Official Rules for the New College Assassins Game

 1.    Eligibility

a.     Participants must be currently attending New College.

b.    If you are attending, but living off campus, ask yourself honestly if you will be around enough to really be part of the game or would you just slow the game down.  Decisions to play will be respected regardless of living situation.
  

2.    Required Materials

a.     Pencil or pen

b.    1 US Dollar

c.     1 water gun

d.    Mad Skillz
 

 3.    How to sign up

a.     To sign up you will need to fill out a form with your FULL NAME, New College Mailbox #, Room #, and email address at which you would like to be notified.

b.   Admission to the game is one US dollar (burial money), to be used in the likely event of your death.

c.  You can only sign yourself up, not your friends.

d. All forms/fees MUST be received by 5:00 pm Saturday, April 1st. If your information is incomplete (Name, Box #, Room #, email address, Burial Money), you will NOT be allowed to play.
 

4.    Rules of Play

a.     You will receive the name of your first target in your mailbox by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 2nd.  KEEP THIS SLIP OF PAPER WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES.  You will need these slips to verify your kills.

b.    Legal Kills are only made during dates indicted below using only acceptable ordnances indicated below and NOT ON HOLY GROUND indicated below.  All shots must be made using only clean water.  Between the time that the target and the assassin are able to see each other, and the time the shot is made, THE TARGET can't see the water gun.  If the water gun is identified by the target before the shot is made, the assassin must leave the general area of the target before making another attempt.  Plain English: The target must be SURPRISED by the shot itself.  If any action implies shooting before it is done, the kill is not valid.  Unlimited attempts can be made after a kill has been thwarted or invalidated, but this is really, really hard when your target knows you’re after her.  Note the person who tries to shoot you once can get shot and their killer is now after you.

                                                          i.      Valid Kill Dates are between 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April 2nd through the following midnight Sunday, April 9th.

                                                        ii.      Holy Ground is any place in which the game might inhibit the normal function of New College.  Basically, Be Mature and Don’t Create a Disturbance.  This includes, but is not limited to:

·       anywhere inside the Library

·       anywhere inside buildings in which courses are taught.

·       administrative buildings/offices

·   inside Sudakoff or Sainer

·       the serving area in Marriott or the C-store, (the dining area is acceptable)

·       at the Towne meeting (half-hour before till half-hour after meeting time)

                                                        iii.      Acceptable Ordnances are anything you would normally call a water gun.  This means that it must produce a jet of water.  This excludes water balloons, buckets, cups etc.  Modifications to standard water guns can be made, but FOR YOUR PROTECTION, your water gun must NOT look like a firearm.  Do NOT paint your water gun black.  If you are reported with anything resembling a firearm, you will be disqualified and your burial money will be given to the person who let me know that you are an idiot. 
 

Amendments:

Isaac Liu Rule: No person may look in someone else's mailbox during play.

 

Unconventional Weapons:

Some people have asked me about "alternative water propulsion devices".  Here are my decisions:

 

1)The device must never have ever held anything but water.  A new spray bottle from the drug store is ok, but a Tilex bottle you "are positive you cleaned thoroughly" is not. 

 

2)Even if the device is brand new, it cannot have any medical connotation.  This means even brand new syringes and brand new ear wax bulbs are NOT allowed.  Even if you have the damned receipt, getting sprayed with something like that would give me the willies and make me want to punch you, which is not allowed.

 

3) Someone asked me if a water bottle with a hole in it would constitute a water gun since it makes a jet when you squeeze it.  This forces me to require that all ordnances be equipped with a separate, necessary, integrated component that one would naturally call a "trigger".

 

4)Disguising the water gun has brought up the question of what "seeing  the gun" means.  Just consider this from the standpoint of surprising your target.  If your target identifies your device as a water gun, then they have seen the gun.  If they do not associate your device with a water gun, they have not.  

 

c.     In the event of a valid kill, the assassin must verify the kill with the signature of the target on the assignment slip.  This is where community comes into play.  If you’re dead or if you invalidated your kill, be big about it.  I don’t want to have to settle any stupid disagreements with sore losers.  The dead target must then IMMEDIATELY give his/her killer all slips from completed kills plus his/her uncompleted assignment.  This means you must carry all assignments with you at all times to keep the game moving.  The dead target is then out of play for the rest of the game.  The assassin must then attempt to stay alive and kill the uncompleted assignment of the last target s/he validly killed. 

 

D. Any participants still alive after midnight Sunday, April 9th can meet Dan Sarkissian at Palm Court, 5 p.m. Monday, April 10th to receive the burial money from those deceased participants, plus his or her own. If unable, email Dan to reschedule a meeting.
 

 5.     Divine Rule of Homer

In the event of any disagreement, what I say goes.  If you don’t like that, don’t play.  I can’t play, so I have nothing to gain.  I promise to be as fair as I can.

 

If you have any problems or questions contact me (Dan). If you email me, put the word Assassins in the subject line.  Please check the rules thoroughly before you ask me anything obvious.

Phone: (786)457-1605

Email: Daniel.Sarkissian@ncf.edu

Thanks and apologies to Homer Wolfe (and now Joe McCue), whose webpage I am blatantly stealing and modifying for the purpose of running this game.  I defend my theft by my deference to their greater understanding of the game, and my appreciation for the love of the game.