the straight-from-canon version is basically the same shadow-wise except instead of berating him about killing people in ryslig it alludes more to his sudden slide into WELL THIS SEEMS REASONABLE re: infernal tokyo and his general blind acceptance of chaos shit. it also gives him more shit about not having any fucking clue what he was doing after flouncing mikado, and about taking up lilith's mission and everything else to make himself feel important instead of actually bettering people, which makes him just about as pretentious as the people he hates.

the setting is also different because the ryslig version has an aspect of wanting to show people the things he's seen so that they'll understand his disillusionment. the canon version is...i need to think about this.

a jacked-up version of what looks, architecturally, like a buddhist temple, except with weirdly aggressive imagery and statues of snarling demons. a lot like tsukiji-hongwanji as walter remembers it. the "educational" narrative, rather than being a "documentary", is framed like a "journey to enlightenment", with the narration on each descending level becoming increasingly dark "revelations". intruders are coaxed to go further and further underground in search of greater meaning that will shatter their lesser selves and free them to a higher state of being, and berated for cowardice if they leave and return.

walter's shadow is dressed in the altered monk's garb of a gaean acolyte, and when he appears in person to set shadows on intruders, he carries a candle.