Episode 341 - The Ballista Twins

Ok, time for a horrific battle with the Ballista Twins. We must all put our heads together to ensure that Skud is successful on dealing with these powerful foes. And maybe bone battle a little bit too but I am not sure what that even is…

## **Story**

### Long Story

So, here it is. The Ballista Twins stand (nude?) in the center of a bubbling pool in front of their home. Challenging our heroes to a fight. A Bone fight.

There's a loooooooong discussion about how best to proceed, seeing as how Skud doesn't have any cards. There are several ideas passed around, such as making Lahni and Rowan Polymorphing into the creatures that he would use to fight, and also Rowan casting *Summon Woodland Beings* to make pixies, and Skud's *Summon Lesser Demons*. Ultimately, it lands on Toby creating the illusion of Skud sending out his bone monsters, and in the confusion, Skud sends a *Chromatic Orb* right at their stupid faces. Also, Lahni blasts forward and steals the card in question, leaving them free to go ham on these mofos. Rowan gets unreasonably enraged at Bert Ballista, and utterly destroys him with a barrage of arrows, and Lahni runs forward and unleashes a barrage of fists on Becky, just obliterating her. To death.

After these murders, our "heroes" want to raid the mansion. Luckily, some retconning goes down, so Becky and Bert were not killed, but instead, go blasting off again. So it all turned out okay in the end.

### Short

The gang fights the Ballista Twins and destroy them. Figuratively speaking. They just go blasting off. But they get the card they needed, so yay!

## **Trivia**

* The Ballista Twins are wearing bathing suits

## **In This Episode...**

### **Cast and Player Characters**

* Michael DiMauro - *Dungeon Master*
* Tim Lanning - Toby Treacletart
* Jennifer Cheek - Rowan Grey
* Mike Bachmann - Skud Derringer
* Nika Howard - Lahnik "Lahni" Caplain

### **Non-Player Characters**

* The Ballista Twins
* Eckhart Dayhammer

### **Locations**

* The Elemental Plane of Fire
	+ The Volcano Base of The Ballista Twins

### **Quest Log Updates**

* [On-Hold] - Stop Tiamat!
* [Active] - Destroy The Orb!
	+ [Active] - Find the first missing piece
		- [Active] - Gain access to the Elite Forge
			* [Active] - Defeat the Master of the Air Plane
			* [Active] - Defeat the Master of the Earth Plane
			* [Active] - Defeat Lucious Incendous, the Master of the Fire Plane
			* [Active] - Defeat the Master of the Water Plane
				+ ~~[Complete] - Retrieve Dodge Grabbit's Bone Card from the Ballista Twins~~
				+ [NEW][Active] - Return the card to Dodge Grabbit
	+ [On-Hold] - Find the third missing piece
		- [On-Hold] - Investigate the final location
* [On-Hold] - Find Adira Harper
* [Backburner] - Find Lannie Caplain
	+ [On-Hold] - Investigate Galanthis
* [Active] - Find a way to pay back the Ferrim Pecunia bank of Pelor's Hope
* [Active][Jaeludra] - Investigate the Great Colosseum in Caer
* [Active][Jaeludra] - Investigate the Oracle's strange prophecies

### **Quotes**

**"Fuckin', ass piss! I rolled really bad..."** ~ *Jennifer Cheek, 2019*

## **Rolls**

* **Recap**
	+ **Tim - 19**
	+ Bachmann - 14
	+ Nika - 8
	+ Jennifer - 5