This game is being umpired by Ed Nokes & Björn Holzhauer from Caius. The umpires are back in town and they will send out the signup email in the next days.
New players should read the complete rules as soon as they are online and all others should know that this term's rules might vary slightly from those of Michaelmas term, so don't forget to read the summary of changes page.
The game will probably start at the beginning of the second lecture week (around January 25th) so that everybody has enough time to signup and prepare.
Nothing happened today. The umpires are most disappointed with all players. (just joking)
Chief Sniper has been appointed as Chief of Police.
Someone calling himself The Great SFX
and not giving his identity sent a message, in which he declared war on
what he called "The Sidney Sussex mafia". He also said people would end up
dead, because that seemed to be the usual result of this sort of
thing.
Indeed, that appears to be the normal outcome when
playing Assassins. (umpire)
Officials only replied that they did not know anyone with the name
"The Great SFX" or had any indication
that there are mafias operating in Cambridge.
Early this morning the signup email finally went out. Anyone interested in
playing, who hasn't got this email should email the umpires.
The deadline for signing up for this term's game will be midnight on
wednesday January 24th.
Today this message came in:
Messrs. Sinister and Cawazy,
We feel it only right to correct your error on the
"pre-game news" page: there IS at least one mafia
operating in Cambridge. Us. We are the Sandman Mafia,
and we will send our enemies into Morpheus' kingdom,
from whence they shall not return.
Regards,
SM.
I wonder, how much of this is actually true... Would a mafia really
announce its existence to everyone? Only the next weeks can tell.
Some crazy maniac has sent Chief Sniper a note, on which he announced his intention to kill him. The Chief however appears to be eagerly waiting for such maniacs.
Replies to the signup email are still flooding in and already some
inventive weapons have been licensed.
Don't forget to check with the umpires if you want to use
weapons not explicitly mentioned in the rules.
In celebration of one of the umpires' birthdays and in memory of his
short but violent appearances on the wanted lists of past games, it has
been decided to give wanted criminals a very small chance of escaping
justice:
Should the police force be wiped out entirely, chaos will reign on the
streets of Cambridge and the wanted criminal(s) most responsible for the
slaughtering of the police can just wander into the police headquarters
and erase their criminal records.
Obviously incompetents or criminals that haven't shown special interest in
killing cops will be deemed to be not capable of managing this.
This weird recruitment offer came in from someone calling himself bh234:
Champions of Grammar want you! We need eager assassins in order to improve
standards of English in Cambridge. Our three stage plan for increasing
literacy amongst students includes:
Honour, fame and the knowledge that you're doing your bit to improve the
quality of spoken and written English can be yours. Reply to bh234
care of the umpires. Anonymity guranteed.
The umpires want to point out that this bh234 is not one of the umpires, this
person is trying to confuse everyone by his choice of pseudonym.
Replies to him can however anonymously be sent via the umpires.
Anyone who hasn't signed up, yet, has time til tomorrow noon to do so. The game will start tomorrow evening.
The game starts at 8pm, targets will be sent out shortly after the signup deadline at 12pm.
The targets have been sent out, the tension is rising and just a few hours until the game starts!. If you have signed up, but haven't received your targets yet, please contact the umpires.
One final thing before the beginnning of the game:
Have fun, be sensible and good luck to everybody.
The Umpires