For my group this is the first game using the pathfinder gaming system and golarion as a world. We intend to continue using Golarion in future games as well so I've been using this campaign to teach the players about the world.
That said when my party got their hands on the Occulus they immediately contacted the Pathfinder Society hoping they would be able to offer compensation for it as well as safeguard it. The party have never met a pathfinder so I'd like to have the agent they contacted teleport them to Absolam and let them have a mini-adventure there, so I'm reaching out to the community...
What ideas do you have to show off what the pathfinders are about, how Absolom works, possibly some of the pathfinder societies enemies, what would the pathfinders reasonably offer for this item, and if possible I have a new joiner in the group a dwarf universalist wizard so I'd like to give him some spotlight time in the adventure.
Thank you in advance I know how great this community is and I look forward to seeing what you turn out.
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My first thought is that you probably haven't scared them enough if they think the Pathfinders can really provide security for an artefact of that nature.
Quite the opposite, they feel the society can guard it better than they can as they lost all their arcane and divine casters during the adventure. They drew apprentices and the like to take the place of their fallen comrade but are hesitant to show or tell anyone of the item.
It is fairly easy to destroy if they are properly worried by it :)
Have them fail to contact a Pathfinder (that they can trust) or maybe even contact one, but have him explain that there a various factions in the Society, and some are well.. More concerned with personal gain *cough* :P
I made them, after a lot of hard work, find an old and retired paladin of Gorum (Aleksej) who decided it would be a perfect final battle, to stop such a grand evil. After he did this, he stuck around, and now the duke/fighter is even teaching Aleksej to fight without vision more reliably, in exchange for sharing his wisdom in the schools.