Glitchstab Grotesque: The Extended Slaughtercut

This story first appeared on Reddit in a shorter, serialized form — but this version is fully expanded, restructured, and officially titled Glitchstab Grotesque. Expect longer scenes, deeper lore, and extra blood-soaked banter.

Welcome to the Hasherverse — a world where horror tropes are real, and slashers aren’t just killers… they’re Class-ranked monsters who treat murder like performance art. Some are supernatural. Others are disturbingly human. Most kill for the thrill, not for a reason.

Hashers are the ones who stop them. Or die trying.

At the heart of the story are two high-ranking Hashers:

Nicky — a banshee-blooded tactician with glowing nails, trauma-chic fashion, and a habit of narrating missions like she’s trapped in a cursed grindhouse flick.

Vicky — a dryad–dark-elf hybrid with a divine shield, war-forged calm, and the emotional availability of a haunted sinkhole.

They’re not a couple — just battle partners, co-parents to her son, roommates with unspoken feelings, and occasional fake-married infiltrators. (It’s complicated.)

The story alternates between their points of view, peeling back the layers of their bond as they fight through cursed cabins, ritual towns, and glitching kill zones — each mission another horror script waiting to be rewritten.

If you like brutal monster logic, slow-burn emotional chaos, and found-family dynamics forged through blood and bad decisions… welcome to the job.