WHAT IS ASSASSINS?

Assassins is a game, played either intermixed with real life or in a secluded zone.

Assassins consists of `killing' consenting people with `weaponry' that is, crucially, safe to all involved and not dodgy-looking let alone alarming to passers-by, and, incidentally, must actually do something so that the `victim' knows they have been got. Think of pieces of cardboard labelled `knife', waterpistols, flicked rubber bands, thrown fluffy toys labelled `killer rabbit', soft hats labelled `razor edged hat'...

Subtle appearence, surprise and swift killing are to be strongly encouraged in versions intermixed with real life, which are furthermore forbidden to disrupt a large and carefully-chosen list of activities of academic/official workplace, religious and societal nature for obvious reasons.

The other version requires a careful choice of secluded zone.

The main point of Assassins is to continuously meet new people and thus make friends.

Assassins has a number of fairly unique features that make it particularly suited for this.

1) Since how could it be anything other than a big harmless joke, people agree to become involved without inhibition of giving details whereby they can be found to strangers, nor are they shocked when said strangers turn up and shoot them/meet them.

2) this big harmless joke appeals to a wide range of people.

3) Assassins is well capable of being a Very Diverse Range of Activities which can be run Inclusively.

In ASAS, our hope is to preserve and extend that range so that assassins includes enough somethings that everyone finds at least one something that particularly appeals to them and that everyone can excell at at least one something.

4) All these things make assassins a useful service for the shy people of Cambridge: freshers, those who wish to make further friends, those who at any stage feel isolated or different.

5) assassins permits successful continual meeting of people and making of friends even if one's own involvement is fairly or totally passive, because others will find you and/or `kill' you.

For other helpful and distinctive features see here.