THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Dirty Little Phased Bolt

First seen: Book 3, Chapter 22

Crossbow ammunition Carl pulls out of Katia's shoulder after Hekla shoots her with it, mixed in among ordinary arrows. A Phased item: invisible, and undetectable except by touch. Per its own tooltip, built for a crossbow assassin, it stacks Temporary Amnesia and Suffering Bleed onto its target, draining them down to 10% health on the first hit and 1% on a second; a victim who then dies gets logged as dying from an alternate cause, denying the shooter's target both experience credit and, if the victim is a fellow crawler, a Crawler Killer skull. Carl pulls two out of Katia; the second comes out with a splintered, broken shaft.

Consumable

Connections

Hekla:

Fires at least two of these into Katia's shoulder, mixed in among ordinary arrows, over the course of the station 101 runB3C22

Katia Grim:

Struck twice in the shoulder without any visible wound; the bolts are only found once Carl physically gropes for them at Donut's directionB3C22

History by chapter
Book 3
Chapter 22
  • TAG Consumable: Invisible crossbow ammunition built for a discerning assassin: drains a victim to 10% health on the first hit, 1% on a second, and hides the shooter's own credit for any resulting death
  • RELATIONSHIP Hekla: Fires at least two of these into Katia's shoulder, mixed in among ordinary arrows, over the course of the station 101 run
  • RELATIONSHIP Katia Grim: Struck twice in the shoulder without any visible wound; the bolts are only found once Carl physically gropes for them at Donut's direction