Infected with a sickness that threatens to turn them into twisted
murderers, the heroes travel to the city of Cuvacara on the planet
Verces to find the possible origin of the madness! They soon discover
that a sinister company plans to release a new social media app that
will corrupt the entire city. Surviving attacks from corporate
assassins, the heroes can shut down the app's servers and discover the
location of the company's hidden underground base on the planet's
Darkside. Within are individuals who seem to have willingly undergone
transformation and protect the facility with their lives. After
confronting the charismatic executive in charge and learning of the mad
scientist who created the signal, the heroes find out they are now
trapped on the Shadow Plane!
"The Penumbra Protocol" is a Starfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for
four 9th-level characters. The adventure continues the Signal of Screams
Adventure Path, a 3-part, monthly campaign in which players race to find
the source of a mystical signal that warps both minds and bodies. It
also includes a gazetteer of the technological metropolis of Cuvacara, a
discussion of the shadowy fiends known as velstracs, and a selection of
horrifying new monsters.
Each monthly full-color softcover Starfinder Adventure Path volume
contains a new installment of a series of interconnected science-fantasy
quests that together create a fully developed plot of sweeping scale and
epic challenges. Each 64-page volume of the Starfinder Adventure Path
also contains in-depth articles that detail and expand the Starfinder
campaign setting and provide new rules, a host of exciting new monsters
and alien races, a new planet to explore and starship to pilot, and
more!