Assassin: Game over

[Amb]

Time for assassin.

SIgn up now.

The Rules - Stolen from MNOWAX, who Stole from Courk which was modified from a set stolen from Amb. Full circle.

1. Sign up by PMing me ONLY. DO NOT mention your participation within this thread.
2. I will assign you a target.
3. You must sandwich the post of your victim and send me a PM with the link proving it.
4. A sandwich is when Player A posts, then Player B, followed again by Player A (ABA). In this situation, A would have eliminated B. No other people may post between those posts.
5. Double posting, etc., will not save you from a sandwich -- ABBA will result in B's elimination by A.
6. The post starting the sandwich must be made AFTER I announce the game is officially starting.
7. You yourself will be hunted by another player.
8. When you successfully assassinate someone, you will then be given their target to go and get.
9. You win when you are the only player left.
10. You are not allowed to mention the name of your target to anyone, because you don't know who is playing.
11. You are not allowed to mention that you were playing and have been eliminated.
12. There will be modkills due to lack of posting in readily-available areas. If you aren't posting, you can't win, but you do prevent someone else winning. Modkills will be credited to the player hunting the person who was modkilled. (a modkill will happen if find that you haven't posted anywhere for more than 2 weeks.)
13. The mafia forum is OFF LIMITS. No one can be sandwiched there.
14. All other GL forums are allowed, though some have limited access. You may attempt to sandwich someone in these limited-access forums, but you do still need to post in the readily-available areas to avoid being mod killed.
Readily-available Areas:
* Grey Labyrinth Puzzles
* Visitor Submitted Puzzles
* Visitor Games
* Off Topic
* Visitor Submitted News
* Science, Art, and Culture
* Poll Tournaments
* Grey Labyrinth News
* Feature Requests / Site Problems
* Archived Threads


15. The dead will not be specifically mentioned in this thread, merely that someone has been caught. The deceased will be notified.

Note: A person who hasnt posted for two weeks is also assassinated. If the person who is chasing them sends me proof of this, OR requests that I look into it and I can prove it, they will succeed in assassinating their target.

[Amb]

Just a bump to keep people signing up. Deadline for joining will be Oct 20. So thats 14 days.

[itisally]

Can I get a link for the rules?
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I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong.

[Amb]

In the main thread.

(Okay, I admit I just put them there)

[Amb]

Just keeping this bumped.

[Amb]

Sorry I am slightly late in getting this game started, I hit an RL problem a few days back and it hasnt given me chance to get the details out to players.

I will send the PMs out over the next 24 hours.

[Amb]

All PM's are now sent, and the game is on.

There are x-1 alive.

[Amb]

Just a note to say the first assassination has already occurred.

[Amb]

The second target has been killed.

[Amb]

The third target has bitten the dust.

[Amb]

Just a minor rule tweak:

In the event that a player isn't posting, and their assassin requests a mod-kill - I will be looking for when that player last logged in and posted under their official account. If said player was using anonymous accounts eg "Amb*" - then I wont count it. This is because I dont have a practical way of searching for those posts and I could miss them when checking - thus leading to an error. So you MUST post with your regular account inside the two week boundary for it to count.

Amb.

[Amb]

Another player has died. Thats four gone.

[Amb]

The fifth player has been assassinated.

[Amb*]

THe final player has been assassinated.

Congratulations Jesus_saves!

[Zag]

Grats, j_s!

You are going to give us a play-by-play, right?

[Amb]

I didnt keep the exact order, but it is all in my PMs, so I could figure it out on the weekend.

Zag was killed by Jack_Ian

3iff was killed by Jack_Ian

Jesternl was killed by Jesus_saves after timing out (2 weeks)

MNOWAX was killed by Jesus_saves - and boy did he send me an angry PM about being outsmarted. I hate to think how he reacted when I voted him out in survivor haha

MatthewV was killed by MNOWAX. He was the first to die.

Jack_Ian was killed by Jesus Saves. He was the last to go, and was targetting J_S

I really do wish the game had more entrants.

[3iff]

I suspected someone else was tracking me and never saw Jack_Ian...

I was targetting j_s and she was elusive (to the point of not even posting!).

[MatthewV]

I am always such an easy target. I believe I was the first to go last game also.

[Jack_Ian]

I was pretty sure MNOWAX was after me so I wasn't looking for anybody else.
Well done j_s* (whoever you are)

I was caught fair and square, especially since Jesus_saves posted under her username and then killed me as a guest, but if the aim of the game is to last the longest, then there should be a rule-tweek about posting constantly as a guest. Especially as only a forum moderator can know who the guest is, by checking their IP address.
Perhaps total kills would be better, in which case j_s would still have won.

I also propose another rule change.
If you suspect somebody as trying to assassinate you, then you can trap them first and send the proof to the moderator. If you are right then you get extra points, but if you are wrong, you get the gas chamber (i.e. mod-killed). If you are playing and get trapped by someone who thinks you are trying to assassinate them, then you are mod-killed (when you're dead, you're dead).

Also, it would be fun if you could PM your target after a kill and reminisce about the chase, or perhaps just give some Schwarzenegger type zinger.

What do you think?

I must say I particularly liked baiting Zag. I would have been so easy to post some nonsense about older computer systems, hoping that Zag would chime in to set me right, but my pride wouldn't let me. I'd seriously have to consider changing my username if I had posted complete nonsense about computers.

[MNOWAX]

mattb you were a mod to a game i was playing, you were fish in a barrel to me. after tat I drew Jack, and just couldn't get him until J_s snuck up n me. where in the hell did you get me???
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The Man The Myth The Legend
MNOWAX

[MNOWAX]

[Jack_Ian]

[3iff]

I would ban posting as a guest to qualify for non-lurking and kills. Tracing a guest post is hard/impossible (unless you know a secret I don't).

[Jack_Ian]

It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for running it Amb. I'll definitely be signing up for the next one. I definitely will not be signing up for any more though, so none of you need worry about me in future.

[3iff]

Yeah, like we're supposed to believe that,

[j_s*]

To be fair:

I was posting as j_s* (because i m lazy and because i used to consistently get logged out by my browser and have since never tried to stay logged in) until AMB announced we couldn't count those as having posted in two weeks. I then almost immediately logged in and posted twice.

I also double checked with AMB that he would allow kills via * posts. He said yes. Else I would have logged in more. I m pretty sure AMB would allow kills via * (so you could kill j_s*). It is hard to track and I tried to log in a few more times.

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I almost felt bad about killing MNO, since he came immediately after me (turnwise) in a game. Jack_Ian was a completely lucky bonus; I was considering how to bait him when he handed himself to me. Thanks I haven't won a game of assassin since the first game I played in high school (we played with squirt guns. it was amazing.)

[Zag]

[Zag]

The problem with posting as a guest is not the kills you make; it is that the person hunting for you can't search for your posts. This means that they have to scour the whole site to find where you are posting frequently.

[Amb]

I might consider running another one after XMAS with the following rule tweaks:

1. If you know who your assassin is, you may post me their name in PM. If you get it right, you kill them. If you get it wrong, you may not attempt to kill your assassin again.
2. * posts do not count.

IP Checking is useless for 50% of GLers with randomized IPs. I found that out this game. The precedent for * posts had been set in prior games, so I followed that. Wont do that again