It’s hard to give advice for mystery games without just stating the solution, so I’ve made a list of hints to help you out. Hints that give away the game will be spoiled out.
For each case, I’ll provide a list of words and their locations, a list of hints, and a spoiled out answer.

Before we go anywhere, this is a sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol and some familiarity with that game’s plot will be prudent. I’m going to give two recaps of the first game: one with and one without spoilers. The game itself will give a partial recap during the second chapter

No Spoiler, Abridged Recap: An artifact from the Lemurian civilization, the Golden Idol, has a great power that many individuals and organizations fight over, before the artifact is damaged and disappears

Spoiled, Thorough Recap: The Case of the Golden Idol follows the deaths and conspiracies related to the acquisition and loss of the Golden Idol. Brought from the foreign civilization of Lemuria, the Golden Idol ends up in the hands of the Cloudsley family of Albion. A secret society, The Brotherhood, schemes to take hold of it, but Edmund Cloudsley figures out the true power of the idol: its ability to take years of life away from one person and give to another. He uses it to make himself younger, taking on the new name of Lazarus Hearst. Lazarus takes over the secret society and uses its connections to control parliament with a new party: The Order Party, a dictatorship where anyone who fails to live virtuously has their life taken and given to Hearst’s cronies. He attempts to depose the king, but Lazarus is killed and the idol is rendered nonfunctional

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Many of my tips from my guide for the first game still apply, but there’s some new things to note:

• The game has been made a little more user friendly: all words are added to your phrase book when you click on a relevant item. Additionally, the game includes a counter of phrases and points of interest to clue you in on as to whether or not you're missing something.
  
• A new addition is the chapter scroll. All cases in one chapter are linked by a common scroll that recaps events while also expecting you to use new pieces of evidence to reach new conclusions. There’s a chapter scroll and a chapter conclusion scroll
  
• The cases are more interconnected than the last game. If a piece of evidence appears to have no use in your current case, it might actually be relevant to the chapter scroll or a future case. Additionally, if you feel like you don’t have enough evidence for the current case, check the previous cases and see if anything that didn't click then is important now.
  
• The cases were in chronological order last time, but now they’re more jumbled. Case 2 is before 1 and 4 is before the entire first chapter. Keep an eye on dates
  
• I would describe this game as more open ended and with more ways to reach the same conclusion than the first. I will attempt to be thorough, but just because I didn’t note something doesn’t mean it's not a valid train of thought
  
• You can use your mouse wheel to zoom in

Words:

• Black Rubber Baton: baton
  
• Strangled Orderly:
  • Name tag: Morg, Brakka, prison, asylum, hotel
    
  • Cigarette package: Sweet, Pines
    
  • Ring of Keys: Key
    
  • List of patients: Alexander, Jensen, Ceteran, Oriel, Toussaint, Professor, Mason, Turner, Accountant, Ivy, Hayes, Manager
• Strangler: Strap, from white strap
  
• Straitjacket on floor: Straitjacket, Red, Wood

Simply assign names to both parties and complete the case scroll

Hints:

• What type of facility keeps people in straitjackets?
  
• We have a list of names and coordinating cells. We can figure out who the killer is by figuring out which cell the murder is occuring in
  
• If we look down the hall, we can see that odd numbered cells are on the left and even numbered are on the right
  
• If the murder scene is opposite cell 201, then it must be in cell 202.

Words:

• Car: Car
  
• Woman in red coat: Cyril
  • Note in her inventory: Debra, Brandon
    
  • Ring: Ring
• Man with glasses: Bagman
  
• Key, in his inventory
  
• Building in back, with a red door: Issac, bridge
  
• Dead body in street:
  • Body: Slipped on, went for, fell from, collided with
    
  • Brown address book: John, Robkin, Thomas, Crow, Caleb, Reynolds
    
  • Pack of Cigarettes: cigarettes
    
  • Speech: Nowak
• Snow covered stairs: Stairs

Hints:

• The tricky part of this case is going to be figuring out the victim's cause of death. If all else fails, process of elimination. What couldn’t he have died from?
  
• The speaker of the speech says that critiquing Nowak is critiquing themself, so that must be their name
  
• The speech has one person's writing in red, which matches the red pen held by the victim.
  
• The dead man has several addresses in his inventory, none of which must be his, as he wouldn’t need a rolodex for his own name and address
  
• Does the symbol on Sir Issac’s door match with any other evidence?
  
• The victim has a pack of cigarettes on him, but they don’t match any of the ones sold in the cigarette machine.
  
• Does the victim’s torn yellow sleeve match anything else in the area?
  
• The victim sliding down the stairs does not necessarily mean he fell down the stairs. He could have landed on them.
  
• What’s with the disturbed snow on the bridge guard rail?

Words:

• Construction worker on left: Monty
  
• The one he’s talking to: Ted
  
• Inspector: Jenkins, Roy, Samson
  
• Inspector by pipe: Roy, Gun, Ian, Worth
  
• Cadaver in pipe: Luke, Brown
  • Message on corpse: Old, Docks, Hunter, Wolf, Benny, Crystal
• Crushed construction worker, note: Sewage, Pipe, Werter, Electric, Cables, Totsky, Garage, Building
  
• Wrecking Ball Note: Demolisher, Excavator, Cutter
  
• Cutter: Mug, Bill
  
• Anchor Woman: Joel, Gregson, Miranda, Meadows

Hints:

• If you had to safely demolish a rigid pipe, how would you do it? Flip that train of thought and think of how to do it unsafely and you’ll land on what happened in this case
  
• The picture in the excavator resembles a suspect, if you imagine how they’d look when they were younger
  
• We know from the two talking construction workers their first names, and we know from the inspector the last name of the third worker. Are there any clues reliant on a first name or last name you don’t know yet?
  
• The dead body in the pipe is irrelevant to the demolition accident. It will be important to the chapter scroll, but for now, pay it no mind.
  
• The safety note in the demolisher says you should always check the status lights of a vehicle before moving.
  
• If that’s true, the cutter couldn't have been used
  
• The foreman note states the last names of the excavator (Werter) and demolisher (Totsky) drivers, so the other last name, Jenkins, must be the cutter driver
  
• The pipe that crushed the foreman has a spherical dent in it. What could have caused that?

Words
Scene 1: Outside police station

• Inspector Samson on left: Homicide, Roy, Samson
  
• Note on Samson: Roy, Sebastian, Possum 13, Beetle 4, Cougar 9
  
• Worth, next to Samson: Ian, Worth
  
• Press Conference Questions, Camera: Police, Corruption, Tragic, Accident, Red, Curse, Drug, Connection, Deliberate
  
• Police Commissioner speaking: Offered
  
• Mourning Woman: Jack
  
• Man on right of woman: Showed

Scene 2: Window on left, Morgue

• Cadaver on left, Tiger 98
  
• Cadaver on upper left, Gecko 71
  
• List taped to back wall: Murder, Suicide, A, B, C, D
  
• Cadaver on upper right, Monkey 34
  
• Cadaver on bottom right, Beetle 4

Scene 3: Window on right, office

Trash can: victim photo
• Drawer on left: Cougar 9, Red, Curse, Roy, Samson, Luke, Brown, Benny, Crystal, Hunter, Wolf
  
• Left case file on desk: Possum 13, Dirty, William, Cougar 9
  
• Computer on Desk: Walsh, Board, Position
  
• Case file on right: Bridge, Case, Issac, Nowak, Eliazabeth, Adam, Jack

Hints:

• The press conference is about what the commissioner is claiming, not what’s actually occurred
  
• According to Worth, Roy called the conference, so why isn’t he giving it?
  
• One of the bodies in the morgue has to be Issac Nowak, the victim of the first case. Does he have any distinguishing marks?
  
• The paper in the back of the morgue says the cause of death, release date, and Case Name of the 4 bodies in the morgue. This could be used to find the Case Name of the Nowak fall
  
• The woman outside says that she just had someone’s body released that day and we have a list of body release dates in the morgue. Is there another document with the date on it anywhere?
  
• The mourning woman is the daughter of someone who recently died from a fall and her last name (letter) begins with a N. Ring any bells?
  
• What would anyone gain from cutting the eyes out of the victims photo? What information would that obfuscate?
  
• The commissioner got a computer from Wisdom Interconnected. Wonder who runs that company?
  
• Check Nowak’s body in Scenario 1. Issac Nowak has an X shaped mark on his neck
  
• That’s strange. If we accept that the picture is Issac, then it contradicts Elizabeth’s claim that they’re having a closed casket funeral because of a disfigured face. Why would she refuse to let others see his face?
  
• That’s odd. The note in the back of the morgue says that Issac Novak’s cause of death is unknown. If that’s so, maybe what happened to him wasn’t actually an accident?

• The commissioner is reassigning the detective, Roy, away from investigating Issac Nowak’s death and confiscating the case file. What, or who, would convince him to do such a thing?

This chapter scroll is broken into two parts. You must answer the first to answer the second.

First, let’s recap the three cases we just saw

• Scenario 1: 12/4/1997 (Nowak fall cas enotes). Famous genius Issac Nowak leaves his house for a meeting, only to fall to his death from the suspended bridge by his property. His body was found by the Bagman couple.
  
• Scenario 2: 7/11/1977 (Cougar 9 case file). A construction accident inadvertently unearths the body of Luke Brown, a vagrant found with bright red eyes and a note telling him to meet with a Hunter Wolf
  
• Scenario 3: 12/7/1977 (morgue note). Inspector Roy calls a meeting to discuss the Red Curse, a series of mysterious deaths where homeless people are found dead with red eyes. Supernatural phenomena are rumored to be the cause, but the alternative answer, the one the police chief suggests, is drug use. Issac Nowak’s body was found with red eyes, suggesting that he was partaking in whatever killed the Red Curse victims. Nowak’s daughter Elizabeth caught wind of this and bribed the police commissioner Sebastian with a job position to have all evidence that Nowak was related to the Red Curse case destroyed and to have the investigation stalled.

New Evidence:

1. A letter from the Rare Talent Fund telling an unknown party that they will fund Brandon’s education if they maintain confidentiality
   
2. A letter threatening someone to talk to the commissioner to keep the condition of a body secret
   
3. A forensic analysis report sent to inspector Samson. The bodies from two different cases of the Red Curse were likely affected by the same affliction, unlikely to share a cause of death, and did not have substances in their system
   
4. A journal detailing the addresses and suspects of Cougar 9 case

Story 1 Hints:

• Back in case 3, Beetle 4 refers to the death of Issac Novak, Scenario 1, and Cougar 9 refers to the Red Curse deaths, specifically Luke Brown, Scenario 2.
  
• Who runs the Rare Talent Find? Does an organization bribing witnesses remind you of any other people?
  
• The idea that the Red Curse victims were killed by a drug is only substantiated by the chief of police, who we understand to be corrupt and easily bribed

Story 2 Hints:

• The note in Issac’s house in Scenario 1 said that Issac was going to a meeting at 45c stockyard street. Ring any bells?
  
• The threatening letter has no signature other than a drawing of a wolf hunting with a bow. Perhaps that’s a name in its own right?

Today, we need to complete an overview before we can complete the usual scroll. No one is named here

Words:
Scene 1, Outer Garden

• Radio: Rock, Rug, Hit, Pulled, Kiss, Fell
  
• Gardener: Stolen, Property, Asset, Seizure, Someone’s, Death, Nervous, Breakdown
  
• Credit Card: OPIG, Branch

Scene 2, House:

• Framed Article: Historian, Harmony, Foundation
  
• Empty Safe: Click on the paper for Safe, Opened and on the golden chunks for Artifact
  
• Suitcase: Click on the bills for money
  
• Opened Drawer: Drawer, Spray, Sprayed. Check the can for Hair, Pepper
  
• Phone:
  • Message 1: Ex-Husband, Return, Artifact, Exchange, Forgiveness
    
  • Message 2: Auditor, OPIG, Rob
    
  • Message 3:Colleague, Dragonfly, Inn
• Calendar: 1-0

Overview Scroll Hints:

• Odd hour to do some gardening. Why is the shovel so dirty?
  
• The message machine says that one of 3 people want to visit on Friday and that two of them ought to be delayed to September. Only one person came that night. Did they leave any traces?
  
• Who lives in this building? Their clothes and personal effects are likely somewhere on the premises
  
• Many organizations leave their name or logo on the front entrance or gate
  
• The moon tonight is a waning crescent. That comes after a half moon and before a new moon
  
• Is that a blood stain on one of the rocks?

Event Scroll Hints:

• Someone tried to empty out the safe into a suitcase. There’s a paper in the safe listing 7 pieces and a pointy-earred idol.
  
• There’s a pair of shoes on the front porch, but there’s only one person here. How did someone leave this building without putting their shoes back on?
  
• If we accept that the woman outside is the woman on the newspaper, then we must note that she appears to dye/tint her hair in her photo. Are there any blue or green hair products around here?
  
• The woman outside has a green print on one of her hands. Would that have rubbed off on any evidence?
  
• The Golden Idol is a Lemurian artifact. She would not be interested in the Lankan artifact the ex-husband has[/spoiler
• People love to steal hotel towels, don’t they?

Words:
Scene 1, Cells

• Left Cell:
  • Cache beneath desk: Glue, Clay, Scissors, Sculpture
    
  • Left Cell Desk, Letter: Alfred, Bradley, Steven, Aria
• Board Between Left and Middle Cell: Pakenham, Utley, Beswick, Blythe, Henry
  
• Middle Cell Barred Window: Window, Bars
  
• Cache under bed: Sheets, Kempton, Sainsbury
  
• Left Guard: Over, Gun
  
• Right Guard: Kendal, Smith, Gun
  
• Notebook on Right Guard: Julia, Patrick, Climbed, Percy

Scene 2, Outside:

• Chalk Message on left: Jeremy
  
• Window above prisoners, office cork board: Jason, Robert, Jimmy, Arthur, Daniel, Racketeering, Murder, Kidnapping, Homicide
  
• Leftmost inmate: Over
  
• Scarred inmate: Dug, Under,
  
• Rightmost inmate: Gun
  
• Guard: Utley, Gun
  
• Drainpipe: Drainpipe, Saw Blade
  
• Custodian at fence: Pliers, Wire Cutters, Henry, Wakefield

Hints:

• According to the map, this floor has 5 cells, but we only see 3 of them.
  
• The custodian outside is holding pliers, but there’s 2 empty spaces in the Sternwall toolkit he’s holding. It looks to be a similar shape to a wire cutter or pliers. Where’d it go?
  
• Looking at the outside of the building, it appears that every cell has a barred window. If we can’t see a window in the cell, it must be covered by a poster or something similar
  
• The window with the sawn through bars must be the one the escaped prisoner had
  
• The escaped prisoner, of course, isn’t here, so we don’t have a face to put his name to
  
• To escape, the missing convict needed three tools and three people needed to bring them to him
  
• One of the inmates outside has a note telling him to forget “what you think you heard.”’ Has anyone reported hearing worrying sounds?
  
• The cell poster has a group of numbered colored drowning and then a bunch of symbols with exactly the same color. We could turn a line of numbers into colors then symbols, if we only had a number
  
• The list of prisoners in the office gives first names to faces, crimes, and prison sentence lengths.
  
• If we can nail down the location of the prisoners and get one of their names, we can use the cell name list to name the other 4.
  
• The leftmost prisoner says he’ll be out in a year, which means he isn’t in prison for life.
  
• The journal says that Kempton likely cheats at gambling. He likely has some sort of rigged game of chance on his person or in his belongings
  
• Common sense check: a prison guard, no matter how trusting, is not going to bring an inmate a saw blade. He might bring something a little safer, though
  
• We just heard about the Harmony Foundation, so it’s funny that a book donated by them shows up in a cell.
  
• The redhead prisoner is neighbors with Utley, the prisoner being mocked by the guard outside
  
• The Message scroll is throwing you a massive bone - the secret message is six numbers long.
  
• The cell on the left and the middle have matching teacups. It’s nice to think that they’re sharing, but it might be quid pro quo
  
• The book the Harmony foundation sent isn’t in the best shape; it’s spine is practically falling off
  
  
  

Today, we have to complete the first event scroll to unlock the second

Words:
Scene 1, left side of drive in

• Projectionist booth:
  • Poster: Escape, Neptune, Taken
    
  • Toolbox: click on red wire for Cut, Red
    
  • Projectionist: Cunningham, Fire, Fix
    
  • Projector Troubleshooting Guidelines: Projector, Started
    
  • Camera Lens: click on blue crystal for Crystal
• Blonde Cosplayer on left: Beck, Mason
  
• Power box:
  • Examination sheet: Lemmons
    
  • Lock: Broke
• Car on Fire backseat: Wire Cutters, Paint, Blue
  
• Man in Blue vest: Bet
  
• Note on Blue Vest man: Mike, Jenny, Lose
  
• The Blonde Cosplayer on right: Win
  
• Note on her: Chen, Lendl, Cinema
  
• Car in middle, front licence plate: Vincent
  
• Man driving car in middle: Champ, Transom, bills for Money
  
• Car with pirate
  • Pirate: Laura,
    
  • Blonde: Transom, Marini, Bertrand

Scene 2, Right side of Drive In

• Screen: Screen
  
• Crashed Car front: Car Crash
  
• Space Storm Poster on right: Porbo, Captain, Block
  
• Box Office:
  • Banned For Life Photos: Augie, Tamine, Banned
    
  • Employee Schedule List: Andy
    
  • Phone Receiver: Sarah, Stole
    
  • Clipboard: Costume, Doug, Baxter, Parker, Annie, Kishimoto, Tom, Powers, Tooth
    
  • Yellow Note: Weird Lady, Buy, Exit, Head

Events 1 Hints:

• When you got here, the first you noticed was likely the fire and the car crash, but the first event scroll wants the leadup to those events.
  
• The duffel full of mysterious instructions is a good place to start.
  
• Just to make life difficult, there’s 8 people dressed for the costume contest: 2 as the blonde, 2 as the alien, 2 as the blue vest, and 2 as the robot. Figuring out the movie character names will help us name characters
  
• The poster says it’s 5/1, which means the power box was just examined that day. If that’s the case, what’s the deal with that green wire?
  
• According to the listing in the office, maintenance is working the projection booth
  
• The Neptune Difference Poster shows that the projector uses a red crystal, but the Crystal in the machine is blue. What happened there?
  
• The costume contest associates a name with a corresponding costume and prize. A popcorn bonanza honestly seems nicer than winning a figurine of Marini. Who wouldn’t want a car full of popcorn?
  
• The two aliens have different interpretations of the design: one has sharp teeth and the other blocky squares
  
• If there’s no red crystal on the scene, then maybe someone’s altered it’s color. Look for other colors of crystal
  
• Augie Tamine has been banned for life and would not be allowed to enter if anyone were to see their face. Is anyone here dressed in such a way that you can't see their face?

Events 2 Hints:

• The crux of the argument between those two people is that they bet something was going to happen in the film, it didn’t, and so one of them replicated it in the real world to technically win. What did they repeat?
  
• Whoever was in the booth left in such a hurry that they left the phone off the hook and spilled their coffee. What had them so frantic?
  
• Why is the woman in the crashed car muttering that no one can leave?
  
• The screen clearly shows that something has gone wrong with the projection. It’s distorted and the color’s all blue
  
• Augie says he didn’t plan for a fire tonight, so someone else must have started it

Scene 1, Auction 7:45 PM

• Blue Circle stand: Nils, Wilmington
  
• Oriel Toussiant: Robbie, Outbid
  
• Jumping Woman: Steal, Stealing, Stole
  
• Redhead: Albion, Adria
  
• Sitting Blonde: Mask, Lemuria
  
• Cane: Cane
  
• Speaker: Sell, Gavel, Keys
  
• Man in Apron’s clipboard: Robbie, Froberg, Bogart

Scene 2, Upstairs , 7:15 PM

• Circuit Box: Circuit Box
  
• Security Guard: Knightley, Keys

Scene 3, Downstairs 8:40 PM

• Person on Left: Oriel, Seal
  
• Second person on left: Lanka
  
• 4th person, with a tin cup: Tess. Check autograph for Erwin and Summer
  
• 5th Person: Moumaati
  
• Sixth Person: Statue, Pushed
  
• Animal on floor: Creature
  
• Mask on floor: Mask
  
• Clipboard on bar: Toussiant, Dasilva, Nevari

Scene 4, Upstairs 8:40 PM

• Item on floor: Totem
  
• Check in Safe: Aurelia, Winston

Hints:

• When you see murder victim upstairs, the obvious guess is that they’re the security guard. Is that right? Are they holding anything that proves their identity?
  
• Who is standing where in the blackout? This is the smoking gun for the killer’s identity
  
• If you played the first game’s DLC, you’ll recognize that the pink text the blonde woman speaks in is for the Lemurian language. If not, there’s her plane ticket
  
• The prologue Constriction took place in 1977 (Morh Brakka’s patient list) and this auction is in 1974 (Lemurian woman’s plane ticket/check in safe). Oriel Toussiant has not yet been institutionalized.
  
• The blonde with the prominent cheekbones and Farrah Fawcett hair resembles the Marini Figurine and the lady on the TV guide from the last two scenarios. Is she famous?
  
• The little statue should look familiar: it’s the one the colleague had to obtain for the historian back in Garden Retreat
  
• The cocktails sold here have distinctive glasses and colors.
  
• At the point of the auction, the third lot, the Darkhand mask, is currently being bid on. The first two lots have been sold and the last two have yet to be bid on
  
• With the exception of the redhead who carries a checkbook, all of the auction customers carry their money in cash. If they bought any of the lots (or a cocktail), it would be subtracted between the auction and the moment of the blackout
  
• The victim upstairs has a book of lots, their prices, and a letter-number corresponding to the buyer. 1/5 were bought by A-4, 2/3 by S-3, and 4 by M-5. What does the letter-number combination stand for?
  
• Whoever the killer is, they have a note on them saying that someone else will distract the security guard. Two people are scheming tonight
  
• The safe upstairs has 7,000 and a check for 6,500, which happens to correspond to the prices in the log book for lots 1-3. We can assume that at the time of the murder, the first 3 lots were paid for and retrieved and the murderer interrupted the 4th. Why then?
  
• There’s an easy example to use to solve for the letter-number combos. There’s a check in the safe for 6,500 by Aurelia Winston. This corresponds to Lot 1 and the fact that it corresponds to a check points to the red head downstairs in the forth seat. Therefore, we can say that A-4 is for Aurelia in the fourth seat. This means there’s a S in the third seat and a M in the fifth seat
  
• If Nevari bought 3 SSS cocktails, then why is the copper mug held by the security guard?

It's hard to hint who the killer is without explaining who is who in the blackout
Blackout, 1st Floor

1. First person on left is Aurelia (Checkbook and the seal she bought)
   
2. Second person is Summer (spent 7000 and refers to a Lanka centerpiece)
   
3. Third person is Oriel (Bought the absinthe and has 3,090 (3,100 - 10))
   
4. Fourth person is Erwin ( has summer’s autograph)
   
5. Fifth person is Tesa (She has 17,910, as she bought three SSS, so (18,000 - 90)
   
6. Sixth person is Moumatti: says she bought the statue and is holding a martini and 19,980 (20,000 - 20).

Who does that leave to be the victim and killer?

First, let’s recap those four scenarios

• Scenario 1: 08/17/74. At the Harmony Foundation, Historian Tesa Nevari has her colleague come over from the Dragonfly Inn with a pointy-earred idol. At the last moment, he attempts to steal the idol and the 7 artifact pieces from her, leading to Nevari killing him and burying the body.
  
• Scenario 2: 11/15/73 (newspaper in chapter select). Murderer and thief Arthur Blythe escapes prison, in part due to a saw blade sent to him in a book from the Harmony Foundation
  
• Scenario 3: 5/1/74 (movie poster/ power inspection log). A “crazy lady” wants a unique crystal from a drive-in theater. The owner refuses to sell, so her henchman, Augie Tamine, steals the crystal
  
• Scenario 4: 8/13/74 (Check in safe). Tesa Nevari and accomplice Arthur Blythe head to an auction to purchase a Lemurian idol, but are outbid. They scheme to steal the idol, leading to Arthur murdering the auction host and stealing the idol

New evidence:

1. An annotated history book on Lazarus Herst and the Golden Idol
   
2. A murderer who killed a coworker for stealing artifacts and selling artifacts from Lemuria escapes from Sternwall
   
3. Someone claims in an interview that they’ll put the idol together right
   
4. Someone in glasses at the Dragonfly Inn tells a Robbie Frobert that looks nothing like the one we just saw that he won’t be needed for work.

The Corkboard scroll wants us to assign faces and names to the various roles/names we’ve seen throughout this chapter, while the Story scroll wants a synopsis of events.

Hints:

• The phone call of a person in glasses telling Robbie to not come in that day (especially if you consider the clipboard on “Robbie” in that scenario saying that it's his first day on the job) imply that “Robbie” is not the accomplice's real name. If that’s true, then what is it?
  
• If someone just needed muscle or a henchperson, they could have hired anyone. What makes Arthur Blyhte uniquely worthy of breaking out of prison?
  
• Does the blue crystal in the Garden Retreat suitcase look familiar, now that you’ve done the other cases?
  
• We know Tesa didn’t take the idol with her out of the auction, as she needed her colleague to bring it to her in the Garden Retreat.
  
• If that’s the case, then what does it mean that Going Once! ends with Arthur holding the idol?
  
• It was never said that the roles on the corkboard are different people. Multiple names and roles can refer to one individual.
  
• I was going to make a joke back in scenario 3 that Augie Tamine sounds like a pharmaceutical, but that actually might be right on the money
  
  
  
  

Words:
Scene 1, Locker Room

• Cork board: Tests, Lab
  
• 2nd Locker: Self Help Book: Baird
  
• Harmony foundation pamphlet: Enter
  
• 3rd Locker:
  • Coat: Jack
    
  • Pictures: Both hands, One Hand
• 4th Locker:
  • Leadership tensing: Activated, Opportunity
    
  • Crumpled paper: Westlake, Spender, Nathan, Hoyle, Follow, Accuse
    
  • White Paper: Board Inspection, Oriel, Jack, Eugene, Unlocked
• Trash barrel: Whiskey
  
• Oriel Toussiant: Access Card

Scene 2: Lab

• Man by door: Marie, Tim, Bickered
  
• Machine: Controls, Device
  
• Jack Nowak: Access Card
  
• Book on Shelf: Nowak, Toussiant, Marmot, Reconstict, Revoked, Approval
  
• Man on Fire: Fire
  
• Balding Executive: Responsibility
  
• Redhead woman: Touch, Access Card

Hints:

• According to the note in rightmost locker, the lab staff, with the exception of Eugene, have access cards.
  
• The board inspection note says that the lab is usally locked, but will be unlocked on the 18th. What day is it?
  
• ID’ing the fingerprints will be a challenge and a test of figuring out who does and touches what, but one’s easy: the man opening the door left his print right there.
  
• The lockers have, in order: a spare pair of glasses and Lemurian history books, a orange powdet stain, Jack Nowak’s coat, and a letter to Dr Westlake and a labor distribution sheet. This should be enough to ID which if the 4 lab staff they belong to.
  
• Whoever’s on cleaning duty is making a mess with those nacho chips
  
• The fingerprint scroll has places for four names, but only 3 of them are prints. The forth is an orange stain. Is that enough to ID someone?
  
• According to the Westlake note, there have been repeated allegations of Spender drinking on the job
  
• The photos in Nowak’s locker allege that both the button and runes need to be touched at once to activate the effects
  
• If that’s true, then the only person that could have set off the device would have had to have a fingerprint or other trace on both the button and the runes.

Words:
Scene 1, Pool Backyard

• Table in left yard
  • Shot glass: Piece of Ice
    
  • Ribbon spools: ribbon
    
  • Cardigan pocket: Coolidge
• Grandpa: Tobias
  
• Old Man's Note: Lana, Peet, Leonidas, Agency, Jack, Amstel, Closure, Corbyn, Broke
  
• Bicycle wheel by tree: wheel
  
• Notebook by binoculars: Foundation, Rolled, Gathered, Shaw, Hill
  
• Grill: Barbecue
  
• Man under Grill: Odetta
  
• Child in Pool: Hit
  
• Woman: Tobias, Jeffrey
  
• Newspaper in her inventory: Injure

Scene 2, Outside the former Harmony Foundation

• Protest Circle: Recruit, Steal, OPIG, Harmony, Andi, Penny, Protestors, Protest
  
• Hippie giving pamphlet: Marmot, OPIG
  
• Bird Bath: Bird Bath, Fall Over
  
• Jack Novak: Eugene
  
• Note on Jack: Laboratory, Westlake, Toussiant, Nowak, Marmot
  
• Bikes: Bicycle, Cycled

Hints:

• That’s the old Harmony Foundation garden where Tesa buried Arthur. The inbetween chapter note said they replaced her and OPIG took over the building.
  
• The old man’s keeping an eye on the hippies and the foundation, but he’s also observing his neighbors
  
• The nosy old man’s journal says that his daughter is with the hippies. Is anything on the backyard table connecting to a hippie?
  
• Whatever there’s one track through that blue flowerbed and a second track past the tree to the right. It looks like two things rolled down the hill and went in different directions
  
• What’s a moon gazing bath? Whatever it is, Andi’s trying to move it
  
• The schedule on Jack says that he and Marmot work afternoons, so it must be the afternoon at the time. Then how is that ivy so cold it’s freezing?
  
• The bird bath is broken and theoretically could be the source of the item that rolled down the hill, but it doesn’t look like there’s any missing pieces.
  
• The round item in the pool is light enough to float, so it can’t be stone. What else could it be?
  
• It’s mentioned in the last scenario that the inside of the lab had been weirdly cold recently. Maybe it’s starting to breach the window and affect what’s outside?
  
• The wheel by the house is tangled up with blue flowers, so that explains one track

Words:
Scene 1, Bloody room

• Symbol Over Door: Empathy
  
• Injured Guard: Taser
  
• Healthy Guard: Bruce. Tweet
  
• Morning Orders: Spender, Marie, Taser
  
• ID Card: Billy, Greer
  
• Bloody ID Badge: Myson
  
• Injured Man: Neil, Remington
  
• Screaming Woman:
  • Cat Poster: Mittens
    
  • Letter: Hall, Harmony, Foundation, Procedure
    
  • Agenda: Elminage, Replenish
• Reader machine: Crystal

Scene 2, Harmony Foundation

• Black board: Order, Empathy, Justice, Chaos, Hatred, Injustice
  
• Trash can: Dedicants, Seize, Enlightenment, Crabbed, Stabbed
  
• Tesa’s Level Readings: Procedure, Sam, Alex, Charlie
  
• Tim: Tesa, Pen
  
• Marie:
  • Pen
    
  • Reason Institute Letter: Reason, Institute, Westland, Nevari, Harmony, Foundation

• Blue Dresser: Illuminate, Replenish, Purify, Eliminate, Obscure, Contaminate
  
• Yellow check blazer: Tim, Spender,
  
• Answering Machine Call 1: Hatred, Shot
  
• Blonde lady: Robinson, Harmony, Foundation, Procedure

This ones gives you an Events scroll, and then a Motive scroll when you fill in the first

• The clock says 9:25 PM, so, according to the cult agenda, they were measuring their levels at the time of the incident
  
• Have you ever played Eternal Darkness? In that game, you cast spells by making sentences out of runes, each representing a word. So heal was Absorb Self and attacking was Protect Area. The idol operates on similar principles
  
• The Runes scroll asks for what Tesa BELIEVES the runes to mean. That’s not to say that she’s absolutely right. They reflect her spiritual views more so than they reflect the magical system
  
• Tesa’s notes assign names to empathy/hatred values. Is that enough to ID people?
  
• It’s hard to see what happened in the room with the attack, but someone lost a flip flop, broke a crystal off the table, knocked over the stool, attacked the guard, and dropped the crystal
  
• We already know from the chapter select and scenario 2 that Spender/Westlake evict Tesa and the Harmony foundation. The Hippies didn’t seem pleased about it last time, so it’s unlikely they went quietly
  
• The phone messages state that a person filled with hate is being abruptly brought along to the event. This person is new and likely wasn’t formally invited like the others.
  
• Does the enlightenment reading on the machine match anyone?
  
• The procedure room, when combined with the agenda, appears to be set up for someone to have their levels read at the stool, and then they’re placed in the chair to have their empathy/hatred manipulated with the idol.
  
• If that’s the case, then remember that it’s 9:25 and they were still doing readings. Why is someone in the chair early?
  
• Tesa believes that every day, her dedicants are closer to enlightenment. That is, their empathy goes up and their hatred goes down. If that’s the case, someone’s values correspond to the length they’ve been in the program
  
• The guard’s radios show the injured one message for police and the uninjured one deploy something.
  
• The woman on the phone has a nasty mark on her wrist. Where’d that come from?
  
• When the bloody crystal hit the floor, it rolled a pattern of its facets. Whoever used that bloody crystal would have a distinctive stain from its facets.

Motive Scroll

• The phone messages show someone asking to bring a second person along, abruptly. Two of the dedicants must already know one another
  
• Tesa's photo shows that meteor shown in two of the photos happened in 1950
  
• It’s possible for a picture to portray the same person at a different age than they are at the present or in another photo.
  
• Remington’s note says that he was taught to always stand up for family. Is anyone here related?

First, let’s recap:

1. Scenario 1: 6/18 (Marmot’s calendar). Eugene Marmot activates the device and sets himself on fire, impressing the board and getting further funding for the research lab
   
2. Scenario 2: 6/13 (organizer note). A group of hippies evicted from the Harmony Foundation sit outside protesting. One of them knocks over a bird bath, sending a frozen disc of water down the hill. It’s icy even though it’s summer. A member of the group hands Eugene Marmot a pamphlet
   
3. Scenario 3: Unclear date, but chronologically first. Tesa fails to impress Spender and Wakefield, leading them to evict her and seize the Harmony Foundation. A dedicant stabs security

New Evidence:

• A letter to Nathan saying that the Emotion Studies project has been repurposed and that a new person is replacing Tesa as the head
  
• A letter, dated 6/4/74, from Jack Nowak to Issac Nowak, complaining about how he wants to swap roles with Marie
  
• Oriel Toussiant’s analysis of Tesa’s idol. The pieces are not connected properly and Tesa mistranslated the symbols
  
• A phone call from Eugene Marmot, who has taken Westfield’s job. He wants to hire someone back, as he would have never got where he was without their insight

Story 1 and Hierarchy Hints:

• The hierarchy scroll has a trick: it’s dated to 7/12/75. The most recent scenario is 6/18, so the question is asking for who does what after the fire and restructuring
  
• The idol Tesa has in scenario 3 is the one she spent all the time and effort on from Chapter 2. The security orders in scenario 3 say that all Harmony Foundation assets were claimed by OPIG, so they still must own it in some form.
  
• Back in Garden Retreat, Tesa had a message saying someone was going to confiscate her credit card for reckless spending. What organization was her card from?
  
• When the device works, the runes glow blue. We can use this to tell when it's working and we can flip it to see when it's not working.
  
• Marmot says that he's going to hire someone "back", so whoever he's hiring was previously fired by the company

Story 2:
Hints

• Tesa's interpretation of the runes isn't right. It's always a shame when someone influential believes something wrong; it's going to rub off on and influence others
  
• Tesa isn't only a scientist: she's a spiritual leader. The harmony foundation hippies are familiar with the device and believe it does what she thinks it does
  
• The obvious interpretation of Case 1 is that Eugene Marmot is kind of dumb and set off a dangerous machine by accident. What if he thought what he was doing worked?

The event scroll wants you to understand how the device works. I’m going to give two different answers. If you played the first game, you know how the idol works and have a glossary of what its runes mean (if you forgot, check case 7 of my guide for the first game, linked at top). If you haven’t played the first game, you need to think through these three scenarios to figure out how it works

I played the first game. How does the idol work?

• In scenario 1, the device is set to Increased Matter Heat
  
• In scenario 2, the device is set to Decreased Matter Heat
  
• In scenario 3, Tesa has it set to Increased Heat. It didn’t work for Tesa, because she needs a subject, such as Matter, for the ritual to work, in addition to the fact that the idol was connected incorrectly

I haven’t played the first game. How does the idol work?

• Tesa’s translation of the runes is noted to be off base by Oriel. He notes that her interpretation of hatred is metaphorically true and would more precisely be fiery. Her translation of Eliminate and Replenish is straightforwardly wrong
  
• There’s a concept in thermodynamics that always confuses people. Let’s say you put an ice cube in a glass of water. What’s happening, from a scientific perspective, is that the ice cube has a deficit of energy and is absorbing energy from the water. That is, the ice is absorbing heat from the water. Many people, especially laypeople unfamiliar with chemistry, will say the opposite. That is, the ice cube is adding cold to the water. These both adequately explain the process, but only one of them actually explains the mechanism.
  
• Think of the Eliminate and Replenish or Give and Take commands as being the same thing with opposite signs. A Replenish is a negative eliminate and a Take is a negative Give. It all depends on what you define as a starting point
  
• Tesa is defining the runes as if the idol receives and the subject gives (Eliminate Hatred by sucking out hatred and Replenish Empathy by shooting back empathy).
  
• That doesn’t make sense with the tests we see, where the idol gives and the subject receives (Scenario 1 is, from her perspective, Eliminate Hatred, but the device shot out heat; Scenario 2 is, from her view, Replenish Hatred, but the device is sucking in heat).

Words:

Scene 1, Aviary

• Bottom left note with letter: Deathrattle, Nythalie’s, Mimicked, Scavenged
  
• Left Note with two warning triangles: The Red-Breasted, The Masked
  
• Left Note with one warning triangle: Heron, Grouse, Killing, Eggs
  
• Bird Incubator Hut
  • Incubator: Incubator
    
  • Warning: Overheated
    
  • Worker, dead bird in her inventory: Hatchling
• Bush: Bush
  
• Yellow Bracelet in bird mouth: Bracket
  
• Note on Right with two red circles: Lori, Herald, Attacked, Cried, Discovered, Screams
  
• Right night with one red circle: The Bleary-Eyed, Morav
  
• Right note, no markings: Flower-Piercer, Agitated
  
• Worker on right: Declan

Scene 2, Worker Quarters

• Schedule: Feed, Marcie, Crystal, Declan
  
• Note by phone: Marcie, Declan
  
• Photo in Moore locker: Moore, Stolen
  
• Astor locker: Astor
  
• Palmer locker: Palmer, Stepped, Trained

Hints:

• The clock by the incubator says it’s 12:40. Good time to step out for lunch
  
• A bird care guide has been torn up. It’s pages describe the names, appearance, and distinctive behavior of the 5 bird species. If you can match the pages up, it will explain everything
  
• That neon bracket has the idol runes and the OPIG logo on it. Does anyone here have an OPIG connection?
  
• The victim is holding yellow seed. Which species eats that?
  
• When we arrive, 3 of the bird species are aggravated and two of them are calm. The Trigger scroll shows 4 agitated species, so one of them must have calmed down and one of them was never agitated
  
• The green birds repeat human speech, so whatever they’re saying must be what was said before the incident. Gotta love the good old murder mystery parrots
  
• The dead man has white with a yellow center stain on the sole of his shoe. That doesn’t match the floors or dirt around here, so where did it come from?
  
• If the hatchling was killed by overexposure to the incubator, then whoever should have been watching it was away for too long. Was it carelessness or inexperience?
  
• The note with the red circles has a warning against two different types of speech. It appears to be against talking and against loud noises, separately
  
• One of the birds is noted to be fed with live prey (which explains why there’s only four feed bags). It must not consider the other 4 species as prey, as no aviary on their right mind would put prey and predator in the same enclosure.
  
• If that’s the case, then whatever bird feeds on live prey was not agitated.
  
• The two rightmost notes match: the Morag Aviary’s connects to Guide to Birds
  
• The leaf and double circle notes match: the Deathrattle mimics sounds and the - Lory entry mentions repeating words
  
• The single and double triangle notes match:The Red-breasted mentions Herons and the top entry of the other is a Heron
  
• The torn up bird guide is meant for new employees, so whoever was attacked was the new hire

Words

• Final Placement Board: Mr Vlad, Lily, Belle
  
• Blue Dress: Rigged, Show, Attacked
  
• White Suit: Vilmar, Soda
  
• Attacked Man: Athrarb, The Producer, Mitchell
  
• Contestant Order List: Cameron, Flake, Nola, Rockow, Jamey, Albright, Regina, Littlemore, Vilmar, Prado, Atharv, Reddy
  
• Cage: Cage
  
• Balls: Balls, The Juggler
  
• Trumpet: Trumpet, The Musician
  Yayoi Kusama lookalike with puppet: The Burpist
  
• Record: Scratched, Scratching
  
• Notice on winner board: Poured, Sabotage, Sabotaged, Released, The Host, Dante, Longo
  
• Camera: Burgin
  
• Camera Man: Jamey, Stole, Stolen, Stealing, Knives
  
• Note on camera man: The Ventriloquist, The Magician, Lily, The Juggler, Record, The Ballerina

Hints:

• We have a list of contestant order with full first and last names. Any names not on the list must be staff or unrelated.
  
• Additionally, we have a list of placements for every act, connecting placement to talent
  
• It should be noted that there’s a ventriloquist and a magician’s rabbit here, so we have some names floating around that don’t refer to humans.
  
• The winning name on the board looks like it was hastily put over an existing act. Did someone change acts?
  
• The ballerina alleges that the show was rigged against her, and she is the most obviously screwed over of the bunch, but was she the only person who had their act go off the rails?
  
• The studio has no weapons policy, so the producer notes that someone had to use something else instead of knves. What skill could possibly involve that?
  
• The Winners of Yesteryear board has several faces that look a little similar to contestants, but only one exact match
  
• This studio has a no weapon policy. Despite this, someone put two deep, parallel
  scratches into that record. What did they use?
  
• The wolf tattoo looks like it was put over an existing tattoo. What letters would that W and F cover up?
  
• Why is that trumpet covered in orange muck? Is that one the blooper note meant by sticky valves?
  
• That cage looks sturdy. How could a rabbit get out by accident?
  
• Always be careful when handling animals. You’d hate to get your hand bitten.
  
• The producer note says that Lily ran on stage driving the jugglers act and the magician complained that her rabbit came one act late. The juggler is one act after the magician.

Words:

• Book on table
  • Triangle: Food, Door, Doors, Key, Keys, Machine, Machines, Spider, Spiders, Fool, Fools, Forbidden, Vampire, Vampires
    
  • Stick Figure: Build, Beware, Shout, Shut
    
  • Hand: Knowledge, Obedience, Evil, Strength, Curiosity
    
  • Pants: Opens, The

The goal of this scenario is to simply translate that dance into a sentence

Hints:

• The event scroll has a recording of the dance you can pause and scrub through
  
• Arm position is a noun or verb, with the exception of Forbidden, which requires legs. Some words require 2 positions
  
• If a word has two positions, doing the two moves in reverse order translates to its antonym
  
• A two finger point to a body part translates to an attribute
  
• A one foot stance is plural; cross legged sitting is a definite article
  
• He signals 9 words. The first four are one sentence. Your answer should come out to a coherent statement
  
• Check his feet whenever you think he’s signaling a noun to see if its plural
  
• Athvar does not perfectly face the camera and occasionally turns around. Try to think of what a position would look like from a different angle
  
• You’re specifically shown that Give and Steal can be communicated by reversing the other word, but that’s true of all two position moves
  
• He never sits down, so there’s no The’s
  
• Arthvar does ten distinct poses. If he is encoding nine words, then one and only one them is a double pose word

Words:
I’m going to go floor by floor for simplicity’s sake
Ground Floor

• Square Window on Left, Lobby:
  • Hesper Towers resident Directory: Winthrop, Sawyer, Nakana, Ozola, Wright, Steensen, Bird, Knox, Colms
    
  • Bulletin Board: Research Study, Cheyenne, Spencer, Picnic, Issa
    
  • Laundry basket: Colms
• Round Window on Right, Laundromat Man: Patience, Earnest, Stabbed

First Floor

• Left Apartment, 1A, redhead woman: Lovana
  
• Right Apartment, 1B:
  • Conspiracy board: Memoires, Photo
    
  • Diary, purple: Constance, Offered
    
  • Message Machine: Colms, Received, Research Study

Second Floor

• Left Apartment, 2A, Note on door: Kai, Took
  
• Right Apartment, 2B, measuring marks on entry way: Jane

Third Floor

• Left Apartment, 3A, Cat food package: Spencer Wright
  
• Right Apartment, 3B:
  • White board schedule: Picnic, Sonny, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Kenneth
    
  • Letter on table: Kenneth, Bo

Forth Floor

• Left Apartment, 4A, Mother: Sawyer
  
• Right Apartment, 4B:
  • Blonde: Picnic, Threat, Threatened
    
  • Brunette: Sonny, Darcy
• Roof, smoking woman: Sabrina, Forgot, Dumped

Hints:

• If you see an obvious conclusion, think twice. This is the most straight forward suicide I’ve ever seen
  
• The Photo scroll asks you to identify who took these photos and on which day. Did anything in these photos change between days?
  
• Whoever took the photo for the picnic had their had partially in frame and they have a band aid on their finger
  
• According to the clock in 2A, it’s 7:15. It’s likely the evening, as several people are siting down for dinner.
  
• The bulletin board says that Issa and his son were not at the picnic
  
• If we look at the research poster on the bulletin board, three slips have been taken.
  
• When you see someone with a switchblade getting a red stain out of their shirt, it’s natural to be suspicious, but it could be from any red mess.
  
• The mother says that there was a gun shot a half hour ago, or 6:45 PM. This death was recent
  
• Assigning everyone to their apartment will make naming everyone so much easier
  
• The directory lists the inhabitants of B4 as having different last names, which means that the inhabitants of every other apartment all share one last name per apartment
  
• The letter in B3 says that Bo saw something at the picnic, so he must have been there
  
• The B4 game night is set up for three people, but only two are currently playing. Did someone leave?
  
• The mother says that Sawyer will be there soon and her fridge says inspections are on Tuesday at 7:20 PM. If it’s 7:15 PM, then it must be Tuesday
  
• If someone threatened me, I’d be on my best behavior. Anyone acting recklessly must be real stubborn or have something wrong with them cognitively
  
• The dead man’s apartment got a phone call saying that someone will “go up there and remind you” of their agreement at the picnic. Whoever shot him came from downstairs]
  
• A recurring motif throughout this chapter is people with OPIG wristbands either forgetting (Declan forgetting the rules of his job) or remembering things they shouldn’t know (Arhtar doing a Spieldance). Is something deeper afoot?
  
• Whoever’s memories she received, they were from someone threatened with a gun on the day of the picnic. Who meets that description?

Names, Photos, and Residents Scroll


Events Scroll

First, let's recap

• Scenario 1: 8/30 (daily notes). Declan Astor heads in to his second day on the job as a bird keeper. Unfortunately, after going to an OPIG test, he completely forgets the rules of interacting with the birds, leading to him being mauled and killed by a Masked Grouse
  
• Scenario 2: Unclear date, 1975. Atharv Reddy has to swap acts when his first choice is made unfeasible. Surprisingly, he does an excellent dance and wins
  
• Scenario 3: Shortly before scenario 2. Moumaati watches Atharv dance and is shocked to see that he’s doing a Spieldance, an ancient Lemurian dance that takes months to learn
  
• Scenario 4: 9/21/75, (messaging machine). Sonny Spencer is threatened that he will be killed if he antagonizes his tenants again on 9/18. However, he goes in for an experiment on 9/20 and loses his memories of being warned, so he antagonizes the person who wants him dead again. Tenant Lavona Colms receives his memories and tries to intervene, but is too late. Unrelated, the Knox household goes to the same experiment.

New Evidence:

1. Subject 37 did not return for his follow up leaving a data disc irrelevant to the research team
   
2. Jack Nowak identifies the time frame setting for various lens. Doughnut button refers to 1 minute. A day, 3 days, and a month are also mentioned
   
3. A group of discs. One is tagged as 37 and another is tagged as useless
   
4. Outcomes for a trial. Subject numbers are corresponded to ages, sex, hair color, and height. Several didn’t follow up and one needed parental consent

Hints:

• Those seals have the same shape and light as the Lemurian seal bought in the action. They must be Lemurian artifacts
  
• We have 6 wrist bands (Declan, Atharv, Sonny, Sabrina, Jane, and Lavona), but we have 8 slots for transfers. The remainder have to come from the seals
  
• The runes on the wristbands are written similar to the idol instructions. In the past, they've been Action Subject Element. The first symbol is the same Give and Take as last chapter, but the middle and end are up to you to figure out
  
• Declan has half moon dot for his middle, as do Sabrina and Jane. Atharv has square dot. Sonny and Lavona have half moon triangle
  
• The useless information disk has 4 times as much as 37’s memories. It must have a larger quantity of memory on it.
  
• We know two people who wouldn’t return for a follow up, as they’ve died
  
• The subject list has no repeats on gender and hair color, except for brown haired women and bald men. If we were trying to ID someone who had a double, we’re going to have to go to height or some other attribute
  
• We know from the time note that the circle dot, "the doughnut", represents a minute, so we can assume that the other middle runes represent quantities of time

Words

Scene 1, Beach

• Parasol woman: Westlake
  
• Sunhat Woman: Darius
  
• Eugene: Sandra, Genius, Jack
  
• White Dome: I.D.O.L
  
• Front buttons on machine: Give, Take, Heat, Memories
  
• Marie Westlake, note in inventory: O-Range, Commercial, Lab Staff, King, Nowak, I.D.O.L
  
• Photographer: Marmot, Added
  
• Photographer note: O-Tange, Marie, Westlake
  
• Green Bag Note: Adrian, Models

Scene 2, Ambulance

• Yellow doctor on left: Destroyed, Dead
  
• Model: Memories
  
• Red Circle doctor: Harper
  
• Blue Hair Woman, Eugene’s note in her inventory: Provided, Eugene, Marmot
  
• White note: Ridley, Cano, Ellis, Simpson, Medics
  
• Circle bag, medical book: Overdose, Poisoning, Allergy
  
• X Medical Bag, Newspaper: Sunnies, Euphoria, Crystal, Portal, Energetic, Happy, Numb, Trippy

Hint:

• The runes read Take Matter Memory and the lens is set to one minute
  
• A photo sheet is a way to create a scene for a specific photo. If they’re bringing the I.D.O.L along, then they’re trying to create a specific memory to take
  
• All of the models are wearing colored lipstick with a matching manicure
  
• By the look of it, the woman in the ambulance struggles from low BPM. She likely had an allergic response to amphetamine
  
• One of the bottles on the table is dark orange and its cap is bent, like it’s been tampered with
  
• The drug guide is interesting. Each drug has a distinctive way that it makes people act and feel
  
• The photo from the front and the photo from the back have the models in different order.
  
• It’s a little odd that the models outside are so happy when their friend is having a medical emergency
  
• Its easy to match two of the bags, as few people wear green and blue lipstick, but two bags have red lipstick and we have two characters wearing that. What could prove that is or isn’t one of their bags?
  
• The luxe model catalog gives us head shots in profile. This, in of itself, is enough to identify all three models based off face shape alone. If you’re struggling, cross reference with the list of model heights and whether or not they smoke
  
• Blue lipstick has earrings, long hair, a blue flower tattoo on the inside of her arm, amber tilted eyes, an angular jaw, no beauty mark, and an upturned nose
  
• Green lipstick has bracelets, long hair, blue eyes, a round nose, is the tallest of the bunch, and no beauty mark
  
• Red lipstick has short hair, level amber eyes, and a beauty mark
  
• Green lipstick is Jennifer Gibson, which aligns with her being the tallest of the bunch and a smoker
  
• Blue lipstick is Eve Robertson
  
• Red Lipstick is Amy Wood
  
• A disaccharide is just sugar. The joke is that Eugene is to too dumb to pick up on the fact that he’s being given a sugar placebo and that Genius is worthless
  
• If someone has an allergic response to a drug, they would typically avoid it and not deliberately take it. If that’s the case, then how did the model ingest Amphetamine?
  
• There’s two bags with red lipstick in it. Amy in the ambulance doesn’t smoke, so the one without the cigarettes is hers
  
• If the bag without the cigarette is Amy’s, then the one with is the casting director’s. Why does she walk around with amphetamine in her bag?

Photos, Names, Bags Scroll



Events Scroll

Words:
Scene 1, Boardroom

• Nathan Hoyle: Deduced
  
• Television: Live, Broadcast
  
• Speaker: Mounted, Speaker
  
• Phone: Phone, Speaker
  
• Red glasses, meeting minutes: Board, Headquarters, Nathan, Hoyle, Jasmine, Patel, Annette, Spender, Jeremy, Drake

Scene 2, Lab

• I.D.O.L.: I.D.O.L., Take, From, Give, To
  
• Phone: Phone, Speaker, Overheard
  
• Jack: Nowak, Eugene
  
• Demo Prep on Jack: Eugene, Tesa, 1 Minute, 1 Day, Received, Spender, Marie
  
• Tesa: Nevari, Phone, Jack, Board
  
• Eugene’s paper: Predicted
  
• Eugene: Marmot, Tim
  
• Spender: Memory
  • Envelope on Spender: Sealed, Drawning, Premonition
    
  • Love Motel Coupon: Love, Motel
    
  • Spender’s day planner: Bag, Haven, New, Wells, Demonstration, Laboratory, Headquarters, Annette
• Marie Westlake: Westlake, Spender
  
• Note on Marie: Tristan, Dreyfuss, OPIG
  
• Camera intern: Gossip

Hints

• In parapsychology circles, there’s a test called the Ganzfeld experiment. Basically, a psychic attempts to send information, such as an image, to a person in a sensory deprivation booth. Mind you, the I.D.O.L can directly and literally share images from one person to another, so it’s not pseudoscience
  
• According to the meeting minutes, the current day is 4/26/76
  
• Spender had to drive in for the demonstration, so the lab and headquarters are not in the same place.
  
• A love motel is a no-tell motel where people go to have sex. If someone tells you that they spent the night at a love hotel, they didn’t exactly get a full night’s sleep
  
• The lab phone is broken. I wouldn’t be surprised if any other parts of the audio-visual setup are busted.
  
• The way boardroom members are arguing makes it sounds like whatever gossip reached their ears is news to them
  
• Eugene, the cameraman, and the board are all reeling from some gossip, while the other members of the lab are chill and unbothered. How did this information only selectively reach people?
  
• The cameraman notes that he’s been affected even though he’s outside the range of influence. How did that happen?
  
• The boardroom speaker is unplugged, the broadcast is on mute, and the camera’s audio cord is unplugged. No sound is getting to the boardroom
  
• Part of the job of a camera person is to closely watch the broadcast to make sure it’s working as expected. He’d be seeing the same images as the board
  
• According to Jack Nowak, Eugene changed the demonstration at the last minute, swapping the minute lens for the day lens. If that’s the case, then more memories than expected were transmitted
  
• If you go back to Blockbuster, that drive-in was famously immersive due to its unique crystal. They used it to project images onto a screen. A film is just a series of photos projected by lights and a lens onto a subject. Are memories that same?

Words:

• Green Console: Work
  
• Robot face: Memories
  
• Lens Briefcase: 1 Minute, 1 Day, 3 Days, 1 Month
  
• I.D.O.L: I.D.O.L, Lenses
  
• Jack Nowak
  • Calculator: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide
    
  • Notebook: Disk, Echo, Secunda
    
  • Tape Recorder A: I.D.O.L, Memories, Take, From, Give, To
    
  • Tape Recorder B; Memories, More, I.D.O.L
• Injured Guard: Rowan, Doyle
  • Click on him for Spear, Threw
    
  • Taser
    
  • Newspaper: Aurelia, Winston
• Aircraft: More, All, Together
  
• Seal: Disc
  
• Aurelia Winston: Jack, Fled
  • Letter: Aurelia, Jack, Work, Oriel, Toussiant
    
  • Tape Recorder A: Work, Secunda, Memories, Nowak
    
  • Tape Recorder B: Echo, Secunda, Petrified, Nowak
• Statue: Dhustan, Lok
  
• Red Tank: Failed
  
• Broken Glass: Grabbed
  
• Note in glass, product design: Sirenry, Alerted, Harmonite, Placated, Veilforge, Concealed, Vaporon, Vaporized

Hints:

• Jack’s notebook says that it’s 6/4/1977
  
• This is the first time we’ve seen someone used multiple lenses in the I.D.O.L. By the sound of it, this is the first time it’s been tried
  
• The tape recorder shows one memory transfer, a request for more memories, and then a second transfer. The first one would have only used one lens, while the second used all four.
  
• Similar to the debacle we had with Tesa in Chapter 3, how it's believed the lenses works and how they actually work are not identical
  
• The console says that all Lemurian technology at the museum is nonfunctional. That’s likely for the best; many of them look dangerous
  
• The four gadgets in the broken case are not clearly labeled and can only be distinguished by the fact that are from distinct eras with distinctive visual styles
  
• The drawing on the back wall showcases a Goofus and Gallant style fable of the dangers of memory transferring. It shows a person being rendered blank by a transfer and a second person becoming the first through a transfer.
  
• Remember from chapter 4 that Eugene wanted Jack to simplify the time rune minute values to nice whole numbers? When you’re doing scientific math, you do need to use the exact full number
  
• Jack’s B recording says that he could try something to get another 4.01 days of memories, or 5,774.4 minutes (4.01 * 24 * 60)
  
• Which is a little beneath the sum of the three lenses that aren’t one month: 1.22+ 1,503.49 + 4,297.63 = 5802.34, which comes out to 4.03 days.
  
• The only way to get a number as big on the one on Jack's calculator is to multiply.
  
• 1.22 * 1,503.59 * 4,297.63 * 43,313.58 = 341,461,986,807.8053, but they only use two decimals, so 341,461,986,807.81
  
• The Progress era is red tubes, Restraint is blue-gray with segmented olive tubes, Turmoil is teal bodies with bright yellow/pink/green accents, and Golden is gold bodies with jewels.
  
• Is that statue supposed to be holding something?
  
• It should be noted that 1977 is the same year of the prologue scenario Constriction, where Oriel Toussiant killed Morg Brakka while speaking Lemurian.
  
• Well, at the time we thought it was Oriel Toussiant. That’s the body’s name

Events 1 and Drawing



Events 2

Words

Scene 1, outside

• Brown Container: Brown, Container
  • Cardboard box summary of 1976, Scrawny, Marvin, Hunter, Wolf, Dirty, William, Memories
• Red Container:
  • Left box diary: Harry, William, Like, Hunter, Wolf, Phil
    
  • Right box, name list: Harry, Luke, Hunter, Orion, Elijah, Funny, Phil
• Ship: Wrecked, Ship

Scene 2, Warehouse

• Left Shutter, ES journal in drawer: Euphoria, Sunnies, Cutter, Steelside, Warehouse, Elijah, Sinclair, Body, Wolf
  
• Right shutter:
  • Photo Board: Scrawny, Marvin, Luke, Brown, Harry, Stone, Dirty, William, Orion, Sky, Funny, Phil, Elijah, Trouble
    
  • I.D.O.L Range Commands: I.D.O.L., Take, Give, Some, All
    
  • Brown notebook: Trouble, Lake, Assistant, Experimented

Scene 3, Yacht

• Name, Sea Breeze
  
• Cabin on side, letter on orange cap: Avoid, Trouble, Live, Broadcast

Scene 4, Top deck

• Cocktail on instrument: Caused, Sabotaged, Synthesizer
  
• Hat: Cordelia
  
• Man on left: Brock, check card for Hatz
  
• Women with glasses: Tucker, poster for Fairchild
  
• Pink shirt: Cordelia, Olivia, Sterling
  
• Strapless white dress: Musical, Skills, Gabriel.
  
• Letter on white dress: Prescott, Gabriel, Olivia, Girard
  
• Woman on right: Arabella

Hints:

• According to the yacht invitation, it’s 9/17
  
• When you see the people in the yacht talk, you might think they’re describing themselves, but they're actually describing a second person, with the exception of the forgetful one.
  
• The yacht camera shows a timeline of people there. One man and one woman started out, the man who was initially there grabbed a cocktail and went to the Synthizer, and then everyone got into their current placements
  
• Almost everyone on the boat carries something with their name on it and a hint corresponding to another’s impression of them.
  
• The blue cap photo on the board is Luke Brown, the dead man in Under Construction
  
• One of the homeless men calls another Luke, which is odd, as Luke’s body was found in that sewer pipe back in July.
  
• The Possum 13 case file in Newsflash says that a dead body in the container was found in the steelside docks. The deceased was Dirty William… but the case file was opened on 12/1/1977, so he must be alive today
  
• Of the four men at the fire, 2 of them are extremely loyal to Hunter and 2 are skeptical. What could make a person trust Hunter so much?
  
• The E.S. Journal has a sudden about-face between pages. What could have so suddenly and thoroughly changed his mind?
  
• The dwelling guide says that, when choosing a dwelling, warmth > security > space > privacy. That is, a spacious but cold dwelling is worse than a warm cramped dwelling
  
• The summary of 1976, the journal in the bed with the buttons, and the notebook in the third shutter assign a time frame to when people arrive
  
• The 1976 summary mentions a person who died a year back, so one name is not present
  
• If someone wrote a list of observations on other people, they would not include themselves. Therefore, the missing name is the writer.
  
• The newest person is in the worst dwelling, oldest in the best.
  
• The hands down worst dwelling would have to be the boat. No door, open windows
  
• The two beds in the same dwelling are nearly the same comfort wise, but the one by the door would be colder
  
• When you look at the yacht camera, we can see that the person who was there first poured out the drink on the synthesizer and that they’re the man with the memory problems. Them being there first implies that it’s their party and boat, so why would they destroy their own, expensive synthesizer?
  
• If someone’s a thorn in your side, you’d want them either dead or under control. What choice was made to deal with Elijah?
  
• We have only seen consensual or unintentional memory transfers so far. What would a hostile mental transfer look like?
  
• The photo board specifies that the homeless test subjects must consent. Are they expected to continue to work with Hunter after the transfer

Dwellings, Timeline, Residents, Game



Summer/Autumn

First, let’s recap

• Scenario 1: Unclear date, but after 2 and before 3. The scientist team heads to a beach to take the memories of models drugged with Euphoria as they drink O-range. One model has a nonfatal allergic reaction
  
• Scenario 2: 4/26/76 (meeting minutes). The lab stages a live broadcast demonstration for the OPIG board to show how the I.D.O.L work. Memories of Tim Spender cheating on his wife are transmitted through the camera to the board, proving an unknown attribute of the device. Board president Nathan Hoyle is most impressed with the way that this can send a message to every home in the country
  
• Scenario 3: 6/4/77 (Nowak’s notes). Oriel and Jack head to the Lemurian museum to see what memories are on that seal purchased by curator Aureila back in the auction. A first transfer gives Oriel some memories, but he wants more. Jack misunderstands how the lenses affect one another and transfers all of the discs memories into Oriel, wiping out his personality and replacing it with Lemurian sentinel Echo Secunda, who escapes.
  
• Scenario 4: 11/17 (yacht party invitation). Hunter Wolf has established a group of loyal homeless people in the Steelside warehouse, where he uses the I.D.O.L to move their memories into new bodies. By exploiting the live broadcast transfers, he has been replacing the consciousness of wealthy people with his loyal cronies, with the hopes of rearranging society. When all of a person's memories are taken out, they die with red eyes, starting the rumor of the Red Eye Curse seen in Chapter 1

New Evidence

1. Marie messaging her coworker about how annoyed she is over a confusing poster Eugene made. Everything is right, just worded strangely
   
2. Hoyle asked the team for suggestions as for how to use the new function of the I.D.O.L. One is hippy, one is corporatist, and one is educational. He denies all of them
   
3. A tale of how a beaver defeated a hunter wolf. The story is a little morbid: it’s about a wolf who matter of factly explains to his prey animals that he will get them if they gorge, which the prey animals blame on him and not themselves. The wolf is run out and the animals continue to eat endlessly
   
4. A homeless game show created by Gabriel Girardi has a death. Textile ceo Darren Dixon suddenly voted against himself. A red note points to two of the homeless people from the last chapter and complains that they failed
   
5. A note from Marie to Jack. She’s worried that this technology is abusable, that she doesn’t trust higher ups, and that an empty Lemurian disc has gone missing.

Hints

• Our goal today is to simply explain how the I.D.O.L. works. We know most of this already
  
• In Beach Trip, the crystal is red. In Boardroom Brawl, it’s Blue. What were they doing before that?
  
• The colored brains simply represent different minds and memories.
  
• You might notice that you get five red/blue crystal lights but only 4 I.D.O.L.’s to place them on. One of them has to go to a person.
  
• Let’s reword Eugene’s poster: If it’s blue, it’s empty. If it’s red, it’s full. If it’s full, it can only affect conscious people or empty discs. The matter button must be engaged to affect a subject.
  
• How would you symbolize the Red Eyes Curse?
  
  
  

Today there are no words to find. We already have them all. As we complete scrolls, we got more spots to investigate
As a general rule, the evidence from The Pinnacle chapter select is relevant

• The “Happy Customer” Project is the name of the checklist Marie’s holding. The I.D.O.L. is being prepared for a live broadcast during a commercial break
  
• The hierarchy back in chapter 3 points out that OPIG also works in corn solutions. If you don’t know, most contemporary candy and soft drinks are made from corn syrup
  
• In hindsight, why did they need to drug O-range, specifically? If they wanted euphoric memories, they could have used anything
  
• The drug newspaper at the beach notes that Euphoria is highly addictive. Isn’t that what every company wants, a product customers can’t get enough of?

• At this point, Tim and Marie want Eugene to fail, Tesa has a grudge against all of them, Hoyle wants to spread his project, and lord only knows what Echo is up to.
  
• Marie’s checklist says that the one-minute lens should be in the machine, and it is at 2:30 PM. However, at the TV station, all lenses have been placed inside. Why would someone do that?
  
• Marie’s checklist says that Eugene fills the I.D.O.L , it’ss handed off to the security guards, then Jack and Eugene get it at the TV station
  
• At 1:45, the crystal is red. At 2:30 during the transfer, it’s blue. At the TV station being unloaded, it’s red again
  
• According to the security protocol, only four people have lab keys, only three have the PIN, and there should always be a security guard at the I.D.O.L.
  
• If someone were to tamper with the I.D.O.L., they would have to get the guard out of the way
  
• The note on the security guard at 2:30 shows dots linked together by lines in a row. They look a little like a 3x3 square. Do they translate to something?
  
• Spencer has a PIN: 15269. According to the security note, a pin should only be for Eugene, Marie, and Jack, so how’d he get it?
  
• Marie notes between chapters that a square disc has gone missing. How’d it end up in the van?
  
• The Oct 3rd meeting shows that the goal is to share “truly positive feelings about O-range with an unlimited audience.” If you wanted to derail that, what would you do?
  
• That vomiting security guard might have motion sickness, but the car is at a dead stop, so that can’t be it. What else could have made him sick?
  
• The scroll is asking for the specific individual who used the I.D.O.L.. That’s not to say that they’re working alone or that they didn’t have an accomplice
  
• If the crystal was blue during the trip and red at the stop, then the only time frame that it could have been refilled is during the trip.
  
• In the same way that you could put Euphoria in O-range to make a wonderful memory, you could put something in to make an awful memory.
  
• The footsteps in the snow outside look exactly like Marie’s. Was there truly an intruder?
  
• Look at your keyboard and type in 15269 on your number pad. What pattern does that make?

• Luke Brown would do anything for one person and one person alone
  
• The security protocol page says that security was raised after the “empathy cult” attacked. This was spurred by the removal of a consultant
  
• The security guard is tied to a chair, but is calm and unbothered. How odd
  
• The tied up guard is in the effective zone for the currently empty I.D.O.L

• The world didn’t change, so it appears the broadcast didn’t go as planned
  
• Is anyone confused like previous memory transfer targets have been?
  
• An act of heroism out of self-interest is still an act of heroism, I suppose
  
• Either the I.D.O.L. didn’t fire or the broadcast was prevented from reaching the public
  
• The note on Eugene is complimentary, but the bottle on the roof is sabotaged. Whoever gave him that note is playing him for a fool
  
• Remember how the camera intern in Boardroom Brawl was affected by the memory transfer because they were watching the camera feed?

• Who is Hunter Wolf? They have these traits:
  • They have access to the I.D.O.L.
    
  • They know that memory transfers can happen over live broadcast
    
  • They know that you can overwrite a personality by using all lenses
    
  • They would know Elizabeth Nowak is connected to Issac Nowak
    
  • They are, to an extent, utopian. They were upset that William was cruel and that Harry couldn’t affect positive change
    
  • They know the PIN to the I.D.O.L. lock, as someone had to give it Luke
    
  • They knew security protocol and that they would need a guard on their side
• Issac Nowak has the red curse eyes, so all of his memories were taken out of him. Why him in particular?
  
• Icarus is a nickname for someone, but who?
  
• The square disc was full of data. How many memories do you need to fill a disc?
  
• The rejected pitches all match one member of the team clearly. For example, the mediation one was Tesa. Who does the education pitch match?
  
• The letter on Tesa is from Jack and tells her that her best shot at stopping the broadcast would be to come at 5:30 PM, but we can see from Marie’s checklist that the broadcast was meant for 5:00 PM. Besides, it was 5:15 and the broadcast was already prevented. Why would he deliberately give her bad information?
  
• Jack was right at the press conference. Issac Nowak’s legacy will live on

Where we last left off, Inspector Roy Samson was promoted to homicide lead in the 9th district to keep him from meddling in the Red Curse case

Words:
Restaurant

• Drive Through Window, Employee: Employee
  
• Menu: Food, Sauce, Ordered, 0-9
  
• Blonde Smoking Employee: Punched, Stole, Lost
  
• Brunet Smoking Employee: Cash, Safe, Opened
  
• TV: Politician, Journalist, Gangster, Drugs
  
• Customers inside restaurant: Bystander, Bearded Man
  
• Motorcycle Cops: Cop, Vigilante

Back of Building

• Scooter: Tire, Shot
  
• Corpse, weapon by body: Weapons
  
• Bloody steps, right side of screen: Hand, Foor, Downstaurs
  
• Water tower: Water Tower, Fell
  
• Rooftop Door: Door, Upstairs

HInts:

• The cutscene just named both detectives, but that’s not relevant for this case. They just want roles
  
• The 1 and 4 spots are empty. A red car is in 2 and a blue van is in 3
  
• The waitress describes the man who assaulted her as bearded and on a scooter, while the tourists describe a red jacket man on a scooter and a bearded guy stealing the sour sauce. Are they describing the same person?
  
• You would typically order one meal for each person in your party
  
• The police officer says that no one left the diner, so no customers or employees left the scene
  
• The disembodied hand with the red jacket sleeve does not belong to the victim, as he has both hands
  
• The fight out back is relatively straight forward. The only real snag is the identity of the victim
  
• The metal threads coming from the water tower, roof door, and disembodied hand cannot be natural
  
• All the witnesses that aren’t the foreign tourists give dodgy answers as to what the car in lot 4 looked like. The employees give a more rehearsed answer while the customers give more nervous ones. What gives?
  
• There’s an old Italian saying: “I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything, and I wasn't there, and if I was, I was asleep.” In other words, the safest thing to do if you witness some sort of organized crime is to say nothing
  
• There’s a contradiction between witnesses: the customer in space 2 says they ordered garlic sauce, but the chef says they ordered tomato sauce and the waitress says they ordered barbecue sauce. And even the customer contradicts the menu: they don’t have garlic sauce. What’s the deal?
  
• The menu doesn’t show sour sauce as an option, so what exactly did the bearded guy steal?
  
• The employee in the back might be the manager (green handprint on safe and their apron) and they’re currently washing out a sauce container. Odd time to do that
  
• We never found that meal that got stolen, so whoever had it left the scene.
  
• The witnesses describe the man who assaulted the waitress as wearing a red jacket with a beard. He’s not the clean-shaven body out back

Words:

Kennel

• Cliff Sevea: Roy, Bodyguard, Door Guard, Talking
  
• Green Case: Drill, Microphone, Tools
  
• Body: Fighting from lip and Shot from gunshot wound
  
• Note on body: Kennels, Race, 2 PM, 3 PM
  
• Emergency Release Button: Knocked

Dog Track:

• Man at lower left, outside fence: Collect
  
• Kiosk: Kiosk
  • Kiosk Employee: Full
    
  • Betting Screen: Kennelmaster, 0-9, 4:10 PM, 4:50 PM
    
  • Note on yellow robe gambler: Gambler, Member
• Left Blue Suit: Watching, Broke Into
  
• Hand: Andier, Sick
  
• Note on blue suit: Note, New Asset, Czar, 3:45 PM
  
• Brick Office: Plant, Shelf, Desk, Track Owner
  • Owner: Meetings, Stole
    
  • Papers on Desk: Benny, Wrote
    
  • Shelf: On, In, Under, Beside
    
  • Paper by trash can: Benny, Wrote
• Right blue Suit guard: Bauer, Nothing, Record
  
• Dogs: Dog
  • Polka Dot: Twizzle
    
  • Blue Stripes: Maggie
    
  • Digging: Jess
    
  • Green: Godsend
• Woman at lower right: Office, Door, Money, Distracted
  
• Orange Suit Man by cigarette billboard: Vet, Leo
  
• Right orange suit man, by Kneel: Leo, Something
  
• Man in upper right corner: Tape Recorder, Northsider

Hints:

• The telecast in the last case mentions that thugs in white ties are everywhere since the Andier’s are weakening. The back alley has graffiti for the Andier and the Czars
  
• That car in the bottom right is fun: tiger stripes with a lion’s mane hood
  
• The note on the victim says that No. 17, which has to be a dog, never leaves their side
  
• Inside the kennel is a dog carrier full of tools named Zira. Sound familiar?
  
• Multiple people came into the office. The problem is the order and timing
  
• The victim was out running an errand after 3 PM
  
• The kennel master said that nothing went missing in either break-in. If that’s the case, then why did the thief break-in?
  
• The dog in the kennel was barred away, likely by the killer.
  
• The track owner has a golden dog bone charm with the name Jess on it. A favorite pet, perhaps?
  
• The kiosk says that it’s Friday. The initial break in was on Tuesday, so there’s been a three day gap
  
• We need to know the time of the incidents, but there’s no clear clocks. How can we reverse engineer it?
  
• The track master says she holds all her meetings in her office. That makes sense, as her planner has some incriminating meetings listed
  
• The six items in the Zira case match the dust outline on the office shelf
  
• The note on the guard says that the Blonde is complaining about being beaten by the Czar, a one-handed man
  
• The purple hat woman says that a race was starting with a polka-dotted dog when the commotion happened at the office
  
• The right orange suit guard says that he found the victim after the races finished. Coincidentally, one of the gamblers is collecting for Godsend, so that race just concluded
  
• The guard’s hand says that Andier’s wear yellow jackets and work in pairs
  
• The tape recorder held by the northsider has a dirt stain and recorded three days of audio. Where'd it come from?
  
• If the track owner has a ”favorite girl” and we can assume from context that she’s a dog, she would likely leave her office to watch the dog
  
• If there’s one yellow jacket Andier in the lower left corner, then another one must have been around. If we can’t see them, they either left or had the sense to change outfits
  
• The note in the office says that he picked up seven items, but there’s only six on the shelf. Where’d the extra item come from?
  
• If something the track owner didn’t know was in the office went missing, then, from her perspective, nothing was stolen

Words: N/a. We don’t collect words for this one

Hints:

• The first three Cartoon scrolls ask you to match the corresponding phrase to the cartoon, the Accounts scroll wants you to put their testimonies in chronological order, and the Events scroll wants a chronological timeline of the whole situation
  
• The inside of the building has a parking garage connection, so these buildings have an underground level
  
• The cops say that the leader and gangsters on the floor were on the top level and couldn’t have left by stairs. The only real way out of the top floor would be the window, but to where?
  
• All three contestants saw the same cartoon, but their interpretations are so distinct. Subject A is about on-topic, Subject B seems disconnected, and Subject C is just surreal
  
• The study notes mention that each subject has a distinctive response to the pattern, with a distinctive, repeating order match.
  
• The shirtless man is called Officer Martins. Is he undercover?
  
• The notebook says that Subject C’s interpretation matches reality, but is very strange.
  
• Every word said by Subject C matches reality, but in a non obvious way. For example, one of the statements says "Applause." There is no literal applause, but there is something that looks like two hands clapping.
  
• Who drove through that parking barricade?

Cartoon Scrolls



Accounts/Translation Scroll:



Events Scroll:

This needs to be completed before the forth scenario

First, let’s recap

• Main Game: Roy Samson is reassigned to the ninth district. Meanwhile, due to an I.D.O.l. mishap, the personality of Oriel Toussiant got replaced by ancient Lemurian sentinel Echo Secunda, leaving a figure with Lemurian knowledge on the loose
  
• Scenario 1: A bearded man in a red jacket steals lunch (and accidentally drugs) from a restaurant run by gangsters. He fights his way out with some sort of supernatural power.
  
• Scenario 2: The Andier gang plants a tape recorder in the office where Hildegard Bauer holds her meetings. Three days late, the Northsider from the Andier gang steals it, but has to kill the kennelmaster to get away. At the same time, the kennelmaster and Hildegard were preparing a package of audio equipment they called Zira
  
• Scenario 3: A tester with a knowledge of Lemurian knowledge and runes runs tests that scramble people’s memories. One tested, undercover officer Martin, gets severely affected, and takes his shirt off, revealing his wire. This tips off the boss and gangsters that a raid is on the way, letting them escape in time

New Evidence

• A newspaper article where Mayor Moira Meredith, discussing her Heritage Project, says that drugs are out of control and the cops aren’t doing enough to handle it.
  
• A letter to Ms. Bauer from Pouti. A “New Friend” has made an offer for of power after hitting their restaurant and nearly being caught by Andiers. He speaks ancient Lemurian. Zira hasn’t been moved yet and the Disarrnager is about to enter phase 2 testing
  
• H.B. sends a message back to Pouti. Their “naive benefactor” needs to be kept in the dark and, if she figures it out, phase 2 needs to be accelerated
  
• Samson’s investigation on Martin’s exposure to the Disarranger. It's a threat to others and the plans are currently unknown

Hints:

• Mayor Meredith is the one in the broadcast in scenario 1, the newspaper and planner in 2 (heritage project meeting - ensure MM absent!), and the newspaper announcing a press conference in 3
  
• Between cases, we see a letter saying that someone who speaks ancient Lemurian with a knowledge of power has appeared. Ring any bells?
  
• The test book is written by someone with a weak grasp on English/Albionian.
  
• One of the microphones in scenario 3 was disarranged the same as they did in scenario 1. The test book in 3 says that a certain tune combination destroys amplifying devices.
  
• The cartoon test in scenario 3 shows headphones by each subject and wired back to the tester microphone, like they’re receiving a signal
  
• Sound is just vibrations sent through the conduit of air
  
• What was the purpose of the tape recorder?

Words: N/a. No words to collect

• The first scroll is to recount the events of the scene. That is, the events of this surreal world and not what you think is truly happening.
  
• The way everyone talks sounds like Officer Martins (Subject C) in the previous scenario

With that, we can now solve Memory Match and a Conference across the new scene

• As you remember from Martins’ testing, memories of this type match reality but are obfuscated in surreal imagery. Everything here describes something reality, just in an odd way
  
• For example, the balloon has Moira’s face. One of the red grunts has only one eye; does anyone match that description?
  
• Bauer’s goal is to scramble Moira’s memory with a sound wave. Any way of projecting or receiving sound is suspicious
  
• The memory takes place after the scene we see in the real world. The clock icons are at 10 in the real world and about 11 for the memory
  
• The Sonic studio shows that any microphone can be converted to a speaker with some quick wiring
  
• Echo and a gangster are carrying a radio signal emitter and transmitter
  
• The memory is from the perspective of someone holding a projectile weapon. Who would that correspond to?
  
• The memory is a scrambled recreation of the conference setup: Moira and a microphone in the center of two speakers. If you’re struggling to make sense of the rest, compare it to the conference scene.
  
• The green scroll held by the red grunt in the memory describes an order of characters entering a scene. What does that match in the real world?
  
• If we accept that the red grunt is holding a roster, then it should be noted that an additional two entries are on the memory. An evil twin and the eyes and ears appeared after the hero
  
• Twins would refer to two people alike in some way, such as appearance. Do we have any doubles on outfits?

When we click on Echo and Roy in the new time, we’re given our final scrolls: arranging their memories in chronological order and then describing the events listed

Echo Secunda's Scrolls

• Same as the previous memory, everything here connects to reality in some way
  
• Echo’s is easier, as it has one solved frame
  
• The main motifs of Echo’s are strangling a person, tiger striped and Lion maned guards, a bag of chicken dinner, a horse to ride, and a broken sword with a red jewel
  
• Did we ever figure out where Echo got his Lemurian artifact from? It wasn’t from the museum, as every artifact there was nonfunctional
  
• It hasn’t really mattered until now, but when did Echo get his scooter?
  
• If it’s been a hot minute since you played the main game, Echo escaped the asylum by strangling a guard, was in the area during Final Clash, when the smiley painted I.D.O.L. was moved from the Harmony Foundation lab by car to another building and then thrown from a window

Roy Samson's Scrolls

• When we last left off, both Roy and Echo were holding earmuffs, but they’re acting scrambled now. When’d they lose their hearing protection?
  
• Roy’s memories include holding a gun, running between two buildings with holes, a red eye device, a figure on a stand, and goggles over the POV
  
• Echo did not have a gun earlier, so the only gun in the scene is the one Roy brought
  
• Roy’s memories show a pair of goggles over the POV that drop off part way through. In addition, the red person being fought loses their helmet

Words:

Scene 1, Balcony

• Woman on left with glass: Drank, Edited, Played
  
• Man on Right: Menni
  
• His Invitation: Lebop, Speech, Recorded, Tape

Scene 2, Inside Hall

• Left Painting: Lutri, Manzek
  
• Left Man with Clipboard: Beka, Let, In
  
• Outside Visitor Protocol: Shabak, Called, Let, In, Out, Opened
  
• Woman: Followed,
  
• Meeting List: Live, High, Guardian, Justice, Minister, Intelligence Director, Zerek, First, Sentinel, Propaganda, Chief
  
• Security Checkpoint: Moved
  
• Right Painting: Lorin
  
• Rigtht Guard, Hat: Bayonet, Gun
  
• Orders: Triskan, Zeldorf

Scene 3, King’s Cabinet

• Trash Can: Dagger
  
• Left Portrait: Vanto
  
• Table: Tea
  
• Git Table: Looted, Disk, Vase, Wine, Ornament, Statuette
  
• Right Painting: Orant
  
• Right Chair: Trapdoor, Unlocked
  
• Window: Window, Locked

HInts:

• The interior guard says that the portraits are of the king and his predecessors. Whichever one is most recent has to be the king’s.
  
• The secretary in the hallway says that she was told by the king not to let anyone in and disturb him after his last meeting, but he’s dead inside. How did she hear anything from him?
  
• The map inside shows a Princess and Princess’ quarters, so two children of the king are on the premises
  
• For today’s purposes, job title counts as name
  
• Is it sunrise or sunset outside? How would you distinguish the two?
  
• According to a person on the balcony, the person in the car outside is rushing away after recording their section of the speech, so if we can figure out who left the cabinet room, we can ID them. Additionally, someone inside is late for their meeting and must be the one after them.
  
• Somehow, a bronze dagger made it through the security checkpoint and into the crime scene. The checkpoint has a point to place gifts on, so they were certainly examined by security. What gift could have the dagger been hidden in or on?
  
• Everyone meeting with the victim is there with a script part to edit and for the king to record in his voice. (Invitation). Could the killer have exploited that in some way? After all, there’s a blood trail from the body to the tape machine
  
• A piece of yellow tape is in the trash, matching up with that small red section on the tape in the machine. For those who don’t know, tape recordings were historically edited by cutting and gluing them. If that’s the case, the current recorded speech is missing a few seconds
  
• That trapdoor looks suspicious, but since it’s under a chair, it couldn’t have been used during the meeting
  
• The trick to the king’s portraits is not whether or not his clothes look modern. There’s another sign that time has passed in those paintings
  
• As the man on the balcony says, the sun rises in the east and the sun is currently in the direction of the balcony. Do we have a map with a compass around here?
  
• The bronze statuette of the warrior and the snake has an empty hand, like it should be holding something
  
• Part of the recorded speech reads: “That is why the orders I have given recently do not disturb me.” Could any of that be taken out of context if replayed in part?

Solution:

This level breaks up its scrolls into several smaller scrolls that need to be completed in order

Words:
Scene 1, Outside

• Left Building with Tub: Washed, Poured
  
• Inside Cabinet:
  • The Antiemetic: Joken, Prenzi, Alcohom,
    
  • Homeopathic Solution: Ralo, Crish, Homeopathic, Medicine, Moondrjft
    
  • Moisturizer: Moistruizer, Jasmine, Paste
• Black Tablet Monument: Reject, Wealth, Embrace, sinners, Live Forever
  
• Duties Roster: Rafeli, Nozi, Tranta, Cooking, Cleaning, Gardening, Overnight Watch, Washing, Water Collection
  
• Left Dedicsnt: Food, Poisooing, Virus
  
• Scroll on Left Dedicant: Nagasai, Quansa, Ori, Koi, Gresto
  
• Middle Dedicant: Threw
  
• Pond in Distance: Goat, Pond
  
• Goat at Pond: Belly
  
• Kitchen: Chili, Coriander, Cumin, Mustard, Seeds, Mint, Jasmine, Mortar and Pestle, Pan, Ladle, Knife
  
• Kitchen Cookbook: Ground, Sprinkled

Scene 2, Sentinel’s Hut

• Doctor: Nagasai
  
• Pateint History: Pravi
  
• Doctor’s Box: Alcohol, Test
  
• Right Twin, note in inventory: Ania, Gresto, Koi, Ori

Hints:

Names and Seats Scrolls

• By the look of the duties roster, it looks like the sentinel and five dedicants are the people who live here and do all the work. The two doctors are just here due to the death
  
• To figure out anyone’s names, we’re going to need to know what day of the week it is for the duty roster to be helpful
  
• The Seats scroll will not make sense until you figure out what side the Sentinel is sitting on.
  
• The Newcomer’s Guide looks like it's set to the cooking page, but it could also be the tail end of the gardening section
  
• The scroll on the scribe says that the sentinel died overnight, so the entry in his notebook in the room must be from before the day he died.
  
• That is, yesterday was Sunday
  
• There’s one pair who arrived here at the same time. Well, they arrived into the world at the same time
  
• The twins have the same meal, but their plate layout is not the same

Kitchen Scroll:

• This one is pretty open and shut, as both sick people plainly state that were sick
  
• None of the plants in the kitchen are toxic, as they’re all commonly used in cooking
  
• Another person ate the same meal as the victim and didn’t get sick. We can’t say that their food was poisoned
  
• If the meals eaten by the sick have no ingredients in common, then what other trait do they share?

Goat Scroll:

• Moondrift flower is fictional and its effects are not clearly explained
  
• The game explains homeopathy, but since it’s a real world pseudoscience (think HeadOn), I’m going to give a little more information. The logic of homeopathy is that like cures like, or that a symptom can be treated with an extremely diluted mixture of a substance that causes said symptom. For example, a rash could be treated with a dilution of poison ivy (or any skin irritant). If that sounds dangerous or counterproductive, don’t worry, because it doesn’t have any effect at all: the extreme dilution effectively means there’s no product to cause a reaction
  
• The medical trunk contains the note that you must clean equipment in alcohol to avoid contamination. Water wouldn’t do the trick
  
• Whatever killed the goat likely killed those fish.
  
• There’s a single rubber glove at the pond, like someone was handling a chemical that shouldn’t touch the skin
  
• Why would you shave a little bit of the goat? It’s not enough to get hair or anything; it’s just enough to expose skin
  
• Are those Moondrift flowers by the suitcase missing their petals?

Sentinel:

• After the last few scrolls, the only unknown part is the vector for the toxin
  
• What does the Sentinel, and only him, ingest or put on his body?

Event Scroll:

• If the goat was noted as missing on Sunday morning, then it was last seen alive on Saturday. Who has an opportunity?

Words:

Time 1, 3 PM

• Scene 1, Outside
  
• Right Waterfall Proclamations: Koi, Nagasai
  
• Excavator: Excavator
  
• Dump Truck: Dump truck
  
• Forklift: Forklift
  
• Foreman Note: Betsy

Scene 2, Inside

• Fire Safety Map: Extinguisher, Fire, Smoke
  
• Speaker: Blasted
  
• Idol: Idol
  
• Woman on lower right: Mind, Body

Time 2, 8 PM

• Scene 3, Office
  
• Woman: Ori, Window, Wine, Bottle
  
• Koi: Struck, Banished
  
• Journal, Red: Helen, Martin, Lizzie, Young, Nina, Lavell, Maggie, Carter
  
• Journal, Blue: Gresit, Nozi, Jamati, Pirra

Scene 4, Garage

• Note on man: Disposed Of
  
• Diary: Haunted, Lifted, Secret, Recurring. Nightmare, Room

Hints:

• It’s not impossible to use Lemurian devices to float (see the 8th case of the first game), but those are all required devices with runes and mechanical elements, which is not true here. There must be a trick
  
• Koi’s notes contain a personality evaluation of his four students and how to best manipulate them, explaining the logic behind their names. Tesa Nevari is a freebie as we already know she has glasses from the main game, leaving the other three up for naming
  
• Why would the floor plan Gresto has explain a discrepancy?
  
• In the day, Koi has three car keys that match the cars in the garage. What’s the forth one, the brown short one, belong to
  
• The fire extinguisher in the office is different from the other two: it’s dented and empty.
  
• The garage has tire tracks leading into a wall. If we cross reference with a floorplan, where do they lead to?
  
• It does not need to be explained as to how driving out in the middle of the night with a shovel and something under a rug is suspicious. The only question is what’s under the fabric in the back
  
• The bird somehow died with no visible wounds. It must be sickness, poisoning or asphyxiation
  
• Fire extinguishers use carbon dioxide to stop fires by robbing them of their air supply. A good safety tip is to not use them near humans or other living creatures, as breathing it in would be as bad as smoke inhalation
  
• The way Koi is posed, it’s like he’s sitting with his legs crossed with the fabric obscuring his lower body. If he’s not sitting on air, he must be sitting on something, but what?
  
• If you look at the outside of the building, you’ll see that the prayer hall has five windows on each side, but we only see four in the interior, the fourth being the second white window. What gives?
  
• Are there two vertical slits in that fabric behind Koi’s ascension ritual?

Words:

Scene 2, Cave

• Children, book: You, Your Mother, Your Father, Your Brother, Did, Did Not, Will, Will Not, Must, Must Not, Kill, Resurrect, Reward, Punish, Waterfall
  
• Black Slab: Monument
  
• Student by Monument: Sinners, Dedicants, Your Dedicants, Koi’s Dedicants, Money, Your Money, Dedicant’s Money, Endanger, Protect, Leave, Enter, Virus, Ori, Koi
  
• Speaker: Ori, Waterfall, Pray, Pravi, Temple, Inside Temple, Koi’s Temple, Ori’s Temple, Fire
  
• Book on Quasna: Burn, Extinguish

Symbols and Gospel:

• Welcome to Chants of Sennar. Like Spieldance in the main game, our goal here is to make sense of this language and translate a message. I'm going to break it up scroll by scroll
  
• Related words tend to to share a symbol. Many symbols partially resemble what they mean
  
• The crossed out circle was on Pravi’s Forehead in 2, the triangle on Koi’s in 3. The square is on Ori’s in 4
  
• The pentagon is on the ruins by the waterfall
  
• Putting a dot above a symbol turns it into its opposite: Help with a dot becomes Hinder
  
• A straight, right pointing line is an imperative; the audience must do a command
  
• A wiggly line pointing left is past tense; it did happen in the past
  
• Putting a noun symbol in the same space as another character provides a connection or an ownership between the two; Mother and You becomes Your Mother.
  
• The Gospel book is entitled, Pravi, the Temple Fire, and the Waterfall
  
• It was mentioned in Scenario 2 that Pravi’s burns came from some sort of incident
  
• Something must have destroyed those ruins by the waterfall
  
• The translation is simply asking to describe the events of how the temple burned down, was put out, and how Pravi burned. The trick is trying to put them into this grammar structure
  
• The final line of the gospel has a line above the symbol for Kill. The dot flips words, so the line must be something else
  
• The line negates. Did Kill becomes Did Not Kill

Monument:

• The translator explains one or two words per line
  
• What's the opposite of protect and reward?

Waterfall:

• A third line, wiggly to the right, has been introduced. If straight to the right is Must, what would wiggly be?
  
• We’ve seen the symbol Your Mother. What would other family words look like?
  
• The mother symbol looks like a family tree. This can be modified to communicate other words

No chapter scroll

Before we go anywhere, let’s recap:

• Scenario 1: The only people who can have audience with the Lemurian King Lutri Mazek are advisors such as the First Sentinel. The current First Sentinel takes advantage of this to kill the King and escape without suspicion
  
• Scenario 2: The First of the First Sentinels, Narvi, has twin sons, Ori and Koi. Koi poisons his father’s moisturizer with moondrift, killing him
  
• Scenario 3: Years down the line, Koi has become one of the First Sentinels and runs a scam at his temple. He uses a forklift in a secret room to fake miracles. Gresto realizes his deception, forcing Koi to kill him and order Jamati to hide the body
  
• Scenario 4: Ori is also First Sentinel and runs a more hardline, devout sect of the faith. The voice behind the waterfall tells him that Koi killed their father and that Ori should start a trial by fire at Koi’s temple

Additionally, we have some evidence on the chapter screen

• A phrase used to describe the uniting of the country, that the one bearing the mark will rise after a fire, is frequently interpreted as a religious prophecy
  
• The former king, Orant, stepped down due to pressure from public over his plans to westernize, putting Lutri in power
  
• King Lutri was the one who originated the First Sentinel position and put Pravi in his place after he fulfilled the prophecy
  
• A married couple, Shastai and Danizi, who run a family magic troupe with their son have been executed for questioning the First Sentinel Story. Their execution was ordered by King Lutri and advised by both Ori and Koi. Incidentally, the general public is happy with Lutri's religious stance

Words: N/a

Event Scroll:

• If this test sounds extreme, it is. It’s genuinely unsurvivable without a miracle or a trick
  
• On that note, the note from the palace says they only agreed because the favored brother has a contingency plan
  
• The two brothers are chained together then expected to survive in a burning building until the fire goes out
  
• The brothers were locked into the hall. This was the hall broken up with the secret room back in 3, so we don’t know what’s in that secret room
  
• Whoever survived has a manacle key on them
  
• The body has burn marks in the shape of the bunker handle, suggesting it was locked when they tried to open it
  
• Lebop’s notes say their favored one has an accomplice, but the dialogue says that their insider was unaccounted for that morning. Where’d they go?
  
• Are there any contradictions between the transcript of the ritual and the ritual plans?
  
• Neither of those hands have the tattoo that Koi has on his right hand, so are those two left hands in the rubble, like two people died?
  
• The person who survived says that they fell into a trance praying in the study, which doesn't make sense with either brother, as they were manacled at the wrist.
  
• Surviving in this fire would be considered a miracle regardless of who accomplished it. The victor is not necessarily either of the brothers

Timeline and Execution:

• The newspaper at the movie says that the film is actually real footage and not a reenactment. Why was a camera there?
  
• The timeline is pretty open and shut, except for the cinema screening
  
• It’s likely been kicking around your head that something’s up with the Waterfall. The idea that Pravi was saved by a strong gust of wind doesn’t pass the smell test. Hell, how did that temple even catch fire?
  
• The note on the mother says that their kid has their facial features. Does anyone have her nose?
  
• It wasn't relevant at the time, but you might have noticed that the V encyclopedia was missing from Koi's bookshelf in Scenario 3. Where'd it go?
  
• The code to the waterfall is the same as it was in Scenario 4, 1594. How did Jamati know that?
  
• The Waterfall Proclamations by Pravi and Koi are self serving (Pravi to a lesser extent) and seem practically motivated. For example, Pravi says that it's fine for a First Sentinel to have no kids and then, nine months later and his twin sons are born, he flips to it being okay to have twins. A particularity cynical viewer might assume the waterfall is a cover for what they want
  
• Inversely, Ori seems genuinely devout. He earnestly hears some sort of voice from behind the waterfall, but whose?
  
• Compare the note Jamati is holding to the number pad on your keyboard
  
• If you look at Jamati's glasses at the grave site, the mushrooms behind the falls reflect onto them. There's a lot of space back there
  
• If we accept that Jamati is the magician's child, then the diary he's holding isn't his, as he didn't kill his father. If that's so, then who does the volume V diary belong to?
  
• The newspaper and radio between chapters says that the previous King's westernization was unpopular, leading to the current appointing the First Sentinel. Miracles can be manufactured

Plan:

• Most of this was already answered in Execution.
  
• With the information we just learned, we understand that whenever Ori hears something from the waterfall he heard it from Jamati

Words:
Scene 1, Orchard

• Person Lasering Tree: Child, Range, Spouse, Tanis
  
• Spotted Robe: Was Behind, Raska
  • Technological Abuse Report: Tanska, Fused, Remove
• Left Person: Luran
  • Note on him: Yelda, Sibling, Lurvel, Parent, Nephew, Nada
• Right: Child, Killed, Veridola
  
• Blonde Interview: Grandparent
  
• Right Interviews: A Spitefruit, Lomori, Uncle, Aunt, Yelda, Child

Scene 2, Indoor Facility:

• Harvest Day Assignments: A Glutfruit, Ethem, Tanis, A Spitefruit, Nada, Lonori, Raska, A Baitfruit, Luram, Vel
  
• Safety Charter: Harvester, Neck, Extend, Extender, Time, Ferrule, Transmitter, Grip, Safeguard
  
• Red Hair Interview: Accident
  
• Left Sentinel; Modified, Was Inside, Spitefruit, Orchard, Child
  
• Calendar: Luram, Lurvek, Goutfruit, Tanska, Orchard, Plant

Hints:
Let's break this up, 3 and 3 scrolls

Fruits, Family, and Harvester Scrolls:

• As demonstrated by the right interview outside, the sentinels and farmers are all wearing devices that render true statements green and false statements purple
  
• With that, the gray haired man being the victims father, the blonde working with his grandfather, and the red headed woman being the mother of the Baitfruit interviewee are true statements
  
• One of the three fruits is explicitly named.
  
• Opening a dictionary will make the Harvester part make more sense. A tine is a prong like you’d see on a pitchfork and a ferrule is a part used to join two parts together
  
• The harvester is a little abstract and you need to see it used to see how it works. In particular, that’s how you’d figure where it’s gripped
  
• The charter says that Baitfruit need to be harvested by an extendable neck, so wherever a long necked harvester is, there's Baitfruit. The other way around would work too
  
• If the Safeguard is approved by the Sentinels, it should have the sentinel marking on it
  
• The three fruit bins have symbols that match certain harvester parts. Where are the fruits being zapped in coming from?
  
• The family page spells it out, but since the victim’s face is in quite a rough state, there might be another picture of them that’s not instantly recognizable as them
  
• The blonde says he worked with his grandfather, so it there are three generations of a family here
  
• The “Fused Organic Matter” of the victim has yellow gloved hands, but where are its feet? How’d it get in the fruit bins?
  
• The Office newspaper says that a Lemurian married name is the fusion of the first syllable of one and second syllable of the other’s first name. Do any names meet that description?
  
• We have two names that could possibly be married family names: Tanaka (Tanis and Raska) and Lurvel (Luram and Vel).
  
• Sneakily, we have one half of a name: Yelda would correspond to Nada and an unknown other name
  
• It was never said that every member of this family works in the orchard. There might be a spouse who is not present

Orchards, Names, and Events Scroll:

• Realistically, you halfway solved Names working through Family due to the Lemurian family name tradition
  
• Due to the Harvesting Day Assignments, we can instantly figure out who was where with their names. We can also figure out where was who’s who if we know their place
  
• If the grandmother says she and her children follow the charter with exactness, than that only means that those three people followed it exactly
  
• Everyone staying in their assigned orchards doesn’t mean that one person couldn’t have affected another orchard. I mean, they wouldn't be able to with a typical harvester ("range of abut a hand's length")
  
• The workshop indoors had a note that “Nada is wrong about me.” Unfortunately, Nada complains about three different relatives, so that doesn’t narrow it down that much
  
• The notes we find imply that Nada Yelda wanted his brother and his family disinherited and the note to Lomori says that the Yelda’s must make the branch family look bad. If that’s the case, that gives the victim and his family a motive to be productive at all costs to avoid disinheritance
  
• The obvious conclusion is that the victim did something wrong, but that doesn’t match with the grandmother’s testimony.
  
• How’d that modified Harvester get in the river? What fruit is it set to?
  
• The victim's yellow boots are behind a melted tree. It’s possible the killer didn’t see him and didn’t mean to kill him
  
• If that’s the case, then where was the killer standing?

Words:

Scene 1, Outside Ship/Library

• White Window on Ship
  
• Top Row: First Statute, Second Statute, Third Statute, Fourth Statute
  
• Printing Plaque: Forged
  
• Spieldance Guidebook: Guidebook, Humility, Knowledge, Obedience, Respect, Secret, Gift, Sin, Virtue, Invention, Deduction, Sows, Reaps, Chaos, I Love You, Without, Within, Home, Butterfly, Lose, Find
  
• Left trashed note: Note
  
• Right Note: Reformatted

Scene 2, Court

• Red Robot: Kerra, Zins, Dauberi, Aidt, Kib, Sentinel
  
• Redhead Sentinel: Bethabs, Zins, Dance
  
• Blonde Mustache, Note: Tribunal, Artifact, Sentinel, Detained, Forbidden, Stole, Borrowed
  
• Frozen Sentinel: Daria, Executed
  
• Mask: Mourn, Dasilva
  
• Long White Hair: Ship

Recorded Statements:

• Redhead: Heco, Sift, Gimgin, Called, Tribunal
  
• Bleach Hair: Translated, Ptalla
  
• Old maN: Violated
  
• Long White Hair: Daria, Corrupted

Name, Dance, and Statements Scroll:

• This spiedlance is simpler than the last one we did and the more complicated rules (feet position) are not relevant. You just need to translate each word
  
• The problem with Veridola statements is starting to become apparent. Keep an eye out for qualified statements, statements that are true from a specific point of view, or are true with limited knowledge
  
• If you need more hints, the work Chat we unlocked after the first scenario gives a little more information: specifically, that the accused sentinel crushes on another, the older man wants to end the restraint policy, and Ptalla is not in the work chat
  
• In the trashcan, someone reformatted the spiedlance guide and another left a note saying to read the diagonal lower right symbol for each symbol.
  
• There’s a gift in the butterfly box. Or at least there was, as someone seems to have found it
  
• The red robot’s library records gives everyone's title
  
• A herald would communicate to the general public through the appropriate channels, a scribe would handle the creation/editing of documents, an assistant would help with someone else’s work, and an advisor would advise others.
  
• All sentinels follow four statutes (in the library) of crimes they should never commit. Additionally, if someone is held at a tribunal, they are asked three questions and lying to any is worthy of a further trial.
  
• The accused Veridola results imply he did something wrong, considers the artifact his, knew who put it there, but never literally touched it. He alleges Daria will explain, but she truthfully doesn’t know what he’s talking about
  
• The red head is telling the truth when she says she saw the detained hold the artifact, but he’s also telling the truth when he says he never touched it. How can both of them tell the truth?
  
• Touch implies being directly contacted with a body part, while held doesn’t.
  
• The robot’s schedule is an events of the library, so the last two names are the arrested and the person who caught them
  
• The spieldance is only five poses. Since it’s five words, there are no double pose words

Event Scroll:

• With the exception of the brunette woman, everyone was present for the previous scenario’s investigation
  
• The note implies someone else wanted to frame the accused for this act. How would they grantee he gets caught?
  
• It should be remembered that the modified tine that caused this mess had a double: there was one in the canal and a second in the office during the previous case
  
• If we take the vault computer and one of the sentinels (“one to deposit into the vault”) at face value, one of the tines is in the vault. Where’d the other one from the orchard go?
  
• If you look at the draft guidebook, it wouldn’t say any message if decoded with the trash note (The final word, Chaos, is on the bottom row and wouldn’t translate to another word.) The note must have been made after reformatting the guide, but who would know that?
  
• “I would never do thoughtlessly violate our code!” Is true. That does not mean he wouldn’t violate the code, just that he wouldn’t do it thoughtlessly

Words:

Scene 1, Outside

• Getaway Shuttle
  • Red Stripe Helmet, Note: Little Chirper, Mr Red. Mr Blue
    
  • Hood: Wore
    
  • Hood Note: Mr. Green
    
  • Person Holding Idol: Mr Black, Stole, Golden Idol,
• Ptalla: Sentient Robot
  
• Behind Wall, Eight Robot: Purposely, Mistakenly, Repeatedly, Belatedly

Scene 2, Inside Ship

• Control Room, Map: Door, Window, Elevator,
  
• Blue Machine: Disconnected,
  
• Injured Leg Sentinel: Circular Saw
  
• Robot Room: Patrol Robots, Ship, Gym, Returned
  
• Vault Door, Robot: No One
  
• Vault: Artifacts
  
• Ethem In His Cell: Ordered, Shot
  
• Red Machine: Reported, Mourn DaSilva, Ptalla Kib, Daria Zinss, Gimgim Kerra, Heco Sift, Bethabs Dauberi
  
• Suggestion Box: Veridola, Miscalibrated

Hints:

Names, Details, and Symbols Scroll:

• The sentinel ship has six outer bedrooms, five inner work rooms, and a center meeting/vault space
  
• The only member of the sentinel team unaccounted for is Heco Sift.
  
• The suggestion box says that responsibilities that aren’t being fulfilled go the person one tier beneath them. If Gimgim is out, who’s the new technician?
  
• The suggestion box mentions temporary Veridolas. It’s a good time to note something: the six sentinels, including the arrested Gimgim, wear Veridola jewels on their forehead that appear to be implanted while interviewees (see scenario 1) wear temporary golden crowns
  
• The calibration room shows that Veridolas on certain logical programming with the circle always show that the speaker is telling the truth. Someone here is wearing a tampered temporary Veridola
  
• The reel room shows what appears to be movement tracking across the ship for six people. One of them has never moved from the vault. Who is this tracking?
  
• Ethem’s diary says he’s caught in a room with an automaton and a creepy little statue, but the there’s nothing of the sort in the room, just cut off arms and green stains
  
• The request to disconnect a duck is difficult to parse, as a couple things kind of look like ducks, especially as they move
  
• To roughly paraphrase the crew notes: Little Chirper works remotely, Mr Green is the getaway driver, and Mr Red/Blue have separate jobs on the inside
  
• The getaway shuttle still has a rope ladder hanging off it. How would someone get into the ship from the shuttle?
  
• The lights on the blue thing look like the lights we saw on Lemurian seals in the main game. In fact, the Veridola poster shows them being empty with an empty memory symbol, implying they are memory holding seals. They can probably be filled and drained with the Idol the same way they were in the main game.
  
• Not all sentinels can access all parts of the ship. Ptalla and Mourn can access all bedrooms, while Gimgim (or whoever’s filling in for him in his absence) can access the calibration room
  
• Using Veridolas as a way to prove your identity to robots seems easy to tamper with
  
• The outside robots are obviously programmed to act a certain way. It should be noted that the one with the gun was programmed to hold it and repeat a message, but never to fire the gun
  
• The usage of “I” in the hooded figures note implies that one of the sentinels is in on the heist plan
  
• The man on the inside clearly had a gunshot wound but his Veridola lists him being in pain as falsehood. Is it malfunctioning?
  
• Once we accept that the symbols refer to movement trackers, it should be noted that one of them is off. Oddly, the one that’s off last went to the garage with the red robot with the “Sentinel status cannot be confirmed message” with nobody in the area. Where’d they go?
  
• The heist plan, at its most basic, is distracting the sentinels and clearing the ship, entering, breaking into the vault, taking the artifacts, finding the third “key”, disconnecting “me,” then leaving. The only real unknown is the specifics of how that’s done and what the keys/me refer to

Events Scroll:

• The last case never specified why someone would want to frame Gimgim for a crime and get him longterm arrested. Can you think of why someone would need that now?
  
• The injured man inside has red and blue tinged gunshot wounds while the dead man has a four in a row pink star wound. What guns would cause those?
  
• All robot commands have time stamps. Sentient robot report < Gym Patrol < Vault Access < Car Command Robot < Gun Robot
  
• The heist notes say that the entry point is the same as the exit point, so whatever happened last in the heist happened by what we believe the entry point to be
  
• The gun by DaSilva has four squares max, but only two are lit. Did it fire twice?

Words:

• Crash Flight Recorder: Entered, Failed, Left, Managed, Miscalibrated, Transferred, Violated
  
• Harvester Billboard: Harvester, Teleported
  
• Heco Note: Monument, Factory, Office, Orchard, Dead Zone, Locations, Plans, Tracked
  
• Library: First Statute, Second Statute, Third Statute, Fourth Statute
  
• Woman in Storage Tube: Daria Zins
  
• Megaminer Manual: Clean, Destroy, Discard, Find, Identify, Kill, Restart, Search, Stop, Store, Walk, Being, Gem, Not Target, Nothing, Obstacle, Target
  
• Call Room: Ptalla Kib, Robot, Ethem Lurvel, Sentinels, Veridola, Shot
  
• Mega Miner, Functions: Veridola, Used, Hecco Sift, Functions
  
• Orchard, Fruit Basket: Golden Idol, Disk, Artifact, Memories, Mr Blue, Mr Green

Hints:

Voices:

• For voices, put the statements in order and assign their speaker. The statements should start right after the crash, make sense in consecutive order, and continue until they leave for their next destination.
  
• One of the voices is Heco, one of them is the pilot driving the vehicle, and one of them is the other thief, which should be enough to identify them
  
• Heco’s corpse is found with the map in his hand, so he’s the last person to handle it

Nodes/Function Scroll:

• Translate the programming language functions into words
  
• This refers to the written instructions on the right of the Miner bot instruction. It should be noted that that flow chart is not an exact copy of the order of the programming as written to the right
  
• Rectangles refer to verbs and symbols refer to states
  
• The word restart is never used, as the flowchart communicates that

Escape Scroll:

• Clearly, Mr Red and Green have become a fused biomass. The only question is if they did it to themselves by accident or if someone else did it to them
  
• The only people who truly understand what the modified harvester does would be Heco and Lurvel.
  
• The chapter select gives a description of what the six stolen artifacts in the shuffle, including the modified harvester, do. Do any of them seem like they’ve been used?
  
• As we know from the end of the main game, a person with red eyes was killed by having all their memories taken out with the Golden Idol
  
• That seal looks a lot like the one from the Ancient Artifacts scenario. A full seal means it’s full of a person's worth of memories
  
• What do the other thieves get out of stealing artifacts and breaking Heco out?
  
• The gun by the other thieves has a max of four, but one shot is missing. What or who was shot?
  
• The thieves seem openly hostile towards Heco (“Mr Dead Weight”) and seem to only want to keep him around for his knowledge on the artifacts. What if they didn’t have to keep him around any more?
  
• Turning someone into nothing but their memories and knowledge is very possible with the tools at their disposal
  
• What’s that string in the fused corpse’s hand for? Where’d it come from?

Robot Scroll:

• Where we last left off, Heco’s tracker was mistakenly left on. Since the factory is a tracking dead zone, the sentinels know his general location but not his exact place
  
• The Function scroll mostly explains what’s currently happening
  
• The example instructions for the MegaMiner is storing target jewels in its bodies and leaving nontarget jewels where they found them. This behavior would apply to other targets.
  
• All of the abducted people have circles on their clothing. Only Neco’s body has an X on it
  
• The robot log has three entries, being activated, failing to be deactivated, and its current deactivation. Whoever attempted to deactivate it must have been a sentinel, but from there you’ll have to do some deduction
  
• The robot’s log says that it rejected the first statement of the person who tried to turn it off: that they’re a lawful citizen. Them being Ptalla and sober was not rejected
  
• As we saw in the last scenario, robots take that miscalibrated Veridola at face value
  
• The robot function being named Justice(heco_sith) cuts out some ambiguity of what the goal of the robot is
  
• As we saw in the tribunal, it’s not the sentinel’s place to pass judgement and they should hand that off to a trial. Hunting down Heco is lawful, but programming the robot to kill him isn’t

Chapter Scroll:
First, let’s recap:

• A farmer attempts to create a more efficient harvester and inadvertently makes an extremely dangerous to device, leading to sentinels confiscating it and arresting him for Technological Abuse
  
• Heco Sift frames his sentinel coworker Gimgim for handling contraband artifacts, leading to his arrest and long-term freezing
  
• Heco takes advantage of Gimgim’s arrest and falsifies a Vericoda to access the vault. With a team, he attempts to steal all artifacts, but mainly gets away with six of them
  
• Heco and his teammates turn on one another, leading to his death by memory removal

In addition, we have the following chapter evidence:

• A work chat involving Heco where he alleges that the strong need to rule over the weak and Lemurians need to end the restraint policy
  
• An image narrative formatted like the memories from the first DLC. A powerful beast is sealed off, set free, and uses its powers to take over the world
  
• A rundown of the Universal Transfer Device (or as we know it, the Golden Idol).
  
• A world map. Leumuria’s technologically advanced society has a no-intervention policy for the rest of the world
  
• A list of the nine stolen artifacts explaining their powers

Hints:

• The gray words are all artifacts, so the right part of the scroll describes a chain of artifact interaction. Do any of the stolen artifacts have abilities that build on each other?
  
• It should be remarked that in the third scenario, Heco seems disinterested in the Golden Idol (it’s only useful for disconnecting the tracker). The Golden Idol, for once, doesn’t seem to be the final goal
  
• The party line of Lemuria, as seen in the Spieldance, is that some technology is forbidden for a reason and even Heco's coworkers treat the idea of power ruling self-evidently ridiculous. Heco taking powerful artifacts for a joyride wouldn’t get him far if he can’t convince people that he’s on the right track
  
• Heco doesn’t seem too bothered that three of the artifacts were left behind in the ship, so the ones he want must be the six taken into the getaway shuttle
  
• Two artifacts affect liquid and two affect text. How would they combine?

Words:

Scene 1, Pub 1797

• Journal: Found, Wesley, Beckett, Elanor, Eleazar, Joiffe, Marlow
  
• Injured Man: Shot

Scene 2, Outside 1797

• Person: Beast, Flee, Tincture

Scene 3, Pub 1927

• Newspaper: Legcutter, Gangster, Steal, Loretta
  
• Receipt: Ansel, Pay
  
• Woman on Left: Wyles, Swann
  • Creature Guide, Page 1: Conspire, Tamper, Trampled
    
  • Creature Guide Library Card: Jules, Sutcliffe, Roger, MacDonald, Myrtle, Song
• Crossbones Sign: Garner, Mauled
  
• Woman on Right: Jasper, Pocket, Knife, Stabbed
  
• Man on Right: Eliza

Scene 4, Outside 1927

• Alley Outside Pub: Battered, Horse, Saddlebag
  • Man in Phonebooth: Marsh
• Sailor in Boat: Map
  
• Poster in Alley above Trough: Radigan, Olita, Boat
  
• Museum Window: Window
  
• Corpse on bridge: Crowbar, Bordey (on note)
  
• Man with Dog: Edward, Pay
  • His Skull Locket: Abacus

If you're having trouble with the maps, I took a screenshot and rotated them to have the same orientation. I have it spoiled out (the piece you're supposed to highlight is blocked out too) because it will instantly reveal a couple discrepancies

Edited Maps:


Hints:

• Everyone’s looking for the real map from 1797, but no one seems to have had a map in 1797. Is it hidden?
  
• The easiest way to reveal a map is a forgery is to find an issue without it. An anachronistic detail (something that would not have been there or a missing detail that should have been there in 1797), or a contradiction with another map
  
• All maps are of the same rough area, just rotated and zoomed in or out. If you’re having trouble, take a photo and tilt it so the maps have the same orientation
  
• You might want to compare the maps with the example on the chapter select scene
  
• The maps all have one theme on them that varies: lighthouses, animals, monsters, and ingredients. The only unclear one is the one with the tankard, anchor, cod, and four leaf clover. What’s the shared theme there?
  
• The phonebooth man and the victim have the same arm tattoo: a cut off leg. Are they part of the same organization?
  
• Both the victim and the person finding them have an offer of 1200 dollars. Coincidence or the same customer?
  
• Figuring out who has the real map will instantly explain what happened
  
• Why would someone take a random portrait?
  
• It should be remarked that the money on the present victim is an advance. That is, we don’t necessarily know if they delivered anything to their client
  
• It’s not a trick of the light (as the cloth is red too), that trough beneath the pub tour sign is blood red.
  
• The 1927 victim is roughed up so severely a single person with a blunt weapon would not explain it. What else could do that much blunt damage?
  
• You do not need to specifically say what species killed the Bosun, just that it was a beast. We don't have enough information to identify it. That also means that the creature book is not relevant to that part of the case, so what is it relevant to?
  
• What’s on the back of the drawing held by the healer in 1797?
  
• Are the internal museum floor vents disturbed?
  
• One the map problems is not time related, but an omission of a detail that should be in all maps
  
• The 1927 victim's instructions were to meet with their horseback client in front of the museum, but her body is behind it. Did she try to back out?
  
• The horse with the blue cigarette pouch is dripping wet, but it’s not raining and the other horses are dry. What gives?

Final Answer:

Words:

Scene 1, Deck 1797

• Boat on Sea:
  • Bosun Garner: Harpoon, Map, Cutlass
    
  • Man on Boat’s Edge: Pulled, Escaped, Hit
• Man with Axe: Axe
  
• Note on Pole: Powder Moneky
  
• Hold:
  • Ladder: Ladder
    
  • Green Bandana: Dagger, Kukri
    
  • Cannonball: Cannonball
    
  • Man with Cleaver: Cleaver
• Shot Man: Fell
  
• Green Shirt: Pistol

Scene 2, Captain’s Quarters 1927

• Shooter, either: Shot

Scene 3, Deck 1797

• Body in Ocean: Sea
  
• Mast: Toppled
  
• Hold: Splash
  • Ivan Learnes: Heard
    
  • Green Gem on Barrel: Gem
    
  • Net: Net
• Monocle Man: Antoine Spilsbury, Jasper Wyles, Eliza Swann, Ivan Learnes, Radigan Olita, Myrtle Song
  
• Grating: Grating

Scene 4, Captain’s Quarters 1927

• Jasper Wyles: Spotted
  
• Captain’s Log: First Mate, Second Mate, Navigator, Bosun, Master-At-Arms, Helmsman, Gunner, Carpenter, Sailmaker, Rigger, Cook

Hints:
This is a good time to emphasize that you can zoom in with your mouse wheel. Most of this case's evidence is not in zoomed in scenes
You're not going to make much progress on Events 1 or Skeletons without identifying everyone, so let's do that first.

Roles Scroll

• Welcome to the Return of the Obra Dinn. If you've played that, you know the train of thought. If not, here's a primer: we have a list of everyone by name and role in the crew. The simplest way to identify someone is by their responsibilities (for example, the Master of Arms would in charge of weapon maintenance). If all else fails, process of elimination as we have exactly enough roles as we have people to identify
  
• For this scenario, we're asked to identify people by role on the ship as opposed to name. Mind you, the Captains' Journal and many other documents go by full name, so try to keep both in mind
  
• The Captain's Log has a glossary of ship roles and their responsibilities. It has 18 names total, with six crossed out (it’s faint but Triton is crossed out)
  
• There’s a few easy people to identify: there’s only one noncrossed out woman, one person with a peg leg, and one with a gold tooth, in addition to the freebie of the already introduced Bosun
  
• Captain Triton has died and a close election has decided his successor. The current captain does not have the title of captain for the sake of the Roles Scroll; they have the title they had before the election
  
• A dull cutlass lacks the white edge
  
• The note on the shooter in the quarters is a todo list for attending to a Garner's nose and another’s leg. The obvious conclusion is that he’s the surgeon, but Garner’s nose is wooden. Who would work with that?
  
• Not everyone on board would know how to climb the rigging, as that's only the Rigger's job

Skeletons/Events I Scroll

• These two scrolls are deeply entwined, as the reason for the violence is what side people chose in the vote. That is, a key way to identify a killer is through their allegiance and the allegiance of the victim. For example, someone who voted for Nunda who was stabbed with a dagger was killed by an Alistar voter that had a dagger
  
• When trying to identify skeletons, look for things that wouldn't decay over time, like wooden limbs or metal jewelry (rings, earrings, and necklaces
  
• Since the 1927 party are the only people to have been on this ship since the mutiny, we can assume that no bodies were moved from their place of death.
  
• A good starting point is to think of what injuries would have been instantly fatal and would have died where they stood (as opposed to moving around). For example, someone stabbed through the eye (to the brain) with a dagger is an instant death, but someone stabbed in the gut would take time to bleed out.
  
• The body by the grate is missing an arm. Not in the sense that it fell off with time, in the sense that it was cut off (bone beneath deck is cut just above the elbow)
  
• A kukri is a chopping weapon, as is a cleaver or axe. They would cleave bone or take off limbs. A pistol would leave a bullet hole
  
• Swyft's Cutlass is noted to be cheap and in need of replacement. If she fought someone, it would shatter or break off
  
• Not counting the candidates themselves, five people voted for Alistar and four voted for Nunda, which means five people are the mutineers and the remaining six (no vote for the Powder Monkey) are defending (or not participating)
  
• If everyone that's not on the escaping boat left a skeleton, then, assuming no suicides, there must be at least one mutual kill where two people both fatally injure the other before succumbing
  
• To make things a little more clear, let's summarize the scene we see in 1797: Bosun fights off Navigator, Master-At-Arms dies of bullet wound, Sailmaker and Carpenter shoot at First Mate, Helmsman and Rigger charge at Second Mate, Gunner on ladder while Cook hides. All deaths after this are going to require more lateral thinking
  
• Two people shot at the current captain, but only whoever got him in the head was the killer
  
• The only two people (outside of the already dying Master-of-Arms) with non instantly fatal wounds are the Gunner (stab wound) and Cook (cut off arm). When trying to identify their killers, don't think of where the body is and look for where the fatal wound was inflicted

Events II Scroll

• This is open and shut compared to the last section. Simply explain what happened in the 1927 scene
  
• We know everyone through either the first scenario or the cutscene.
  
• That Gem being in a perfectly conspicuous spot is odd, especially because it wasn't there in the past
  
• Any blood from the past would have been washed away or decayed by now, so any stains come from new violence
  
• Where's Olita?
  
• It's not the fall that hurts; it's when you hit the ground that stings

Words

Scene 1, 1797

• Left Tent
  • Watch Duty Roster: Watch Duty, Jacques Triton, Cryille Amios, Tom Adkins, Stefan Garner, Ada Baker
    
  • Captain’s Journal: Continues, Slept

Scene 2. 1927

• Antoine Spillsbury
  • Don Henry’s file: Poisonous, Discovered
    
  • Expedition Contract: Antoine Spillsbury, Jasper Wyles, Eliza Swann, Ivan Kearns, Radigan Olita, Myrtle Song, Terminated, Nothing
    
  • His Body: Consumed
• Myrtle's Medical notes:
  • Blood Agents: Faraxin, Drenochrome, Mortixrum, Frig X
    
  • Nerve Agents; Oromodil Salt, Nurazynth, Quratil, Vont 42
    
  • Tropical Diseases: Scarlette Fever, Dedeterria
• Jasper/Eliza: Refuses
  
• Mounted Body: Body, Killed

Tents/Deaths Scroll

• We already know from the six crossed off names in the last case that things went off the rails in 1797. Scrivener Keen and Seaman Jimbo seem to not be present, but Captain Triton, Quartermaster Amio, Surgeon Ada, Seaman Tom, and Powder Monkey Stefan are
  
• It’s not immediately obvious, but you have met Powder Monkey Stefan. In fact, if you’ve played the first game, you’ve met Ada Baker
  
• In 1927, the tents can be assigned quickly due to either personal effects (we already know Eliza and Jasper’s favorite brand of cigarettes) or career (remember, Myrtle studies animals)
  
• One of the tents in the past is shared. The lowest rung on the hierarchy probably gets the worst spot
  
• Most people think of suffocation as being unable to breathe, but it’s a little more complicated than that. The human body breathes in oxygen, the lungs transfers it to the bloodstream, the heart moves the blood, and cells pick up oxygen from the blood. Death by a lack of oxygen happens through one of those vectors: a strangled person cannot breathe in oxygen; a paralyzed diaphragm (typical cause of death of Fugu toxin or Polio) prevents oxygen transfer to blood; heart damage prevents blood movement; and Histotoxic hypoxia (caused by cyanide and other toxins) leaves cells unable to pick up oxygen
  
• For those who don’t know, mosquito borne diseases are not contagious in the way that flu is contagious. They spread through mosquito bites implanting parasites and cannot spread from one human to another. They’re typically treated with antiparasitic drugs or prevented with pesticide
  
• The blue skinned deceased were acting a little… strange. The summoning ritual, mentions of a witch, and runes carved into the right body’s hand. Are they superstitious or is something messing with their cognition?
  
• Anyone with mushroom knowledge likely winced when they read Amanita. In the real world, Amanita (such as the death cap mushroom) are a family of mushrooms known for deadly toxins and being easily misidentified as edible mushrooms…but these are not real world Amanita. Nurazynth is not fatal and would only cause nausea. They weren’t his cause of death
  
• A good flowchart for toxin identification would be to look for signs of nerve agents; if so, compare signs of nerve agents to patient’s; if not, compare signs of blood toxins to patient’s
  
• The first aid notes give a description of what each toxin looks like. If you’re struggling to identify toxins, it would be a good start to see what’s on hand
  
• Are the fish bone circle runes found anywhere else?
  
• Spilsbury's tongue suggests suffocation but his body suggests oversaturated blood stream oxygen. What condition explains this?

Events

• Figuring out cause of death needs to be done before we think through how it occurred. If we know what toxin they took, we can think through how it was administered, if it was intentional, and by who for what reason
  
• According to the Captain's Journal, the twerp who couldn't get through four hours without sleeping will be doomed to death through witholding something
  
• By the looks of it, two people had a cigar and cigarettes at the rocks. Perhaps that hidden Whiskey was theirs?
  
• The only vials in 1797’s surgical kit are red, white, and yellow liquids. What could that be?
  
• Going clockwise, each present day tent has one possible toxin: Dark blue liquid, white pills, a pink substance, white powder, and yellow powder
  
• A layman accidentally ingesting an anesthesia to ward off a mosquito disease could happen, but it boggles the mind to imagine that the dedicated ship surgeon could suggest such a thing by accident
  
• We actually have no reason to believe Spilsbury even ingested any mushrooms. He has no signs of nerve agent consumption. Perhaps it was simply left next to body to misdirect?
  
• Ada has reported a fever and has red pockmarks, but she doesn’t have yellowing eyes and has not reported nausea. If she doesn’t have Maledeterria or Scarletta Fever, what could she have?
  
• The surgical kit in the past has a little red vial with a wet red brush to the right. Was something painted?

Unlike the other DLC, we don't have a chapter scroll. After solving most of this scenario, we unlock the Epilogue Scrolls. Due to this, I'll be breaking my recap into two chunks, one here and one in the next section. It should also be noted that this storyline involves several characters (Ada Baker, Walter Keene) and concepts (Ruby Rings, Lemurain Life Debt, The Brotherhood) from the first game.
My final recap and everything from Events II onwards is in the next section (Steam character limit is stricter than you think)

First, let's recap the 1927 story line (the 1797 storyline will come later)

• Scenario 1: Various people have found maps that are allegedly for Captain Triton’s hidden treasure, lost after the doomed voyage. Jasper Wyles kills for the true one
  
• Scenario 2: The modern party finds the dead ship. A booby trap kills their captain, his body dragged off by an unknown assailant
  
• Scenario 3: The captains’s corpse is used to scare them off from further investigating. Spilsbury nearly cancels the trip, but Ivan kills him to make sure it continues

Chapter Select Evidence

• In 1797, A Lemurian vessel was pillaged and the artifacts on board were stolen. Since this is a major diplomatic incident, the Seven Seas Trading Company has declared that all vessels will be searched for Lemurian Artifacts and offenders will be hanged
  
• A letter from Lemurian Ergin Ptoo to Walter Keene, telling him that the Whishbloom can be found on a vessel at a certain day and time. It has a life altering effect that will instantly make sense when smelt
  
• In the middle of the rush for Captain Triton's treasure, a Quickeye steward has been told to search out the Whishbloom. They have been handed a text on how it works and instructions to meet up with an initiate

The Case of the Golden Idol Recap

• Ada Baker was an associate of the Brotherhood while not being a member herself. She carried out covert actions (Scenario 3 here was not her first time poisoning someone) for the organization. It's implied she works more specifically with Walter Keene (her instructions were from a Darkhand Steward) and she was part of his ploy in the final case to kill a mutual enemy. She was last seen planning to leave the country
  
• Walter Keene was a Highwayman and Brotherhood member (as a Darkhand Steward). He was threatened into helping the Mastermind take over the Brotherhood and use the Golden Idol to take years of life from people. The mastermind turned on him, revoking his membership and prematruely aging him. He was last seen getting revenge on one member of the New Order Party. Since the Golden Idol was destroyed, he can't become young again
  
• Edwin Ptoo was a minor character from one case. More importantly, in that game's DLC, we learn that Lemurians believe that if you save someone's life, you have a responsibility to save theirs. This is frequently interpreted very literally as they have magical artifacts that do so (for example, the original Location of the Golden Idol was given to its eventual finder because they saved a Lemurian's life and a device that exchanges life fulfills their end of the bargain
  
• The Brotherhood is a secret organization with many influential members that seeks to use Lemurian artifacts for their own ends. They were taken over by the previous game's mastermind and became part of his reign of terror as the New Order Party, but the finale saw many of it's leaders killed and the Golden Idol destroyed, so they likely lost influence and had to restructure
  
• The Quickeye sect was not in the last game. Each sect has a unique symbol they keep on important items and their back brands. There's an easy way to identify any Brotherhood member: they carry a Ruby Ring

Words:
Scene 1, Outside Grotto 1797

• Captain Triton, Captain’s Journal: Treasure, Smell, Sneezed, Found, Knew
  
• Sailor Group: People
  • Ada: Jacques Triton
    
  • Cyrillic Amiot: Ada Baker, Alligators
    
  • Stefan:Jimpo Jenkins, Tom Adkins
    
  • Tom Adkin: Stefan Garner, Lots, Sealed
• Falling Hat: Walter Keene
  
• Cave Floor: Jar

Scene 2, Outside Grotto 1927

• Vehicle: Rigged
  • Wire: Exceeded
    
  • Beacon: Radio Beacon
    
  • Plant Book: Putridium Vine, Sorrelgrass Weed, Masked
• Tree: Restrained, Wrapped
  • Ansel Marsh: Transformed, Airship, Balloon, Envelope, Weight Limit
    
  • Jasper Wyles: Eliza Swann, Myrtle Song, Confessed, Gas Mask
    • Recorder: Machete
• Airship: Sabotoged
  • Airship Cockpit: Middle Lever: Balloon, Inflated, Deflated
    
  • Paper: Ansel Marsh, Ivan Kearns, Activated, Beacon
    
  • Ivan: Gun, Shot
• Grotto Floor: Treasure, Removed, Stole

Scene 4, Cave Internal 1927

• Dead Body, Recorder: Lost
  
• Eliza Swann, Expedition Contract: Jasper Wyles, Followed, Promised, Whishbloom

Hints:
Let's go Events by Events: Event I, Airship/Event II, Event III

Events I:
The game makes it clear who Walter Keene is, but anyone who played the first game would know the distincitve back brand of a Darkhand Steward anywhere
The jar fell before anyone walked around as they have shards on their shoes. They probably did the old trick of dropping an item and waiting for the sound to determine depth
From where they're standing, the people on top really can't see what's in the grotto
I don't see any white alligators. Someone from a distance might misinterpert that old skeleton as one, but Keene is not telling the truth on that one
The Whishbloom appears to be falling from Walter Keene's hat. How would anyone know it's in there without seeing it?
If you wanted to rig pulling lots where you pull a piece of paper blind, you'd have to do something so you can feel what you want by hand
The Captian's Journal in the last scenario says that Keene was given exactly what he wanted: being stuck with the treasure. We also know from Edwin's note that Keene was gunning hard for some Lemurian Relic. What would he do to get it?
Keene's smart enough to hide whatever would give away he had the Whishbloom, but there had to be some tell he wouldn't have known about


Airship/Events II

• Parallel engines on the right and left are like paddling a canoe: they turn the way that has more force
  
• When the balloon is empty, the airship is entirely hydrogen and floats. When it's full, the airship is mostly air and sinks. This is maintained through an airpump system. I want to point out that this is very different from planes, where Up means Up on the controls
  
• In my experience as an engineering student, unit conversion is something that must people suck at. If A= 3/2B, then B = 2/3A
  
• The airship controls will show what the setting were at time of failure
  
• What's Ansel doing here? He didn't have the real map, so someone in the party had to have communicated with him
  
• The treasure chest made it to the airship, so we know that much was done
  
• The actual conversion of QFS to Kg is on the wires. If the treasure got up, then that math was right
  
• If Ivan, Ansel, and the treasure exceed the weight limit, someone or something has got to stay behind, perhaps involuntarily
  
• There's no world where Ivan and the treasure exceed the weight limit, so that's not the cause of failure
  By the looks of it, Ansel flew in the airship. We have no reason to believe that Ivan understands how it works. If you read the controls with no explantion, how would you think it works?

Hints:

Events III

• We haven't met any men with turtle shells yet. Was he always like that?
  
• Two members of this party were Swifteye members. Have you seen it's symbol anywhere else? If you've played the first game, you'd know the sight of that Ruby Ring anywhere
  
• The letter on how the Whishbloom works is partially obscured to us, but everyone on the scene can read it
  
• All gas mask filters, with the dead body's being the most severe, show some degree of exposure to a red spore. None of them all fully contaminated, so no one with a mask is breathing it in. If not Putridweed, then what's the source?
  
• In Myrtle's tent in the last case, there was a golden book showing a human skull turning bestial and the Whishbloom taking root. She seems to be the only person here who knows what the Whishboom does and wants it for herself (Expedition Contract)
  
• A sharp eye can see that plant identifcation page on Sorrelweed has been torn to show the next page's description. We don't know what it does
  
• There's four gas masks, but Eliza's not wearing hers. Why would she take it off?
  
• The entire Grotto looks like it was redesigned to hide the Whishbloom: a decoy treasure and it's true location behind thick weeds. We already know someone was trying to scare off this adventuring party, but who?
  
• There's a couple specimens of Sorrelweed in 1797 and no one there seems to be choking on blood from it's spores. If that's the case, why would someone need a gas mask?
  
• Myrtle's gas mask has a redder and more polluted filter than the other's, like she was getting closer to its source
  
• Both Ptoo's letter and the Brotherhood instructions emphasize the Smell of the Whishbloom as part of it's effect. This also means that the Smell of the Whishbloom is it's most defining feature and can be used to identify it
  
• If Ptoo believes that the Whishbloom fulfills his life debt, that means that it can extend lives. It's possible someone can be alive in both 1797 and 1927

With all Event Scrolls fufilled, a scene in 1800 will unlock and we'll be given two epilogue scrolls.
Now, let's recap the 1797 storyline in chronological order

• Scenario 4 - March 7th, 1979 (Scenario 3 Captain's Journal). Captain Triton and his crew hide their treasure in a grotto with the plans to retrieve it later with a map. Walter Keene attempts to take the treasure for himself, the Whishbloom, but is discovered and left to die there
  
• Scenario 3 - March 9th, 1797 (Captain’s Journal). Ada Baker creates a plot to poison the treasure group where she fakes sickness and hands them an alleged cure, killing Captain Triton. She’s caught and threatened by the surviving Stefan Garner
  
• Scenario 2 - The vote to decide who should be captain following his death goes poorly and leads to almost everyone on board dying. The exception is Elezar and a comatose Stefan Garner who escape with the map
  
• Scenario 1 - August 13th, 1797 (Innkeeper’s book). Elezar is mauled by a beast he kept in his inn room and dies, his final words being “I’m sorry, son”. Whatever attacked him, he shot before it escaped into the sea, dropping the map as it did

Hints, Epilogue

• Exposure to the Whishbloom seems to cause someone to gradually mutate after inital exposure: Keene goes from blue skin and scaly to a full turtle
  
• Walter and the Woman in 1800 are two of the most mutated people we’ve seen from the Whishbloom, a cat person and a blue turtle man. Have we seen anyone else with these traits?
  
• Back in case 2 1797, you might have noticed that the various crew members had physical oddities. The First Mate and Carpenter have pointed ears, Sailmaker Swyft has blue patches, the Helmsmaster was foaming at the mouth, and Stefan was fully comatose. What was affecting them?
  
• On the same subject, where did Stefan go? We never formally saw him chronologically after case 2.
  
• Ada’s grave in Scenario 4 is not dated to 1797, so she did not die at the end of Case 3. Where she was in the in between is for you to find out
  
• How did Walter Keene even get out of that Grotto? Someone dug a hole for him
  
• It should be remarked that the Whishbloom is described as transforming by smell by both Ptoo and the Brotherhood. Note that they say Smell and not, say, breathing in vapors or spores
  
• Everyone in the 1927 party was wearing gas masks, but no one in the past was wearing any protection whatsoever. The Captian's Journal mentions sneezing near it, so that chest was not airtight
  
• It’s been months between Scenario 1 and the rest. If Stefan was infected, there's no telling how severe his transformation became