The Pit - The Armory

	Acidic Sponge Bolts Damage: 1-2 Crushing Special: 6 Acid Damage on Impact Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles The putty-like globes on the heads of these crossbow bolts are actually dried-up aquatic sponges found in many of the great lakes of Bytopia. Seemingly unremarkable to most scholars, these tiny sponges were accidentally discovered to have the property of being able to absorb acids and store them in their bodies with no harm to themselves. As a result, great masses of these creatures were gathered and bred for use as weapons against fiends in the Blood War. After being fed a steady diet of acid for a few days, the sponges are harvested, dried, and covered with a resin that keeps a soft bubble around the sponge. The sponge is then mounted on the head of an arrow or crossbow bolt and is ready for use. When the tip of the bolt strikes a creature with sufficient force, the resin bubble bursts, the sponge flattens, and the target is doused with acid.

	Bolts of Acheron Damage: 2-5 Crushing Enchanted: +1 Special: Causes Stunning THAC0: +1 Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles These enchanted bolts have been fashioned from one of the great cubes of Acheron. According to many planar scholars, Acheron is a plane in perpetual war with itself, where huge cubes the size of continents float through the ether and smash against each other. On the surface of these cubes, legions of soldiers wage war on each other, swarming from cube to cube and attacking whoever else they can find. The plane is filled with the ringing of steel and the great thundering impacts of the cubes striking each other. These bolts carry a portion of Acheron's heart within them. When these bolts strike an opponent, they do so with so much force that the impact has the potential to stun an opponent and leave him helpless for a period of time.

	Bolts of Kessek the Devourer (Minor Artifacts) Damage: 4-8 Piercing Enchanted: +2 THAC0: +4 Speed: 5 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles Also called "Kessek's Teeth", the head of these enchanted bolts are made of bone and have two long fangs curving out from the center. When one of these bolts strikes an opponent, the fangs take on a life of their own and begin eating their way slowly and painfully through the victim's body. According to legend, Kessek was a bariaur chieftain on the Outlands who was forced to watch his people starve during a winter storm in the Cleft of Tears many centuries ago. Trapped in the Cleft because of heavy snows, he sent scouts from his tribe out to seek aid from his neighbors, the province of Ohinru. Learning of the bariaurs' plight, the merchant princes of Ohinru saw an opportunity to wipe out the "nomadic pests" and claim their lands for their own. The bariaur scouts were executed and their heads mounted on the walls so that, "the vultures might feed while the bariaurs starved". When the storms cleared and more than half of his tribe had died of starvation, Kessek finally learned what had happened to his scouts. Consumed with an insane fire, he fashioned a sheaf of bolts from the teeth and bones of his people who had starved to death. Once he had finished, he traveled to Ohinru in the night and fired his bolts blindly in the city streets, the name of each bariaur that had died whispered on his lips as he released each shaft. Each bolt he fired twisted in flight, hungrily searching for a victim and each found one... then another, then another. The night was filled with the choked screams of the citizens of Ohinru as the devourers claimed their bodies. When dawn touched the city, the vultures fed again. No trace of Kessek could be found. The bolts of Kessek the Devourer can still be found scattered across the planes. It is said that for each victim the bolts claim, that another bolt is born... with the same hunger as the first.

	Bolts of Whistling Doom Damage: 4-16 Crushing Enchanted: +2 THAC0: +2 Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles These bolts have somehow captured the deadly harmonic of Pandemonium and then added insult to injury by imprisoning an enraged air elemental inside the head of the bolt. When one of these bolts strikes an opponent, the head shatters, and the air elemental is released. The elemental will whip around the opponent in a frenzy, making one strike before it vanishes.

	Bolts of Wincing Damage: 2-9 Piercing Enchanted: +1 Special: 2-9 Slashing Damage on Impact Increases Chance of Critical Hits THAC0: +1 Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missile These crotch-shaped bolts have been enchanted with one thing in mind: emasculation. When fired, they home in on the most vulnerable point on a victim's body, sink into the flesh, then the head of each bolt scissors outwards, making it nearly impossible to pull out and increasing the damage considerably. The name of the bolts comes from the reactions of spectators after the bolts are fired.

	Jagged Bolts Damage: 3-6 Piercing Enchanted: +1 THAC0: +1 Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles These enchanted bolts have a series of jagged black runes traved along the shaft. When fired, the runes rise upwards like spines, forming an additional row of vicious edges that tear into a target.

	Nordom's Crossbow Bolts Damage: 2-5 Piercing THAC0: +1 Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles Usable only by Nordom Nordom's crossbow bolts are created by his gear spirit crossbows. The exact process they use to create them is unknown, but there does seem to be an infinite supply of them... the gear spirits seem to be able to make as many as needed on demand. Whenever the crossbow strings are pulled back, a new crossbow bolt is there and ready to be fired. The bolts vanish after they strike an object or once they reach their maximum range, then they disintigrate. If they should strike a creature with metal armor, then the crossbow bolts will actually chip away at the metal, reducing the target's armor class. This seems to be a natural ability of the gear spirits.

	Rule-of-Three Crossbow Bolts Damage: 6-15 Piercing Special: Head Splits into Three on Impact Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles These crossbow bolts are the work of a twisted mechanical genius. Just beneath the head of each bolt is a small catch, that when pressed, unlocks the head of the bolt, allowing it to divide. From what you can tell, once the bolts are unlocked, the pyramid-shaped heads are carefully fashioned so that each one splits into three on impact. Each triangle-shaped fragment then tears a different route through the target's body, wreaking havok on his internal organs.

	Zephyr Bolts Damage: 2-5 Piercing Enchanted: +1 THAC0: +1 Speed: 10 Weight: 0 Proficiency: Missiles These crossbow bolts have heads with grooves cut into the sides. They do no more damage than normal crossbow bolts, but they bear a minor enchantment that allows them to correct their path in flight, making them more likely to hit an opponent.

Crossbow Bolts