Tying Fall of Plaguestone to Extinction Curse? [Plaguestone Spoilers]

[WouldYouKindly86]

Hi everyone! I have two groups that I am running through Fall of Plaguestone. The original idea was to play through that adventure as a "tutorial" as most of the players are brand new to RPGs, and then start over again in an AP. However, both groups have decided that they want to keep their current characters and continue the story.

I run my games through Roll20 and I really don't have the time to load in a ton of resources, so I need to stick to the materials I can purchase in the Roll20 Marketplace. At the time of this writing, they have the first 2 books of EC and I believe I've read the rest are coming soon. (Please correct me if I am wrong about this!)

Is it possible to tie these adventures together somehow? I have not purchased the EC books yet, but I have read that the players don't need to be a part of the circus for the story to work, and I don't believe their characters would be interested in joining/promoting a circus. I've also seen this thread (https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42xez?Common-themes-and-encounters-with-anoth er) where it shows there are a lot of common themes.

We are doing milestone leveling, and the group is aware that they will probably roll through early encounters in the new AP, and they won't get to level up again until we get to book 2. Mechanically, I think I will be fine moving from one to another, it is just a matter of tying the stories together.

Could someone from EC be responsible for teaching/corrupting Vilree? What about some tie to Father Bolgrist? Maybe he had an ulterior motive to turn the town against Silwyth? Could I use the Old Shrine as a hook? It's mentioned that it was used by druids before the town converted it to Gozreh. As the group isn't committed to keeping the lore of Golarian 100% accurate, would I be able to relocate this adventure to be near Almas (where the characters were heading when this started)?

Any other ideas to hook the characters into changing their course to pick up this AP? Any help is appreciated!

[Riobux]

I genuinely am not sure how to tie the two events. Extinction Curse is really running off the idea of you wanting to be part of a circus, and potentially having a history with a rival circus. The closest I found was a personal thing where I had Olf and Ulf (who I had accidentally ran as dwarves in Fall of Plaguestone) crop up again as the Dwarven Throwers act.

I would also be tempted, even if you must do it, to stick to just one chapter as the tutorial to avoid a really weird level imbalance as the start of EC assumes level 1 PCs and act 2 of FoP starts PCs off as level 2.

[The Painted Oryx]

So I am doing this, but I am planning to eliminate the circus part of the storyline.

Basically, long story short I twisted the plot of Plaguestone so that Silwyth is actually alive. In my campaign, the "plague" that originally struck Etran's Folly is actually trapped within the Plaguestone rather than the viridian vapour. So Silwyth uses the PCs to release the plague so she can take it and use it in her Extinction Curse. Silwyth being tied to a demon lord was unable to take the stone before because of protection placed upon it by priests at the time of the plague.

I plan to have Silwyth actually be a drow, I have made "Vilree" her simulacrum and I plan to change all the xulgath in EC to become drow. This is partially to help tie the two plots together but also I am not a huge fan of xulgath.

At the end of Plaguestone, the heroes have saved the town and contained the plague within a magic item I invented called a phage heart. However Silwyth is going to appear before the heroes and take the stone (back to the Isle of Kortos). The heroes will continue on to a big city where their contacts in the Pathfinder society will have learned of appearances of drow on the Isle of Arran and they will be sent there. Which leads into part 4 of the Show Must Go On.

I'm hoping it works out. I am in the same problem as you, I am using Roll 20 and the only adventure path on there is Extinction Curse. My players really connected with the story in plaguestone and were disappointed when they discovered that killing Vilree was basically the end of the story so I added a bit to spice it up.

Any suggestions anyone has will be much appreciated!!