Pan’s Labyrinth features the second place. I swore to never re-watch this (beautiful) movie.
Lydia: “Oh a cave, wonder what’s inside!”
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
I am sworn to carry your burdens…
Zelda music starts playing in my head
Sintra is one of the best places I’ve visit in Europe. This, and the Palacio Nacional da Pena, were fantastic.
How the heck do they keep it from flooding?
Big sponge
Weird. Doesn’t look like the same place at all.
I’ve looked up pictures of the palace and the initiation well, but that tower is never in the well pictures.
This map shows what the top of the well looks like.
It’s not on the same grounds. In the same area of Sintra, Portugal but separate locations. The duck house is from the National palace and the well is from the Quinta de Regaleira.
They don’t. That’s not what it’s like. It’s just a big well in the ground.
Second pic is the accurate one. You go up the hill, walk in, then all the way down. Exit from there. It’s not surrounded by water.
Just to add to this - the first picture is an unnamed novelty duck house near the ground of Pena palace. It’s only a few feet high.
The second is the Torre da Regaleira.
duck house like chicken coop? i am having some moderate confusion i think
If a chicken coop didn’t have a lockable door, was on an island or raft in a body of water, and housed ducks instead of chickens, yeah.
Swims over
Looks down
“Well…”
That’s like an enchanted forest!
All I see is the tower making a surprised face.
I just know this is the 5th dungeon, and the 4th dungeon will reward me with something that will make me swim.
Oh my god this place looks so beautiful
Tower looks like it can’t think of anything to say.
I think I killed a Colossus down there once
How I imagined the tower looks like in Annihilation (novel).
Came to the comments to see if anyone else had the same thought… and then to spin it off into a discussion about Annihilation. One of the few instances where I love the movie and the book almost equally, and in big part because of their differences while still having the same foundation. Also have to mention that the story almost feels like a sequel/logical trajectory to my favorite Lovecraft story, The Colour Out of Space
Yes, Jeff Vandermeer directly cites it as an inspiration! https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/jeffvandermeer
OP, any explanation for that duck house you wanted us to believe was part of a templar ritual place?
it was the ritual of the noisy waterfowl
I can eat that anyway. Peephole it too.
I meant deep throat
It sank into the swamp?
Looks like it fell over, burnt down, then sank into the swamp
