One Shot Mondays

"One Shot Mondays" are a series of one shots posted on the main Thornvale Podcast feed that use systems other than Monster of the Week and sometimes feature guests from other podcasts.

One Shot Mondays include Fractured Futures, Florida Borealis, Betrayal Experiment, Overshadow, WestWeird, Suddenly, BEAR, and Tomb of the Giant.

## Fractured Futures

Fractured Futures is a 10-episode series run by Hannah Gallaher using the Masks system. Three teens find themselves responsible for the fate of the universe. Susannah Lewis plays Sierra, Andrew Lewis plays Jonas, and Wesley Bryan plays Martin.

**Episode 1 - Welcome to Nowhere**

Date Published: January 20, 2020

Description: Welcome to something new! Fractured Futures is a Masks one shot run by Hannah, featuring all new super hero characters played by Susannah, Andrew, and Wesley. In this episode our heroes meet each other for the first time... Well, sort of.

**Episode 2 - Strange New World**

Date Published: January 27, 2020

Description: Our young heroes struggle to get to know and get used to each other. The other-worlders begin to access strange new powers as they learn about the alien threat menacing this world.

**Episode 3 - Into the S.T.R.O.N.G.H.O.L.D.**

Date Published: February 3, 2020

Description: Our young heroes clash with the alien threat and also with each other. Later, they enter the League of Defense S.T.R.O.N.G.H.O.L.D. for the first time.

**Episode 4 - Training Montage**

Date Published: February 10, 2020

Description: It's time for a training montage! And then maybe some emotional role playing.

**Episode 5 - Investigations**

Date Published: February 17, 2020

Description: It's time for Jonas to meet his alternate reality family. Sierra struggles to handle investigating her boyfriend's murder scene. Martin... is a mouse.

**Episode 6 - Bad News**

Date Published: February 24, 2020

Description: The young heroes continue their investigation. Jonas and Martin have some uncomfortable conversations with Jonas' alternate reality family, and Sierra Hulk-smashes her way into even more bad news.

**Episode 7 - Rooftop Access**

Date Published: March 2, 2020

Description: Sierra tells the boys her backstory. Then, the young heroes take a trip to the Aprexagen headquarters to have a "chat" with the head scientist.

**Episode 8 - Revelations and Secrets**

Date Published: March 9, 2020

Description: The young heroes make their way to the director of the League of Defense to find out once and for all if he is partially to blame for the assassinations... and what they will do to him if he is.

**Episode 9 - What to Do With B'shara**

Date Published: March 17, 2020

Description: It's time to decide what to do with B'shara. The team is evenly split on whether or not she should become a pancake on the sidewalk outside of the S.T.R.O.N.G.H.O.L.D. building. It's a tough call, but a decision must be made before they can move forward with their other plans.

**Episode 10 - Final Goodbyes?**

Date Published: March 23, 2020

Description: It's time for the thrilling and heartfelt conclusion of Fractured Futures. Can our young heroes stop an alien invasion? Will the outworlders make it home? Will they even want to? Find out now!

## Florida Borealis

Florida Borealis is a 2-episode series run by Susannah and uses the Monster of the Week system. This one shot features the entire cast of the Horror Borealis podcast. This series is set in the world of Thornvale, but in the 1980's and features Wesley as Stanley, Andrew as Miguel, and Hannah as Lucy.

**Part 1 - Brave New World**

Date Published: April 20, 2020

Description: Welcome to the part one of our two-episode crossover with our friends from the Monster of the Week show, A Horror Borealis. In this episode, it's all confusion, mayhem, and clashing personalities as the Revenant, AK crew touches down in Thornvale.

**Part 2 - Homeward Bound**

Date Published: April 27, 2020

Description: Our visitors from another dimension need a way to get home, and they may have found it. Now how to get it to help?

## Betrayal Experiment

The Betrayal Experiment is a unique one shot that features Susannah running a game using the Monster of the Week system and the Betrayal at House on the Hill board game.

**Part 1 - Exploration**

Date Published: May 18, 2020

Description: Welcome to our creepiest One Shot Monday miniseries yet. Listen as Keeper Susannah runs a group of podcast friends through an experimental Betrayal at House on the Hill/Monster of the Week mashup. Together, they can break both games at one time!

**Part 2 - The Haunt**

Date Published: May 25, 2020

Description: Keeper Susannah leads her podcast friends through the thrilling haunt and conclusion of their experimental Betrayal at House on the Hill/MotW crossover. Will the traitor kill them all? Find out now!

## Overshadow

Overshadow is a 7-episode series run by Andrew that uses the Shadowrun system. With special guest Nikki Richardson from the Top of the Round podcast, Susannah, Wesley, and Hannah play a group of veteran shadowrunners trying to fulfill a mysterious contract. Nikki plays Ero, Susannah plays Fluke, Wesley plays Lucian, and Hannah plays Zarah.

**Episode 1 - Meet Mr. Johnson**

Date Published: June 15, 2020

Description: Welcome to Seattle, year 2080. It's a world of magic, crime, and corporate overlords. This is where we come in. We're the Shadowrunners, a group of the dispossessed, the delinquents, and the dangerous. We've been asked to extract a scientist from Kestrel Industries. To say that we're down for it is an understatement.

**Episode 2 - Facts and Furious**

Date Published: June 22, 2020

Description: The shadowrunners hit the streets to gain some information from their various and... interesting contacts.

**Episode 3 - The Pink Pickle**

Date Published: June 29, 2020

Description: The Shadowrunners are ready to find out some more info, and our players are ready to make Andrew even more uncomfortable. Then, Zarah and Ero start a stakeout!

**Episode 4 - Fighting Spirit**

Date Published: July 6, 2020

Description: Ero and Zarah fight a spirit. Then, Fluke takes a trip into the Matrix to check out the inside of the target building. He finds out some... interesting information.

**Episode 5 - Infiltration**

Date Published: July 13, 2020

Description: The shadowrunners make their way into the meatpacking plant. Fluke works some more technomancy wizardry, and Zarah befuddles some guards.

**Episode 6 - In a Flash**

Date Published: July 20, 2020

Description: The shadowrunners make their way into the Kestrel plant and track down their target. Along they way, they discover more about the corp, and more details are reveals about their past lives.

**Episode 7 - Project A.L.P.H.A.**

Date Published: July 27, 2020

Description: In this crazy finale of Overshadow, the shadowrunners discover the true nature of Project ALPHA and quickly find out that it may be far more than they can handle.

## WestWeird

WestWeird is a 10-epsiode series run by Susannah using the Savage Worlds - Deadlands: Reloaded system. With special guest Mike, from the Tales of Asperran podcast, a group of criminals are recruited to fetch the town's sheriff from a dangerous place. Mike plays Wallace, Andrew plays Everett, Wesley plays William, and Hannah plays Mary Jo.

**Episode 1 - Rustriver Rumble**

Date Published: August 24, 2020

Description: It's time to meet a whole new group of... heroes? Jump into the gritty, dusty world of Deadlands: Reloaded, and say hello to a group of degenerates who are about to break out of jail and right into the jaws of danger.

**Episode 2 - A Proposition**

Date Published: August 31, 2020

Description: The acting sheriff in Rustriver has a proposition for our group of outlaws. If they succeed, they gain their freedom. If not… well, the desert has claimed many who wander into it. What’s a few more?

**Episode 3 - Guts and Gory**

Date Published: September 7, 2020

Description: Our group of dangerous vagabonds have been ambushed by even more dangerous vagabonds. It's time for Keeper Susannah to break out the good rolls for this fight. Can the PCs survive it?

**Episode 4 - Midnight Musings**

Date Published: September 14, 2020

Description: After a narrow victory over the bandits who ambushed them, the newly-formed team beds down for the night. Wallace and Cameron have an important conversation. Everett and Mary Jo have a... strange one.

**Episode 5 - The Rattler**

Date Published: September 21, 2020

Description: Out of the fire and into the inferno. Our group of outlaws was enjoying a well-deserved rest when they were attacked by a Rattler, a beast so dangerous no one knows it looks like. It doesn't leave survivors.

**Episode 6 - Mama Take Care of You**

Date Published: September 28, 2020

Description: Our renegades are beaten and bruised and badly in need of medical assistance. They might find it in an unlikely place.

**Episode 7 - A Bad Deal**

Date Published: October 5, 2020

Description: Mary Jo runs into a very angry former poker opponent. Chaos ensues.

**Episode 8 - Cat Call**

Date Published: October 12, 2020

Description: After dealing with the fallout of the deadly bar brawl, our renegades move along towards The Maze. Along the way, they encounter yet another of the scrubland's terrifying abominations.

**Episode 9 - Into the Furness**

Date Published: October 19, 2020

Description: Our outlaws make their way into the Maze and to the town of Furness. Along the way, Everett and William have a tense conversation. Then, they arrive in town and discover quite the surprise.

**Episode 10 - A Choice**

Date Published: October 26, 2020

Description: Everett is confronted by the tracker and suddenly has a very powerful choice to make that could change the entire direction of the game.

**Episode 11 - No Rest for the Wicked**

Date Published: November 2, 2020

Description: Mary Jo makes a desperate plea to save Everett's life. Then, it's time to confront Acting Sheriff Abby. But our renegades quickly discover that it may already be too late.

## Suddenly, BEAR

Suddenly, BEAR is a two part series run by guest GM Will using the Honey Heist system. Susannah, Andrew, Wesley, and Hannah all play bears and only use two stats, CRIMINAL and BEAR.

**Part 1**

Date Published: November 23, 2020

Description: It's time for a new one shot. This time, we're playing the amazingly hilarious one page TTRPG Honey Heist. In this episode, characters are made, children are threatened (poorly), and chaos ensues.

**Part 2**

Date Published: December 7, 2020

Description: In part two of this Honey Heist play through, we actually get around to heisting some honey!

## Tomb of the Giant

Tomb of the Giant, typically shortened to just Tombs, is a 10-episode series run by Hannah using the Urban Shadows system. In a city called Nazierto, settled by the Nazca Lines in Peru, the group must figure out the mystery behind why the lines are glowing and a mysterious tomb entrance. Susannah plays Ashera, Andrew plays Benjamin, and Wesley plays Cyrus.

**Episode 1 - Nazierto**

Date Published: December 21, 2020

Description: Welcome to a new Urban Shadows adventure, where dreams and visions pull different factions together to investigate a mysterious gate in a strange city.

**Episode 2 - Webbed Up**

Date Published: January 4, 2021

Description: The Reaper is in danger of being a spider's snack. Ashera tries to help by... talking. And Ben hides.

**Episode 3 - Calling on the Wizard**

Date Published: January 18, 2021

Description: Ben is reluctant to open the tomb, and Ashera agrees that they need more information. Along with the Reaper, they call upon a contact of Ashera's, a wizard she seems to have a complicated relationship with.

**Episode 4 - Following the Leads**

Date Published: February 1, 2021

Description: Ashera thinks she knows how to open the rest of the rings of the gate. Cyrus has a lead on his end, and goes off on his own to pursue it. Ashera and Ben pick up their wizard friend and go their own way.

**Episode 5 - Silver Stranger Sit In**

Date Published: February 15, 2021

Description: Ashera simply walks into Night territory and... waits. Ben does his own research. And Cyrus irritates his captors.

**Episode 6 - Bad Moon Rising**

Date Published: March 1, 2021

Description: Ashera and Benjamin decide what to do about the Reaper... sort of. Then they go to visit the great tree to try to understand what's going on.

**Episode 7 - Showtime**

Date Published: March 15, 2021

Description: It's time for the trial of the Reaper! With Ashera having no interest in helping out, Cyrus' only hope lies in... Ben.

**Episode 8 - Placing the Pieces**

Date Published: March 29, 2021

Description: The group splits up again with Cyrus running to warn his roommate. Ben chauffeurs Ashera and crew to the Tomb, while discussing whether or not to open it.

**Episode 9 - The Giant**

Date Published: April 12, 2021

Description: It is finally time to enter the Tomb of the Giant, find out who the giant is, and uncover the truth about the world of the fae.

**Episode 10 - True Name**

Date Published: April 26, 2021

Description: The queen of the fae has been returned to her people, but the question of what to do about her warnings of the coming invasion remain.

**Episode 11 - Gathering the Troops**

Date Published: May 10, 2021

Description: All of the factions of Nazierto are banding together to fight the demon lord. Along the way, Ashera gains some very interesting information about the demon that nearly killed the vampire queen.

**Episode 12 - Facing the Demons**

Date Published: May 24, 2021

Description: The factions must finally come together to destroy the demon lord and his massive army.