Red Dead Redemption 2 A Fine Night of Debauchery Walkthrough
November 4, 2018 by Jack McBastard 5 Comments
A Fine Night of Debauchery is the 51st main story mission in Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2). This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of A Fine Night of Debauchery Main Quest including all Gold Medals for 100% completion.
A Fine Night of Debauchery is unlocked after completing The Gilded Cage.
Quest Giver: Trelawny Chapter: 4 Region: Lemoyne
Gold Medal Requirements:
- Win the game of Poker without Strauss’s help
- After your cover is blown, escape the boat in under 35 seconds
- Get 5 headshots
- Complete the mission without taking any health items
Starting Location: Saint Denis, Lemoyne
Talk to Trelawny
Meet up with Trelawny in Saint Denis to run a con job on a riverboat casino, but first he thinks your outfit needs some work.
Follow Trelawny to the tailor, and buy the fine three-piece town suit, called ‘The Wittemore’. Luckily there will be no cost to you.
Next, follow Trelawny to the barber to get your hair cut and a proper shave, so that you don’t look like a vagrant.
Properly cleaned up, follow Trelawny to a carriage that will take you to the docks in style.
Unfortunately, you will have to leave your weapons behind, so be on your best behavior.
Trelawny lets you know that the dealer is in on the game, and Strauss will be giving you signals about how to bid, but in order to fulfill the gold medal requirements, you won’t be taking his directions. Keep walking with Trelawny until you sit down at the poker table.
- GOLD MEDAL: Win the game of Poker without Strauss’s help
Most of the players will leave at this point, leaving you alone with Desmond Blythe. For this hand and every hand that follows, just keep going all-in until Blythe busts.
After he busts, he’ll bet his watch from the safe upstairs, and again go all in.
After you win again, follow the pit boss upstairs to get the watch. Conveniently, Javier will be posing as a guard and join the pit boss as an escort.
The pit boss will utter some casual racism while waving a gun around, greatly diminishing any remorse you might feel for his upcoming beating.
Wait for the pit boss to open the safe.
Javier will clock the other guard in the face, while you dissuade the pit boss from doing anything stupid.
Looks like the pit boss had two guns. I can’t say that I’m sorry things went this way.
Finish looting the safe, then follow Javier. Be sure to holster your gun out of view. He will lead you down two flights of stairs.
Keep following Javier into the main room, where Trelawny is having an argument at the bar with Blythe.
Just as you’re trying to defuse the situation, all hell breaks loose.
- GOLD MEDAL: After your cover is blown, escape the boat in under 35 seconds
- GOLD MEDAL: Get 5 headshots
- GOLD MEDAL: Complete the mission without taking any health items
This time limit is ridiculously tight. Immediately go into Dead Eye and try to get as many headshots as you can. There should be enough guards visible in the room to immediately get at least three on your first pass.
Get out of cover and immediately start moving towards the stairs. Go into Dead Eye and shoot the two guards coming down the stairs to complete your five headshots.
Ignore everything else, and sprint for the door to the right of the stairs, and turn left.
Follow Javier and Trelawny off the edge of the riverboat and into the river.
Another flawless Trelawny plan. Mission complete!
This finishes A Fine Night of Debauchery main mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. Now the next quest Horsemen, Apocalypse starts.
Next Up: Horsemen, Apocalypse
For more Walkthroughs with all gold medals, check out the complete Red Dead Redemption 2 Story Walkthrough .
November 6, 2018 at 6:17 am
How to get the suit back? Can’t find it anywhere. Is it mission only?
November 14, 2018 at 9:39 am
Mr. Pinto, thank you for asking that because my bot found it and I think it is only mission specific. From research and and my own exp, I found that although the suit had disappeared at the end of the mission I had gained the shade of blue for my Opulent vest.
December 15, 2018 at 2:35 pm
Like stated in the guide the time limit is ridiculous. I had to retry it multiple times, going through all the early slow-paced BS again just because the escape point refused to trigger even though I had already killed (and headshot) 5 guards, forcing me to go back and kill one more…
February 4, 2019 at 5:37 pm
The key to getting the time limit is not using dead eye because the kill cutscenes take too much time. When you’re behind the bar, get 3 or 4 headshots without deadeye and then start running towards the exit on the right side. I killed two more on the stairs in deadeye while i was going to the exit and then made a dash for the water.
August 8, 2019 at 9:37 pm
I had the same thing happen to me like 3 times, I’d get all 5 headshots immediately, run up, and nobody would follow me until after my timer started beeping, at which point I’d just let myself be killed to try again. I don’t understand, you have to stay right next to them until a certain time, or until a certain number of guards are dead? Or you just can’t get ahead of the rest?
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A Fine Night of Debauchery
Cleaning up
High roller, cleaning house, swimming with gators.
- There is no overall time objective so take it easy before the final gunfight.
- You really do not need help from Strauss. As long as you play, Desmond will go all-in. The outcomes are always the same.
- If you want to save time with the poker table: Fold, all-in, all-in. Even if you go all-in during the first hand you will still have money to keep playing.
- The pit boss is an easy headshot.
- Once the gunfight starts, take out a few close guards from the bar and then start moving to the exit at the far right. Take out more as you move along.
- Use Dead Eye bursts to conserve it. Aim for headshots.
- There is no accuracy objective but you'll want to take out the guards quickly since there are many of them.
- Do not wait for the others. Get to the water as soon as possible.
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A Fine Night of Debauchery Red Dead Redemption 2 Mission
Group: Chapter 4 - Saint Denis
Category: Story Mission
You will be able to start this mission after completing The Gilded Cage mission. To do this, talk to Trelawny , who you will find next to the tailor's shop in Saint Denis.
Trelawny will inform Arthur that in order to get to the river boat where the poker game will take place, he will have to take care of his appearance first.
While at the Mayor's party, the gang learned of a card tournament being held on the Grand Korrigan riverboat. Strauss and Trelawny fix a game so Arthur can win big on the tables.
Gold Medal Checklist
- Win the game of Poker without Strauss's help
- After your cover is blown, escape the boat in under 35 seconds
- Get 5 headshots
- Complete the mission without taking any health items
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Prior missions
To begin A Fine Night of Debauchery you must first complete The Gilded Cage .
Objectives of A Fine Night of Debauchery
1. follow trelawny into the tailors / buy the fine three-piece town suit from the tailor.
Follow Trelawny into the tailor and purchase a three-piece suit. It's free.
2. Follow Trelawny to the barbers / Style your hair or beard at the barbers
Then Trelawny will take you to the barbershop.
3. Get in the coach / Follow Trelawny to the docks
Get in the coach that's waiting in the street. Along the way, Trelawny will explain the details of the plan to you.
When you arrive at the docks, you'll have to leave your weapons in the coach.
Then come to the riverboat where Strauss and Javier are waiting for you.
4. Board the riverboat / Sit at the poker table
Board the riverboat and when the evening comes, go with Trelawny to the poker room.
Sit down at a poker table with a seat available.
5. Play poker / Cause Desmond to go bust in poker / Win the Reutlinger pocket watch in poker
If you want to earn the gold medal, then you have to win without Strauss' help.
On the first hand fold, because it is a lost game. After this hand, the only players left in the game are you and Desmond Blythe.
Next, you have to make Blythe lose all his money. For this hand just keep calling until Blythe busts.
After that, he will propose another game in which he will bet a valuable watch, which he keeps in the safe.
Win another hand (go all-in) and you will own a valuable watch.
To collect the watch, you must go with the Pit boss to the room where the safe is located.
6. Follow the Pit boss to the safe room
After you win, follow the Pit boss upstairs to collect the watch from the safe. Javier, dressed as a guard, will join you as an escort.
On your way to the safe room you will find out, among other things, that the Pit boss is armed.
When you get there and the Pit boss opens the safe, Javier knocks out the other guard, points his gun at the Pit boss and asks you to disarm him.
7. Disarm the Pit boss / Loot the safe
Take the gun from the Pit boss and take care of the contents of the safe.
Unfortunately, after a while it will turn out that he had a second revolver. Fortunately, you are not defenceless anymore, so shoot him before he kills you.
Finish looting the safe.
8. Follow Javier / Go to Trelawny
Come with Javier back to the poker room and go to the bar where Trelawny sits.
Eventually, the guard who's clothes were taken by Javier appears, and a gunfight starts.
9. Take out the guards / Escape the riverboat
If you want to get the gold medal, then you have only 35 seconds to get five headshots and escape from the boat.
Activate Dead Eye and try to get as many headshots as you can.
Then start moving forward towards the stairs. On your way, try to get the missing headshots.
Go through the door to the right of the stairs and then turn left.
Follow Javier and Trelawny, jump into the water and swim.
When you go ashore, you'll share your money and the mission will end. Your share will be $750. Arthur will also keep the watch for himself.
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Riverboat Grand Korrigan
Riverboat Grand Korrigan is one of the newspaper articles found in Red Dead Redemption 2.
ANNOUNCES HIGH STAKES GAMBLING NIGHTS.
High rollers, debutantes and card sharks will be welcomed on board the Grand Korrigan Riverboat is a series of high stakes gambling nights, arranged to stimulate the tourist industry in town. Moored in Saint Denis , the Grand Korrigan is said to be the most opulent riverboat of its kind still in operation, and those who have spent days of travel aboard said they scarcely wanted to disembark once reaching their destination.
The staff are famously attentive and impeccable. The cuisine is some of the finest ever experienced outside of France. The linens and millinery are all imported from Italy. The high stakes gambling nights became something of a legend, with some of the biggest and richest men of industry meeting to raise, bluff and bet incredible sums, some said to exceed the cost of a team of horses, the stable they reside in and the mansion next door.
The Grand Korrigan has resumed the famed gambling evenings now that it is moored in the area for a few weeks of preparation of resuming luxury travel service.
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T he first chunk of the Freedom Center printing plant came tumbling down Tuesday morning during a ceremonial demolition event, paving the way for the planned $1.7 billion Bally’s Chicago Casino along the banks of the Chicago River.
Bally’s Chairman Soo Kim and city officials were on hand as an excavator smashed an awning over a truck bay of what was once the largest newspaper printing plant in North America, now a hulking empty shell still emblazoned with the familiar Chicago Tribune sign on its southern wall.
“It’s very gratifying,” said Kim, after the demolition ceremony. “It will be even more exciting when the first bricks start coming up.”
More symbolic than substantial, it took seconds to tear down a small piece of history after more than four decades as the publishing engine of the Chicago newspaper industry. The demolition took place on a sweltering summer day amid a theatrical red smoke cannon, piped-in music, festive balloons and a crowd of invited onlookers, who cheered the first smash of what will be a lengthy process.
The rest of the 940,000-square-foot plant is expected to be reduced to rubble over the next three to five months, Kim said, as Bally’s clears the 30-acre River West site for a dramatic repurposing as an entertainment mecca.
In 2022, Rhode Island-based Bally’s won a heated competition to build Chicago’s first casino. The proposal includes an exhibition hall, a 500-room hotel, a 3,000-seat theater, 10 restaurants and 4,000 gaming positions, making it the largest casino in the state.
Bally’s Chicago launched a temporary facility at Medinah Temple last fall, with plans to open the permanent casino by September 2026.
It has been an eventful summer for Bally’s, which owns and operates 15 casinos across 10 states, and the future site of its flagship casino.
Last month, Bally’s announced a $2 billion financing deal with Gaming and Leisure Properties, a Pennsylvania-based real estate investment trust, including $940 million to fund the construction of the permanent Chicago casino, allaying concerns it didn’t have the wherewithal to complete the project.
Bally’s also finalized redesign of its planned 500-room hotel tower, which was shifted from north of the casino to the south to avoid damaging city water pipes along the Chicago River, pending approval from the city’s planning department.
Kim’s New York-based hedge fund, Standard General, which owns about 26% of Bally’s, reached an agreement with the board on July 25 to buy out the rest of the stockholders at $18.25 per share, valuing the casino company at $975 million. The deal to take the company private is expected to close during the first half of 2025, pending shareholder and regulatory approval.
Meanwhile, after 43 years and countless millions of newspapers, the Freedom Center printed its last Chicago Tribune in May, shifting production to the northwest suburban Daily Herald plant, a smaller but newer facility that Tribune Publishing purchased last year for an undisclosed price.
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Freedom Center was built in 1981, a massive plant with 10 new Goss Metroliner offset presses capable of printing 75,000, 144-page newspapers an hour. At its peak, it ran 24/7, churning out newspapers for the Tribune, as well as longtime clients such as the Chicago Sun-Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
But the rise of digital media in the new millennium precipitated a rapid erosion in print circulation, slowing production at the Freedom Center and making the facility and its prime North Side real estate expendable.
Last year, Bally’s, which bought and then executed a sale-leaseback on the property, agreed to pay Tribune Publishing $150 million to vacate the Freedom Center by July 5 to break ground on the casino complex.
In May, Tribune completed an auction for everything from printing equipment, dump trucks and forklifts to historical newspapers and press plates in a Freedom Center final liquidation. In addition, Preservation Chicago assembled a substantial collection of historical material culled from the facility.
There were no buyers, however, for the two giant Chicago Tribune exterior signs on the north and south sides of the building.
After taking possession of the property, Bally’s removed the sign on the north side of the building and put it in storage. The southern sign, long a landmark for drivers on the Kennedy Expressway feeder ramp at Ohio and Ontario streets, remained up in the air as demolition begins.
Kim said Tuesday he plans to remove the southern sign as well, and hopes to incorporate it into the new casino complex, in much the same way developers kept the Tribune Tower sign on the newspaper’s century-old neo-Gothic landmark, which was sold in 2016 and converted to condos.
“We have to coordinate with the paper, but we’d love to give it a place of honor,” Kim said. “So we might see the sign in the lobby somewhere.”
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The 30-acre property will feature a hotel tower, including a large pool spa, fitness center and rooftop restaurant, on the southern end of the development closest to Ohio Street.
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RIVER WEST — Demolition of the Chicago Tribune’s Freedom Center began Tuesday to make way for the new Bally’s casino and hotel complex.
In 2022, Bally’s Casino secured the city’s approval to build a casino at Tribune Publishing, 700 W. Chicago Ave. The casino, meant to beef up funding for the city’s police and fire pensions, is slated to include 3,300 slots, 173 table games, 500 hotel rooms, a 3,000-seat entertainment venue, 2-acre public park, six restaurants, a food hall and three bars.
In May, after 43 years in operation, the Freedom Center printed its last issue of the Tribune. The newspaper company vacated the building in July.
The Freedom Center demolition could take five months with crews working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, city officials said at a community meeting in June.
No explosives will be used for the demolition. Excavators will be used for most of the site, while other areas will require hand excavation.
Additional dust mitigation efforts include keeping the site wet so debris is contained on the ground. On-site vehicles will be limited to a speed limit of 10 mph to limit debris kicked into the air, officials previously said.
Every day during demolition, the health department will dispatch dust monitors to the site who will have the power to stop operations if dust is not contained.
Demolition is scheduled 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily, in compliance with the Chicago Noise Ordinance.
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Bally's Chicago casino project takes step forward as demolition begins on River West site
Bally’s chairman soo kim said his hedge fund’s $4.6 billion merger deal to buy out shareholders is “an indicator of how optimistic we are” about the revenue potential for the massive casino being built at 777 w. chicago ave..
Heavy machinery starts the demolition process for Bally’s Chicago casino at the former Freedom Center on Tuesday.
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As excavators make way for Chicago’s future mega-casino, the leader of the corporation behind the River West development believes Bally’s is poised to start “eating a lot of people’s lunches” in an Illinois gambling market already saturated with numerous casinos and video gaming options.
Bally’s chairman Soo Kim made that confident declaration after a whirlwind summer for Bally’s was capped Tuesday with crews beginning demolition of the former Chicago Tribune printing plant at 777 W. Chicago Ave. The site is slated to be transformed into a casino by September 2026.
Kim brushed aside critics — including some from City Hall — who have questioned whether Rhode Island-based Bally’s could complete the $1.34 billion casino project, let alone compete in a region that already has more places to gamble than Las Vegas.
“I think this is probably why they spend so much time pooh-poohing our stuff, because let me tell you: We’re going to be eating a lot of people’s lunches. Most importantly, Indiana,” Kim said during a meeting with the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board. “It’s not great for Illinois that all that [gambling] money goes to Indiana.”
“The amenities that we’ll have, like a 500-room hotel tower, at four-star level or better,” Kim said. “It won’t even be close. It’ll be like one thing, and then everything else. We’re looking forward to that.”
Behind red and white smoke bombs and a blaring soundtrack of Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” the claw of an excavator slammed into a facade of the printing plant Tuesday morning to put an exclamation mark on Bally’s behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing.
Last month, Bally’s announced it had secured financing to cover an $800 million funding gap for construction. It also released a new site plan that places the hotel tower on the south end of the 30-acre gaming campus, a redesign made necessary when planners realized the original placement along the Chicago River could damage a city water main.
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Those accomplishments should bolster confidence in the project, according to Kim, as should his own investment portfolio.
His hedge fund, Standard General, reached a $4.6 billion merger deal last month to buy out Bally’s shareholders in an agreement that would keep the company publicly traded, pending federal review.
“It’s just an indicator of how optimistic we are,” Kim said.
Bally’s chairman Soo Kim readies for a groundbreaking ceremony at the former Freedom Center at 777 W. Chicago Ave.
Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t attend the demolition kickoff, but seems to have changed his tune from earlier this year, when he seemed skeptical , telling the Sun-Times in June that Bally’s viability to complete the project was “still to be determined, to be perfectly frank with you.”
In a statement provided by Bally’s on Tuesday, Johnson called the future casino “one of the largest economic investments in Chicago” that “will have an incredible impact on our city as a job creator, hospitality destination and revenue generator.”
“Like all Chicagoans, I will be watching eagerly as Bally’s rises along the river,” Johnson was quoted as saying.
Bally’s temporary casino at the historic Medinah Temple, 600 N. Wabash Ave., has fallen far short of city budget projections since opening last September.
Johnson has banked on $35 million this year in city casino tax revenue, earmarked for underfunded police and firefighter pensions. The city’s cut so far this year adds up to only about $8.2 million, according to Illinois Gaming Board records.
Kim told the editorial board they’re “still ramping” at the Medinah operation, and that projections of $200 million per year for the city from the permanent casino remain feasible.
“This is the temporary. Are we light in the temporary, and does that mean that, ipso facto, you’re gonna be light on the permanent? That’s not the way I would read that. That’s not even close,” Kim said. “We haven’t seen anything in this market that says we’re not as excited as we can be.”
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Kim said he’s “had nothing but a great relationship” with Johnson, and has “no doubt that we have nothing but support, that everyone’s behind us succeeding.”
“There are no winners in the city or state if we do not succeed,” said Kim, who suggested he has an open mind when it comes to the possibility of allowing video gaming at bars and restaurants in the city, a revenue option Johnson’s administration is exploring.
“I think under the right circumstances, it’s possible,” Kim said, noting a city video gaming ordinance would reopen negotiations on Bally’s host community agreement.
As for another controversial segment of the casino plan, Kim said Bally’s could install slot machines at Midway Airport within a year, as allowed under the state gambling expansion law passed in 2019 that authorized a Chicago casino.
“That one would be nice, as a way of introducing Chicago to our brand,” Kim said. “It’s not like it’s gonna make a ton of money, but it’s a nice little project.”
A rendering of the finished product was on display Tuesday as demolition of the Freedom Center began in River West. Bally’s plans to build a casino, hotel and other amenities at that site, 777 W. Chicago Ave.
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