Talk:Mullaghbrack/@comment-28578739-20160717190809/@comment-28266772-20160717193503

Thank you for the lovely comment! And as for this story I wound up cutting a few thousand words that I wish I hadn't now. Looking back I can clearly see that this story would have benefitted from some more development and a better compromise on length that wasn't so focused on keeping it short. This was the only story I didn't run through the writer's workshop though, and I've since learnt the lesson to always get that valuable feedback before moving forward.

So unfortunately, no, you're not really missing anything. I just wound up cutting too much stuff out - I guess I just wanted to present it as a simple monster story where some people wander into the wrong place. I had my mind set on trying to create the feeling of an ant that had wandered into a tarantula's lair, and didn't really think too much about the tarantula itself. This story was mainly inspired by The Rats in the Walls by HP Lovecraft, and originally it was going to feature a deeper story surrounding Innsmouth style cults, prawn-men from the deep, and a vast underground chasm that had its own clouds and a prehistoric ecosystem (prevertebrate evolution for extra weirdness). The remaining hints in this story try to allude to these, really underdeveloped, set of ideas which never really crystallized into anything solid.