Jason Parker

**Jason Parker** was the best friend of George Barrow and the tenth target of the Whistling Man. He is voiced by Joshua Manning.

## History

Jason Parker was born around 1950, having been a high school senior at Gallows Creek High School in 1968, where he was an offensive linesman for the football team.

On September 2nd, the players had their first scheduled team party, and recognizing it as the ten-year anniversary of the disappearance of serial killer Edward Marshall Mooney a.k.a. the Whistling Man, some of Jason's teammates, led by Teddy Gallows Jr., thought it would be the perfect opportunity to haze the new members, one of them being Jason's best friend George Barrow. They came up with the idea of staging an attack by the Whistling Man, with Jason participating as the "stabbed friend" to make the prank more convincing. On that night, Jason split from the party to meet the others in on the plan for rehearsal, then playing the part by pretending he was stabbed dead by the Whistling Man, thus causing a panic that would inadvertently cause George to be chased down to his death by an overzealous Teddy at nearby Whistling Point. Afterwards, those involved in the prank, including Jason, were coaxed into staying quiet about the incident by Clive Elforth, an employee of Teddy's father, who intimidated Jason by telling him that he would find himself in prison if the truth were to be revealed. Jason would live the next 19 years living with the guilt of getting his best friend killed, never forgetting the scream George's girlfriend, Marie Campbell, let out while he acted dead.

By September 1987, Jason had made a new best friend, Casey Moore, whom he took to a trip to the nearby reservoir on the night of September 3rd. After around 3 a.m., they had just got back to outside of Jason's place when the pair heard loud whistling from up the road. Jason recognized the tune as being the Whistling Man's and concluding that his past had somehow caught up to him, he ordered Casey to hide and went to confront the Whistling Man by himself. It didn't take long for Jason to realize that the person he was talking to was actually Marie, who had never got over her boyfriend's death and was now seeking revenge on the ones involved in the prank and subsequent coverup. After a brief exchange, Jason was stabbed in the stomach, causing him to collapse to the ground, before he had the knife plunged deep into his leg. Marie then said "It's not so funny now, is it?" and walked off to leave Jason, knife still in the wound, to bleed out. As soon as she was sure the attacker left, Casey rushed to help Jason and carried him into the open garage before calling 911, being reconnected to Forrest Nash of KFAM 189.16 - The Scream. After being informed of the situation, Forrest and his producer, Peggy Weaver, try to contact the hospital to organise transport, but on account of high bed occupancy and the fact that town's only ambulance was destroyed by the Whistling Man two calls ago, a nurse can only give them a run-down of basic first aid before hanging up. Forrest must try to give Casey the right advice on performing make-shift treatment on Jason, but even so, since he is in critical condition, someone with proper medical training needs to be sent over to help.

If Forrest is able to give relay most of the instructions correctly to Casey and then chooses to send over John Hedges to Jason's location, his condition will be sufficiently stabilized to survive another few hours, long enough for him to be driven over to the emergency room to be properly taken care of. Should this happen, John and Casey will call back to say that they're about to leave for the hospital and hand the receiver to Jason, who had insisted on speaking to Forrest. He assures Forrest that he's doing fine all things considered, especially after being given painkillers by John, before turning to his actual reason for wanting to talk, that being the Whistling Man, revealing that he recognized his attacker's voice from the night George Barrow was killed because he never forgot her panicked screaming. After filling Forrest in on the events that led to George's demise, Jason says that it was George's girlfriend "Bean", and is about to say her full name ("M..."), but a power outage prevents this from happening.

During the Whistling Man's interview, Marie recalls Jason being "stabbed" and how she can't imagine what George was feeling when he thought his best friend had been killed. Forrest asks if that's why she went ahead and stabbed him for real in revenge, with Marie simply saying that "it's the role he wanted to play". If Jason survived, Forrest will tell Marie that Jason pulled through thanks to the assistance of his friend she had not seen. Marie sighs at having not succeeded in killing him, but says that he's "going to regret" not "having the good sense to die earlier", indicating that she still plans to go after him, something that is prevented due to police arrival.

## Deaths

* If Forrest gives too much wrong advice to Casey when treating Jason, he will bleed to death, even if John is sent over.
* If Forrest sends anyone other than John, the person arriving will be unable to assist, leading to Jason, no matter what treatment he was given, to die of blood loss.

## Trivia

* If Roller Ricky survives, he will call KFAM before the Jason's call comes in, mentioning having been on the high school football team with Jason. This slightly changes the dialogue about and with Jason before and after helping him, with him displaying somewhat more knowledge about the party, being more eager to talk with Jason about the first Whistling Night and being the one to ask about the nickname of George's girlfriend.
* Saving Jason yields the Steam achievement "Jason Lives!", the name being an allusion to *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*.