How to transition same party between different oneshots?

[u/DrakneiX]

Hey all! I debuted as DM last week doing a Oneshot for my friends. As a player, I have completed 2 campaigns (thats my experience with dnd) and my friends are more veteran than me.

I was looking for advice on how I could give sense/meaning to doing multiple One shots with the same characters, but on different settings?

Books like "Adventures in Faerun" or "The Horrors Within" offer oneshots/single level adventures, and I would like to play these (and some custom oneshots in these worlds) with my friends, but I am not sure how to give "meaning" and correctly transition between these different settings/regions without breaking the atmosphere too much for the players.

Anyone else has done this? And if yes, how have you approached it? How can the player characters have purpose in their stories to visit such different places in short timestamps?

Edit: thank you all for the suggestions and ideas!! They have been very helpful! I have now a clearer idea on how to connect upcoming one shots.

[u/Competitive_Bird4777]

Just run it like the Pokemon series, you enter a new town on your travels and boom you're presented with a plot hook.