Crystal Bolt

Version 0.31: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Projects a penetrating projectile with peculiar magical properties. It is randomly imbued with either fire or ice, and additionally will reflect from walls of any material due to the crystal embedded in the shot.

Crystal Bolt is a monster-only spell which launches an unusually reflectable bolt of fire or cold damage (50% chance of each). This bolt will bounce off of any surface, making multizaps a significant risk.

The following enemies cast Crystal Bolt:

• r Crystal echidna (3d21 damage)
• 9 Crystal guardian (3d25 damage)

History

• In 0.32, monsters will have Crystallizing Shot instead of this spell.
• Crystal Bolt was added in 0.14.