This guide basically consists of spoilers for the entire game. If you haven't completed the game, please go away.

I won't be going into all the fine details of every separate case. This is not intended to serve as a walkthrough, just a bird's eye view at the whole story as it unfolds with time.
















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Tesa Nevari researches ancient Lemurian artifacts and runs the Harmony Foundation, financed by Olympus Pinnacle International Group (aka OPIG Corporation) for performing "emotion studies".
Arthur Blythe works at the Museum of Lemurian History, where he steals and sells artifacts. Some of them he probably sells to Tesa Nevari.

At some point in 1973 or earlier, Arthur Blythe gets caught stealing by a colleague, panics and stabs them. He is arrested, found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

November 15, 1973 (Behind Bars): Arthur Blythe escapes from prison with help from Tesa Nevari.

May 1, 1974 (Blockbuster Release): Arthur Blythe, posing as Augie Tamine, steals a crystal from Neptune Cinema after its owner refuses to sell the crystal to Tesa Nevari.

August 13, 1974 (Going Once!): Tesa Nevari and Arthur Blythe obtain a Lemurian statue from an auction. They failed to outbid Moumaati Dasilva from Lemuria and had to resort to violence.

August 17, 1974 (Garden Retreat): Tesa Nevari kills Arthur Blythe when he attempts to rob her after getting paid for the statue job.

April 13, 1975 (The Procedure): Tesa Nevari's reassembled statue is non-functional, but she uses it in her cult the Harmony Foundation. OPIG exposes Tesa Nevari's Emotion Studies project as a scam, discontinues funding, reclaims the building and obtains the statue.


April-June 1975: OPIG hires Professor Oriel Toussaint as a history consultant, and he claims the Lemurian statue might have some potential. OPIG creates the Extraphysical Laboratory, led by Marie Westlake, with Jack Nowak as an engineer and Eugene Marmot as an assistant. The team experiments with the device.

June 4, 1975: Jack Nowak writes a letter to his uncle Isaac Nowak, complaining about the wrong priorities of the people in charge of the project.

June 13, 1975 (Protest Movement): Tesa Nevari's followers protest outside the lab; their pamphlet gives Eugene Marmot new ideas for experiments.

June 18, 1975 (Ignition): OPIG board management approve further research after watching Eugene Marmot use the device to set himself on fire.

At some point before July 12, 1975, Eugene Marmot replaces Marie Westlake as laboratory lead, and Marie is demoted to lab assistant. Eugene then hires Tesa Nevari as an independent consultant. The team starts testing different combinations of glyphs and Lemurian data disks on random people.

Summer 1975 (Backstage Drama + Speildance): Test subject Atharv Reddy makes use of ancient Lemurian dance knowledge implanted into his head from a data disk.

August 30, 1975 (Feathered Frenzy): Test subject Declan Astor forgets his first-day job training, causes mayhem and dies.

September 21, 1975 (Complex): Two pairs of test subjects swap memories, which ends in one of the participants' death.

April 26, 1976 (Boardroom Brawl): After a demonstration gone awry, researchers discover that memories can be transmitted via a live TV broadcast. OPIG management sees great potential in this discovery.

April 28, 1976 Nathan Hoyle makes each member of the I.D.O.L. team submit an idea for how to use the I.D.O.L's newly-discovered functionality. Tesa Nevari's, Marie Westlake's and Jack Nowak's ideas get rejected; Eugene Marmot's idea is approved. Jack and Marie fear this new technology would be abused, should it fall into the wrong hands. At some point, a square data disk goes missing from the lab.

A warm summer Thursday in 1976-1977 (Beach Trip): A beach commercial shoot aims to record an extra-happy emotional response to drinking soda, but goes wrong.

1976: Hunter Wolf appears in the docks and starts working in Steelside warehouse.


June 6, 1977 (Ancient Artifacts): Oriel Toussaint's mind gets overwritten with memories of an ancient Lemurian sentinel that were stored in a data disk from the Museum of Lemurian History. "Oriel" tries to escape, but gets caught and put into Red Wood asylum; Jack Nowak discovers the possibility of full personality transfer.

Later in June 1977 (Constriction): "Oriel Toussaint" strangles a nurse and escapes from Red Wood asylum.

June-July 1977: Hunter Wolf transfers Luke Brown's mind into the body of Elijah Sinclair, which earns him the loyalty of homeless people living in the docks.

July 11, 1977 (Under Construction): Police discover Luke Brown's body and start investigating the Red Curse.

September 17, 1977 (Steelside warehouse): Hunter Wolf transfers Harry Stone's mind into the body of Gabriel Girard.

September-November 1977: Hunter Wolf transfers Dirty William's mind into Darren Dixon's body. Both he and Harry Stone fail to do any good for the world.

October 3, 1977: OPIG's board of directors is presented with the Happy Customer project: a soda commercial with a subliminal message transferred via the I.D.O.L., to be broadcast during a peil match to reach maximum audiences.
Tesa Nevari expresses her unhappiness with OPIG's goals for the I.D.O.L., and gets fired from the project.
Tim Spender and Marie Westlake discuss Eugene Marmot's incompetence and decide to take action against him.

November 2, 1977: Tesa Nevari's Empathy Cult attacks the laboratory.

November 4, 1977: Hunter Wolf formulates a plan.

November 8, 1977: Hunter Wolf ambushes OPIG security guard Bruce Myson in the lab and transfers Luke Brown into his body.

December 1, 1977: Police discover Dirty William's body in the docks.

December 4, 1977 (Academic Impact): Hunter Wolf arranges a meeting with Isaac Nowak in Steelside warehouse, transfers his mind into the square data disk and throws his dead body off the bridge.

December 7, 1977 (Newsflash): Elizabeth Nowak bribes the police to conceal that Isaac Nowak's death was linked to the Red Curse.

December 16, 1977: Final Clash. Many events happen:

• Eugene Marmot fills the I.D.O.L. with good soda memories, he and Jack Nowak leave the lab;
  
• Hoping to ruin Eugene's career, Tim Spender poisons a bottle of soda and rewrites the I.D.O.L.'s contents with his disgust at drinking it;
  
• Marie Westlake plants evidence suggesting that a member of Tesa Nevari's Empathy Cult has sneaked in and out of the lab;
  
• On the way to the TV studio, Luke Brown, posing as a security guard, replaces the I.D.O.L.'s contents with the personality of Isaac Nowak from the square disk;
  
• Tim Spender traps Eugene Marmot on the TV studio roof and lets him know the soda memory is bad;
  
• Eugene Marmot unplugs the soda broadcast's video feed;
  
• While recording the commercial, Jack Nowak's mind gets rewritten with Isaac Nowak's but nobody else is affected;
  
• Tesa Nevari and her cultists break into the TV studio and throw the I.D.O.L. out of the 3rd floor window, smashing the time-setting lenses inside it.

Afterwards, Tesa Nevari is arrested, Eugene Marmot is promoted, Marie Westlake and Tim Spender are fired, and "Oriel Toussaint" aka "Echo Secunda" is roaming free. Isaac Nowak was reincarnated in his nephew's body, and the I.D.O.L., now useless to OPIG, was scrapped.
















(beware of
DLC spoilers
below)

Unlike the base game, there are no specific dates mentioned in this story. The four cases are unlocked in chronological order.

This story takes place soon after the events of the base game and features two of its characters:
Echo Secunda is an ancient Lemurian man whose mind has been transplanted into the body of Oriel Toussaint;
Roy Samson is a police detective who used to investigate the Red Curse, but was taken off the case after the death of Isaac Nowak.

Echo Secunda's story starts as he breaks out of Red Wood Asylum (as seen in Constriction from the base game). After strangling Morg Brakka, Secunda takes his keys, unlocks the parking garage and steals a motorbike, which he uses to escape the asylum and ride away. He then starts living on the streets as a homeless, partially insane man, slowly getting used to life in this day, age and city.

On the day of Final Clash from the base game, Secunda arrives at the Harmony Foundation building just as the I.D.O.L. is being placed into a van. He then follows the van to the TV studio, spends some time waiting outside and sees the I.D.O.L. fall to the street from a third floor window.
The mechanism's lenses are broken, but Secunda salvages the crystal, buttons and other undamaged parts, and fashions them into a Disarranger.

The Disarranger is a flawed creation, its crystal is blotchy, partly red and partly blue.
- The mechanism no longer works by the principle of decreasing then increasing properties of matter, and chaotically rearranges the property's distribution instead. The "give" and "take" buttons no longer work.
- Changes in heat tend to cancel each other out, so the "heat" button is mostly useless.
- The "matter" button now causes material to warp, pull and extrude, which basically melts jagged holes through objects.
- The "memory" button's effects are less immediately obvious.

And so, newly armed with the Disarranger, Echo Secunda flees the scene, disappears into the traffic and ends up in...

Inspector Roy Samson is the new Homicide lead in the 9th District's police department. He's been transferred here after Sebastian Walsh was bribed to stall the Red Curse investigation (see Newsflash from the base game). Roy investigates murders accompanied by Cliff Savea, who is mostly clueless and inept.

The district is controlled by two crime families: the Andier gang and the Bauer gang. All the local citizens are aware of this and try to stay in the gangs' good graces, giving very evasive answers when talking to the police to maintain a thin illusion of normality.

Not much is known about the Andier gang, just that its members wear yellow jackets and work in pairs.

The Bauer gang is led by Hildegard Bauer, who owns a variety of businesses. The "muscle" of the Bauer gang are called the Czars, who wear white ties and orange jackets; their car is decorated with tiger stripes and lion mane. Hildegard's fast food joint is used to covertly sell drugs; she also runs a dog racing track and does all her business from an office there.

The Mayor of New Wells, Moira Meredith, has hired Hildegard's services to renovate old buildings for the Heritage Project. Hildegard is using the Mayor's trust to weaken the Andier gang, and manufactures drugs in the old buildings she's supposed to be renovating.

Looking for a meal, Echo Secunda swings by Hildegard's fast food joint on his bike and steals a bag of food from a waitress; the bag happens to also contain drugs. A gang of five Czars, who were guarding the joint, start chasing after Secunda. Using the Disarranger, he kills one of them and severs another's hand, but ultimately gets captured and brought to Hildegard.

The two of them reach a mutually beneficient agreement: Hildegard gets to use the Disarranger as she sees fit for her own goals, and in return she helps Secunda research the Disarranger's effect on people's mind and memory.

On Tuesday night, the Andier gang plants a tape recorder in Hildegard's office, hoping to gather some evidence on the Bauer gang's drug dealing, and send it to the Mayor, which will set the police on the Bauers' trail.

The device works for 3 days. It records Hildegard's machinations with the Heritage project on Wednesday and discussions of the drug-dealing at the fast food joint on Thursday.

On Friday, two Andier gangsters try to retrieve the tape recorder. This coincides with the Bauer gangsters sending a batch of equipment to Secunda for his tests on the Disarranger. In the confusion, the dog track's kennelmaster ends up dead, but ultimately the recorder is retrieved and the equipment is delivered.

The tape recorder's contents end up in the hands of the Mayor. She promptly calls a press conference about the Heritage Project and lashes out at the police, forcing them to take action against the Bauer gang.

Meanwhile in an abandoned building at 1A Francis Cr., Secunda tests the Disarranger's memory function. It is revealed to work via sound waves to scramble and distort people's perception and memory. Tinkering with the sound signal can amplify the effects, which at the highest setting can permanently make a person behave and sound as if they were insane.

During a late-stage test, one of the test subjects turns out to be a policeman in disguise, which alerts the gangsters and lets them narrowly escape a police raid on the building. As a result, Hildegard and Echo Secunda learn the Disarranger's full capabilities, but so does Roy Samson, who gets his hands on all the test notes.

Mayor Moira Meredith plans to gather another press conference to let the public know about the Heritage Project fiasco, accuse Hildegard Bauer as the crime leader responsible for it, and to publicly announce her resignation.

Roy Samson visits her to tell about the danger of sound and to warn her not to use any digital sound devices. He goes on to examine the stage of Mayor's future speech and make sure the speakers are safe from outside interference. Then Roy sends his partner to get a backup police squad.

After Roy leaves, Hildegard sends one of her gangsters, dressed as a sound technician, to rewire the stage setup to scramble the Mayor's memory and keep her from performing her speech.

As the press conference begins, Roy realizes the audio setup has been additionally tampered with, and shoots the Mayor's microphone to keep the Disarranger from affecting her.

Police storm the old building where Hildegard was hiding with her gang, arresting her and the gangsters, and killing Hildegard's bodyguard in the process. Echo Secunda uses his Disarranger to flee the scene; Roy Samson realizes this and sets out to chase him down.

A fistfight ensues between them, they both lose their earmuffs. As Echo Secunda overpowers him, Roy manages to activate the Disarranger, then shoot it with his gun.

The Disarranger is destroyed, hopefully for good.

Hildegard Bauer ends up in jail right next to Tesa Nevari.

Roy Samson's ability to express himself and perception of his surroundings have been irreparably damaged, but even so he still remains the least useless detective of 9th District, and his partner becomes his personal interpreter and a buffer between him and the rest of the world. (seems like a much more extreme Sherlock Holmes situation?)

Echo Secunda has been arrested, identified as Oriel Toussaint and placed into an asylum again. His mind is in flux between his two personalities: sometimes he's defiant and speaks an ancient form of Lemurian, at other times he's more amiable, able to speak some Albionian, and is trying to document his ancient memories as an incomprehensible historical text. His psychiatrist allows him that, as long as it makes him happy.

In this story, years and dates are rarely mentioned for significant events, and we can only be sure of the sequence in which events take order.

- Around 800BC, ancient Lemurian territories united under one flag and adopted a national motto: "After the inferno, only one shall rise - bearing the mark of the Universe" (which meant the new united Lemuria and the pattern on its flag). During Lemuria's great purge of old technology and information, the motto's history was forgotten; nowadays it is believed to be a spiritual prophecy.

- Many centuries later, in the 1910s, King Orant Manzek makes a Solstice speech where he announces his plans to westernize Lemuria. This causes widespread social unrest, which forces Orant to step down and relinquish power to his son Lutri Manzek.

- An ascetic monk Pravi Nagasai is saved from fire in a "miracle" at the waterfall. The burns on his face form the yin-yang symbol, and thus his survival in the fire is believed to fulfill the ancient prophecy. The dousing water seems to actually be firefighters' jets used from a cave behind the waterfall, and the entire "miracle" is conveniently recorded on video.

- New king Lutri Manzek makes Pravi Nagasai First Sentinel of Lemuria and the royal spiritual advisor, to show support for traditionalism and gain social approval.

- 1912-1940: Pravi receives additional "revelations" at the Waterfall, likely from one of the King's officials hiding in the cave, ordering Pravi to live in poverty and defining succession rules for his title.

- Nov 24-26, 1940 (Eternity's End): Pravi Nagasai claims the Waterfall has promised him eternal life. One of his two sons, Koi Nagasai, poisons his father, who dies in his sleep the following night. Ori and Koi Nagasai succeed him and both become First Sentinels, leaders of two rivaling cults.

- The following week: "Miracle at the Waterfall" is shown in cinemas to honor Pravi's death. A magician couple, Shastai and Danizi Ackai, notice the miracle is fake. They are overheard and arrested for blasphemy.

- The next day: King Lutri Manzek, advised by Koi and Ori Nagasai, sentences the magicians to death. They are swiftly executed, leaving their son Jamati Pirra an orphan with a dream of revenge.

- Jan 1941 - Aug 1945: Koi Nagasai amends his father's "revelations", which allows him to live in luxury. In place of his father's hut he constructs a modern building with an underground bunker, and gathers a group of followers, whom he scams for donations. Among the followers is young Tesa Nevari, whose real name is Lizzie Young. Jamati Pirra infiltrates Koi's cult and waits for his chance at revenge. He reads Koi's diaries and discovers the truth of Pravi's death.

- Ascension: Koi Nagasai performs a "miracle" of levitation with help from Jamati Pirra and a forklift. A long-time loyal follower of Pravi and Koi notices the ruse; Koi kills him to keep it secret, and orders Jamati Pirra to bury the body at Pravi's holy waterfall. While at the waterfall, Jamati notices the secret cave and realizes its purpose.

- Revelation: Ori Nagasai prays at the holy waterfall. Jamati Pirra, hidden in the cave, gives him a "revelation", naming Koi as Pravi's killer and ordering Ori to challenge Koi to a trial by fire.

- Blaze of Glory: Assisted by the Lemurian intelligence service, Koi Nagasai accepts his brother's challenge. He plans to receive a spare key to his shackles from Jamati Pirra, set himself free and hide from the fire in his underground bunker.
However, Jamati has other plans. He locks himself in the bunker well beforehand, then waits until Ori and Koi Nagasai are both dead and the fire is out. Then Jamati emerges from the ruins, claiming to have been protected from fire by the holy waterfall.
To the spectators, his arrival from the flames, with a burn from the bunker's door forming the yin-yang symbol on his palm, seems to again fulfill the ancient prophecy; they name him the new First Sentinel, which makes him the King's spiritual advisor as well.

- Summer Solstice (Royal Blood): Invited for the celebration and a meeting with the King, Jamati Pirra murders the King in his office, thus fulfilling his plans for revenge.

- Jamati Pirra drives from the royal celebration straight to the airfield to leave Lemuria for good;
- The King's son and daughter compete for the throne (a very familiar situation...)
- Lizzie Young, now known as Tesa Nevari, fondly remembers her guru Koi Nagasai and begins her lifelong pursuit of Lemurian esoterics and artifacts.

In this story, no exact (or even approximate) dates are ever mentioned, and events are once again shown in chronological order.

At around 800BC, while the rest of the planet are hunter-gatherers and early farmers forming primitive societies, Lemuria is a thriving technotopia whose technological advancement has spiraled out of control. After the Era of Progress, the Golden Era and the Era of Turmoil, the time has come for an Age of Restraint.

To avoid chaos, usage of powerful artifacts must be heavily guarded and restricted. High Guardian Trifal Ozol orders the burning down of universities and libraries throughout Lemuria to stop further technological progress, Ministry of Order creates law enforcement automatons, and the general public is fed propagandistic quotes, such as:

• "Discipline heals societal wounds."
  
• "Invention without humility sows chaos."
  
• "Knowledge opens forbidden doors. Beware evil fools who steal keys."

The order of Sentinels is formed to oversee the country. They enforce the law, control the safe usage of devices and deal with incidents of artifact misuse. Their headquarters is a fast-moving ship with a vault for confiscated artifacts and a prison cell; in their line of duty, Sentinels use portable lie detectors called veridolas.

The Sentinels have a strict hierarchy and obey the Four Statutes which limit their power and forbid them to use any unsanctioned artifacts they encounter. The Sentinels' whereabouts are constantly being recorded; they have permanent veridolas built into their foreheads.

One of the six Sentinels, scribe Heco Sift, secretly disagrees with the restraint policy, thinking it stupid to have so much power but be unwilling to use it. His opinion is that Lemuria must use its technological superiority to conquer and dominate the entire world.

The Golden Idol is known as Universal Transfer Device; it was created in previous eras and known to be dangerously powerful. Using it to erase a person's mind (and possibly later transfer it to a storage disk, which creates an option of copying that person into other bodies) is considered among the gravest of crimes. So in the Age of Restraint, to safeguard its use, the idol's been given to the Sentinels and placed in the hands of an automaton who will only use it on a willing giver of a verbal command. The Sentinels use it on arrested perpetrators to excise dangerous memories of artifact misuse.

The Sentinels investigate a case of artifact misuse at Tanska Family Orchards near Xenopolis. They find out that Ethem Lurvel, a young farmer, has illegally modified a harvester device and turned it into a powerful teleporter with a side effect of fusing together all the organic matter being teleported.

The Sentinels arrest Ethem, putting him in the prison cell with the automaton, and confiscate the modified harvester. Heco Sift secretly takes another modified harvester part for later use.

Herald Daria Zins prepares a speildance performance for the public and a translation guidebook to go with it. Heco Sift creates a situation where Technician Gimgim Kerra is caught in possession of the illegal harvester part. A tribunal is called, and Kerra is found guilty and detained until further trial. Heco Sift takes on the responsibilities of a Technician, which grants him access to the veridola calibration device.

Heco Sift contacts a group of criminals and prepares a plan to escape his confining role of Sentinel and steal a hoard of powerful artifacts that might help him in his next steps.

Here's how the events transpire:

• Previous day - Heco Sift prepares an inverted veridola and hides it under his bed.
  
• 10:05 AM - Little Chirper reports a sentient robot in Sector 4, ship goes to that location, all Sentinels exit to investigate.
  
• 10:10 AM - Heco Sift clears the ship of patrolling guard robots, then leaves with the others.
  
• Mr.Green brings Mr.Red and Mr.Blue into Heco Sift's bedroom.
  
• Mr.Red uses the inverted veridola to enter the vault, opens the room with all the confiscated artifacts and takes the Golden Idol from the automaton in Ethem's cell. Then Mr.Red starts hauling all the artifacts into Heco Sift's bedroom.
  
• Using the Golden Idol, Mr.Blue tries to disconnect Heco Sift from the tracking system, but disconnects Prime Sentinel Mourn Dasilva instead.
  
• 10:20 AM - Mourn Dasilva discovers he's been disconnected and returns to the ship.
  
• 10:25 AM - Heco Sift stages his death from a "murder robot" holding a vaporon. Then he summons Mr.Green to return to the ship.
  
• Inside the ship, Mourn Dasilva encounters and shoots Mr.Red carrying the last batch of artifacts.
  
• Mr.Green and Heco Sift reach the ship's window and kill Mourn Dasilva who'd just entered Heco Sift's room, but Dasilva manages to shoot and damage their transport.
  
• Heco Sift, Mr.Green and Mr.Blue gather all the artifacts in the room and flee.
  
• Meanwhile, at the crime scene with the sentient robots, Daria Zins discovers Mourn Dasilva's absence, reenters the ship and inspects the vault door.

Heco Sift & friends crash at the outskirts of Xenopolis. They discover the Sentinels' ship chasing them, deduce that Heco Sift is still being tracked, and hide at the data disk factory.

Mr.Blue and Mr.Green have their own plans for the artifacts, but only Heco Sift knows what they all do and how to use them. He is a necessity, but he cannot leave the factory without alerting the Sentinels. So the bandits overpower Heco Sift and commit the crime of transferring his mind into a data disk using the Golden Idol.

Then, to flee the scene, Mr.Blue and Mr.Green decide to use the harvester, as they learned its function from an ad banner a short while ago. However, they don't know the harvester had been unsuccessfully modified, so after using it, their fused corpses, the Golden Idol, Heco Sift's data disk and all the artifacts end up at Tanska Family Orchard.

Meanwhile at the Sentinels' ship, Advisor Ptalla Kib decides to take justice into her own hands (thus violating one of the Four Statutes). She reprograms a MegaMiner robot to find and kill Heco Sift and to wreak havoc on the city until it does so; but as Heco Sift is already physically dead, the robot enters an infinite loop. It captures all the remaining Sentinels as well as anyone it sees.

Forgotten in the commotion, the young prisoner Ethem Lurvel decides to see what he can do. He exits his cell, finds the inverted veridola and uses it to shut down the MegaMiner.

Ptalla Kib undergoes a trial for her crime; its results are left unknown.

The Universal Transfer Device stays in Xenopolis; afterwards, it is again safeguarded with the automaton and placed in a high tower. (Or, perhaps, there are multiple Universal Transfer Devices in existence, specializing in different things, and The Case of the Golden Idol features a different one altogether.)

Lemuria enters a long period of stagnation. Its population, except for a select few descendants of old families, loses all former technological knowledge.

Heco Sift's mind is trapped in a data storage disk. Much later, the disk is unearthed and auctioned off to the Museum of Lemurian History in Hesperia (despite the Lemurian leaders' desire to return all such disks to Lemuria). Eventually, Jack Nowak uses the I.D.O.L. to inspect the contents of the disk, and sets Heco Sift free once more, in the body of Oriel Toussaint.

Each of this DLC's four cases simultaneously contains two timelines: one takes place in 1797 after the events of The Case Of The Golden Idol and features Walter Keene and Ada Baker, and the other follows a team of treasure seekers investigating their adventures in 1927. The events of 1927 are shown chronologically, while the 1797 storyline is revealed in reverse chronological order.

Parts of this DLC appear to be heavily inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn. Interestingly, in this DLC the Golden Idol is never mentioned, and we're dealing with an unrelated Lemurian artifact.

During the Order Party's reign in Albion (1792-1795), Walter Keene was forcibly deprived of 32 years of his life, which made him into an old man. In that same period, Walter Keene managed to "deliver from certain doom" Ergin Ptoo, prince of the 11th clan of Lemuria. After failing to get his youth back, Walter Keene and Ada Baker, his subordinate from the Brotherhood of Masks, decided to leave the country.

In January-February of 1797, to repay his debt in kind, Ergin Ptoo tells Walter Keene about an artifact called the Whishbloom, which can let him "become a new man". The Whishbloom and other artifacts were supposed to be transported on a Lemurian sentinel vessel from the Azure Heaven to the isle of Kravenrock for the annual Ritual of Restraint.

Walter Keene and Ada Baker get hired onto Captain Triton's pirate ship, The Last Reaper, as scrivener and surgeon, and tell the captain where to find a certain Lemurian ship ripe for plundering.

On February 27, The Last Reaper successfully raids the Lemurian sentinels, and the pirates obtain the Whishbloom. It has a potent, sweet scent that quickly fills the air throughout the ship. (Unbeknownst to the pirates, exposure to the scent begins to slowly transform them, granting them animal characteristics befitting their hidden natures and desires. This affects everyone except the bosun, Eleazar Garner, because he has a wooden prosthetic for a nose.)

After the pirate attack, by February 28, Nicolas Maker (who has by then become President of the Seven Seas Company in Lanka-Lemuria region) issues orders that all vessels coming into contact with the Seven Seas Company must be searched, any Lemurian relics confiscated and people possessing them hanged for piracy.

March 1: Captain Triton's ship sets sail for Mesirade Islands to hide the treasure and avoid prosecution. They arrive on the island by March 6. Part of the crew sets out into the island, including the captain, Walter Keene, Ada Baker and the bosun's son Stefan Garner.

March 7 (Whishbloom): Walter Keene assists in hiding the treasure in a grotto and tries to steal the Whishbloom for himself, but gets found out and left to die in that same grotto.

March 8-9 (Sickness and Health): Ada Baker fakes a contagious illness. As the trusted ship surgeon, she manages to fatally poison everyone in the island team except Stefan Garner, who discovers her plot but spares her life and leaves her on the island.

Broadside Betrayal: Some time later, while at sea, The Last Reaper's crew votes on a new captain; the votes split almost evenly between first and second mate. The bosun, who'd stayed unaffected by the Whishbloom, takes the treasure map and abandons ship with his son, who had been affected the longest and had become comatose. The rest of the crew, divided between two rivaling sides, ends up killing each other in a violent mutiny.(see Bonus chapter in this guide)

August 13 (Last Orders): In Red Herring Inn, Port Armando, Stefan Garner completes his transformation into an "evil beast" and fatally mauls his father, who shoots him in retaliation. Stefan disappears into the sea but drops the treasure map, which is found by Healer Joliffe. (Later the map ends up in the local Museum of Antiquities, established by Joliffe's grandson.)

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In 1800, Walter Keene and Ada Baker are shown living together on the island; Walter has evolved into a bluish turtle-like creature (reflecting his desire to live a long life); Ada Baker has obtained catlike features (reflecting her tendency to find her way out of danger and always land on her feet).

In 1805, Ada Baker passes away on the island. Walter Keene buries her and is left to live his life alone.

Port Armando is gripped by a new obsession: the hunt for Captain Triton's lost treasure. The town attracts all sorts of amateur enthusiasts and interested parties, including the modern Brotherhood of the Masks (who wish to obtain the Whishbloom specifically and possess old knowledge of its effects) and the Legcutters, a local criminal gang (who just want to get their hands on legendary treasure).

August 7 (Last Orders): amateur treasure hunter Jasper Wyles employs Lighthands Loretta, a thief from the Legcutters gang, to steal the treasure map from the Museum of Antiquities, after its owner refused to sell him the map. Loretta attempts to flee with the map but Jasper chases and kills her, obtaining the map after all.

A few days later, an expedition is organized to search for Captain Triton's treasure. The team consists of:

• Myrtle Song (Quickeye Steward), a "scientific advisor specializing in animal physiology";
  
• Antoine Spilsbury (Quickeye Initiate), acting as the sponsor;
  
• Ivan Kearnes (a member of the Legcutters), providing transport and machinery;
  
• Radigan Olita, captain of a small local ship (also involved with the Legcutters but currently pursuing his own interests);
  
• Jasper Wyles, providing the map;
  
• Eliza Swann (Jasper's friend and a skilled airplane pilot in her spare time).

Broadside Betrayal: The explorers find and investigate The Last Reaper. The ship's fate is reminiscent of the strange tale of the Obra Dinn... (again, see Bonus chapter in this guide) Walter Keene discovers the expeditiion is about to invade his privacy. Unnoticed, he lures Radigan Olita into the cargo hold (accidentally killing him) and takes his body away into the sea.

Sickness and Health: The explorers arrive on the island and discover Radigan Olita's body, turned into a sign to warn them away, and realize the island is inhabited. Antoine Spilsbury intends to terminate the expedition; Ivan Kearnes, acting in the Legcutters' interests, kills Antoine to keep the trip going.

Whishbloom: The team reaches the grotto and prepares to descend. Aware of the Whishbloom's effect, Myrtle Song convinces everyone to wear gas masks. Ivan Kearnes secretly contacts Ansel Marsh from the Legcutters. He arrives on a balloon; they restrain Jasper Wyles and obtain the treasure chest (sans Whishbloom), but discover they'd misjudged the balloon's weight limit; Ivan Kearnes kills Ansel Marsh, but even alone he causes the balloon to plummet and drowns.

Meanwhile in the cave, Myrtle Song convinces Eliza Swann to take off her gas mask to find the Whishbloom; Eliza finds Walter Keene's note explaining the artifact's effects, realizes Myrtle's cruelty and kills her; then she discovers Walter himself. In a conversation with him, she begins to make peace with her eventual fate.

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Eliza ends up staying at the island indefinitely; her friend Jasper Wyles returns to civilization. Every so often, he visits the island and brings supplies for old Walter Keene and for Eliza, who seems to have morphed into a birdlike creature and enjoys aerial acrobatics with no need for an airplane.

Assuming this is the last Golden Idol game, the chronological order for the full series is:

• The Age of Restraint (Rise DLC 3)
  
• The Spider of Lanka (Case DLC 1)
  
• The Lemurian Vampire (Case DLC 2)
  
• The Case of the Golden Idol
  
• The Curse of the Last Reaper (Rise DLC 4)
  
• The Lemurian Phoenix (Rise DLC 2)
  
• The Rise of the Golden Idol
  
• The Sins of New Wells (Rise DLC 1)

The initial alignment of forces:

Location

The first mate's side

The second mate's side

Captain's quarters

First mate

Carpenter
Sailmaker

Top deck

Helmsman
Rigger

Second mate
Master-at-arms

Lower deck

Cook

Gunner

Out at sea

Navigator
Bosun
(bosun's son didn't vote)

The exact events that transpired aboard the ship are:

Out at sea, protecting himself and his unconscious son, the bosun keeps the navigator from climbing onto the boat and kills him with a harpoon.

In the captain's quarters:
- The first mate shouts mutiny and calls for reinforcements;
- The carpenter and the sailmaker shoot at the first mate;
- The carpenter misses but the sailmaker hits him straight in the forehead, killing him instantly.

On the deck:
- The second mate and the master-at-arms try to surround the helmsman;
- The rigger appears from above and shoots the master-at-arms in the back;
- The second mate taunts the helmsman, trying to keep him away from the captain's quarters;
- The helmsman splits the second mate's head with his axe;
- The rigger and the helmsman rush into the captain's quarters.

Back in the captain's quarters:
- The rigger enters and throws his dagger right in the carpenter's eye, killing him;
- The sailmaker runs the rigger straight through with her cutlass, but it breaks off;
- The helmsman arrives and kills the sailmaker with his axe, but she manages to stab him with a dagger;
- The helmsman stumbles outside and bleeds out from his wound.

Meanwhile on the lower deck:
- The gunner searches for the cook, who is not a fighter and has no proper weapons;
- The gunner finds where the cook was hiding and chops his arm off with his kukri;
- However, the cook manages to kill the gunner with the butcher knife;
- Then the cook climbs up to the top deck but quickly bleeds to death from his wound.