Venture-Captain, Pennsylvania—Pittsburgh
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My wife and i are relatively new to PFS and we are woefully behind on the overall storyline. How would someone recommend that we catch up on the meta plots taking place? I'm constantly seeing references to things I don't understand. To be clear, I'm not looking for specific adventure spoilers, just the stuff that my character should know as a member of the Pathfinder Society.
Thanks in advance,
Talgeron
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Let's see how well I can do this storytime business...
*ahem*
It was a dark and stormy night... wait, wrong story...
*ahem ahem*
Not too long ago, the Pathfinder Society had little to worry about. They sent agents out to bring back artifacts and increase their influence across Golarion. Their rivals, the Aspis Consortium, sought to gain those artifacts for themselves for some deeper, darker, more sinister purpose. Corruption abounded until [spoiler redacted]. Then all was right in the Society, even with a sense of mistrust and dread still floating over everyone's collective heads.
Until one day...
Only a few weeks back, demons erupted en masse from the region known as the Worldwound, and started invading nearby settlements. At present (that is to say, Season 5), the Society is doing its best to rally their allies, create new ones, and ready their agents to go into the Worldwound and put a stop to this Year of the Demon as certain publishers would call it.
That's the most current story arc. There are some past storylines, but those are embedded in the scenarios from previous seasons. Someone more knowledgable than I may be able to give you a synopsis of each season's overall arc. I've only been around since little after the start of season 4. But I will say one thing: you do learn a lot about what's going on while playing those earlier scenarios. Good immersion. Good stuff.
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Try this link. It has a summary of each season's arc and is basically as spoiler-lite as possible while still giving that summary.
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One thing to add for season five:
The society has found news of a lost Sky Citadel, an ancient Dwarven Hold, deep in the WorldWound. Much Society effort is devoted to getting to, and exploring that Sky Citadel.