The game is simple: kill or be killed.

Those of you who wish to play should send me a PM or Post in this thread after reading everything through first. The game will begin on Monday.

After the list of live noobs/newbs/nubs is established and displayed in this post, everyone will receive a PM from me with their target. Every single player is the same: an assassin. Your job is to kill your target. After your kill, your target will forward you my PM with *their* target, and you will continue hunting down the chain. (this will be easily understood once you begin playing)

The twist: you don't know who your next target is, and you don't know who is hunting you!

1. The Silent Forum Kill - If you and your target are the *only* assassins viewing the forums at the time, you can s/s it at the main page to kill your target. You may not use invisible mode for the duration of the game (I can see those who try). However, any live players of this game will act as a witness and prevent the kill. Any other forumers not involved in this game aren't 1337 enough to know an assassination is taking place and thus do not prevent attacks. This will form alliances and much inter-assassin talk/coordination. Note: this kill option will be removed in the later stages of the game.

2. The Open Forum Kill - In the forums, an exposed kill involves posting the word "assassination" or "assassinate" anywhere within a post directly after your target's post. You may not necro (revive) an old thread to achieve this goal, and are restricted to posts created after the game begins. You may use any form of trickery or exploit except using images, so long as it is a single text word and present at all times. Text must be normal English, not vertical, backwards, or encoded displays. Editing posts immediately stops any game action. It must be in the post itself, and not in a signature or other constant display. The advantage of this adds a bit of sneakiness to the game for the assassin, but the drawback is that you may be discovered. PLUS, your target may be saved if any other live player denotes that they are witnessing the attempt within 30 minutes of it in the same thread. Typing "saved" or "witness", for example, counts as such an indication.

1. The Fearless Forum Kill - Assassinating your target using size 7 red font is equivalent to two kills.

To complete a kill, you must send both your target and me a PM with the proof of kill (either a forum link or s/s as appropriate based on the kill type). After verifying the kill, your target should then forward you their own target, and in doing so, remove themselves from the game. I will keep track of the game's progress behind the scenes, confirm every kill, and settle disputes. All PMs related to this game should be CCed (Forwarded) to me.

If someone claims they have killed you and I am not CCed on the PM, it does not count and you should refuse to forward them your target. When you forward your target, please leave any "quote" tags, so people can see the order of people already dead. This can be used as a tactical advantage, as individual deaths will not be publicly known.

Once you die, you may not talk about how you were killed or who killed you so as not to uncover your killer's tactics. You may however return to this thread to say you have died. Assassins are allowed to publicly post their own kills if they wish. (At the end of the game we'll all compare kills openly.) This first post will contain a list of ALL starting assassins, and the NUMBER of live players ONLY.

This game has no set time frame. Some days will have a ton of activity, while others have none. However, you must make a kill attempt on your target at least once per week, else you automatically die (you may assassinate as many targets as you can in a week). If you are completely inactive from the forum for three consecutive days, you automatically die. You may not use secondary accounts in any way to help yourself with this game. Players can report such inactivity to me via PM.

The game ends when only two assassins remain, each one holding the other person's name as their target. These are the two winners. Awards will be given for creativity, cleverness, noobiness, the person who assassinates me the most after the game begins, and other categories that get made up along the way.

This game is about being the last one standing. You need to kill everyone you can, but you can *not* do it alone. Your fellow players are your only chance at survival as they are your witnesses. No kill can be complete with a witness watching. Form your alliances well, be sure to check for black text, always be on the lookout for who might kill you. Sneakiness is encouraged.