The skull changed shape over time, putting pressure on brains and minds. They lost the power to communicate instinctively, as animals do. They kept at it, as the chemical high of brain consumption was addictive. Bodies lost their hairy covering, and humans developed latent psychic powers. Later, they also found that eating brains increased intelligence - permanently and in a hereditary way. Ancestral humans killed their rivals and ate their brains, which is an aphrodisiac. It's mostly a rant, talking about how humans evolved from cannibalism, a normative pre-human trait. It had no references, and Maerth said he'd got all his information from real-life headhunters and via meditation. , a somewhat wild-eyed exploration of human origins. And of course, everyone can sympathize with a vengeful killer. You can kill only monsters - brutally, viciously, but monsters. And yes, you can play a slasher.Ī slasher can even be a protagonist - you don't have to be Jason, though you can be.
They find a way to excuse killing not just a witch, but all of her family, to bleed out the magic in the blood. But sometimes, it's a killing team - exponentially more dangerous. But you can't make a deal with a serial killer, can you? It's not impossible, but who wants to try? And worse - hunters have the advantage of numbers and teamwork.but sometimes, so do slashers. And in the World of Darkness, slashers are some of the worst things for a hunter to face. The idea of the slasher dates back to maybe Psycho, Black Christmas and, in more modern days, Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw. Slashers are the perfect predators, no longer truly human. Honeyed words to charm anyone with, literally controlling minds. And from the darkness that remains, sometimes, power comes. Sometimes, all that killing changes these people. There's a ritual to it - it has to be done right. And these people, they can't stop at one. It might be there from birth, might be forced on them by circumstance. Because something inside them forces them to kill. Not for passion or for revenge or bad decisions. Don't let that fool you - it's a Hunter book. Technically, Slasher is a blue book - a core World of Darkness line, rather than Hunter. 2e's been much better about 'Morality' by making it, well, not Morality. A Brief History of Murder posted by Mors Rattus Original SA post
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