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by Aria on May 5, 2016 at 2:36 AM

Chapter: Mile High Engage

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hush

caribouchat

Ooo…kay. But how long ago did it happen? Was it before Hazard came (looks like his ship isn’t on the tower…)? So, not his doing? So what? (Gideon’s?)
- Aria
  
  Gettin’ there!
Watto

VERY nice monstrosity you got there 10/10
- Aria
  
  thank ya thank ya
Oscar Crooks

Hastur looks, all corrupted maybe? All the red stuff and the chains look like they were added later rather than a natural part of it’s body. I was thinking it possibly stole a power similar to the Tain (the red eyes) and it’s controlling/binding it with the chains.
Or maybe it’s the other way around and the Red part took over and is controlling the body and has to restrain the hosts mind/will with the chains.
- Aria
  
  I reeally like both versions of this theory~
Amaaré

Whoa.
Ok.
Umm.
Damn.
I wasn’t sure about the whole queen/Hastur thing before, but yeah that…that doesn’t seem great, you know, as some protective entity you want to be serving.
In most mythology I’m aware of Hastur is a demon lord rather than someone nice, so I guess this makes sense.
Also, whatever it is that happened there, really most of the damage does seem to be being done by the “queen”.
- Aria
  
  Yeppp once you get to gods on Hastur’s tier literally just manifesting in this reality tends to fuck shit up.
  
  Given that some of them apparently have a lot of control over shaping said reality, this is kind of a dick move on their part. Or a serious oversight, at the very least.
  - Amaaré
    
    Well that explains the guardians at least, better to have someone deal with smaller problems who’s presence alone doesn’t make them 1000x worse.
Sage

ohhhhhh. come scarlet skies isnt the bad thing that happens (or it is really) but it is when the queen comes. and elle was worried about what happening to her mom, to the town when she was worried about the tain. about not wanting to do much against hazard.
random thoughts, sorry if they dont make sense. i am exhausted and feel kind of stupid for not getting that earlier (i blame finals brain)
- Aria
  
  the fun thing about poetry is you can interpret it a million different ways and all of them can technically be correct
caribouchat

I love the way, last panel of p.319, of how the queen’s “chained horn” itself looks like a creature of some kind, with a bright eye, two horns and a raised arm…
I wonder if the queen’s crystals are a kind of starstone. Red starstone? Hot starstone? And the separation between panels in p.320 looks like the Tain, red Tain… Are there antagonists Tains, or rather, are the Tain and Hastur on the same side of the fight?
And what could be the thing that looks like a ball of wool?
It’s kind of ominous, too, not seeing what’s ending those additional arms…

Then. The Something that happened… Are the black spots made of lots of the kind of butterflies we see near the tower? Are they the Something?
I’m sure glad you said many questions were going to be answered…