Assassin: The Game of Killing your Friend

Premier kakos

So, Assassin is, if you do not already know, a sort of LARP. The goal of the game is to kill the other players in the game until you are the last person standing. This is usually played out in real time over long periods of time and usually on campuses. "Standard" methods of killing a target include rubber band guns, fake bombs, fake poison, and pretty much anything you can think of, as long as it is safe.

I've been to several games on my own campus and actually am currently playing a game. Has anyone else had any sort of experience with this game? Any interesting stories? Any interesting rule variations?

Yoshua

Never gotten to play it myself. But they have a game annually during PAX (not entirely sure it's been the same group year to year though).

rucdoc

other variations include gotcha

skwanch

aka 'TAG', for 'The Assassination Game'

Played it when I was in college - we used it as a fundraiser for my fraternity.

Livesaver in someone's milk at lunch = strange tint/taste to the milk AND a legal kill (any candy in food was 'poison' and counted as a kill)

Shannon, the guy who finally won, was hardcore - one day he waited at his own dorm room door for hours, spying thru the spyhole at the door across the hall . . . when the guy came back to his room, Shannon opened the door and shot him. Legal kill.

None of the rest of us were *quite* that disciplined . . .

Premier kakos

At CU, we have a sort of alternative to being an assassin. You can also choose to be an Operative and your job is to basically gather as much information on the assassins as possible. You can then give them to your controller for points AND sell the info to the assassins for more points.

INeedNoSalt

skwanch wrote:

aka 'TAG', for 'The Assassination Game'

Played it when I was in college - we used it as a fundraiser for my fraternity.

Livesaver in someone's milk at lunch = strange tint/taste to the milk AND a legal kill (any candy in food was 'poison' and counted as a kill)

Shannon, the guy who finally won, was hardcore - one day he waited at his own dorm room door for hours, spying thru the spyhole at the door across the hall . . . when the guy came back to his room, Shannon opened the door and shot him. Legal kill.

None of the rest of us were *quite* that disciplined . . .

What's to stop people from "I shot you!" "No you didn't!"ing? Especially if there's no one else around.

Ash-Housewares

INeedNoSalt wrote:

What's to stop people from "I shot you!" "No you didn't!"ing? Especially if there's no one else around.

See the movie 'Gotcha!' for more information.

Pkmoutl

I have the first publication of the Steve Jackson rules for Killer! Which is the same thing.

We tried to get a game going on our campus as a fund-raiser, but campus security shut it down. They said it was "too dangerous" to have people using things like squirt guns and envelopes with notes in them that said "THIS IS A BOMB, BOOM YOU ARE DEAD."

And this was before 9/11/01 too.

The sad thing was, we had a list of participants a mile long who hadn't paid their money yet. We were going to do it anyway, but Security lowered the boom and told us that if we were caught doing it, we'd all be kicked off campus permanently--including for class times.

Fascist pig fuckers.

SUPERSUGA

Anyone know of an online set of rules/guidelines for this thing? Sounds like it could be fun.

SanderJK

I'm glad that our facilitary staff did allow for this to be played, though with some restrictions, namely that offices and labs were safe zones. We played water kills only though, i would've loved having more diversity for it.

Best kill in the games we played: Someone who worked at a pastery-baker, going to a victim's house on the morning of his birthday, ring the doorbell, ask flatmates for that person to deliver the cake, kill said person, then continue to eat cake together.

Dynagrip

I played this once with water guns. I got one kill by walking up to the guy and asking him if he was my target. Then I shot him in cold blood when he said yes.

I also dodged an assassin and his friend. Really only the assassin's gun could have gotten me but he and his friends had waterguns. It was kind of bullshit. I shot the assassin and said any water on me came from his friend's gun.

Water gun kills are really too hard to verify.

awildlogan

lol at my school we play with sharpies. you make a kill by marking your opponent. the best kill i made is i waited outside my targets class and , once she left the room, i stalked her for over a minute before making a successful kill.