The Rise Of The Golden Idol: All Solutions For Ancient Artifacts

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.

Location

Words

Man on the left

Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, I.D.O.L., Memories, Take, From, Give, To, More, Disk, Echo, Secunda

Woman on the right

Jack, Fled, Aurelia, Work, Oriel, Toussaint, Echo, Secunda, Nowak, Petrified

Man on the ground

Rowan, Doyle, Taser, Spear, Threw, Aurelia, Winston

The disk on a pedestal

Disk

The flying saucer

More, All, Together

The huge statue on the left

Memories

The console on the left

Work

The case on the bottom

≈ 1 minute, ≈ 1 day, ≈ 3 days, ≈ 1 month

The I.D.O.L.

I.D.O.L., Lenses

The broken display case

Grabbed, Sirencry, Alerted, Harmonite, Placated, Veilforge, Concealed, Vaporon, Vaporized

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?

Solutions

At the museum, Jack Nowak first used the I.D.O.L. to take ≈ 1 month's worth of Echo Secunda's memories from the disk and give them to Oriel Toussaint.

But Oriel Toussaint wanted more, so Jack Nowak used all the lenses together.

Jack Nowak thought this would add the effects of the lenses together. Instead, it caused the effects to multiply.

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.

Solutions

First, Ock takes all memories from Deer and gives them to a disk.

Next, Ock takes all memories from the disk and gives them to Crow. As a result, Crow becomes Deer.

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 anidentity changed? If so, to whom?
• The smashed displaycase 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.

Solutions

Immediately afterwards, Echo Secunda grabbed a vaporon, which alerted Rowan Doyle.

When the vaporon failed to work, Echo Secunda threw a spear at Rowan Doyle, and then fled.

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