Chapter 5 · Malebolgeone of the damnedCircle VIIIBeing built

The Rabid

The impersonators of the tenth ditch, the only ones down there who run and bite.

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.

Un falsario di persona: prese la faccia di un altro per firmare un testamento. Adesso corre e morde chiunque, e non riconosce nessuno.

What the game says

The tenth ditch is four diseases and nobody who gets up: the alchemists lie there scratching, the dropsical do not move, the fevered steam. Only the falsifiers of persons run, and they run in bursts because they are ill: four point four metres a second for one point one seconds, then a second and a half at a standstill, so they fall behind and come back, and running straight does not shake them off.

They bite at one metre seventy and each works twenty-four degrees of ditch to either side, and they do not leave it. They are the last crowd before the well, and they are there for a reason the code states outright: so that you reach it with little left to shoot.

The numbers

WhatHow much
Speed of the burst4.4 m/s
Length of the burst1.1 s
Rest between bursts1.5 s
Range of the bite1.7 m
Stretch each one works24 degrees a side

Links

Found in
The Tenth Ditch, the Falsifiers
See also
Master Adam
Named by
The Tenth Ditch, the Falsifiers

Planned, and it may never reach the finished game.

As it stood on 19 September 2026.