Season 1 - Episode 1

The pilot episode of the Finders, and the first session of the current campaign, S1E1 introduced the characters Edelaak, Blue, Stick, and Calidis, introduced the organization of AEGIS, established the city of Zazesspur as the local campaign setting and provided an overview of the history of the larger campaign setting of the Sword Coast and the continent of Faerun on the world of Toril.

Plot
The episode opened in AEGIS headquarters in Zazesspur, where Blue - a senior AEGIS trainer, recruiter, and field agent - had brought new recruits to train for future AEGIS operations. The party was introduced to Aelita, an Eye of AEGIS responsible for delegating responsibilities of agents within the region. Aelita left the room, and the party encountered a group of Shadows within the common area of the headquarters, which immediately attacked. The shadows were handily defeated by the party's cooperative ability, and Aelita returned, advising that the Shadows were a current crisis in Zazesspur. She instructed Blue to take the new recruits to the Red Lamp District, a reported hotspot of Shadow activity.

A witness in the Red Lamp District claimed that their fellow escorts had heard a woman screaming in an abandoned house on the block. Inside the house, the party encountered five cultists in robes of various colors performing a ritual to summon Shadows, which were seen flying through the roof. Edelaak and Blue worked together to fire a flaming arrow at the cultists from a hidden position behind draperies, which caught fire. In the ensuing battle, Calidis, Edelaak, and one cultist were killed. Blue hit the cultist in their mask with the killing shot, shattering the mask. He collected the fragments before fleeing the building with Stick.

Before returning to AEGIS, Blue used his torch to accelerate the spread of the blaze.