A Test of Faith

A Test of Faith is a Stranger mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. The quest becomes available during Chapter 2.

Story[]

Deborah MacGuiness introduces herself as a leading amateur paleontologist in the nation. She vents that no university will hire her and have rejected her theories. She tells the protagonist about her career of gathering dinosaur bones. After partially excavating a large hip bone, she offers a reward for finding dinosaur bones throughout the world.

Walkthrough[]

There are a total of 30 Dinosaur Bones that can be found throughout the world.

Rewards[]

1 location mailed in: Quartz Chunk
15 locations mailed in: Skull Statue
30 locations mailed in: Invitation from Deborah MacGuiness and Jawbone Knife

Gallery[]

Video Walkthrough[]

Trivia[]

RDR2-DinosaurBonesMap — Map location of all 30 Dinosaur bones

Because many dinosaur bones are in the regions which cannot be accessed by Arthur Morgan, only John Marston is able to complete the mission.
Arthur can collect bones in New Austin through a glitch or exploit, upon returning to Deborah, the ensuing dialogue suggests that the mission was originally able to be completed by Arthur.
Although Deborah asks for dinosaur bones, several bones that the protagonist finds do not belong to dinosaurs.
This mission parodies early depictions of dinosaurs such as Richard Owen's Megalosaurus or Gideon Mantell's Iguanodon.
If the player collects dinosaur bone locations before meeting Deborah, additional dialogue is added to the cutscene.
The last dinosaur bone location will not be available for inspection and will not be highlighted in "Eagle Eye" if the first part of the mission isn't completed.
Once inspected, the dinosaur bones will disappear off their locations.
There is a newspaper article about Deborah in the first newspaper titled 'A Search for Ancient Bones'. Her last name (from the caption text) is misspelled in the article.
If Arthur or John visits Firwood Rise prior to finding all 30 bones and receiving the invitation, Deborah can be heard laughing maniacally inside the barn.