The Less than Amicable Departure of Two Explorers

## OTHER STAGES

**The Less than Amicable Departure of Two Explorers (△)** is the third and final case of *Golden Idol Mysteries: The Lemurian Vampire*.

## Plot

On February 18, 1742, Oberon Geller and Albert Cloudsley arrived on Monkey Paw Island. Oberon used street magic to convince the commune that he could read minds and was sufficiently powerful to destroy Tower Dweller, while Albert made a bomb and gave Jayan Ji a rope in exchange for a ruby. Worried that she may lose her power over the commune without Tower Dweller, Lavu Mata asked the imprisoned Zubiri Kerra for more information on the automaton, claiming that her goal was to destroy it. Zubiri told her about the override code, which gave the speaker access to additional commands on the automaton such as destroying the Golden Idol and destroying itself. Lavu quickly went to Tower Dweller to use this override command, but instead told the automaton to give her the Idol. Oberon and Albert built a bridge to Tower Dweller and destroyed it with a bomb, but the Idol was nowhere to be found. Nevertheless, the commune celebrated the foreigners' victory, and Zubiri followed the villagers to a tunnel after Jayan freed him with the rope he obtained from Albert.

As Albert and Oberon stood on a bridge in the tunnel, Lavu attempted to kill them at the bottom of the tunnel by absorbing the matter of the pillar that supported the bridge with the Idol. She was unable to destabilize the bridge before being apprehended by Jayan, and Zubiri took the Idol from her. Seeing his opportunity to retrieve the Idol, Oberon held Kula Stirna at gunpoint, forcing Zubiri to hand it to him. Oberon used the Idol to destroy the bridge as he left.

## Clues

* golden
* idol
* matter
* tool
* lifespan
* mind
* heat
* voice
* command
* speaker
* stone
* pillar
* bridge
* foreign
* visitors
* villagers
* riches
* prison
* myth
* hostage
* Oberon
* Geller
* Albert
* Cloudsley
* Tower
* Dweller
* destroyed
* give
* take
* obtained
* found
* target
* kill
* steal

### Known information

* Zubiri
* Kerra
* Tissa
* Gamini
* Jayan
* Ji
* Lavu
* Mata
* Kula
* Stirna
* Kruplu
* Zarno
* Vyrlis
* Momgo

## Thinking Panel

### A long time ago

* Lavu   Mata   found  the  golden   idol . It could be used only with a  voice   command  and it could  target  only the  speaker  of the  voice   command .
* Therefore  Lavu   Mata  created the  myth  of  Tower   Dweller , so for centuries the  villagers  would use the " take   matter   lifespan "  command  and  Lavu   Mata  would  take  their  lifespan  for themselves.

### After the arrival of the ship

* The  foreign   visitors  went to the tower and  destroyed   Tower   Dweller  and were rewarded with  riches . However prior to that  Lavu   Mata  had used the " give   tool "  command  and had  obtained  the  golden   idol .
* Jayan   Ji  released  Zubiri   Kerra  from the  prison  and they followed the celebrating  villagers .

### In the tunnel

* Lavu   Mata  used the  golden   idol  on the  stone   pillar  to try to  kill  the  foreign   visitors .  Jayan   Ji  disarmed  Lavu   Mata  and  Zubiri   Kerra  took the  golden   idol .
* Suddenly  Oberon   Geller  took  Kula   Stirna  as a  hostage .  Zubiri   Kerra  surrendered the the  golden   idol  and  Oberon   Geller   destroyed  the  stone   bridge  and left.

### Bottom panel

* While in tower the  golden   idol  could  target  only the  speaker  of the  voice   command .
* take   matter   lifespan  - NAGANA BRIN GAD
* give   matter   lifespan  - TEGANA BRIN GAD
* give   tool  - TEGANA TRENZO