The Case of the Golden Idol walkthrough with full explanations

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Thinking scrolls: 1. Events 2. Identities 3. Camp location Terms: Albert, Cloudsley, Oberon, Geller - letter in inventory of either character Horn, Finger, Thumb, Ruins, Xenopolis, Bay, Shadows - Map in inventory of man who was pushed Deduction: The camp location is probably the easiest scroll to start with. The characters are located at an edge of the main landmass that ends in a part that juts out, meaning it's either the Horn of Thumb, Horn of Finger or end of the Bay of Shadows. However, if you look in the background there's a small island behind them, and a slightly larger island next to that. This matches up with the layout of the Horn of Thumb if you rotate the perspective shown in the Exploring mode to that of the map, and so it has to be the Horn of Thumb they're at. Next up is deciphering who is whom. We have two people going by the letters: Doctor Oberon Geller and Esquire Albert Cloudsley. The letter says that Albert has rights to two thirds of all valuables, while Oberon has rights to one third of all valuables and any golden statues found, for providing the map. This lines up with the contents of the bags, where one has tobacco and two bags filled with coins and gems, and the other has medical supplies, a golden statue with a red stone and a bag filled with coins and gems. The second bag must be Oberon's since he has rights to the statues and is a doctor, so the other must be Albert's. The murderer is carrying a pipe, which matches up to the tobacco in Albert's bag. Additionally, the victim is carrying the map, a scalpel and a medicine bottle, so must be Oberon. The dagger being carried by Albert has no relevance. This enables us to fill in the identity scrolls and the events: Source of date: Letters held by Albert and Oberon Thinking scrolls: 1. Events 2. Identities 3. Attire Terms: Horse – Horse running in the background outside Woodshire, Crowtower, Blackfield – Map on the wall Spontaneous, Combustion, Sebastian, Cloudsley – Note on the desk Dining, Hunting, Researching – Diary on the desk Ladder – Click the ladder Lead, Poisoning – Blue book jutting out of the shelf Wound, Head – Click the victim's head Deduction: The identity couldn't be easier: there's only one first name and one last name, and so only one possibility. Our victim is Sebastian Cloudsley. Deducing the attires is also straightforward. We have three possibilities: dining, hunting and researching. One image shows him eating and drinking, so it can't be anything but the dining attire. The outfit next to is is clearly a lab coat covered in stains from experiments and has a measuring device in the pocket, so it's a safe bet to say it's the researching attire. By process of elimination, the remaining one in which he was dressed when he died is his hunting attire. So on to the events. We have the name, so we can just fill in Sebastian Cloudsley. Where is he Lord of? There's a yacht floating in the river outside. Neither Woodshire nor Crowtower have any water near them, so by process of elimination this must be Blackfield. For establishing an order to things, it may be tempting to refer to the diary entry. But it's actually a red herring: it's dated for the 22nd of August, but the calendar shows that it's actually the 23rd. The diary only exists to provide the attire terms. For the cause of death, it's fairly obvious that it's a head wound. But there are two possibilities for the thing he fell from: the ladder, and the horse. If he fell from the ladder, he was probably researching. But he wasn't wearing his researching attire when he died, he was in his hunting gear. The blood trail also leads in from outside, so he must have been outdoors when he sustained the wound. Therefore, the final answer becomes Source of date: Last diary entry and calendar on wall The idol and the ring with the ruby in Sebastian's inventory have no direct connection to the case, but that, the jacket above the bed and the mask on the wall tie in to later events. There is a short intermission showing three people attending Sebastian's funeral. It helps to remember what they looked like for the next case. Thinking scrolls: 1. Events 2. Identities 3. Letters Terms: Pear – Book in inventory of man next to gate or graffiti inside house Spontaneous, Combustion, Idol – Note held by man holding idol Adam, James – Stable rota on the stable door Edmund, David, Gorran – Letter in inventory of man at the front door Edmund, Cloudsley – newspaper in inventory of man at the front door Battley, Cloudsley, Cubert – coat of arms list on wall inside house Nicolas, Maker – slip of paper on table inside house Edmund, Cloudsley, Rose, Cubert, Sebastian, Willard, Wright, Peter, Battler – family tree held by man beside table Aphorisms, Sebastian, Cloudsley, Happy, Upset, Inspired, Scared – book of aphorisms on floor Willard, Wright, Rose, Cubert – fragments of letter at top left of fireplace Idol – second letter Research – third letter House – fourth letter Aphorisms – fifth letter Deduction: The first thing to note is that three of the people here are the people from the intermission: the man at the front door, the man carrying the betting slip and the woman at the table. Their presence at the funeral points to them probably being inheritors, so this gives us the possible names of Edmund Cloudsley, Rose Cubert, Willard Wright and Peter Battley. There is only one woman present, and only one woman's name, so we can conclude that she is Rose Cubert. We can see that the man at the door carries a newspaper with an article about Lord Edmund Cloudsley's speech to parliament, and he also carries a letter from someone called Theo that's addressed to “Dear Edmund” so it's safe to say this guy is Edmund Cloudsley. This letter also mentions the services of a coachman called David Gorran. The man standing at the stable has a saddle bag with the initials EC and a note saying to prepare the carriage for tomorrow, so we can safely conclude that this is David. That leaves the gentleman with the betting slip, who has to be either Willard Wright or Peter Battley. A close look at the fireplace points to the answer: there is another discarded betting slip next to a letter from Blackguard and Buck Loans, addressed to one Peter Battley and discussing a debt of 255 pounds. So this man must be Peter. There is another route to figuring this out: the case is called 'The Dramatic Departure of an Outsider' and the man with the idol is saying 'Now, if it's all the same to you, I will take my leave.' He is clearly the outsider. And if you look at the coat of arms above the front door and cross-reference it with the list just inside the door, it's the symbol of the Battley family. Therefore the outsider can't be Peter Battley, and must be Willard Wright. Now on to the other non-inheritors. There's one we can eliminate beside Rose Cubert: the man there is standing next to a note saying 'Nicolas Maker – Attorney'; looking at his close-up, he's saying 'I would not have expected one of your family to treat a legal document in such a way. I am appalled!' and he's carrying a note about the reading of Sebastian's last will and testament with a family tree on it, so this is certainly Nicolas himself. The man on the far left outside is carrying a book that says 'Property of Pear brothers', so there must be two Pears here and he is one of them. There is a stable rota for Adam and James. The graffiti on the wall inside has the brothers sporting the initials A and J, so they must be Adam and James; how do we know which is which? Edmund's newspaper, which shows that today is Monday, September 7, 1786. On Mondays James grooms the horses and Adam cleans the stable. The man on fire carries a scorched horse brush and a scorched version of the same knife the other one carries, so he must be James Pear, meaning the other man is Adam Pear. By process of elimination, this leaves the only remaining unnamed character, the man with the idol, to be Willard Wright: With the i