The Assassins' Guild: Lent 2018 Game Awards


For various achievements and entertainments, the following awards are presented:

The Tombstone-Zlotnikov Award for Psychopathy:
Andrew Browne, for 10 kills throughout the game.
Honourable Mention to Leo Zlotnikov for 8 kills in the first 2 weeks of the game, a further 5 police kills and being scary enough to get this year's version of this award named after him

The Lemming Award for the first to die:
Alex Allen (M.A.), for dying within minutes of the game starting, trying to counter ambush an ambush on the Umpire.

The Leek and Safe Award for most interesting weaponry:
Paul Wernicke, for his large, inflateable, and ultimately useless 'Killer Whale'.
Honourable Mention to Max Williamson for his really rather cool DIY gun (pictured below)

There's a Cool picture here, honest!
The Darwin Award for Death by Stupidity:
Matt Alderton and Alex Hibbert, the first for stabbing a non-armed, non-corrupt police player on Day 6 of the game in full sight of a group of other assassins, the second for being in that group and assuming he wouldn't get stabbed immediately upon drawing his weapon .

The Harland Quinn Golden Quill for the Most Amusing Reports:
Valentin Foley, for their Eddie Valiant Reports that created a whol universe of intrigue and deception (and made at least one Umpire cry a bit when the character died).
Honourable Mention to Stitches the S.T.A.B. for Gana Ga Gan Gaaa Gnnn Gna Gaaa!

The Brutus Award for best betrayal:
Mahika Dixit, for, in a move resembling his own actions of last game, summoning Evgeny Slavin to "borrow a gun" only to stab him with a sword as he was inco.
(Dis)Honourable Mention to Andrew Browne for fatally betraying Valentin Foley (mere days after delivering a fluffy speech at the social about not caring who won, and just wanting to get on with people) and then failing to report it at any point, presumably in the hope that nobody would find out. The umpire(s), of course, always find out...

The Obfuscated Tutorial System Award for silliest pseudonym:
Roddy MacSween, for "The Names of Recent Players".

The Catherine Zentile Award for least innocent innocent:
Andrew Darby, for being Andrew Darby (and also being so suspicious that a Deliveroo driver warned his friends he was being suspicious in a bush).

The Robocop Award for killing wanted criminals:
Leo Zlotnikov, for being the go to 'Wanted Player? Set Leo after them' guy, and always producing results.

The Maximus Decimus Meridius Award for Best Fight to the Death:
Andrew Browne and Dani Cugini, for, after destroying their opposition in the Duel, dividing up their weaponry equally, and retreating to opposite ends of the street in order to decide the final winner.

The "nice try" Award for a valiant effort:
Andrew Browne, for his "exceptional" disguise in the duel.

The Bandwidth Bandit Award for Non-textual Reports:
Seyma Sever, for her "Bob the Destroyer" Reports.

The League of Super Evil Award for Non-Game Based Nefariousness:
Michael Warman, for adding this link to Nick Heitler's emotional death report.

The Couldn't Make It Up Award for Ironic Pseudonym Choice:
The Regina Phalange Line, for dying in reverse order.

The Three Weeks Early Award for signing up early:
Alastair Haig, for signing up within hours of the previous game ending, and then going on to become one of the Umpires anyway.

The Spawncamper Award for kill farming:
Alex Allen and Valentin Foley, for repeatedly shooting each other in the police war, up to three times in one evening.

The Other Spawncamper Award for also kill farming:
Leo Zlotnikov, Joe Malt, and Samuel Sully, for being the other spawncamping group in the Police War.

The Mexican Standoff Award for tensest situation:
Dani Cugini and Valentin Foley, for the three hour long stakeout (with appropriate soundtrack) outside Dani's room which only ended when Hadi Khan tried and failed to counter-kill Valentin.

The Terminator Award for Best "I'll Be Back" moment:
Alex Craggs, for killing Jaehyeon Kim, who had gone wanted for illicitly killing him the day before.

The *Twitch* award for plot derailment:
Ruby Tupling (conviniently using the Pseudonym 'Twitch'), for ending up #1 on the Open Season list with precisely two well-placed kills over the whole game.

The Eh? Award for Weirdest Assassins' Related Happening:
The Assassination of Emily Godbehere, for, when an assassin went wanted, an overeager policeman killing the first person he found that looked like her... who just so happened to be the Umpire's innocent college daughter. The Policeman did not survive the Umpire's Wroth

The 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' Award for Inventive Communication:
Gn Gaaaa Ga! Gaan Gnn Ganna Gaa Gana Ga Gaaa!, for inventing the Gna Code.

The Fluffy Bunny Collective Award for least threatening alliance:
The Regina Phalange Line, for not only dying before any of them did anything, but dying in very rookie ways like leaving your door unlocked when you sleep and forgetting you were even playing.

The Charge of the Light Brigade award for Brave but Doomed Attacks:
Ruby Tupling, for skipping merrily towards her two CPS-armed duel opponents, without backup.

The "Say Hello To My Little Friend" Award for Excessive Firepower:
Adrian del Ser, for the many guns wielded simultaneously during the Duel.

The LinkedIn Award for Networking:
Andrew Browne, for having a double figure ally count for most of the game, and reaching the point where only one out of the 8 other live players was not an ally.

The Bartholomew Schaf Award for Information Gathering:
Dani Cugini, for discovering the identity and address of her assassin Paul Durbaba, using only his pseudonym and a brief sighting of his face.

The [REDACTED] Award for [REDACTED]:
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