Chapter 2: Infernal Place – Uncharted 4
The air is thick with the scent of damp earth and rusted metal as Nathan Drake pushes through the dense overgrowth of the Panamanian jungle. The oppressive humidity clings to his skin, mixing with the sweat from the relentless tropical heat. Above, the canopy filters the sunlight into jagged shards, casting eerie shadows across the crumbling ruins of an old Spanish prison—now a decaying fortress reclaimed by nature.
The ground beneath him is uneven, littered with broken stone and the skeletal remains of forgotten convicts. The walls of the prison, once imposing, now sag under the weight of centuries, their surfaces choked with vines and creeping moss. Every step echoes slightly, the sound swallowed by the oppressive silence—only the distant screech of unseen birds and the skittering of lizards remind him he’s not entirely alone.
As he moves deeper, the remnants of past violence become more apparent—rotted wooden gallows, rusted manacles still clinging to the walls, and the occasional glint of a bullet casing, a relic from more recent conflicts. The air feels heavier here, as if the ghosts of the damned still linger, whispering warnings in the creaking of old beams and the groan of shifting stone.
Then—the descent. A gaping hole in the floor leads down into utter blackness. The rope in Nate’s grip is rough against his palms as he rappels into the abyss, the temperature dropping sharply as he leaves the sun behind. The only light now comes from his flashlight, cutting through the darkness like a blade, revealing ancient cells where men were left to rot.
And then—the fire.
A sudden explosion of orange and red as a Molotov cocktail shatters nearby, engulfing the chamber in violent, flickering light. Heat washes over him, the flames licking at the wooden debris, casting monstrous, dancing shadows on the walls. The smell of gasoline and burning wood fills his lungs as gunfire erupts—muzzle flashes cutting through the smoke.
This is no longer just an exploration—it’s a fight for survival in an infernal place, where the past and present collide in a storm of fire and blood.
The air is thick with the scent of damp earth and rusted metal as Nathan Drake pushes through the dense overgrowth of the Panamanian jungle. The oppressive humidity clings to his skin, mixing with the sweat from the relentless tropical heat. Above, the canopy filters the sunlight into jagged shards, casting eerie shadows across the crumbling ruins of an old Spanish prison—now a decaying fortress reclaimed by nature.
The ground beneath him is uneven, littered with broken stone and the skeletal remains of forgotten convicts. The walls of the prison, once imposing, now sag under the weight of centuries, their surfaces choked with vines and creeping moss. Every step echoes slightly, the sound swallowed by the oppressive silence—only the distant screech of unseen birds and the skittering of lizards remind him he’s not entirely alone.
As he moves deeper, the remnants of past violence become more apparent—rotted wooden gallows, rusted manacles still clinging to the walls, and the occasional glint of a bullet casing, a relic from more recent conflicts. The air feels heavier here, as if the ghosts of the damned still linger, whispering warnings in the creaking of old beams and the groan of shifting stone.
Then—the descent. A gaping hole in the floor leads down into utter blackness. The rope in Nate’s grip is rough against his palms as he rappels into the abyss, the temperature dropping sharply as he leaves the sun behind. The only light now comes from his flashlight, cutting through the darkness like a blade, revealing ancient cells where men were left to rot.
And then—the fire.
A sudden explosion of orange and red as a Molotov cocktail shatters nearby, engulfing the chamber in violent, flickering light. Heat washes over him, the flames licking at the wooden debris, casting monstrous, dancing shadows on the walls. The smell of gasoline and burning wood fills his lungs as gunfire erupts—muzzle flashes cutting through the smoke.
This is no longer just an exploration—it’s a fight for survival in an infernal place, where the past and present collide in a storm of fire and blood.
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00:00All right, calm a day
00:14Cool pop in the hole. Yeah any chance I can take a shower
00:23Morning boys, or is it evening? It's hard to tell down here. Oh you do that get up the stairs
00:31It is alien de un prisionero
00:41Hey nice to see you
00:50Right humid
00:53Welcome to Panama. Hey gringo. He'll okay. Sista. I Gustavo. Thank you. Yo que tiene tu nombre amigo
01:01Vargas cuando regresa. Dejanos la nosotros nos encargamos de él muevan say kittens a cabrones
01:09Thank you Lisa. It looks like you have some fans. Yeah, my adoring public
01:20Go
01:22I
01:25Don't know yes, it's not so pressure
01:32Divierte they do speak a little Spanish, you know, wait, what did you say? I'll find out soon enough
01:52I
02:22I
02:30Betty
02:39Get a mirando a de amigo atrás de este me encargo yo bien
02:53Oh
02:58Were you taking me anyway, you'll see
03:15After you
03:19Yeah, this isn't sketchy at all
03:23Hey, you know, this doesn't look like the warden's office go left
03:31Yes, sir
03:37Through there
03:44Through here
03:53I
03:55Here we are
03:58All right
04:00Hey take these cuffs off or what I want in
04:05In whatever you hope to find up there I want in
04:10My Marcus the deal was just to get us in and out of here. That's it. Just
04:14I'm sticking my neck out for you gringos. Yeah, and Rafe is paying you a lot of money for your trouble. See
04:23But not nearly enough you were told not to open that yes
04:26I was also told not to take bribes not to bring anyone here and not to beat on my inmates
04:32But here we are
04:35Just be careful with that. It's 300 years old. I
04:42Was a member of Captain Henry Avery's crew, you know who that is
04:46He was a pirate the pirate who pulled up the biggest heist in history and got away with it
04:53I looked him up. It's great over four hundred million dollars worth of gold and jewels all for one single ship
05:01The guns way, yeah, I'm familiar with the story. Can you get to the point?
05:07I occupied the highest cell in a Spaniards prison here
05:11I hope someday you will find your way into this infernal place bear my cross and discover the riches of
05:19paradise
05:23What do you want the riches of paradise
05:27It's a metaphor. No, no, no, no, no, no
05:30You and your friends did not pay to get into this infernal place in search of a metaphor. I want in
05:37Tell you what, let me go up there check out the prison cell if there's still anything there after 300 years
05:42You can take this up with Rafe. Come on
05:53Letter
05:55Por favor
05:59How you gonna get up there anyways
06:01Climb. Oh
06:03Unless of course you want to do it since you want in and all
06:06Just don't break your neck
06:09That's the plan
06:12Hey, did you bring what I asked? Yeah, he did just over there under the work table by the crates great. Thanks
06:22Oh
06:38All right, let's do that again
06:52Yeah, there you go piece of cake
07:23You
07:30Bingo now we're in business
07:43All right, this should do the trick
07:52And
08:00There's the prison cell, how do I get up there here we go
08:22Yeah
08:45Looks like I can slide down there look on that post
08:53I
09:02Till Sam here's about this
09:11Onward and upward
09:23Yeah
09:41Now gotta find the highest cell
09:53I
09:59He's burns at a nice view before he was executed
10:22Yeah
10:39Hard to believe there were dozens of pirates holed up in here just okay, where to
10:53I
10:55Gotta find a way up. You can barely believe this place is still standing Spanish sure knew how to build a sturdy prison
11:13Yeesh I thought the modern prison was bad
11:22I
11:41Not gonna lie, this is pretty awesome
11:53Oh
11:59Man Sam is missing out
12:12Here we go burns his cell
12:16Cell like a sweet
12:19Okay, where to begin
12:24Sun and moon alchemy symbols for gold and silver
12:29Wait a sec. I saw something like this on the letter
12:35Huh, well that's part of the symbol
12:41Ah, there's the other half now then
12:44There's the other half now then
12:53That's more like it, okay got a zodiac symbol Sagittarius and the Scorpio sign
13:01Oh
13:13These squiggles and scratches must mean something
13:18Hmm Roman numeral 10
13:22Nothing
13:25What did that letter say again
13:31I
13:41Ten and two X and I I
14:02I
14:04Didn't know fact is I keep you most
14:15Yes, this is it time to head back
14:27Come on
14:31Oh gotta watch that first step
14:46Down we go, huh? Now what?
15:01Oh
15:14Careful
15:25One more time
15:31See Rafe do that
15:42Goes my shoulder
15:44Oh
15:56There's Vargas I want a cut I want in
16:14Crack no, no
16:21Baby
16:39Now we're talking
16:44Oh
17:09You made it what you find
17:13Drake
17:17What
17:19Place was picked clean
17:21There's a clue hidden up there somewhere. I couldn't find it. Are you sure what you're looking in the right place?
17:25Maybe I just I missed something in the letter. It could have been another tower that collapsed centuries ago
17:35There are any plants at this place, you know like blueprints
17:38Oh
17:39Could be there's a bunch of old files. Okay, great. Great. Go look through those. Okay, see what you can dig up
17:45Meanwhile, I'll talk to Sam. He's our Avery expert. Maybe he can make sense of this whole mess
17:51Right. I look to the files. Yeah, turn around
17:53Yeah
18:06You're done talking to him come and find me you got it
18:12Gringo if I catch you fighting one more time one week in the hole for you
18:19Nice
18:22I was as good as mine
18:30This year it's better than the principality
18:37Los Santos Chico's thing. Okay. I don't think I was going to study on and over at the end
18:43Ah
18:46Jesus they weren't you will forgive you. All right. Yeah, just another day at the office. Come on. Hey, whoa
18:52Whoa, you're gonna keep me in suspense. Are you?
18:56You were right
18:58No, we were right. Yeah, we just got to find Rafe and I'm Rafe don't don't start please
19:04Come on, like you said we did this you and me
19:09Now this rich asshole comes in on the tail end how long we've been trying to get in here
19:14We had some leads. No, we didn't. Okay, not one. So like it or not
19:19No, Rafe, no Vargas and no getting in here speaking of Vargas. We got a problem. What kind of problem?
19:27Did he let you into the old prison? Yeah. Yeah, he did after he read the letter
19:32Hmm
19:35Hmm so how much does he know enough that he wants a cut shit
19:41Rafe if anybody else finds out about this, I'll work it out with Vargas. Don't sweat it right now
19:46Let's just let's get on to more important matters
19:49Let's find somewhere a little more private
20:02All right, coast is clear, okay, so what do we got?
20:08Whoa
20:11Hey, man
20:16Just be careful, okay
20:22Wood with gold and silver inlay it's well made
20:27It's hollow
20:30Why would one of Avery's men go through the trouble of hiding a cheap crucifix, it's not a crucifix
20:37Technically a crucifix is a representation of Jesus
20:40It's not Jesus. No, you're right. There's no crown of thorns. He's tied to the cross. Well, it's not Jesus read the inscription
20:51Dignifactus
20:53reciprocal
20:54We receive we receive the due rewards of our deeds
20:59Okay, you know, there's a benefit of growing up in a Catholic orphanage
21:04That's st. Dismas. Yeah penitent thief
21:07What's the connection?
21:09Guys, let's just pretend I skipped all of Sunday's school. Okay during the crucifixion
21:15Jesus is placed between two thieves. Okay, one of them mocked Jesus the other one this guy was penitent
21:23He accepted his punishment with grace and Jesus brought him to paradise
21:28Penitent thief. Yeah
21:34What
21:36You figured it out there is a Cathedral of st. Dismas in Scotland
21:43Wait, the last sighting of Avery was in Scotland. It can't be a coincidence
21:49You know, I had my doubts about you too, but let's find Vargas get the hell out of the shuttle
21:57Oh
22:01Let me guess this is the guy you picked a fight with
22:06You know, it's so many friends
22:08Did he can I almost terminal Mira? No, it's gonna stay. Okay. I'm tired. But a lot
22:14You know Sally's you know, why don't let the metas? Okay
22:27Later when it's not just
22:57Let's make this quick so we can get out of here
23:27Oh
23:57Oh
24:27Regla's alien say
24:36Yes, it's tall Tommy
24:42Are you bringing in contraband Vargas? I got a who do you think you are?
24:47Diablo Susanna
24:49There are those gringos in your piscina
24:57Oh
25:04Dejanos Dejanos
25:18Took you long enough. We almost got killed, you know, you still might
25:24Vargas seriously
25:28Oh, I didn't find anything. It must be in a different tower
25:33well
25:36How can I say I was raised Catholic I always carry one
25:41Hey, look, it's worthless. All right, you think I'm an idiot? Okay, you want to renegotiate fine? Stop acting like a third-world thug
25:49Put the gun away
25:52Oh
25:56Thank you, we're willing to give you a 10%
26:04Think half we're doing most of the work 20 and you'd never find it without us
26:1425 equals
26:1725
26:20That's not fair guys
26:25Suppose I can live with that. Yeah. Sure. Maybe 400 million divides nicely by four
26:33Looks like we have a deal. Yes, we have a deal
26:38And if you ever cross me
26:46Oh
26:50Jesus that's that are you out of your goddamn mind you want to find out?
26:56Guys what are we doing here? We're sticking to the plan. Was this part of the plan? Let's follow me
27:03Come on, come on
27:07God damn it Rafe. Where are we going here the lighthouse?
27:10Vargas said the boat is right under the lighthouse
27:13Which way I don't know get outside and figure it out
27:18Shit dead end
27:20the window
27:22Hurry up
27:30Don't see the lighthouse
27:38See the lighthouse right now, let's just get away from the cars
27:43Oh
27:57Crap
27:59Oh
28:11Right behind you keep going
28:14Damn it
28:25Shit another dead end the fire escape Nathan get me out there. Come on Sam ready
28:39Let's go yeah after you
28:43Oh
29:03Seriously
29:13Oh
29:17Sorry, we need to catch up with right quickly you thought you trusted him I do what point
29:35He's gonna leave without us isn't not if we're quick come on after you
29:44Oh
29:49They're everywhere
29:51Okay, looks clear
29:54Dammit, this place is like a maze. Yeah, it's like they don't want us to leave or something after this
30:00Guard
30:05See it
30:08Oh
30:10There's the lighthouse I said stick to the plan celebrate yet
30:28There's the lighthouse I said stick to the plan don't celebrate yet
30:38Oh
30:46There it is
31:01Hell on me get to the wall now
31:07Oh
31:29No, no you hold on
31:38Oh
31:46We gotta move still down there no, he's gone. Come on the boats just beyond the wall
31:52No, no, I can't. I can't can't leave mine Nate. Your brother is dead either come with me or join him
32:00Have it your way
32:07Oh
32:11God no
32:19Okay, gotta get out
32:37I