Thurston Hillman
GM for @NarrativeDeclar. Freelance Writer. Associate Publisher @paizo. Opinions are my own. Contact me at: thurston@oncallgm.com.
Appears in 75 Episodes
A Rotten Situation
Six strangers. One Tyrant's Guild cell. Jailer Homel offers a multi-year rot or a pit fight against the Guild's aspirants. They punch their way free, take a shady insp...
The Under Dungeon
Bruised, stranded, and one guide short, the party wakes in the temple that swallowed them. Rotten catwalks, a storeroom of cursed helmets, and a swarm of helmet-crabs ...
Bowl Best Served Rotten
A rune-puzzle that pays in frostbite and electrical burns. A ring of desiccated monks tending an eternal brazier. Visions that rearrange Tanhauser and Rahua from the i...
Times That Bind
The Rotten Drowned Devoted goes down, Baldrick bombs a staircase back to daylight, and Crunch — impossibly — is still breathing. Cousin Ginebrin says the rot hasn't ta...
The Fly Merchant
Pig-spider corpses stuffed into the walls. Spider-fluid surgery on Tanhauser. Then Blotus — an emaciated halfling who sells contraband from nowhere and talks mostly to...
We Hate Taverns
Tanhauser kicks in the Cackling Jackass door. Vali orders rum. Rahua, ambushed outside by a flock of owl-faced fey, solves the problem by running through the wall. Ore...
Running from the Law
Mr. Allort is a simulacrum. The alchemist upstairs is Dr. Crim, and her homunculus is named Glub Talk. The gargoyle scholar they've been hunting has been roosting here...
The Rehua Special
Rahua gets press-ganged into waitering at Granny Sweet's and serves a 600-pound fly-proboscis horror named Bremblo a cabbage "avocado casserole." Bremblo detonates int...
They Saw Us
A street brawl with Tyrant's Guild outriders turns into a massacre when the Iron Baron's chainsaw-car rolls in and mulches Dr. Crim into viscera. Vali and Oren die und...
Reunion
Baldrick barricades his house with Crunch and Granny Sweet. Tanhauser and Rahua weld together a red-painted three-seater bicycle and pedal across Outset. Vali and Oren...
Splitting This Party
Three ways into Derg Sandren House. Vali and Tanhauser front-door in stolen Guild colours, Oren slips a skylight as a rat, Rahua and Baldrick take the sewer with Crunc...
Enlightenment
Baldrick bombs the basement garrison. Tanhauser and Vali bluff the upper floor. Glub Talk harvests bugs to patch a wound. Speaker improvises a beetle-rider mentor who ...
The Aftermath
Martinet Cardoza burns through a second form, then a third, before Rahua buries a thrown mace in her skull and she detonates into light. Vali drops into a rot-vision o...
Concealment
One assassinated martinet. One bribed caravan. The party vanishes into the Swamps of the Solitude, pinning revolutionary posters on every signpost they pass — until a ...
The Decision
Zibulzap's trading post walks through the swamp on reptile legs. Vali converts to a crustacean god, Tannhauser crafts a functioning swamp-gas dirigible out of pig blad...
The Cube
Thousand-year-old masterwork debris litters the swamp, leading somewhere no one wanted to go. An osseogrove — bone-rooted, red-leaved, patient — crits Oren for thirty-...
Imperfect Perfection
The cube is fifteen hundred years old and the towers used to fly. Tannhauser nails a dead tyrant's mask-essence to his armor and becomes a permanent glow-in-the-dark l...
Echoes of the Past
Inside the abandoned siege tower, a stone bust holds the memories of a military unit the swamp buried fifteen centuries ago. Tannhauser presses psychometry against the...
Pieces of Friendship Left Behind
Second floor of the cube: blood-soaked testing rooms, an alchemist's notes left mid-experiment, decahedrons that shoot lightning through the walls. Picturn gets his fe...
A Corrosive Vacation
An acid lake. A ruined church. Beach umbrellas sized for fey. The party turns a wraith-haunted hazard zone into a spa day — bottled corrosive as souvenirs, candied bug...