Hi all. So I've been writing my first adventure for my group, and just wanted a few random thoughts on a little conundrum I'm having with the plot.

The vague idea, picked up from a hook I think I found via the wiki, is the group while walking through a town/city come across either a 'missing pet's poster, or a little girl of whatever species' planet we're on crying, putting up missing pet posters. They might not otherwise care, other than that the reward is far, far more than could be expected for a usual missing pet thing. Via discussions with the girl's family they'll learn there's something not quite normal about the pet, and will eventually lead them down an alleyway to finding a mad scientist who's been experimenting on animals.

But what the experiments are I'm not sure about. The two ideas I've had are that:

1. the scientist is experimenting with force sensitive animals. Maybe he's made them force sensitive somehow, maybe they already were in some way. This would probably mean the scientist would at least be so himself.

2. the scientist is making animals talk.

Obviously the former would be a little more.. Star Wars-y, but the second has more scope for fun and hijinks with Trufo the Wonderdog or something. However, with a couple of our characters having rather silly backstories already (see below) we don't want to overdo it. We are down for some level of silliness, but we don't want the entire thing to be memes and whatnot.

But yeah, I'm stuck with this fork in the plot for our mad scientist idea. Any thoughts?

The silliness:

One character is a Chadra-Fan who's in love with Sy Snootles, who broke him out of slavery in the background of the Clone Wars episode where she visits the Hutts to kill Ziro, and also owes a lot of money after a botched transportation job to Rich'chad Bransolne of Virgin Holocomms on his home planet of Chad.. geddit..?

We also have a Toydarian trader who's sleazed his way across the galaxy. He owes child support payments to a selection of scorned former lovers, who found each other on SpaceMumsnet. The plan is for him to end up on Space Jeremy Kyle (Springer) at some point.