Friday The 13th : Homecoming

[horrordaily]

The year is 1985; Back To The Future just came out in theaters, big clothing and bigger hair is the trend, Reagan just started his second term. A year ago Jason Voorhees died at the hands of Tommy Jarvis. Jarvis has become the stuff of legends in Crystal Lake with half the citizens viewing him as a hero; the other half believing his cosy white walled room an appropriate epilogue.
The summer is nearing and the camp isn’t going to set itself up. For the first time in years everyone believes that it’ll be safe to go back out to the lake. Many signup as counselors, it looks like drugs and teenage desires finally have their playground back. But little do they know that Jason’s story is far from over.

I joined this site in order to play a Friday The 13th game which died before it began, so I decided I'd run one. I’m a huge fan of the series and strive to do it justice. I believe setting it shortly after the fourth film will allow for some of the more interesting lore of the series to play out, as well as eliminating the unholy contraption known as the“cellphone”.

Rules:

- Characters can and will die. This can not be helped.

- The story starts with the players arriving - their own choice how - to the camp a week before the grand re-opening to help set up.

- There will be provided a detailed description of the camp, the cabins, as well as the nearby town of Crystal Lake

- Each player can have up to two characters.

- Slasher movies in general are known to have lots of sex, blood and gore. Just stay true to the board rules and we won’t have a problem.

- As DM I will have final say on accepting characters and deciding the deaths.

Character Sheet

Name:
Age: (18-25)
Gender:
Bio: (What brought you to take this summer job, etc)
Personality: (What makes you tick, what do you embody)
Appearance: (Pictures welcome but write up needed)

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Amy Cunningham
20
Female

A Reagan-child coping the only way she knows how: smoking joints and crushing beers.

Amy coasted breezily through the hierarchy of SoCal's public school system as a bombshell blonde with an unplaceable confidence, landing unconventionally somewhere between the rich kids, the surfers/skaters, and the punks. Her style always crossed clique-thresholds, dressing partly like a yuppie chick with just enough rebellion and punk aesthetic to start the next trend. She was the girl you wanted at your party if you wanted it to be a good time, she was the the only girl at Carver High that could skate a pool, and she wasn't afraid to bust your nose in the pit if it came to it. Amy was cool for reasons that the guys understood but the other girls just couldn't get, not that they spent their time trying to figure her out (that would take away from time spent fawning over Luke & Bo Duke).

Born to a single mother who's second-half hit the trail before even her second trimester, Amy always gravitated towards the boys in school. She found a better peer match in the rowdy, and testosterone filled than the too-fluffy haired mini-women that stayed locked in daddy's mansion, curling their hair and flipping through teen-mags they stole from their older sisters. They taught her how to skate, roll a joint, surf, and shotgun a beer. By high school the girls she had ignored were interested in the boys she would hang with. She had become the most legendary wingman and could skate well enough to warrant a few groupies herself. The guys loved her. The girls loved her, but more importantly they hated her.

A few years after high school her mother passed and she was uprooted and planted into Levittown, New York. A tiny and identical-to-the-next suburban nightmare owned by her aunt. Goodbye freedom and goodbye acting career. Hello Long Island.

Begrudgingly, she took a lead from her Aunt Lynn and applied to be a camp counselor in Crystal Lake, New Jersey. It was something to get her off Long Island for the summer. It was the "anything" or "whatever" to get out of the dreaded suburb of Levittown, and hey, in the process of leading a bunch of children to having a great summer, maybe she'd get loaded and maybe she'd get laid. It sounded like a good enough escape at the time.

[horrordaily]

One dimensional and a stoner?

Dear god, good sir, you clearly understand Friday The 13th. Accepted.

[SaraRPs]

Ok I was born ALOT of years after 1985 so I gotta get into my 80s mindset. Cue Def Leppard, Micheal Jackson, and Bob Seger!

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it's a work in progress, I'm not quite finished with it yet. I'll give her a little more depth but not too much hahaha

I LOVE the idea of setting this after The Final Chapter though!

[horrordaily]

Before the tragedy that was New Blood. :p.

[SaraRPs]

Appearance: Natural brunette wears her hair down mostly letting the waves shoot out and poof up. Nicole has light brown eyes and a pale complexion with a scar on her left cheek that’s barely visible. She has a really rocking body from religiously going on daily runs, but hides it under her baggy frumpy wardrobe.
Name: Nicole Carlee
Nickname(s): Her parent’s calls her Nikki but, she really doesn't like it.
Age: 18
Gender: Female

Bio: Having just graduated high school, Nicole wants nothing more for fall to hurry up so she can get herself and her big scholarship to college and away from her lame, spazzy parents. But fall can’t come soon enough for her so she signed up for this summer camp job, looking for the teenage life experience that she missed out, once again thanks to her parents. Though she really didn’t care throughout high school about not smoking yet, or getting wasted, or even getting to 3rd base (Or any base for that matter..) She’s just hoping for some freedom and a chance to begin her new life.

Personality: “My personality? Well ok…um I think that sometimes I let people push me over and I let them use me. I gotta work on that. I get tongue-tied a lot and don’t know what to say that’s why people used to call me, ‘Mousy Nikki’ cause they automatically assumed that I was a shy freak. But really I’m not, it’s just I get nervous in front of people and they always ask stupid questions and, especially teenagers if you don’t say the status quo your labeled as a mental case or something. I just want to be me and I think and believe in the best in people, and that everyone can be good. I’m naive, yes but I’m not an idiot. And don’t you get me mad…good god I do crazy shit when I’m pissed.”

[horrordaily]

Accepted.

Also, may find this useful :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_in_the_United_States

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horrordaily said
Before the tragedy that was New Blood. :p.

hehehe, you should name the thread Friday the 13th Part V: Homecoming and we can give the series the Part V it deserved! though I did like a good deal of that movie outside of the whole

spoiler

Jason not being the killer thing

, that was a huge bummer

Jason Lives might just be my favorite sequel.

[horrordaily]

Jason Lives was fantasy, though I think my favorite rests with New Blood since it marks Kane Hodder's first step into the role of Jason.

I'm about 90% done creating the map (had to learn the damned program and even then it's designed for fantasy so the buildings look ancient - just ignore that part and go with the listing. I looked up Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco - where the first movie was filmed - to ground it a little closer to the films; though of course it's a little different.

[SaraRPs]

There were too many movies to keep track of for me I just watched the first one...

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Jason Lives was basically Scream before Scream so it gets huge props from me, I love the quasi-parody tone.

sounds good, I'm watching Halloween III so I should be around for a few more hours before whatever I end up doing tonight. if you need help with anything thread-wise let me know. I'll be around WAY later tonight and tomorrow too.

SaraRPs said
There were to many movies to keep track of for me I just watched the first one...

The Final Chapter is like the quintessential Friday flick (definitely watch that one), not my favorite though.

[horrordaily]

Halloween III, what a great film. It only suffers because of it's name. I actually have a poster signed by Tom Atkins. As well as the cover for the first film as a tattoo. (I, kinda, maybe, love horror)

[SaraRPs]

I take it y'all are 80s kids then?

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that's awesome. horror is definitely my favorite genre, I hear you there.

nope! early 90s hehe

[SaraRPs]

Late 90s brat right here lol.

[horrordaily]

1990 and still kicking.

I use to get paid to write about horror when I was running Horror Daily; had 45,000 followers on the blog before issues lead to it's destruction. Just rebooted under a different name, starting first with a look at Hellraiser.

[SaraRPs]

Wow shame to hear that happened man.

[horrordaily]

Nah, something bad can only be a shame if you let it get to you. The trick to life is getting up, brushing the dirt off, and walking away with a lesson. I learned the value of good security :p

[SaraRPs]

Great way to look at it. I'd probably be sulking in a corner.