The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest
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Seasons Used	2 - 4
Layouts Used	X-XVI
Objective Completion	21
Temple Guard/Spirit Encounters	22
Artifacts Featured	Season 2; The Lost Love Letter of Captain John Smith; The Sacred Ring of Sultan Suleiman; The Missing Weather Maps of Charles Lindbergh; Season 3; The Upside-Down Compass of Henry Hudson; The Useless Map of the Chibcha Chieftain; The Mysterious Manuscript of Mary Shelley; The Mummified Hand of the Egyptian King; Season 4; The Maya Legend of the Hero Twins
Predecessor	The Tomb of the Ancient Kings
Adjoining Rooms	The Shrine of the Silver Monkey (All of Seasons 2 & 3); The Mine Shaft (All of Season 2); The Quicksand Bog (Season 3); The Swamp (Layouts X-XII); The Jester's Court (Layouts XIII-XV); The Pit of Despair (Layout XVI); The Queen's Armory (Layout XVI); The Ladder of Death (Layout XVI)

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The Dark Forest is a room with two trees that have arms and faces. The player must find the key in one of the trees' mouths. However, the spirit of a Temple Guard might inhabit the trees (which is actually a real person hidden inside one of the two trees, according to an interview with Michael Lupia), grabbing them with the tree's arms, players do have to be very careful in this room by the way, according to Olmec. The player may choose to avoid taking this chance and plow through the breakaway wall to The Mine Shaft (Season 2) or The Quicksand Bog (Season 3). The tree inhabited by a Temple Guard will either say, "Come here!" (the tree next to the Stone Wall) or "Got you!" (the tree next to the Gold Doors) when grabbing the contestant, his only lines were provided by Dee Bradley Baker.

For the CW version, the Dark Forest was retained but altered; regular Temple Guards appear instead of Temple Spirits, and instead of two trees you have to reach into in order to find a key to a door, it becomes an actual forest crowded with trees, bushes and ferns to hinder the contestants' movements and perception. The Stone Wall is retained but leads to The Ladder of Death that proceeds toward The Queen's Armory.