Up next is "Broken Trident of Poseidon."
Guards Encountered: NONE
Number of Unencountered Guards: 3
Rooms not Entered: Ledges, King's Storeroom, Chamber of the Sacred Markers, Ancient Warriors, **Dark Forest
Notes: Most people thought there was an alternate path that led from the Tomb of the Headless Kings to the rest of the central shaft, allowing guards to be stationed somewhere along that route. Some people believed they saw the right tree in the Dark Forest with its limb up, which may have suggested a guard was there.
My Thoughts: This is a very peculiar and baffling run. It is clear that at least one of the guards had to have been in the upper central shaft or Room of the Ancient Warriors, since the known accessible rooms to this team were the Ledges and Dark Forest, but that would only account for a maximum of two guards. The image below will hopefully narrow our choices of guard locations, courtesy video posted on youtube.com by ChargerTheWolf.
-- In the top left and top right photos, I have provided images of the Ledges from before the prize sequence and before the run began, respectively. As you can see, the room is pretty well-lit. I am not sure whether a guard would have been stationed here or not.
-- The bottom left photo shows that the only door that opened from the Pit of the Pendulum was to the Tomb of the Headless Kings. Since neither of the upper doors opened, this is not a simple case where the path split and the portion of the path with extra rooms held a guard. What is interesting to note is that there was a very unusual sound effect when the skull was placed on the correct skeleton in the Tomb of the Headless Kings. Perhaps both the Jesters' Court and Chamber opened?
-- As you can see from the bottom right photo, when Kimberly was exiting the temple, the cover went up in the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. While there was a very long time gap between when Kimberly grabbed the artifact and when they showed that door, I don't think a guard would have been stationed in the room. The only was this team would have had access to the Chamber was from the Tomb of the Headless Kings. Since the Chamber probably would have only led up to the King's Storeroom, the guard would have been located behind the cover. The only time the guard was stationed in the side door was when the cover failed to go up, or when the team was descending from the King's Storeroom.
-- Kimberly did not try either tree in the Dark Forest, but my gut instinct is telling me that one of them probably held a guard.
To summarize, I think that there was a guard in the Dark Forest, but none in the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. The Ledges seem like a likely place to hold guard, but the lighting tells a different story. The final guard had to be in the King's Storeroom or Ancient Warriors, but I am not sure how either room would have been accessed or which room seems more likely to have held the final guard (or perhaps both of those rooms held a guard, and the Ledges was clear?).