Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
One crossbow bolt, 1 of 100, sent to Katia by Princess Formidable of the Skull Empire: an ordinary bolt unless it is shot into the eye of a deity, whereupon the god's invulnerability pauses for fifteen seconds. Kept, unused.
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Opened in a Costa Rican saferoom (ch. 29); left in Katia's inventory while a god stands in a trainyard, because it would not have worked yet (ch. 34). Grull knows about it (ch. 33).