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	'''Brute:''' One could say that these Slashers are more like animals than people, but animals aren't capable of sadism like they are. A Brute lives only for the hunt and the kill, contempt for human weakness estranging the Brute from the rest of the human race. Exceptionally dangerous at close range and nearly impossible to stop when they've found a victim, a Brute out for blood is a killing machine, shrugging off pain, fatigue, and injury in the pursuit of their prey. Their bloodlust makes them less perceptive though, and with care one can avoid a Brute who has not spotted its prey yet. Drawn from movies like ''Ravenous'' and ''The People Under The Stairs''.		'''Brute:''' One could say that these Slashers are more like animals than people, but animals aren't capable of sadism like they are. A Brute lives only for the hunt and the kill, contempt for human weakness estranging the Brute from the rest of the human race. Exceptionally dangerous at close range and nearly impossible to stop when they've found a victim, a Brute out for blood is a killing machine, shrugging off pain, fatigue, and injury in the pursuit of their prey. Their bloodlust makes them less perceptive though, and with care one can avoid a Brute who has not spotted its prey yet. Drawn from movies like ''Ravenous'' and ''The People Under The Stairs''.

	'''Charmer:''' A rather friendly and affable sort at first glance, a Charmer will appear nice, help you out, win your trust and then strap you to a rack and work you over with a blowtorch as he mocks your decision to trust him. Often the product of abuse in their childhood, Charmers are obsessed with vulnerability and punishment, frequently abhorring sex as well. They will find a victim, win their trust until they let down their guard, then do whatever horrible thing it is they do. Those who trust them tend to make all kinds of excuses for them and dismiss any implied wrongdoings, all the way until they are the next victim. The particular worldview of a Charmer is also their greatest weakness: if someone resists their charm or sets them off in another way, a Charmer will lash out, often violently, revealing themselves in the process. Based on the likes of Stuntman Mike from ''Death Proof'' and ~~Preacher Powell~~ from ''Wolf Creek''.		'''Charmer:''' A rather friendly and affable sort at first glance, a Charmer will appear nice, help you out, win your trust and then strap you to a rack and work you over with a blowtorch as he mocks your decision to trust him. Often the product of abuse in their childhood, Charmers are obsessed with vulnerability and punishment, frequently abhorring sex as well. They will find a victim, win their trust until they let down their guard, then do whatever horrible thing it is they do. Those who trust them tend to make all kinds of excuses for them and dismiss any implied wrongdoings, all the way until they are the next victim. The particular worldview of a Charmer is also their greatest weakness: if someone resists their charm or sets them off in another way, a Charmer will lash out, often violently, revealing themselves in the process. Based on the likes of Stuntman Mike from ''Death Proof'' and Mick Taylor from ''Wolf Creek''.

	'''Freak/Undesirable:''' Physically deformed and shunned by humanity or perhaps simply believing themselves to be thus ostracized, Freaks want revenge on the world for rejecting them. They get it by performing the most depraved sorts of acts on their victims. They often grow attachments to people (like their family or other Freaks) or places and know their environments to an almost supernatural degree. Freaks sometimes team up with a supernatural being as an Igor of some kind, but sooner or later they realize they are being used, which inevitably results in the death of either the Freak or the supernatural. Because of their worldviews and hideous appearances, Freaks are very bad at social interaction. Based on monstrous killers like Francis Dolarhyde from ''Red Dragon'' and Leatherface from ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre''; note that after his surgery the former was no longer deformed, but his mutilated psyche still made him a psychotic, dangerous person and a social mess.		'''Freak/Undesirable:''' Physically deformed and shunned by humanity or perhaps simply believing themselves to be thus ostracized, Freaks want revenge on the world for rejecting them. They get it by performing the most depraved sorts of acts on their victims. They often grow attachments to people (like their family or other Freaks) or places and know their environments to an almost supernatural degree. Freaks sometimes team up with a supernatural being as an Igor of some kind, but sooner or later they realize they are being used, which inevitably results in the death of either the Freak or the supernatural. Because of their worldviews and hideous appearances, Freaks are very bad at social interaction. Based on monstrous killers like Francis Dolarhyde from ''Red Dragon'' and Leatherface from ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre''; note that after his surgery the former was no longer deformed, but his mutilated psyche still made him a psychotic, dangerous person and a social mess.

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	===Scourges===		===Scourges===
	'''Legend:''' The evolved form of the Avenger, Legends are Scourges who have transcended mortality to become living slasher myths. They're the murderous boogeymen that people tell stories about, stories that are ultimately all-too-real. Each Legend is, as you'd expect, wrapped up in his or her own personal mythos, gaining strength when others "play their parts" right but also being compelled to obey certain bans or afflicted with banes based on their legends as if they were spirits- nobody's sure if they're just that fixated on their own legend or if it somehow deprives them of free will. Based mostly on urban myth slashers like ''The Hook-Handed Killer'', the ''Lover's Lane Maniac'', or the ''Licking Lunatic'', they also tap into the more "supernatural" slashers from films like the titular character of ''Candyman'' or Freddy Krueger from ''Nightmare on Elm Street''.		'''Legend:''' The evolved form of the Avenger, Legends are Scourges who have transcended mortality to become living slasher myths. They're the murderous boogeymen that people tell stories about, stories that are ultimately all-too-real. Each Legend is, as you'd expect, wrapped up in his or her own personal mythos, gaining strength when others "play their parts" right but also being compelled to obey certain bans or afflicted with banes based on their legends as if they were spirits- nobody's sure if they're just that fixated on their own legend or if it somehow deprives them of free will. Based mostly on urban myth slashers like ''The Hook-Handed Killer'', the ''Lover's Lane Maniac'', or the ''Licking Lunatic'', they also tap into the more "supernatural" slashers from films like the titular character of ''Candyman'' or Freddy Krueger from ''A Nightmare on Elm Street''.

	'''Mask:''' The evolved form of the Brute, Masks are killing machines to an even greater extent than their Ripper counterparts. They are supernaturally durable to a level to make even the monstrous player splats sit up and go "Damn, that's a tough bastard!" ''Any'' attack, no matter how weird or supernatural can only inflict a single point of damage to them. However, this durability doesn't count for shit against booby traps, ambient damage, or other things that aren't actually "attacks" (most likely because otherwise, they'd be nigh-invincible), and they're literally incapable of doing anything that doesn't involve trying to hunt people down and kill them- they can't speak or even understand human language anymore, and extended contact with living things seems to actually cause them pain and a desire to respond with violence. In short, they simply want everything around them to die. Based on super-tough film slashers that never seem to stay dead; the most iconic examples of a Mask are probably Jason Voorhees from the ''Friday the 13th'' films and Michael Myers from ''Halloween''.		'''Mask:''' The evolved form of the Brute, Masks are killing machines to an even greater extent than their Ripper counterparts. They are supernaturally durable to a level to make even the monstrous player splats sit up and go "Damn, that's a tough bastard!" ''Any'' attack, no matter how weird or supernatural can only inflict a single point of damage to them. However, this durability doesn't count for shit against booby traps, ambient damage, or other things that aren't actually "attacks" (most likely because otherwise, they'd be nigh-invincible), and they're literally incapable of doing anything that doesn't involve trying to hunt people down and kill them- they can't speak or even understand human language anymore, and extended contact with living things seems to actually cause them pain and a desire to respond with violence. In short, they simply want everything around them to die. Based on super-tough film slashers that never seem to stay dead; the most iconic examples of a Mask are probably Jason Voorhees from the ''Friday the 13th'' films and Michael Myers from ''Halloween''.

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	{{Topquote\|He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.\|Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil''}}		{{Topquote\|He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.\|Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil''}}

	{{Topquote\|Die monster ~~you~~ don't belong in this world.\| ''Anonymous vampire hunter''}}		{{Topquote\|Die, monster. You don't belong in this world.\| ''Anonymous vampire hunter''}}

	''Two words: Fuck monsters.''		''Two words: Fuck monsters.''

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	''Yeah, you don't understand because you haven't been doing it too long. Give it time. Pretty soon you'll realize that you can't trust anyone anymore.''		''Yeah, you don't understand because you haven't been doing it too long. Give it time. Pretty soon you'll realize that you can't trust anyone anymore.''

	...Of course, by that point, it might be wise to remember ~~the quote on the top~~. And sure enough, an alarming amount of Hunters tend to devolve into Slashers: lunatics whose obsession with killing for its own sake grants them limited supernatural abilities which make them the perfect serial killers.		...Of course, by that point, it might be wise to remember Nietzsche's warning. And sure enough, an alarming amount of Hunters tend to devolve into Slashers: lunatics whose obsession with killing for its own sake grants them limited supernatural abilities which make them the perfect serial killers.

	'''Hunter: the Vigil''' is another ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' attempt at adapting part of the Old, in this case, ''[[Hunter: The Reckoning]]''. However, it is in many ways a superior game, with less broken magical powers and ill-thought-out ideas, and more being a squishy human surrounded by terrible threats that will tear away at your sanity, soul, and flesh. If that sounds [[grimdark]] as shit, that's only because it is. It literally has a spin-off game, ''Slashers'', devoted to playing as one of the above-mentioned Slashers so you too can play a murderous psycho who wouldn't be out of place in... well, a slasher movie.		'''Hunter: the Vigil''' is another ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' attempt at adapting part of the Old, in this case, ''[[Hunter: The Reckoning]]''. However, it is in many ways a superior game, with less broken magical powers and ill-thought-out ideas, and more being a squishy human surrounded by terrible threats that will tear away at your sanity, soul, and flesh. If that sounds [[grimdark]] as shit, that's only because it is. It literally has a spin-off game, ''Slashers'', devoted to playing as one of the above-mentioned Slashers so you too can play a murderous psycho who wouldn't be out of place in... well, a slasher movie.

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	{{Topquote\|He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.\|Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil''}}		{{Topquote\|He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.\|Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil''}}

	{{Topquote\|Die monster you ~~dont~~ belong in this world.\| ''Anonymous vampire hunter''}}		{{Topquote\|Die monster you don't belong in this world.\| ''Anonymous vampire hunter''}}

	''Two words: Fuck monsters.''		''Two words: Fuck monsters.''

65.108.50.207: Compared to true supernaturals you are human power even if just the mere awakening to the ability to detect monsters is a horrifying experience as you as a human are seen as crazy by the rest of your kind and are outnumbered by evil in the world of darkness.

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Compared to true supernaturals you are human power even if just the mere awakening to the ability to detect monsters is a horrifying experience as you as a human are seen as crazy by the rest of your kind and are outnumbered by evil in the world of darkness.

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	{{Topquote\|He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.\|Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil''}}		{{Topquote\|He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.\|Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil''}}

			{{Topquote\|Die monster you dont belong in this world.\| ''Anonymous vampire hunter''}}

	''Two words: Fuck monsters.''		''Two words: Fuck monsters.''
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	''Fine, I'll give you a longer explanation, but I've got to be quick, the bastard MIBs are probably already tracking this. '''Hunter the Vigil''' is a [[World of Darkness]] game line, back when [[White Wolf]] was still a thing. See, some people didn't want to play as an undead rapist or a lunatic witch. But they didn't want to just sit around and act like they could just ignore the terror in the world as a plain ol' mortal. White Wolf already tried hunters [[Hunter: The Reckoning\|once]]. Time to try it again.''		''Fine, I'll give you a longer explanation, but I've got to be quick, the bastard MIBs are probably already tracking this. '''Hunter the Vigil''' is a [[World of Darkness]] game line, back when [[White Wolf]] was still a thing. See, some people didn't want to play as an undead rapist or a lunatic witch. But they didn't want to just sit around and act like they could just ignore the terror in the world as a plain ol' mortal. White Wolf already tried hunters [[Hunter: The Reckoning\|once]]. Time to try it again.''

	''See, these hunters don't ''all'' get powers. Hell, a lot of them don't even know what they're fighting. You want to be a hard working sonuvabitch that's got his buddies and baseball bats to beat down that drug dealer or monster hanging around your kids' school? Do it. Want to be part of an organization of basement dwelling fuckups who use cameras to film demon summoning ceremonies to upload to YouTube? Done. A descendant of Hell itself? Do you want to throw fireballs or get the ability to summon demons?''		''See, these hunters don't ''all'' get powers. Hell, a lot of them don't even know what they're fighting. You want to be a hard working sonuvabitch that's got his buddies and baseball bats to beat down that drug dealer or monster hanging around your kids' school? Do it. Want to larp as paladin knights that can exterminate monsters with nothing but the power of faith? Done. Want to join a cult of thinbloods and ghouls obsessed with revenge against vampires? Done. Want to be part of an organization of basement dwelling fuckups who use cameras to film demon summoning ceremonies to upload to YouTube? Done. A descendant of Hell itself? Do you want to throw fireballs or get the ability to summon demons? [[Heresy\|Power always comes with a price]]!''

	''I don't think I need to say it, but since you don't know anything about how the world really is, I'll tell you. Hunter doesn't get along too well with the characters of the other New World of Darkness game lines. You're supposed to be staking vampires that kill people, or cutting up fairies with iron daggers, why the fuck should there be any playing nice?''		''I don't think I need to say it, but since you don't know anything about how the world really is, I'll tell you. Hunter doesn't get along too well with the characters of the other New World of Darkness game lines. You're supposed to be staking vampires that kill people, or cutting up fairies with iron daggers, why the fuck should there be any playing nice?''