everything else in the scenario has been solved. It explains, at least to some extent, the altercation in the first scene. There are 14 pictures to choose from and the player only needs three.
Hierarchy And Story 1
Also Unlocks Story 2
Use the information taken from all these scenarios to determine how to complete both the text and the chart.
Hierarchy
There are 8 photos, but not all of them are required. One of the spaces isn’t a portrait but a decal that says"project terminated."
Board president
Head of speculative investment
project terminated
Independent consultant
Jack Nowak
Story 1
This text summarizes the events of both this chapter and the previous one, The Pursuit.
Story 2
The basic plotline of Chapter 3 and partly a setup for Chapter 4.
