Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding

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• Quiatas finally says Refusaleth’s name?
• The subborg finally speaks (panel 7)
• Refusaleth is literally drilling himself through the Midirian continent to Fexes, the lowest point of its underside (panel 8)

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• From the mountains of Midiria, the moons of the Beyonding appear close enough to touch, like the twin moons of Yotaton visible in panels 1 and 6
• Zaz tricked Cornelius into thinking she ejected him from the cloudswatter in the previous strip, using his terror and anxiety to charge the “tension cannons” (panel 9 of #261), repelling the sky sliggan

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• Steptung has some sort of electric whip (panels 2-)
• Panel 6 has a close-up of the surface of a sky sliggan- it is covered with knife points
• Zaz suddenly kicks Cornelius out of the cloudswatter because he’s “adding too much hot air”?
• Panel 9 shows the size difference between the cloudswatter and the head of the sky sliggan 

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• Legends say that the sky sliggans were created by the Dark Unmentionable Holocough, in Perceptive Times
• Zaz’s description of Eldlyfe clears up his inspiration even more so

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• Eldlyfe formally introduces himself to Steptung as an Agratian Ascendant
• Eldlyfe’s sword is always bent unnaturally at the hilt, as seen in panel 4
  
• “Moor locks” is a reference to H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine
• Cornelius still has the picture of the young unicorns

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• Clockwork automatons similar to Waywardo are visible at the top of panel 3- carrying black paint and a brush?
• Nefaria is Karbunkel’s mother? How could that be possible, unless childbirth is not necessarily physical in the Beyonding? Perhaps it can be done by belief alone?

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• First page of 2016

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• Karbunkel and Vurka hear Shiraadh before she “makes her entrance”
• Shiraadh is cordial to Vurka, even though she’s furious at Karbunkel

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• Eldlyfe has no feet, and numerous thigh pouches
• Steptung is lying to Eldlyfe, and doesn’t even remember Pepperdingus’s name 
• A sky sliggan is visible in the distance, in panel 5
• Unicorn decoys, commonly used by sky sliggan hunters, can be seen at the top of panel 6