Phase 3: 12 players were killed

THERE ARE LESS THAN 25 PLAYERS LEFT. SO THE REAL PART OF THE GAME STARTS NOW AS THE SURVIVING OLD MASTERS FIGHT IT OUT WITH THE NEW...

WHOEVER FAILS TO REPORT AN ATTEMPT THIS WEEK WILL BE REMOVED FROM THIS TERMS' GAME BY THUNDERBOLT. THERE IS A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN MONDAY 2ND 6 PM AND TUESDAY 3RD 6 AM FOR THE ASSASSINS' PARTY

The Uncle and many of his Minions (in particular Maz) set a trap for Kathy in the Chemistry department; on failing it they took photographs of all the chemists in the labs to try and obtain pictures of Kathleen. The corpse of PC Archaeonecros was seen nearby - is the Uncle accused of Necromancy? There's a huge and evil conspiracy out there, but the Uncle escapes the wanted list as the corpse was largely guilty of choosing unlicensed company to act as a peripheral decoy

Tuesday 3

Dead: Ben Lumsden by the Uncle:

Mr. Ben Lumsden met with a small accident today. It was small, cylindrical, and travelling the other way at about 350 ms-1. There was a witness, but he did not realise that Ben was dead until I told him about it later (my methods are silent). He will not give away my identity.

Mr Pink would like to report the death of Milt Mavrakakis, killed in his own room with a sword through the back, as part of his ongoing quest against incompetence.

Mr Pink was murdered by Friendly Bob. This was an aftermath of Necromancy allegations and libel about senior police officers, which envelopped five players and a police Zombie...

Mr Pink was a possible security threat. He has been terminated. However, just to show that I am a fun-loving and friendly individual, I let him kill another assassin from Robinson (in H staircase) before I removed him.

Yours, Bob (the Friend)

PS I nearly forgot - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

PC Lingard is the ex Mr Pink.

Newsflash

Emma the Zombie dies for 5 minutes upon deading before being re-raisable into the thick of the battle. Her hits don't count but she can obstruct play when alive and steal unattended weaponry and hold/reload Kathy's weapons, spy places out and cause distractions. And cosh people as that is not fatal, just crippling. Any accomplice can do this, if the player is in the same room but if you re-use a dead one, you're Wanted for Necromancy

Kathy was shackled today in lectures by the Uncle's Minions, but used her powers to elude the psychopath himself, and to inexplicably disappear...

Wednesday 4

The heat is turned up further as the Uncle, most of the police deathsquad and Misfire with his bent copper pal shared a lecture theatre today before fleeing/chasing/hiding/changing appearence etc. One of the feuding factions got some blood:

Misfire begins his mad killing spree with the disposal of PC Jonathan Amery, who was casually gunned down in the street.

Misfire's corrected his aim, it seems...The victim has to say:

Whilst walking between lectures, secure in the knowledge that the only wanted assassin who knew him by face (George) was in a lecture PC Amery was surprised to hear a large bang near his left kidney, and see George smiling at him.

It took his lecture-laden brain 2 hours to figure out he was dead, and he was found slumping over his notes in Mill Lane 9 by the board wiping staff.

=>Transmission ends in static<=

Violence has continued, and it's been a bad day for the police as the criminals have gone on the rampage. First, Satan's Child:

PC Will Harris has been stabbed in the back in his room. It took me ages to clean all the blood off my clothes and knife.

Then much more maliciously, George Savva murdered Chief of police Nadim Nyth Nehme for refusing further corruption offers: In the words of the most bent cop in Cambridge who witnessed and enjoyed this most foul attrocity:

There I was, happily strolling down Trinity Street when I happened upon what seemed to be an interesting conversation. Yes, indeed! It was some highly dangerous criminal who was attempting to corrupt the chief of police! The conversation went something like:

Nyth: Oh, you're wanted? I didn't know that.

Assassin: Yes. So can you please not kill me?

Nyth: Okay. Well... no, actually I can't

*bang* As Nyth fell to the ground, I decided it best to flee hastily into the night...

Yours,

Random Bent Copper

Thus Mr Savva is now the Most Wanted Criminal in Cambridge...

Satan's child has issued the following offensive statement in reply to Mr Savva's offensive statement:

Although he may be unable to recognise me, his ugly mug is unmistakable :-)

However, Satan's Child (Dan Rowles) and Jerobaim(Toby Norfolk-Thompson) are now in hospital critically ill with knifewounds. The Umpire rules these players stay out of play and are immune until 1:05 pm on Friday when their spirits shall decide by poisoned knife duel whether their bodies survive or perish...

Thursday 5

The Uncle is dead, having intruded into the Femmes Fatales from Fitz's Fortress. After the Uncle's minions had deserted him to go to lectures, the Uncle first dealt with the Zombie. But Miss Brazier gave chase with heavy calibre, very quickly shooting the Uncle in the back. The Uncle's corpse was identified as Mr Edmund Pringle = "Friendly Bob" = "Robert Driver". The first Master Assassin award goes to him for his 19 kills (and some of his tricks are lying about waiting to be discovered, so his killing spree as a player may still have more victims...) Emma the Zombie's side of the story is:

Kathy awoke this morning to the dulcet tones of... a Compsci's maniacal laughter in the corridor. Via the Fitz defence infrastructure, i (Emma) was able to crrep downstairs and greet the gentleman Susan Sto Helit Fashion. Having thus managed to tap him on the shoulder with the Scythe, Kathy emerged from her room guns blazing. He ducked then ran, after an humourous incident involving his attempt to shoot in the chest someone with (in game terms only) no chest.

Kathy then says

He went outside, holding the door shut, although I shot several times (whenever the door opened slighlty), possibly hitting him with some spray from the gun, where the waterjet hit the wall and bounced. (There were no valid hits here UMP) In the meantime, he had succeeded in extracting a medium calibre gun from his bag, and dashed off, with us following, me shooting him in the back, zig-zagging the gun. He ran *across the grass* (naughty), and hid behind a tree. (but by then he was already dead UMP)

Satan's Child's old poison killed off PC Kelpie, who was disgusted and issued death threats for next time...

The Kelpie died yesterday after an eveing of merriment with friends (some assassins do have them, you know). Making her way back to her room, she smelt the odour of a most foul and noisome substance, but paid it no mind, assuming one of the lowlifes in her staircase was responsible. But Alas! when she opened the door, neglecting in her weariness to use the protection she normally did, she felt the searing touch of deadly contact poison. The door opened and Kelpie fell through, and there do her mortal remains lie, where even the bedders won't touch them.... Her mournful shade has but one thing to say: "Satan's Child, I'll see you next term!"

Friday 6

The Spirit of Jerobaim sent Satan's Child back to hell, by narrowly winning the knife-duel outside Emma bar. The ducks failed to take any notice. the knives were large, the fighting spirits were eager. The stabwound was a straight thrust to the heart. So Jerobaim is back in full play now, and Satan's Child is in the Police Force. The Umpire was there, in black and mask with a beautiful and well-made seven-foot Scythe.

Satudray 7 Briefly, PC Ben Mansell died horribly on checking his mail, courtesy of Misfire Savva. The Christs' Mafia were also targetted with letters nailed to their doors, which failed, killing Fundi's sister. But one player decided again on direct action:

Just killed Toby Norfolk-Thomson, Emma. I went to his room and he wasn't there but as I left I noticed two people entering the building. As luck would have it, one of them was Toby. So I went in knocked him unconscious with my cosh. Then whilst I explained to him that he was now unconscious for 5 minutes I proceeded take shots at him with my "Lethal-Power(TM)" catapault. I managed to give him a fatal shot in the heart. There were (surprisingly) no witnesses.

The police assure us they've got things under control, under the leadership of Chiefs of Police Uncle and Cat

Sunday 8

A Poison letter signed by The Auntie was discovered today, arousing fears of further mass murder. One of the active secret ones wishes now to be known as The Terminator, which bodes ill for the health of the other players. Quite a few of you haven't reported your attempt yet. Do so if you intend to continue playing. It's not fair on the people playing properly to have to eliminate secretive but incompetent players, so the Umpire will summon down on you the Blue Forked Lightening at the end of Monday.

Newsflash

Witnesses have reported a pack of at least eight people with more than one heavy calibre gun blocking off Newnham College. No victims have been reported yet, and one can only wonder why Newnham is attracting so much attention tonight...Possibly because Sheila and her Dog were meeting in the Baron Eve's room?

Elsewhere, the violence was extreme. First, Terminator was Terminated by his criminal associate:

I've killed ragu das. the mother******'s four foot underground.

Elsewhere, the Christs' Mafia went on the rampage, causing widespread terror, and shooting dead PC Ominous Pseudonym, who was pending suspension for murdering illicitly Godfather Fundi's sister. Mr Spider's poison letter failed, cos Fundi got someone else to open it. Fundi and the Warden also committed Necromancy as they used this same dead accomplice (known as "Kenny" in Mafia Circles) to deal with a very clever poisoned doorknob with distractions courtesy of Wunhunglow. It is also alleged that they shot Dr Eviscerator, but the Umpire thinks they ment the PC Ominous pseudonym.

Monday 10

And another player evades the thunderbolts at the expense of being wanted for murder:

Mr Blond put contact poison on my door handle, but I was inside my room all the time, so when my friend Charlotte (who lives just down the corridor) came to get me for dinner she died. Damn. The note was signed "Mr Blond 666".

So you're wanted, Mustafa Hadi = D'Artagnian = Mr Blond 666...

Helen Gillman is dead. It being Monday might have helped. I appeal to know who did it as it was within the deadline

*dong* Mist filled the CUSU office fortress of the defensive but inactive Chris "Arkansas" Timms.

*dong* A voice said "it's a dark night.

"*dong* "and it's a Dark Knight"

*dong* Chris stared at the blank mask.

*dong* blue forked lightening left the figure's fingers, burning Chris to a cinder.

*dong* In Emmanuel mafia fortress, Danyal "Jandarma" Aytekin was polishing his machete, when the tendrils of mist envelopped him.

*dong* The Dark Knight appeared out of thin air

*dong*"Salam" said Jandarma. But the Dark Knight let rip with the lightening, reducing Jandarma to a Minced Lamajun.

*dong* Richard Atkinson was brushing his teeth in Churchill Mafia HQ with his new tube of toothpaste,

*dong* when he saw the reflection of a masked man behind him.

The air around him was solidifying...

*dong* He was then taken by the liquid blue flames.

*dong*The Dark Knight laughed softly and vanished.

Finally, Jon "Dr Eviscerator" Hall is given out as dead regardless of whether Fundi killed him or not, as he'd failed to report any attempts this week