World of Darkness: Slasher

[fiat_knox]

Oh, wow. :-0



"There’s a different breed of killer out there. They aren’t driven by the need to drink blood or the pulse of the full moon. They kill because they have to, because murder is the only thing they know. Will you hunt the slashers — or join their ranks?"

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[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

Well, that's certainly different. Here's hoping they don't give them powers like Freddy, Jason and company.

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Well, actually ... *whistles nonchalantly*

[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

Oh seriously? That's BJ Zanzibar (yeah, I went there) level crap, that is.

Heh

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Not quite. :) It's a complicated story, mainly due to the fact that even though I was not involved in the process, I am still a part of the Hunter staff community and therefore bound by NDA.

But I can tell you that your slasher can be as heroic as Dexter or The Punisher - Batman, even - and bring justice to murderers and rapists even as he himself commits atrocities in the name of Justice.

The otherwise depraved serial killer protagonist of Pat Cadigan's short story "The Power and The Passion" is superlative slasher-as-hero material. I used to describe him as "The Wayward's Wayward," back in the old Reckoning days - here, he's a slasher who'd not seem out of place as a member of Ashwood Abbey or The Lucifuge, or even the Malleus Maleficarum.

And the abilities of slashers, known as Undertakings (the term's been spoiled on the website already), aren't available to all of them, any more than all hunters get access to Endowments. Like I said ... it's complicated.

But BJ Zanzibar? I think this book is a little higher up the quality scale than that. My recommendation? When you look at it, take a look at the historical section. The part of the book that Wood wrote.

I think you'll be amazed, and perhaps not a little awed.

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

Why? In book obviously and definitively influenced by the slasher genre, why would you expect anything else?

Also, while you do get Michael/Jason-esque slashers, that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, the thing is there are rules for such on Zanzibar's right now. That's what I was referring to (though really, I thought there were more) when I invoked The Site Which Should Not Be Named.

But tell me more about the iceberg. I'd love to hear about the psychoslashers with a heart of gold.

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are rules for all kinds of things on Zanzibar's that have also been included in books. Heck, I wrote some stuff on that site; doesn't mean the stuff I write for WW isn't worth printing.

And I didn't write about anybody with a heart of gold. The slashers I wrote about are psychopathic killers. I wouldn't let anyone in my chronicles play one.