Ninjas In Your Bookbag!

There is a game of Assasin raging across my campus as we speak. Just for the occaision I've installed a mirror that allows me to see the doorway to my room from my desk, planned out escape routes, and developed a very healthy degree of Paranoia.

I'm telling you all this because I want to hear stories about your experiences playing assasin, hitman, and similar games, and also because I need advice on how to survive and conquer.

[Edited on Mar 31, 2005 by Frank]

Pirates are the mortal enemies of ninjas.

It is not the way of the ninja to speak of such things. Pirates are brash, loud, and prone to wenching. This is not the way of the Ninja.

Your mom is brash, loud, and prone to wenching.

Oh wow - I have not thought about Assassin since I was a senior in high school. We had a pretty elaborate, covert operation going on the last few weeks before we graduated. I remember hiding out in someone's front bushes for a significant amount of time. Mostly, I just remember how great it was to be suspicious of EVERYTHING.

Hahah. True, paranoia does wonders for the heart.

And MrStitches, you have my Mom confused with a Kennedy.

OHHHHHHH SNAP

well played.

i lived for a semester in a very small italian town. you know, 13th-century buildings and streets, lots of winding corridors and paths- perfect for assassion.
i was living with about 40 other art students in an old monastary, and we all desided to get a game together. the monastary, the school, and the resturaunt where we all ate dinner were all "safe"... you couldn't tag someone there, and couldn't set up outside to ambush people. i think there was a fifty paces rule.
we all had socks filled with flour, and if you got tagged you ended up all floury. we drew names out of a hat, and when we killed someone, their target became our target. one person was an arbitrator- dealt with any re-assigning of names that needed to be done. bikes were allowed, but only one guy had one. man did i hate him.
our art history professor eventually banned it, threatening to fail us all if we kept it up. so no one won in the end, but man... that was fun.

[Edited on Mar 31, 2005 by HyenaHell]

I played it briefly. The game had 7 people involved. Only a couple people had cars back then, and the one guy just drove to everybody's houses and killed them the first night. Ah, well...
Another time we played a game of all-out war on campus at Stockton. We had all different types of nerf guns and different missions and stuff. That was a lot of fun. We were sneaking in and out of windows, shooting around corners, dodging, running, etc. until someone called the campus cops.

Yah. We're playing with kooshballs and about twenty people. You only have the name of the one person you're supposed to go after, and there is only one person trying to eliminate you, so this game is going to have a bit more shelf life. At least that is the plan. I'm trying to think of other kinds of ordinance, and I keep coming up with waterguns. I'm thinking that if I restricted play very strictly to daylight hours I might be able to swing it.

Ah never mind.
You're right.
I do.

[Edited on Apr 01, 2005 by MrStitches]

he he he...... in high school that game kicked ass!!

We started a game with the whole grade..... I was very VERY into it (primo-dork style) before it got banned and fell apart

The ambushes were awesome...we'd get up at 4 in the morning to go stake out some guys house

I remember having to climb onto the roof of serveral houses....that was sweet....very stealthy and hardcore too - I had to climb up the bricks on the back up one house to this balcony and then lever on to the roof to get the the balcony door or the other side

we also tried kiddnapping a guys girlfriend and holding her for randsom

and we ambushed this guy inside his house and tried to seduce him out using my hot friend Kim, almost worked too...

When a bunch of people had died and I was still going they made up my "protection agency" and we started travelling around in a caravan of mismatched vehicles and whatnot with shooters out the windows


I felt like the leader of an elaborate crime ring....eeee he he he

having hot personal bodyguards kicks ass

I wish I could play that again








I am such a dork.

What were you usng for weapons, Meeks?

At the risk of being abused.
What the hell are you guys talking about? It sounds cool whatever it is....

its a silly game of assasinations, basically a group of people all secretly pick a name out of a hat, then you have to find a way of "killing" the person who'se name you picked with whatever weapon was chosen for the game (like paintballs or waterballoons)

oooooohh!
That's what I figured, sounds like fun.
now i just gotta find a bunch of dorks with too much time on their hands...

how do you keep the excitement in it though, what's to stop a person from simply passing you in the hallway and tapping you on the shoulder.
can you stop a assasin if you see him coming?

In our set up, if you manage to spot your assasin you can throw your kooshball at him or her and they are effectively disabled for thirty minutes before they can come after you again, which should give you enough time to escape to a secure location. A lot of it hinges on not knowing who your assasin is, which lends itself to making you edgy as hell all the time, but particularly when you're in the same room as someone else who is playing.

Hmm. You know, now that I think of it lazer pointers might work as weapons, though there is a lot of potential for cheating and dishonorable conduct. I really wish the state of society was such that we could go tearing around public places with nerfguns and foam swords, but that would most likely be banned in short order. I'd be tempted to try airzookas, but they're a bit costly and it also lends itself to scoring difficulties. Digital cameras might work. If you can get the persons entire face in the shot they're out. Paintballs and airsoft would be ideal except for the whole eyes thing, and the getting shot by the cops. Foam swords might actually be acceptable if the players could be enticed to build them to a minimum standard of safety. That's always the trick though. Waterguns don't go over well in doors... at least the big ones don't. And I don't think there is much chance of being shot or arrested for tearing around with little bright plastic squirt guns.

I wonder if lyric poetry could be used as a weapon of assasination. I don't know how it would work, but If it could work it would be cool.

[Edited on Apr 01, 2005 by Frank]

I was so confused.

Jesus, don't you college kids LEARN anything anymore? Why can't you make it so my feet don't stink?

man i want to play now

Even science has limits, man.

Dude, cheap shot.

police and thieves with about 20 neighborhood kids, good memories.