So, my party is still in Book 4, about to set out to raid the Gamut Bio facility. It'll be a dozen sessions or more until they beat the final bosses in Book 6. But I wanted to see if anyone else had given some thought to designing a follow-up adventure arc?
One of the story ideas given in the back half of Book 6 is confronting a Vesk admiral who's actually a Reptoid, and who has launched a preemptive strike on a Pact Worlds-allied colony world. It's a cool idea, suggesting a starship blockade to run, a frenemy situation with some Veskarium secret agents who also want to defuse the explosive situation, tangling with brainwashed troops, and the Reptoid themself, whose plan for this conquered world are unknown.
Alternatively there's the general story hook of finding the remaining PC doppelgangers, all Reptoids who are surely up to nafarious deeds. In my game, those surviving doppels would be a biohacker in a high interstellar medical post, a Starfinder captain exploring ancient ruins and making first contact, a celebrity chef on an opulent cruise, and a celebrity wrestler-turned-corporate shill for a deep space mining project.
So who's gotten that far in the story yet? Or who's thinking about what might be a good adventure for when your party does get there?
I wonder if maybe you could rework the Devastation Ark AP. It certainly would not be the Gray MO to stage such an open, large scale assault, but maybe they're still somehow behind the whole thing using their manipulative powers.
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We are halfway into Book3 but our group wants to take the game to 20 and I’ve come up with a way to frame the Reptoids as allies, or scouts of the Siivs in Devastation Ark.
Our threefold game includes one PC who has the transplanted soul of an ancient reptoid that was infiltrating civilizations during the Kish-Siiv conflict. This is said to be occurring in golarian’s Stone Age, but I’ve hand waved a bunch of timeline things to essentially make this character an Osirian Pharoah. I’ve implied through visions and other story points that the golarion races are a grey experiment, and then once this reptoid took over the pharaohs, he built a pyramid spaceship (which will end up being a reskinned version of the Worldseed in book 1 of devastation ark). Reptoids are said in the supplementary chapters to serve a higher but invisible threat, and to me it makes sense that hey would have a religious compulsion to infiltrate entire worlds to prepare a kind of “second coming” of their masters after the events of Kishalee-Siiv.
I’ve decided to make our threefold game much more about prophecy, with stronger connections to government officials and cultural icons than implied in the books. For example, Erem ends up being a reptoid version of our Human Envoy that has been working up the political ladder. I have a player playing Obozaya (yes the iconic) and it turns out she is a very popular brutaris sportscaster (discovered on Voidcrier when Pike plays the brutaris match), and our Kasathan Solarian is actually the BBBEG of the Kasathan chief inspector in book4. For me, I’ve decided to focus on the final twist that the greys were cloning these NPCs for noble purposes rather than (just) nefarious reasons. But they would find that out until book6.
A lot can still happen between book3 and 6 but that’s the direction I’m going to join the two books.
If anyone is interested, I’m still working though a guide that makes the backgrounds from book1 more meaningful with recommendations for how to attach to npcs in the story if others are interested.