‘Chapter 2: The Pursuit’ case summary walkthrough, hints, and solution in Rise of the Golden Idol

“The Pursuit” is the second chapter in Rise of the Golden Idol, and the case summary story puzzles will ask you to bring the events of the entire chapter together. You’ll be able to complete it once you finish the “Going Once!” case.

As with all of our Rise of the Golden Idol case guides, our goal here is to provide a hint-based experience that will lead you to the solution without automatically showing you how to solve it. We’ll start out with small hints for the puzzle, escalate to bigger ones, and eventually just spell out the answer if it’s still not clicking for you. We’ve separated our tiered hints and answers with in-game art, but be wary of scrolling farther than you intend.

Once you’ve finished all four cases in Chapter 2, you’ll need to solve the Corkboard and Story to complete “Chapter 2: The Pursuit,” which asks you to compile information from all three cases together. See our guides for the other Chapter 2 cases — “Garden Retreat,” “Behind Bars,” “Blockbuster Release,” and “Going Once!” — if you need a refresher.

In this Rise of the Golden Idol guide, we’ll walk you through the “Chapter 2: The Pursuit” case summary, including hints and the full solution for the Corkboard and Story.

Chapter 2: The Pursuit Corkboard

The Chapter 2 Corkboard asks you to put names to faces and faces to names.

First hint

• Most character’s faces won’t be used here.
• Some characters have multiple identities.
• Think about how “Going Once!” plays into “Garden Retreat.”
• How does the newspaper clipping relate to these names.

Second hint

• There are only two faces on the corkboard.
• This entire chapter revolves around the crimes of these two individuals.

Solution

Left to right, the images go:

• Historian: Tesa Nevari.
• Colleague: Man with green glasses and beard, Arthur Blythe.
• Escaped Prison: Man with green glasses and beard, Arthur Blythe.
• Sent Saw Blade: Woman with large hair and glasses, Steven Aria.
• Stole Crystal: Man with green glasses and beard, Augie Tamine.
• ‘Weird Lady’: Woman with large hair and glasses, Tesa Nevari.

Chapter 2: The Pursuit Story

The Chapter 2 story summary has 31 entries for you to solve.

First hint

• Consider the timeline of this entire chapter, and how exactly it’s out of order.
• Think about who was working with who to build this new Golden idol.

Second hint

• Pair the events of “Garden Retreat” with the book for the first paragraph.
• Think about who would help Arthur escape and why they would want his help for paragraph 2.
• Paragraph 4 discusses what happened in “Going Once!” and what went wrong.
• The final paragraph describes the events from the first case of Chapter 2.

Solution

Here is the complete description for the Story:

Tesa Nevari wanted to reassemble the mythical Golden Idol of Lazarus Herst from its parts.

Tesa Nevari arranged Arthur Blythe’s prison escape, because he knew the locations of the parts.

Tesa Nevari and Arthur Blythe worked together to steal all 8 parts.

For the final one, at the auction, Arthur Blythe resorted to murder.

In the end, Arthur Blythe tried to steal the parts from Tesa Nevari, which resulted in Arthur Blythe’s death.