Whenever you are involved in any assassins-related incident, such as successfully or unsuccessfully trying to kill another player or innocent, being attacked or killed or witnessing a killing, you should inform the Umpire as soon as possible.
Reports of the game's events will be published on the website during the game. Reports are encouraged to be dramatic and creative and may also be intentionally misleading (although outright lying is frowned upon). However, if your report is sufficiently outlandish to make it unclear what actually happened, please explain the raw facts separately to the Umpire in your email, as he likes to know what is going on.
If you cannot be sure what happened in an attack, you may call a ``discussion phase" with the other assassins involved in order to clarify who was hit, who is dead, etc. Players cannot kill one another while doing this, although please try to avoid exposing yourself to any entirely different assassins who might happen to be passing. In general, all players involved should submit a report of every incident; this way the Umpire can correlate the reports and so ensure that the news is updated as quickly as possible.
Obviously, you will wish to avoid other assassins finding out that you are playing the game and what you have been doing. For this reason each player is allowed to select a pseudonym at the start of the game. Whenever you make a report, you may choose whether to have it appear under your real name or your pseudonym. If you do not specify, the Umpire will probably assume that you intend to use your pseudonym.
For every two assassins you kill legally, you can earn an extra pseudonym. If you wish to take advantage of this, email the Umpire telling him that you wish to register a new pseudonym and what it is. From then on, whenever you make a report you may choose any of your pseudonyms to report under instead of your real name.
You will not be awarded extra pseudonyms for kills you make while wanted, but wanted criminals who succeed in redeeming themselves may be given a new pseudonym to help with their rehabilitation, at the Umpire's discretion. Note that while you are wanted, all of your pseudonyms will be listed on the Wanted List along with your real name.
If you kill someone in an unsubtle manner in a public place, you may be unable to avoid being noticed. For this reason, any kills made in public areas or areas like college dining halls may result in your not being allowed to report the event pseudonymously, if there is a sufficiently large number of people around to see you. (As a rule of thumb, there need to be at least half a dozen uninvolved people in a position to clearly see you make the kill - the intent is mainly to discourage assassins from having shootouts in crowded areas.) Kills made with subtle weapons like knives will not result in your kill being witnessed in this way.