From JayDee on January 18, 2026
I doubt I’ll have time to go back through every holiday I missed, but this recent one got a mention so I figured what the heck, lets see what y’all did! Starting with the first story:
Interregnum by InvidiaRed
A Fucking Creepy Statue? Jesus, those things get everywhere! I’d be scared if someone tried to turn me into a statue. In fact, I’d be petrified. First thought seeing that was if it was a crossover with InBrightestDay’s multipart epic, but I guess they’re unrelated. Definitely made me look twice tho’ Its a direct parallel. The Falling Angel is met with a Rising Demon. Their hellion story ends where the angel’s begins.
Ok, so, a couple of the transitions threw me slightly – suddenly back in the park, then back in the mall, and earlier the way there was suddenly a wall behind in the service corridor – but otherwise I had a pretty solid idea what happened throughout, and why, and I thought there were some pretty goddamn badass moments. Thank you
Going toe to toe with Vulravn like that, taking his floor from him – oh, he’s gonna respawn? Well, he can die again. Let him go rule the remains of the shoe store Jenna was correct about not trusting him. Death is a luxury only mortals get. And Jenna slew one of Hell’s Reapers. Losing the certainty of death isn’t something she knows she’s lost… Yet.
Didn’t quite get the deal with Mars – was it something similar to the original Doom plot where Hell started pouring through up there, and then you basically find yourself on the shores of Hell? Those were the days… The Afterlife follows mortals wherever they tread so to does psychopomps.
Rex best boy! It was a Halloween horror and I was starting to worry something bad might happen to him in a “Dogs aren’t the only ones that can lick” type way, but it was cool! Rex the instrument of vengeance too! I liked how that was foreshadowed too, with how the previous officer had received Jenna’s vengeance for sending the men to their deaths. Yes. Its her line in the sand.
...and her closest ally, Rex? a King... and she's a Queen. Nice. Anyways, I enjoyed this one! Like I say, good dog, badass fighting, nice imagery. Did Vulravn come out of the broken statue or was that thing just… broken? No. But they did manage to wash up down there. The Hellspore touches many places. And they more than earned their stay.