Items
What you carry, what you make out of it, and what it is worth. Nothing here is a reward: it is all either a tool or a toll.
1The Dark Wood13 entries
- Unstrung bowkeyGood bow wood, and with no string it does not shoot.
- Strung bowweaponThe bow assembled: held in the right hand, one arrow a shot.
- The noosekeyA hangman’s rope hanging from a branch, too high for hands.
- Hemp ropekeyTwenty arm lengths of hemp, the kind worn round the waist.
- ArrowammunitionThe only ammunition in the game you go back for.
- The lamptoolThe only light you have down here, and it lives in your left hand.
- Flask of oilconsumableTwo minutes of flame, to be poured into the lamp.
- Dead branchmaterialDead wood picked up off the floor of the wood.
- Resin tearmaterialA hardened drop, run down the bark of a trunk.
- The pursekeyA worn leather purse, taken off the third beast.
- Flint shardmaterialA shard of hard stone, sharp along its edges.
- The notebookjournalThe journal you hold: where you are going, whom you are carrying out, what you have been asked.
- TorchconsumableA flame held in the right hand, and one you can throw.
2The Gate and the Antehell4 entries
- Lead beadammunitionRosary beads recast in lead: the Miserere’s ammunition.
- The banner’s ragmaterialThe rag torn from the banner the rank of the neutrals chases without rest.
- MiserereweaponA censer with a barrel inside its body, loaded with ground consecrated matter.
- The dead man’s obolkeyThe coin they had put under his tongue, and the only one in the whole game.
3Incontinence3 entries
4The Walls of Dis1 entry
5Malebolge6 entries
- The candleweapon · Being builtA flame shut inside a candle: it burns, and it burns the lamp’s oil.
- The unlit candlekey · Being builtA paschal candle set into the stone, and there is nothing down here to light it with.
- Nailammunition · Being builtWrought iron with a broad head: the strongest consecrated matter to be found down here.
- Alloy nailammunition · Being builtThe nail cast with three carats of dross, and sometimes it does not fire.
- Gold from the holesmaterial · Being builtThe gold poured into the stone above those who sold the things of God.
- Ribaldoweapon · Being builtSeven barrels on a frame, and one volley sweeps a whole rank.