| Patrick Newcarry |
Hello all!
This is the first of (hopefully) many Adventure Outlines to come. Adventure Outlines will be short, one to three page summaries of various campaign ideas and adventure sparks to use in your own home games. This particular Adventure Outline is free; use it as you will. Future Adventure Outlines will not be free, so look for them on DrivethruRPG and other fine online role playing game shops. The expected cost of these articles will be anything from three to five articles.
Now, on to the Outline!
Survival and Trial
Akiton. The Red Planet. A destitute landscape scattered with the remnants of a thriving economy, now lying in ruins. This is the home of shady characters, petty gangs and powerful crime lords. The home of experimental scientists building and attaching dangerous and illegal modifications to their limbs and digits.
And the new home of the player characters.
The PCs were delivering a supply of rare volcanic minerals harvested from the moon Varos to a lashtuna scientist on Absalom Station named Solyn (pronounced Sol-Lin)when they were beset and boarded by a gang of mercenary ysoki looking for plunder and an easy target. While managing to fend of the ysoki from reaching the cargo hold, one of the rat-folk was able to slip behind the PCs and take control of the ship, steering it towards the surface of Akiton, the planet the PCs were flying over at that time. The ship came into the planet's atmosphere much faster than the ysoki anticipated, and he only managed to just pull up before smashing into the planet's surface head-on, but the inevitable crash resulted in a disablement of the ship when it landed. The ysoki then stole off with the PCs shipment of goods and headed for the nearest black market where they could sell their ill-gotten gains. (Note: the ysoki aren't evil, just desperate. The are down on their luck in terms of credits, and need the money to eat and survive.)
Unfortunately for the PCs, they had landed right in the middle of the planet's largest desert landscape, Scourge Desert.
This leaves the PCs in a chase to reclaim their shipment of materials while fending off the planet's more hostile inhabitants and struggling to survive in the unrelenting environment of heat and exhaustion.
Should the PCs catch the ysoki and recapture their shipment, their next task is to find a replacement ship and make their way to Absalom Station. However, they are still (insert amount of distance your want the PCs to travel here) away from the nearest settlement, and there are plenty of monsters who are hungry enough to eat a band of humanoids carting a shipment of goods across the desert and plenty of shobhads who would like to make slaves of the PCs themselves.
Should the PCs survive this brutal Scourage and make their way to Absalom Station, they discover that the scientist, Solyn, will be using the shipment of volcanic minerals to create a mutation chamber capable of releasing insane and deformed creatures on the general populace and it will be the sweet, innocent, know-it-all Solyn who will know how to stop the creatures from wrecking carnage on the streets and thus she will come to be an influential figure in the politics of the Pact Worlds and perhaps even becoming the Primex of the Station. The only problem with Solyn's plan is the PCs. She must dispose of them and thus, they become her targets to turn into mutants. They must escape her lab and stop her plan before it comes to full fruition while still abiding by the law (no killing unless the Primex allows certain individuals to be terminated.) They must capture her and bring her to justice, otherwise the ruthless and power-hungry lashtuna will come to rule Absalom Station with an iron grip.
I hope you enjoyed this as much as I have. This particular storyline practically wrote itself, and I hope you look into more of my products that are still in the wings of creativity.
Until then, Starfinder, may the thirst for endless adventure never leave you, and may solar winds be always at your back!
-Patrick Newcarry