Seattle News Net — Special Feature: Halo Tour Leaving Chaos

Title: From Chicago to Denver: Is the Halo Tour Leaving Chaos in Its Wake?

Byline: Jordan Reyes, Culture & Crisis Desk

Dateline: Denver, PCC — September 17, 2097

Chicago’s Halo concert earlier this month should have been remembered for its cutting-edge stagecraft and record-breaking live attendance. Instead, insiders describe it as “a disaster narrowly averted” — though you won’t find that in the official feed archives.

Multiple independent sources — including emergency medtechs, freelance mages, and concert staff — confirm:

• Astral Incursion: During the public show, dozens of attendees became suddenly possessed by hostile entities. Several attacked fellow concert-goers, staff, and even Halo herself.

• Magical Storm: At the intimate lakeside performance the next night, a massive magical tempest — purple lightning and all — formed over Lake Michigan, only to dissipate mid-show. Some claim Halo dispelled it herself.

If that wasn’t strange enough, maritime cargo trackers have noted unusual readings on the Great Lakes since the concert, with multiple vessels reporting sightings of “an immense, storm-wreathed shape beneath the waves.” Sources in Manila whisper the name Atlacoatl — the so-called Storm God — last seen in the Philippine archipelago.

And now? Riots in Denver.
On the eve of Halo’s latest performance, street unrest has broken out across the city, accompanied by fresh reports of spirit incursions — a different astral signature from Chicago, but no less dangerous.

Officials dismiss the connection, but the pattern is hard to ignore:
Philippines. Cairo. Chicago. Denver.
Magical anomalies, public unrest, and political instability — all following the same global tour.

So is Halo bringing the chaos?
Or is she the only thing keeping it from consuming us?

Matrix Buzz — Thread Snippets Following SNN’s “Storms, Spirits, and a Sprawl on Edge”

@LakeWatcher: Spirits loose on the Great Lakes, riots in Denver, astral anomalies in Chicago… all within two weeks? Yeah, that’s not “coincidence.” That’s a pattern.

@FaithfulFrame: And the pattern’s got a name — heard it from a UB contact: Vaxas. They say their order’s been guarding the world from it since before history had dates.

@SmashCache: Oh, here we go. The guardian cult myth. Pretty story until you realize it’s the same cult that’s been linked to blood magic blacksites and mindwipe “retreat centers.”

@PikeSpike: You’ve got it backward. The Brotherhood’s not guarding this thing — they’re trying to wake it. Whisper campaign’s been running for years, ever since the early technomancy experiments. Same word kept turning up in the data: Vel-axas or taxas-axas or something like that.

@Bleedline: Doesn’t matter which story’s true — if the name’s leaking into public chatter, someone wants it out there. And someone else is going to bleed for it.

@FogLurker: Or maybe we’re just feeding the legend for free. That’s how it gets strong enough to break loose. That’s how they’ll tell it anyway… after the fact.