Motif · from book 3

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.

First appears: Book 3

Series arc

Through book 8

Donut fires Katia's bolt into Emberus's socket, and his invulnerability winks off for fifteen seconds (B8 ch. 96).

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
The Bolt of Ophiotaurus	B3 ch. 29	open · B8 ch. 96 — Donut fires Katia's Bolt of Ophiotaurus into Emberus's smouldering eye socket and a Danforth bolt into the other: 'The yellow invulnerability glow winked off. The god was now vulnerable for fifteen seconds.'

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 3

Princess Formidable's first gift to Katia: one crossbow bolt, 1 of 100, that pauses a deity's invulnerability for fifteen seconds if shot into its eye (B3 ch. 29). It stays in Katia's inventory through the Death Challenge — Grull could not be hurt on this floor, and the bolt was 'more about sending a message to her brother' (B3 ch. 34).

Through book 6

A dart into Uzzi (B6 ch. 0); a bolt into Ysalte's eye by Paz's hand, reusable (B6 ch. 69, B6 ch. 72).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	1/35	Ch. 29 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	2/74	Ch. 0, Ch. 72 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	1/99	Ch. 96 · the book's own page

By book

The Bolt of Ophiotaurus in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

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).

The Bolt of Ophiotaurus in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Dart of Ophiotaurus in Chaco's hand, into Uzzi, in the prologue (ch. 0); Katia's Bolt of Ophiotaurus into Ysalte's eye by Paz's hand, and the credit for the kill (ch. 69, ch. 72).

The Bolt of Ophiotaurus in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

Donut fires Katia's bolt into Emberus's socket, and his invulnerability winks off for fifteen seconds (ch. 96).