LIFE OF A HUNTER

21-35
Single
Renter
High school or GED graduate
Misdemeanor record
$40-100k debt
Chronic medical conditions
Working full-time elsewhere
LGBTQ+

Some hunt because they feel it's their calling in life, but most do it, because they are fucking broke and need the money. As a millennial these days, working one day-job just doesn’t cut it!

During the day they pull their 10-16h shifts, during the nights they hunt! In the meantime they worry about where to get the next meal, calculate how much late fees they'll have to pay on their rent that has been due 2 weeks ago, and wonder if they have already cut the electricity.

If is healthy, debt-free and comfortably living a good life, they don’t hunt monsters during the night.

Hunters are usually somehow messed up in more than one way, and hunting can be part of trying to deal with that (on a financial, social or psychological level).

Of course, just because they are messed up, doesn’t mean their life is complete shit.

No, they do have things that keep them going, and a good portion of gallows humor doesn’t hurt either, when trying to deal with everyday existential dread and being confronted with the supernatural that lives alongside them.

Yes, there are some people who grew up being trained to be hunters, but those are rare these days, and they usually stay among themselves.

iHunters most likely had a run in with the supernatural at one point or another and once you've seen it,

you either try and deny the existence of monsters for the rest of your life... or you can't unsee it, and you start hunting them – especially when it helps you pay your rent and buy groceries.

Let's be honest, Knights are the ones that are doing the actual hunting and killing, right? No, for sure, Phooeys, Evileenas, 66s, they all help – but as a Knight it's your task is to finish the job. You do the running, the punching, the killing. Cause most things die if you just hit them quite hard enough.

Some knights focus on technique and finesse in how to use their body as a killing machine, others make use of the specific settings of the hunting environment, and yet others use their team as bait – but we all trust each other, right?

A Knight's body is shaped to fight, not to feel – if you are completely honest, you didn’t feel yourself in a while now, but that also means you don't feel much of the pain that is inflicted when confronting monsters. 

rebelXkid

ok ok, but what if I would wanna try it? How would

I do it best?

vampKiller420

so. You could – potentially – try it from above. You know, next to the neck, just above

the collarbone. And just,

stab downwards.

rebelXkid

uhm... okay? Isn't that kind of

a long way down to the heart?

vampKiller420

I TOLD YOU ITS GONNA

BE TOUGH!

vampKiller420

Listen, putting a stake through a vamps heart is gonna be tough. Don't even try to get it through the ribs! It's gonna take too much time and you'll get yourself killed!

You use tools because that’s what separates us from the animals, right? But more importantly, tools are what separates us from monsters. From the mindless, primordial horrors who can’t even comprehend language, to the ancient who can’t keep up with changing technology, the tools you have are what keep you alive.

You use technology more than most hunters, working well with a team as surveillance or crowd control, you set traps, you hack cameras, you drive the escape car. In a sense, you're the McGyver of your team and have a talent for spontaneous ideas, using the resources at your disposal to the maximal effect.

You’re not a coward, you just know there’s no reason to put your body on the line when you’ve got the skills to do otherwise.

5tart3ch

Yooo, check out the werewolf trap I built! Took me two days, but I think it can finally be tested in the field.

tech_boiiI

Neat, what did you use for the snap mechanism? Is that a car suspension?

5tart3ch

Yep, disassembled my old Fiat since I had to total it when we escaped the golem last week.

tech_boiii:

Ah, shame. Well, at least you

could use the wreck for

something

5tart3ch

I don't waste ;)

Where the Knights fight with their bodies and the Phooeys with their gadgets, you use your mind as a weapon. You're the most active on all hunter forums to discuss the best way to banish a gremlin, you exchange knowledge about rituals and spend hours in libraries, searching in old books for hidden secrets on a vampire's weaknesses.

You know what monsters don't want you to know and use it against them, because if you don't use every tool at your disposal, someday darkness will overtake the world.

Which is a really, really dramatic way to say: Fuck the shadows, bind them, burn them, bring them to ash.

bookworm2010

Hey, does any of you have some reliable sources for banishing a revenge ghost? I found some rituals, but the websites they're from are kinda outdated and I don't wanna lose my team because of some wook bullshit.

evileye69

Yeah, be careful with those,

I heard of some knight being absolutely wrecked by one because they fucked up the ritual. Gotta be very precise there.

wytchesbrew

There are some good ones in the ghost hunting subforum

I'll send you the link

via PM

For the people we fight – with the people we fight. As a 66 you understand the power of the people and know how to use them to get information, gain access, to create a diversion. You know how to make yourself blend in with whatever crowd, you know how to mobilize your community, to take advantage of the kids on the street who gather information, of the conspiracy theorists that would jump on the chance to make noise about something.

You always seem to know just the right person, just the right place – but do you maybe trust others a bit too much? You can play so many roles, put on so many different masks – but do you still know who you are yourself?

When it comes to hunting, you rely on your carefully constructed plans, leading monsters exactly where you want them to be. Of course, you might need some muscle to finish the job, so a Knight is useful every now and then; and the Phooeys have helped in the past with their techy stuff; and yes, you have also get useful information from Evileenas. But without you setting the scene, the hunt would not really work now, would it?

Cyb3rSlay3r

it's gonna go down in

3min Police just entered

West Street

MasterMind66

ok – kid, are you on position?

You know timing is everything!

rebelXkid

sure, boss! I'll run over once

there is an opening in the crowd.

MasterMind66

good. Cy, your drone ready to distract the security?

Cyb3rSlay3r

of course!

MasterMind66

we gonna get in there as

quick as possible, who knows

what that kid is up to with

the tome, cant risk another

fuckin' demon in our district!!!

MasterMind66

Now – GO!