Welcome to the Horrorshow
The Horrorshow is one horror/mystery/supernatural game with two separate campaigns, two different groups of players and characters that will intertwine and cross over. It uses a hack of the SUPERS! system which I, imaginatively, call HORRORS!. It's a simple, light, flexible system that plays beautifully, and everything you need to know is available in the game. I'm looking for 2-4 players for each group, with an expected posting rate of 2-3 per week.
The two stories are:
Revenants
The characters in Revenants are mediators, people with a connection to the spirit world – paranormal investigators who are themselves paranormal; ghost hunters who are themselves haunted. They are people who came close to death or crossed over to the other side and were resuscitated... different. They are the ones who've always known they had an invisible friend, a guardian angel, a spectral watcher in their lives.
The ability to see across the veil to the Otherside, to attract the notice of its inhabitants makes it difficult to live a normal life in many ways. Luckily, the characters have found a strange job that makes use of their talents. They work for Harrison Property Remediation, a company that specialises in cleansing buildings of asbestos, narcotics residue and industrial contamination – and quietly, on the side, offers a service that removes lingering problems of an unearthly nature. Secular exorcists for hire, and sometimes police consultants on cases that defy all sense.
Revenants is fighting ectoplasm with ectoplasm. It's Ghostbusters with the tone of True Detective. It's the illegitimate spawn of The Ghost Whisperer and The X-Files.
Final Girls
The characters in Final Girls are victims. At least, that was the plan. They are the sole survivors of the depredations of serial killers and rampages of mass murderers that may have claimed the lives of many of their friends, families and innocent bystanders. Where others broke in fear and died screaming, they found within themselves a reserve of inner strength, a resourcefulness, maybe a simple desperation to live. They faced down murderers who turned out to be a little bit more – or a lot less – than human. And they killed them, or beat them, or trapped them, or at least escaped them.
No one walks away from that unscathed. Diagnosed with PTSD, the characters are sent to Taking Back the Night, a support group for victims of violence, run by a woman with a similar experience to them, Dr. Lorelei Romed. There they discover each others' stories, and learn that there are more of these inhuman killers that Romed calls rippers out there. Having been touched by such abhorrent savagery, can they really sit by and let others suffer as they have?
Hell no.
Final Girls is about victims empowering themselves, one smashed-in hockey mask at a time. It's Scooby Doo through the lens of The Green Room. It's Buffy the Vampire Slayer's punk sister. It's the action of Supernatural meets the bleakness of Millennium.
If either of these sound of interest to you, check out the game for further information and drop me an RTJ!
