Jason Voorhees: Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees: Friday the 13th

Version 1.1 Written by Charles W. Plemons III (mailto:%20black.falcon@home.com) Edited by Betty D. Plemons Produced by the Black Falcon Aerie; http://www.wku.edu/~charles/

Version 1.0 September 7, 1998 Version 1.1 October 17, 1998

Yeah, that really scared the shit out of him. ~ Elizabeth, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives Authors Notes This work is based on the nine films in the Friday the 13th series and relies heavily upon ideas proposed in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. This is simply one possible way to involve Jason Voorhees in a Chronicle. No doubt, new updates will be made after the upcoming release of New Line's Jason vs. Freddy film (tentatively titled A Nightmare on Friday the 13th). Please visit my web page (http://www.wku.edu/~charles/) for updates of this and other World of Darkness projects. This may be freely distributed by anyone in any format as long as credit is given to the author but cannot be distributed for profit for any reason. Known History On Friday, June 13, 1946, a boy named Jason Voorhees was born. He lived near Camp Crystal Lake with his mother Pamela for 11 years until the summer of 1957, when he drowned in Crystal Lake. He died due to the negligance of two camp councselors who decided to fool around rather than watch the children. His death drove poor Pamela over the edge. She proceeded to start fires and perform other terrorist acts in an attempt to close the camp. In her mind, she was doing the world a favor by keeping other children from dying at the camp. Despite Pamela's efforts, the camp was re-opened numerous times. Finally, the unhinged
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Mrs. Voorhees started murdering camp counselors. By that time, she could not differentiate between them and the counselors from years ago and held them all accountable for her son's death. Her killing spree claimed ten lives before she was decapitated by one of the counselors, Alice, the sole survivor. Unfortunately for Alice, she was murdered by an unknown assailant a few months after the massacre, and the case was never solved. A few years later, Camp Crystal Lake was re-opened, and the murders began again. Somehow, a hulking Jason Voorhees had returned from the grave and was killing everyone around Crystal Lake. The deformed Jason masked his hideous visage with a pillow case pulled over his head. This brutal killer was brought down by a female counselor who cleaved him with a machette. Unsurprisingly, Jason did not die from the machette wound, and the murders soon began again. Jason took a hockey mask from the corpse of one of his victims, donned it, and from that point on was not seen without the mask. Many more people died before an axe wound to the head seemed to kill the brute. Jason's body was carted to the local morgue where he did, of course, revive. He carved a bloody trail straight back to Crystal Lake, but he was brought down by a twelveyear-old boy named Tommy Jarvis who freaked out and began hacking into Jason with a large machette. Jason was dead and buried, but poor Tommy went insane. Tommy Jarvis spent the rest of his childhood being transferred from one institution to another until finally ending up at a home near Crystal Lake. Soon after, "Jason-style" murders began again. Everyone immediately suspected that Tommy had flipped out and was emulating the psycho Jason. It was discovered that Jason Voorhees was not the killer this time, but neither was Tommy. A local man had gone crazy after the murder of his son, and he was venting his rage by pretending to be Mr. Voorhees. Still haunted by the memory of Jason, Tommy decided to destroy the body of his nemesis. Thus, Tommy returned to Crystal Lake and dug up Jason's body. In a fit of rage, he began stabbing the corpse with a large iron spike, but as Tommy prepared to burn the body, a bolt of lightning struck the spike, and Jason Voorhees re-animated. Tommy eventually succeeded in trapping Jason at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Of course, Jason did not remain there, but was accidentally freed by a young psychokinetic woman. Once again, he began killing everyone at Camp Crystal Lake that he could. Eventually, he was dragged back to the bottom of the lake, but a few years later, a passing boat's anchor snagged his body and pulled it into some submerged cables. A jolt passed through the body, and Jason came rushing to the surface.
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Jason rode on the boat to the river and out to sea. He climbed onto a cruise ship and began killing everyone aboard. The ship sank, and Jason went with the survivors to Manhattan where he ran amok until being killed in the sewers. Years later, murders once again started at Camp Crystal Lake. The FBI sent a special team to hunt the killer, and Jason Voorhees was blown to pieces. The FBI gathered up all the parts of his body and returned to Washington D.C. to study them. Once there, Jason's spirit possessed one of the agents and headed straight back to Crystal Lake. Jason was forced to jump from body to body as only a Voorhees could sustain his spirit. He tried to possess his baby relative, but he was stopped at every turn. Finally, he was able to inhabit the dead body of his sister and return to his full terrifying strength. However, he was killed and his soul was sent to hell where, to this day, he is thought to remain. The Man Behind the Mask What is Jason Voorhees, and why can't he be stopped? After Jason's death in 1957, his mother went insane and began dabbling in the occult. Her grief caused her to desperately search for a way to bring her son back to her. In a way, Pamela succeeded. Using knowledge gleaned from the Sumerian Necronomicon (the Book of the Dead), Mrs. Voorhees attempted to summon Jason's soul back to his body, but instead, she brought forth a demon from the pits of hell. This demon possessed the dead body of young Jason. Having been summoned by Pamela, the demon was forced to serve her will by taking the role of her son. After her death, the demon was free from the bindings imposed by Mrs. Voorhees. This demonic entity was confined to the area surrounding Crystal Lake. Jason was able to leave the area for short times, but always headed back at the first opportunity. While on Earth, Jason has been effectively immortal. Serious wounds have had little effect on the body, resulting in a nearly unstoppable creature. The entity inside Jason Voorhees is utterly evil. It cannot be killed by conventional means, and it passes that on to its host. The demon is about a foot and a half in length and resembles a skeletal lizard with only two legs. It is rarely seen, as it resides inside the heart of Jason. If Jason's body is utterly destroyed, the demon can possess any other human being. Unfortunately for the demon, other bodies are not as functional as Jason's. Thus, it must continuously switch from body to body. If the demon can enter the body of a blood relative of Jason Voorhees, then it regains full strength and once again looks like the hulking monstrosity known as Jason. What is not known is how much of the real Jason's personality survives. It is entirely possible that "Jason Voorhees" is solely a corpse animated by a demon and is in no way influenced by the long dead child. If this is the case, then Jason Voorhees is not a murderer, his body is
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simply being used by one of the hellspawn. At times Jason has shown some recognition for others, such as his mother Pamela. In fact, he even avenged her murder. However, it is not uncommon for summoned minions to seek revenge for the death of their masters. This raises the question, what of the real Jason Voorhees' soul? Has he been damned by his mother's actions and forced to co-reside with this demonic entity in his decaying corpse? Perhaps he does, and perhaps he enjoys it. Abilities and Characteristics Damage Resistance: Jason Voorhees is extremely resistant to damage, being able to take tremendous amounts of punishment with little effect. The massive and brutal killer has Health Levels of OK, OK, OK, OK, -1, -1, -2, -2, -5, Incapacitated. In addition, Jason automatically soaks one level of damage when wounded. Iron Will: The demonic Jason Voorhees cannot be Dominated or influenced with powers such as Presence. Such powers simply fail when used against him. However, being a demonic entity, he is susceptible to magicks and wards against the forces of hell. It is reasonable to assume that he could be affected by True Faith as well. Physical Prowess: The demon possessing the body of Jason has drastically increased the mass of the corpse until it is a hulking monster. Jason dwarves most people, and his strength is phenominal. Consider him to have Strength and Stamina of 8. Regeneration: Much like a werewolf, Jason recovers a Health Level of damage every turn he is not in combat. This regeneration ends when reduced to below Incapacitated. Also, he cannot regenerate aggravated damage. Jason takes aggravated damage from certain supernatural attacks (vampire fangs, werewolf claws, Prime magicks, etc.) as well as from wounds inflicted by his blood relatives. Jason will regenerate a level of aggravated damage every day. It is important to note that fire does not inflict aggravated damage upon him. Fighting the Demon As most anyone could tell you, Jason Voorhees is not one easily defeated. Many have tried, but no one has been able to keep this monster down. Numerous times, Jason has been sorely wounded, only to come back at a later date. It seems that coincidence has also played a part in his continued existence. A few times, a large jolt of electricity has re-awakened the demon inside of Jason. If Jason Voorhees is wounded with aggravated damage to the point of Incapacitation, he goes dormant. He will remain in this state until his awakening is triggered by outside stimulous. For example, jolts of electricity, psychokinetic disturbances, etc. Once re-awakened, Jason is at full strength. No matter how much damage is inflicted upon him, he cannot be killed on Earth. If his corpus is destroyed, the demon inside of him will possess another human being.

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The demon can attempt to possess a human if a piece of Jason's body is within 20 feet of a viable candidate (treat the possession as a resisted Willpower roll, Jason needs 5 successes to possess). Once in a new host, the demon will seek out a relative of Jason Voorhees. If he can find a relative, dead or alive, he can take over that body and resume his normal form. In any body other than that of a Voorhees, normal decay sets in immediately, and the corpse can literally fall apart around him if he does not switch bodies. If Jason can grapple an opponent, he can automatically possess his victim. It takes 2 turns for the demon to crawl out of his current host's mouth and down the throat of his victim. This possess is automatic if not interrupted. If Jason's victim has a Willpower of 7 or higher, he can influence Jason's actions up to twice a day. Otherwise the victim has no control over the possessed body. Once the demon leaves a body, the corpse begins to rapidly decay, becoming a skeleton in minutes. In a body other than a Voorhees, Jason is somewhat weakened. He only has a Strength and Stamina of 6, but other abilities remain. His biggest limitation is that he must find new bodies to possess from time to time. It is this ability that has allowed the apparently destroyed Jason to return to Camp Blood time after time. One has to wonder, how deep must blood ties run for Jason to be able to possess a relative? Destroying the body is not the only way to combat Jason. At times, he has been temporarily stopped by such acts as chaining him to the bottom of the lake where he drowned. He remained thus until accidentally freed by a psychic. There are numerous such methods for fighting Jason, which could work with mixed results. If Jason cannot be sent back to hell, capturing him in some way is a viable option. Murderer Par Excellance Jason Voorhees is one of the most notorious serial killers in the World of Darkness, having committed at least 125 counts of murder in the first degree in the past twenty years. Jason does not have a preferred method of murder, seeming to kill indiscriminately with whatever is at hand, including his bare hands. He is ruthless and some of his tactics are listed here for those unfamiliar with the Friday the 13th series. Machettes: Jason often ends up with a machette. If any weapon could be considered his "favorite", it is this. He has been known to slash and stab with it, or even hack bodies to pieces. Three of Jason's 125 murders happened with one swing of a machette when he decapitated three people at once. Thrown Objects: Jason is deadly accurate with thrown items. He does not normally carry weapons specifically for throwing, but if he happens to be near one, he won't hesitate to use it. He is infamous for some long distance shots that he has made, as well
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as the brutal power behind such a toss. He has been observed throwing a dart through a man's skull from some distance away. Brute Strength: Jason's strength is unsurpassed. One of his most famous tactics is to grab a person's head with both hands and crush the skull. He has also been known to snap the spine of his victims or break their necks. At times he has even twisted the head off a person's body. Jason has, on numerous occasions, simply punched his hand through the torso of his victims. Miscellaneous Acts of Cruelty: Few killers are as creative as Jason Voorhees. In his twenty years, he has shoved garden shears into a woman's eyes, wrapped a strap around a man's head and twisted it until his skull crushed, and worse. In one of his most famous murders, he grabbed a woman in her sleeping bag and whipped her into a tree with enough force to kill her. Never underestimate Jason, as he can turn any situation into a deadly one. He has no remorse and is driven by pure hatred. His extreme strength makes him deadly with anything that he cares to use as a weapon. As many of his victims are dismembered or decapitated, he is very dangerous to supernatural creatures. Use in the World of Darkness Kindred: Jason has yet to encounter any of the Kindred, but they are not immune to his predations. If necessary, it is possible for the demon to possess a vampire. It would still be subject to the restrictions of vampires (sunlight, etc.), but it would gain the enhanced physical nature as well. Ghouls can also be possessed. Jason Voorhees cannot be made a ghoul or vampire, nor can he be Blood Bound. Changing Breeds: As Jason haunts the forests of New York, it is only a matter of time before he meets up with some of the were-creatures. As Garou inflict aggravated damage and travel in packs, it is likely that Jason would be put into one of his dormant states. Garou can be possessed just like humans. Garou have no innate resistance to this or special powers against the demon, as it stems from Hell, not the Umbra. Mages: Being more powerful than the average person, mages have a greater chance of surviving an encounter with Voorhees. A powerful mage may even be able to send Jason back to hell for all time. An enterprising Nephandus may try to ally with or control Jason. Most likely this would result in a very dead Nephandus. Wraiths: Jason has created 125 potential wraiths. How many are out to avenge their deaths? A wraith could become an unsuspected ally in a Chronicle involving Voorhees. Jason has no innate ability to sense or combat the dead. Changelings: A faerie could very easily die at the hands of Jason; however, if he kills one with cold iron, it is by happenstance, not design. The fey can be possessed by the demon. Mummies: In a way, Jason is very much like a mummy, being able to recover from death. Unlike the Undying, Jason can be finally defeated, it is just yet to happen. Jason

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cannot possess a mummy, even a Bane mummy. Gypsies: Being storytellers by nature, the Rom know to avoid the area of Crystal Lake. But then, how often do gypsies roam the backwoods of New York state? Some of the gypsy charms against evil may well work against Jason Voorhees. Fomori: Jason shares many characteristics with fomori, as both are the results of possession by evil spirits. However, Jason has many significant differences. Jason is not allied with the Wyrm or fomori, and he will kill them just like anyone else. Lucky for the fomori, Jason cannot possess them. Immortals: Jason has not yet fought any Immortals, but it is just a matter of time. Bear in mind that Jason often decapitates his victims, so he is potentially lethal to them. The demon cannot possess an Immortal. Statistics Jason Voorhees: Strength 8 Dexterity 4 Stamina 8 Talents: Alertness 3 Athletics 3 Dodge 1 Intimidation 5 (Physical) Brawl 4 (Crushing) Skills: Hunting 3 Melee 5 (Machettes) Security 2 Stealth 5 (Stalking) Throwing 4 (Knives) Tracking 2 Knowledges: Area Knowledge: Camp Crystal Lake 4 Occult 4 (Demonology) Willpower 8 Bibliography Charisma 1 Manipulation 3 Appearance 0 Perception 4 Intelligence 2 Wits 3

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Without these sources, this work would not have been possible. Movies Friday the 13th Friday the 13th Part 2 Friday the 13th Part 3 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Friday the 13th Part V: New Beginning Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
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