The Seam Wiki 51 Jul 20 2025

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Session Date July 20 2025
Seam Dates Sep 12 5941 - 16 October 5941

Getting back to Velour - 18 days

Bought 6 water breathing potions.

Getting to Wrap Shawl - The Empedocles Hideout

2025.22 miles direct. - 7.5 days
2000 to Leeward Crossroads and then 1619 miles direct. - 13.5 days

Biri does big magic research to try and figure out a way to breath underwater

  • 16 Arcana
  • Nat 20 Religion
  • 16 Nature

Arrival

As the ship pulls up spray starts hitting the front deck. It’s like salty sea spray.

As you get closer in, you start to see bigger blobs of water floating in the air.

Attack

Perception check

Some of the blobs start to form and move into creatures and leap onto the deck of the ship.

4 water weirds - sources get pulled down and attach to the deck
2 water elementals

21 52
22 58
Victory 15
Caely 13
13 4
Biri 10
Victory Elemental 9
7 12

Closer in

The water droplets get bigger, you see more movement in some of them but it seems like whatever these ones are they don’t want to go after you.

You see parts of buildings start to emerge. Floating upside down in some of these larger bubbles of water. They’re shattered, you can see some of them have walls broken open and exposed interiors.

Survival check to navigate to the centre of the blast.

After the Fight

The party take a long rest.

The Centre

Towards the centre you can see that this blast was almost whip like. The pattern curls out from a central point as if the explosion or blast or whatever spun the central building.

The building itself is scattered. It looks like it would have originally had two wings to it, but now those have been torn off of either side.

Inside the building is flooded. There is a central vault “downstairs” in the main hall.

Inside the vault, which requires two keys.

  • Papers and research on the effect of the elements in the Seam.
  • Mostly reveals a concerning lack of consistency.
  • It stops the seam from forming land of it’s own. Everything has to be pulled in.
  • Difficult to say more.

The West Wing

The offices of the Empedocles.

Key is found in the main office of the outpost political representative.

Attacked by an Aboleth that blocks the door.

Victory 20
Biri 16
Ganymede 15
Aboleth 15
Caely 11

135 / 109 / 78 / 52 / 45 / 1 / 0

Take a nap afterwards and then head out again

Caely and Biri are both diseased from the Aboleth. They need to moisten their skin every 10 minutes or take 1d12 acid damage.

The East Wing

Much more destroyed. The main issue here is navigation. Water actually pools between different sections of the building and pours into others. The key can be seen but it’s going to be difficult to navigate there.

This was home to the operational representative.

Immy blew up the desk

Entering the Vault

It’s all burned. But they do get:

  • An Everlasting Water Decanter (DMG)
  • A Salve for curing Disease (DMG)
  • Empedocles Notes

Travel Back

7.5 days travel back to Velour.

Arriving on 16th October.

What was in the research notes.

There is no elemental presnece in the seam because it’s not supposed to form land or physical.

Everything is supposed to come from spark dust.

There were various ideas of how to connect to the elemtnal planes.

The burned up research was probably all of those attempts to execute on those ideas.

What do we do next?

  • Go back to the Empedocles with the research notes

    • Maybe they’ve done some more research?
    • Maybe we can start looking there?

  • Start hunting the black flame?

  • Victory is probably going to have to go back to the Hallowdawn and report in

    • She didn’t find a gem that they thought they would.
    • Maybe she can attend some senior meetings

  • Need to find someone for the Rakshasa

  • Need to maybe speak to the Librarians to get them to do some research

    • Unknown gems
    • Allies

  • Maybe go to Gathernotch?

  • Final decision - they want to visit Gathernotch after making a pit stop in Velour.

For Callum:

  • Probably time for Tatiana to make another appearance.
  • Did the Hallowdawn trace down any other gems?
  • In Gathernotch there’s the group of Hallowdawn agents
    • Let’s put Claudia back there.
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