Ehu Hadif has announced his upcoming retirement, and the search for a new First Seeker has begun! From the Society’s ranks, four promising candidates have risen to the forefront. Meet the candidates for First Seeker, perform a mission on their behalf, and cast your vote! The future of the Starfinder Society is in your hands!
Tomorrow’s Seeker is a stand-alone scenario, but will be part of a global vote to determine the next First Seeker for the Starfinder Society. Players are encouraged to play this scenario and vote on their preferred First Seeker, each of whom was chosen from the ranks of Starfinder Society player PCs. Further information on voting to come alongside the release of this adventure.
The door to First Seeker Ehu Hadif’s office opens to reveal a comfortable wood-paneled room. Silver-framed photos line one wall, opposite a window overlooking the Lorespire Complex grounds. Behind the sturdy wooden desk, the comfortable faux leather chair swivels to reveal the First Seeker, a kasatha clad in red armor and a matching facemask. He raises a hand in greeting, then gestures to the plush chairs in his sitting area.
“Thank you for coming, Starfinders,” he begins, waiting for everyone to be seated. “As I’m sure you’re aware, the announcement of my impending retirement means that the Starfinder Society is once again amid election season. Four years ago, I was honored to accept the title of First Seeker thanks to the votes of Starfinder agents such as yourselves, and in just a few weeks we’ll be asking agents to cast their votes again.”
“While there are few official regulations around candidate selection, the members of the Society tend to coalesce around respected individuals, and that’s exactly what has happened. Four candidates have garnered the support of their peers, and soon we’ll be calling all agents to cast their votes. I’m asking all our agents to meet with these four candidates, learn about their proposed mandate or area of inquiry, and complete any tasks they might have prepared for prospective supporters. Just as with our faction leaders, the sort of tasks an agent deems worthy tell a lot about who they are and what they stand for.” Ehu leans back in his chair, a twinkle in his eyes. “What do you say, Starfinders? Care to spend some time looking for my worthy replacement?”
With that, he forwards an infosphere page that lists the candidates ()
Aurora Everbright: “Aurora Everbright is an ambitious and bold Starfinder. She’s a pilot and professional racer, and is quite media savvy. Aurora believes that the Starfinder Society’s achievements and heroics have gone uncelebrated—a situation she intends to remedy. Aurora has pledged to double funding for the longrunning Starfinder Chronicles and to collaborate with a variety of entertainment and media partners to produce a selection of new vidcasts, documentaries, vidgames, and other media for public consumption, all centered on the heroic exploits and groundbreaking discoveries of the Starfinder Society. You’ll meet Aurora at Jatembe Park.”
Dr. Heldin Sevaile: “Dr. Heldin Sevaile is an intelligent and altruistic Starfinder. He’s a scientist with degrees in botany and biochemistry, and a doctorate in genetics. Dr. Sevaile plans to lead a scientific expedition to catalog the flora and fauna of the galaxy in order to create a library of genetic sequences. It’s his hope that scientists and scholars the galaxy over will mine this dataset for potential new medicines and treatments. He’s promised to make any new pharmaceuticals discovered by the Starfinder Society available to the public on a non-profit basis. You’ll meet Dr. Sevaile in the laboratories.”
Nykiti Lampadephoros: “Nykiti is an insightful and mysterious Starfinder. She’s a powerful spellcaster and diviner. Her prophecies and visions can seem frivolous or nonsensical, but I’ve always found them useful in the end. Nykiti aims to investigate magical occurrences and anomalies, including Kazmurg’s Absurdity, and research the magical objects left uncatalogued in the Society’s vaults and storage spaces. You’ll meet Nykiti in the Communion Vaults.”
Sarmak: “Sarmak is a curious and passionate Starfinder. He’s a hunter, engineer, and electrician. He has an intense interest in ancient civilizations that built megastructures or displayed advanced technological capabilities. Sarmak is in the process of organizing an expedition to a city of the First Ones on Aballon. Exploring forgotten sites built by his people, izalguuns, is also a primary interest. You’ll meet Sarmak in the Archives’ Cortex.”
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As the briefing gets started, a dwarf woman with the pale hair and pale eyes of a generations long asteroid miner family makes her way into her room. Heavily armed and armored, the holy symbol of Angradd emblazons her chest.
"From those descriptions, Sarmak seems the best candidate, to me. But I suppose, for the sake of fairness, we should visit them all. Might as well start at the top of the list and visit this...Everbright individual," she says, clearly not impressed by the woman's description and mission.
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A male drow in Zeizerer diffractor armour, so dark it almost absorbs the light around it, wanders through the opulence with the slight arrogance of a person that firmly belongs there. A spider-drone the size of a large dog follows behind him, an imposing plasma weapon incorporated into its frame.
"The good Doctor perhaps, I am also a physicist, so appreciate a person of science"
Although the group is told to meet Aurora in Jatembe Park, she catches the group right outside the Lorespire Complex...
A bright pink hovercar stops suddenly at the curb. A blonde halfling pops her head out of the sunroof, her bright white racing suit reflecting the simulated sunlight. She waves energetically, calling out “Hello, Starfinders! You’re the ones Ehu just met with, yeah? I’m Aurora! Hop in, I’ll give you a lift!”
It's a tiny car, but the null-space technology gives everybody plenty of room (not that Volitare needs much). Hold on tight! the halfling says as she planks the gas on the sportscar, pushing everyone to the back of their seats.
“The Starfinder Society is at the forefront of galactic exploration. We’re the movers, the shakers, the innovators, the heroes! But all our exploits get ignored—unless something goes wrong. Why? Because we let other people tell our stories. We’ve got the Starfinder Chronicles, sure, but for everything else? We leave it up to other people. It’s time that changed. We need to seize the narrative and tell our own stories. Shine the spotlight where we want it. Let the galaxy see how important we are—how integral!”
Aurora activates the autopilot as she swivels in her seat to face the group. “This week in Jatembe Park there’s a big talent showcase. A bunch of bigwigs from all kinds of talent agencies, media networks, vidstreams, and other broadcasts are attending. I’ve booked us a slot on the main stage for later today, and one of my pals is a director. He has a script we can use that’s all about the Starfinder Society, so it’s perfect! If we can get these influential folks interested in us, we can build partnerships. We can make vidstreams, movies, documentaries, vidgames—you name it! We’ll have the interest and capital we need to tell our stories the way we want.”
Aurora spins her chair around and re-engages the manual drive. “Being a Starfinder is about excitement, competition, discovery, and—let’s face it—a little danger. We get into tight scrapes and intense situations cause we’re doing big, important things! We never settle for less! I want us to be at the forefront of galactic exploration and to stay there, but to do that we need credits, and we need the public on our side. Zo! Media, the Opulos Corporation, Jenoate— they’re the tastemakers in the galaxy these days. Getting their attention is the first step to something huge! The first step to joining them. What do you say Starfinders, you ready for primetime?”
With one hands, she reverse-parks the vehicle behind a partially built stage and hops out. This is Jebodah Hamisfore she continues without missing a beat, introducing the group to a male feychild gnome, he's our director, and this is Rishir Heatru she says, while a male pahtra holds out a clawed hand our stagehand. Got any questions?
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Unassigned:
Vomatian
Seldszar
Darakwinn
Antethriss
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Available roles:
Leader -
Technician - Trober
Priest - Volitare
Warrior
Acrobat
Foe
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Another drow, in dark armor a size smaller than necessary, taken so specifically to emphasize his beautiful athlete-like shoulders, muscular arms and a thin waist, nods listening to the words of the halfling candidate. From time to time, he looks respectfully at Seldzar as a more experienced and highly elevated drow in the SFS hierarchy, and clearly focuses on his opinions and decisions. Or just shows it to gain patronage...
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Darakwinn is not particularly bulky so she's comfortable in the small car and isn't nearly as worried about death and dismemberment as Trober.
She doesn't seem very convinced by Aurora's argument, though, as evidenced by the way she sits with her arms crossed over her chest.
"I am a warrior, not an actor," she says through gritted teeth.
Yet, as others accept the assignment, she snatches a script marked "Warrior" away from Rishir.
Splendid, Aurora says as the adventurers pick roles I think we have a good cast here, [b]I'll give you some time to prepare your lines, and to prepare for the play.
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Unassigned:
Seldszar
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Available roles:
Leader -
Technician - Trober or Vomatian
Priest - Volitare
Warrior - Darakwinn
Acrobat - Anthethriss
Foe
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"What is this?" the Drow points to the marketing and merchandise whilst yelling into a personal communicator at some poor unfortunate "Hey you people in marketing! We're trying to draw in talent on the socials and pump our metrics and someone is giving me this sort of content? WE CAN'T CROSS-PROMOTE AND SYNERGISE LIKE THIS! We need to get this ALL changed STAT! We need to ladder this activity up into a collab and get back to the bleeding edge - all the balls in the air here - we can circle back to some of the other blue sky thinking ideas but right now we need to break down the silos and get people to start bringing their core competencies back to the table. I'm talking an immediate deep-dive into our deliverables so we can get our ducks in a row - you all need to get on board as this show could be a game changer and we have a hard stop of 'showtime'. There is some easy low hanging fruit for us to capitalise on, but we need to shake it before someone in HQ moves the goalposts on this initiative so I'm going to run it up the flagpole to whoever needs to give it the rubber stamp and we can then park any concerns as we get some traction on this silver-bullet of an idea"
"Yes I know you are just an intern and it's an unpaid gig, BUT THINK OF THE EXPOSURE!"
He looks back up from his intercom
"I'll be the Leader, Shari isn't here so I guess it is me"
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Darakwinn begins pacing around the stage and moving out through the seats facing it. She grumbles to herself as she looks at the script and also at the stage.
"That rock needs to be moved! I can see the parts behind the stage from here. Where is the leader going to stand when he says 'Say, has anyone seen Acrobat?'"
Ah, this doesn't work Rishir direct the group, Look, you... trober was it? You make for a good foe, you have real foe-material there to work with. If you can just read these parts, yes? he proceeds to hand Trober a terrible-looking Jinsul costume to wear...
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Roles:
[X][O][O] Leader - Seldszar
[X][O][O] Technician - Vomatian
[X][O][O] Priest - Volitare
[X][O][O] Warrior - Darakwinn
[X][O][O] Acrobat - Anthethriss
[X][O][O] Foe - Trober
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Darakwinn looks at her script, squinting at the words.
"Ahem, Leader! I should say my excellent fighting had something to do with it!" she reads mechanically, though delivering the final word of each sentence with an exclamation (since that's when she sees the exclamation point.)
She does understand the stage direction of unsheathing her weapon and pulls the pike off her back, somehow managing to brandish it and hold her script.
"Hit them with the pointy end!"
Perhaps it is the way her disdain for the whole process enhances her scowl, but she manages to look quite intimidating.
Rishir rolls his eyes, and points Seldszar to the first page of the script.
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Roles:
[X][_][X] Leader - Seldszar
[X][_][_] Technician - Vomatian
[X][_][_] Priest - Volitare
[X][X][_] Warrior - Darakwinn
[X][_][_] Acrobat - Anthethriss
[X][_][_] Foe - Trober
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Seldszar rolls his eyes as he flips through the terrible script.
"Excellent Vomatian! That was some quick thinking back there, we'd never have escaped without you"
"Indeed you're right Voltaire, your healing spells kept us on our feet, say, has anyone seen Anthethriss?
Now everybody, let's not panic, they may have found our starship, but we're smarter than those leg-bladed monsters, remember your training!
Diplomacy
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It seems the sound system has to strain to pick up Volitare's quiet voice.
Dhurus my old foe. Your foul magics hold no power here. My strength in ...... erm .... The Green Mother will keep us safe from you.
A hit ... a palpable hit
No. Anthethriss. I'm not leaving your side. Stay with me.
The Starfinders are the stuff of legend. Who else would bring this story to life.
We must move carefully. I have to keep Anthethriss stable.
If it is possible to a Raxalite to blush, Volitare would be dying inside from embarrassment at this point.
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[Anthethriss leaps from behind a rock] I’m right here, Seldszar! But I have bad news. Our starship’s over the next hill, but we’ve got company!
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Oh yes. [turns dramatically] Jinsuls!
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Now it’s my turn! Take this, you pointy purple menace! [Anthethriss does a trick attack]
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[weakly] I want you to know...I always... always... [Anthethriss trail off]
The audience seems very impressed, and from the backstage, Rishir is giving a thumbs up.
The audience lets out a gasp as Foe Trober enters the scene, and seems terribly swayed by the dramatic appearance of Anthethriss, the stern (and somewhat disdainful) leadership of Seldszar, and the cute priest Volitare (who is barely audible, causing the audience to be dead silent as they try to listen)
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Roles:
[X][X][X] Leader - Seldszar
[X][_][_] Technician - Vomatian
[X][X][X] Priest - Volitare
[X][X][_] Warrior - Darakwinn
[X][X][X] Acrobat - Anthethriss
[X][X][_] Foe - Trober
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Darakwinn scowls when the second page is pointed out to her then sighs, heavily.
"You got it, boss," she flatly intones at the correct moment.
"What? I mean, 'thanks comrade, now I'm, oh Angradd preserve me, now I'm wheely ready to fight."
She manages to run the cycle into several objects on stage.
"Would you like me to carry him?" she finally asks, hoisting Anthethriss up and hustling offstage in relief.
The interaction with Vomatian and Darakwinn looks less convincing..
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Roles:
[X][X][X] Leader - Seldszar
[X][F][_] Technician - Vomatian
[X][X][X] Priest - Volitare
[X][X][F] Warrior - Darakwinn
[X][X][X] Acrobat - Anthethriss
[X][X][_] Foe - Trober
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Trober tries to be terrifying, but surprises nobody. Vomatian is quite convincing as the Technician, showing his true engineering skill.
Roles:
[X][X][X] Leader - Seldszar
[X][F][X] Technician - Vomatian
[X][X][X] Priest - Volitare
[X][X][F] Warrior - Darakwinn
[X][X][X] Acrobat - Anthethriss
[X][X][F] Foe - Trober
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As Seldszar says the line that begins, “Alright team, we’ve got one more job,” the group spots movement in the back of the crowd. Two young lashuntas are making their way through the crowd, snatching valuables from the distracted audience’s pockets and bags...
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"BUT WAIT!" Seldszar proclaims as he draws his pistol and Arachne begins warming up the menacing plasma weapon "there is a final epilogue, a final act to this play, TWO OF OUR ENTERTAINERS, have been practicing sleight of hand through the audience - they are about to return your goods, JUST TAKEN AS PART OF THE SHOW - we wouldn't like to see them meet the same fate as the Jinsul menace..." Seldszar announces at them, with a smile, but a degree of menace.
Intimidate
Seldszar and Darakwinn move to stop the thieves' nefarious plan, but of course we're looking for a subtle approach without alarming the audience.
At this point, it is paramount to convince the crowd that moving from the stage into the audience is part of the show.
Volitare leaves the audience in a gasp of excitement... Jinsuls? Even scarier than the one on stage?
This gives the starfinders an opportunity to close in on the thieves