Chapter 5 · Malebolgeone of the damnedCircle VIIIBeing built

Caiaphas

The high priest crucified to the ground, laid crosswise over the road of the sixth ditch.

The body the game gives to the damned, turning on itself: sixteen views rendered from the game itself. — Not a portrait of this one. The game gives almost every damned soul the same body, and this is it: what tells them apart is where they stand and what they do.

Disteso in croce per terra, nudo, con tre pali. Disse che conveniva che un uomo solo patisse per il popolo, e adesso sente il peso di chiunque passi, prima di tutti gli altri. I chiodi sono ancora dentro.

What the game says

Revealswhat can be done to Caiaphas, and what it costs.

Caiaphas said that it was fitting for one man to suffer for the people, and in the poem he lies crucified on the floor, naked, so that every cope walks over him and he feels the weight of each one before anybody else does. The game means it literally: his collider is set low on purpose, and four more of the council are pinned beside him in the same posture, laid from one bank to the other, so that nobody gets past without walking on somebody.

The three nails that hold him down can be drawn, and they are real iron. Each one costs a cry: pull a nail and every cope comes to the sound, and the sound comes from where you are standing. Three nails are three times. You can also go past without touching him, and nobody tells you so.

The numbers

What	How much
Nails you can draw	3
Nails each stake yields	8
Others of the council beside him	4

Caiaphas

The numbers

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