User:Assassinator

The Assassination Games are a series of role-playing games that have taken place on Scioly.org since 2008. The first Assassinator, and founder of the game, was Skystrider. The games have been played somewhat regularly since the first one.

How It's Played

The Characters

Assassinator: The assassinator, commonly called "the sassy" or "assasstornado," is the host of the game. There is an account designated for this purpose which is passed from the one assassinator to the next. The assassinator's objective is to "kill" users without having their true identity discovered.

Officers: When a game starts, users can become an officer. Officers have the power to protect players from being killed and accuse the assassinator of his identity. There are typically five officers in a game.

Civilians: This is essentially everybody else. Civilians can help the officers solve the clues and discover the identity of the assassinator, but they have no power to protect or accuse.

The Dead: Typically, once killed, a user cannot post about the game. In some games they may not post in the game thread at all, though usually minimal posting is tolerated as long as they don't help the officers.

The Rules

Although the rules vary from game to game, they are based on a basic set of rules that have evolved as the games have been played. Occasionally an assassinator will introduce bold new rules or novel game styles, some of which worked and some of which didn't. A good portion of game-to-game modifications are special provisions unique to each game, while in some instances the entire system of roles, scoring, and more have been uprooted. The basic rules are as follows:

1. The officers will be the next five people who send correct answers to the clue. Put in a bit of thought before posting. If you have not been around for awhile, it is less likely that you will be able to identify me.

2. There will be no "informants", but civilians may post.

3. People will die. However, there are some exceptions. I will not kill administrators or moderators. In return, I ask that they not reveal my identity.

4. Officers may protect one person per clue.

5. Once an officer has made three incorrect accusations, they may not accuse or protect anyone.

6. The assassin will provide clues which plainly point to their next victim, and occasionally to theirself.

7. The assassin will continue to post with his true account, and may provide hints there.

8. When accusing someone of being Assassinator you must use the following template "I accuse (place name here) because (give reason here)." If you don't use this template when accusing the accusation won't count.

9. Once "killed" a user may not post about the identity of the assassinator.

10. Non officers may post.

11. Each clue will last 48 hours, after which the Assassinator will kill.

12. If the Assassinator does not reply in 7 days after all protects are made, each officer gets a free accusation. However that accusation must be made next time the user posts and cannot be stored as an extra one to use later.

13. Each officer begins with one accusation. You will earn an accusation with each correct protection.

14. The Assassinator wins after 15 incorrect accusations have been made, but the number needed to win goes down by one with each kill.

15. The Assassinator reserves the right to add to these rules as they deem necessary.

Beginning

A new game starts when the assassinator starts a new thread with the number and title of the game. In the first post the assassinator will provide the rules and usually a short story or introduction to the game. Each game usually has a theme which has to do with the title and stories provided by the assassinator. Some games are heavily themed, whereas others, especially early games, had virtually no theme. The assassinator will also provide the opportunity for becoming an officer. Often this is an entry clue, which must be solved and the answer PM'd to the assassinator. Another common way is the assassinator will say, "The first five people to post in this thread will become an officer." Once all five officers have been selected the assassinator will provide the first clue and the game starts. Note that it is possible and actually rather common for the assassinator to be an officer through their true account.

The Clues

The assassinator will provide a clue that points to their next victim. These are commonly referred to as "Kill Clues." It is up to the officers to solve the clue and protect the assassinator's target. Anyone is welcome to help solve the clue, though only officers may protect. Once solved, clues will commonly refer to a user's name, school, avatar, previous posts, location, or signature. Popular types of clues include ciphers, word puzzles, dates, coordinates, hidden text, math, and pictures. Good clues will directly point to one user, though it is not uncommon to have vague or ambiguous clues which could point to multiple users. It is traditional and expected for the assassinator to only target active users that are or have previously been involved with the games. Note that the assassinator may target themselves. It is also expected that the assassinator will refrain from killing moderators or admins, though they are occasionally targeted. Officers may protect within the time limit given by the assassinator, usually 48 hours, after which any protects made will be ignored. After the time limit is up, or all the officers have made their protections the assassinator will post. If an officer protected correctly, then the target will not die and that officer will receive an accusation. If the target was not protected, then the assassinator will "kill" them. Then the assassinator will provide the next clue and it all starts again.

Identity

The main objective for the officers is to figure out who the assassinator actually is. The assassinator will provide "Identity Clues" which are usually very difficult to discern and sometimes aren't even used to discover who the assassinator is. Officers may use any tools and resources at their disposal to find out who the assassinator is. Once an officer thinks that they might know who the assassinator is, they may make an "Accusation" if they have one. If they are correct then they win the game. If not, then the game continues.

Ending

The officer or officers win when the assassinators identity is discovered and an officer correctly accuses them, or in the rare case that the assassinator quits or "kills" themselves. The assassinator wins when the kill/accusation countdown reaches zero, when all officers are dead, or when all possible accusations have been used. At the end of the game, the winning officer will choose the next assassinator and PM their pick to the assassinator. If the assassinator won, then they will pick the next assassinator. Then the account will be transferred and a new game will start.

History

#	Title	Assassinator	Total Kills	Officer Kills	Clues Given	Correct Accusing Officer	Start Date	Winner	Special Notes
1	Mafia Reborn	Skystrider	1	0	3	tehkubix	17 June 2008	Officers
2	The Return	starpug	2	0	6	dudeincolorado	5 July 2008	Officers
3	The Grudge	dudeincolorado	1	0	6	Pleiades	18 July 2008	Officers
4	The Killing Spree	gneissisnice	1	0	6	tehkubix	3 August 2008	Officers
5	Assassinator's Revenge	rocketman1555	3	0	5	starpug	15 August 2008	Officers
6	Camera Obscura	SiegeLord	3	0	8	rocketman1555	20 August 2008	Officers
7	The Deal	tehkubix	0	0	0	starpug	27 August 2008	Officers
8	Redemption	starpug	4	3	9	tehkubix	31 August 2008	Officers
9	The Reformation	dudeincolorado	1	0	4	rocketman1555	19 September 2008	Officers
10	The New Era	robotman09	4	2	13	none	2 October 2008	Officers	Assassinator committed "suicide"
11	Murder of the Minds	gneissisnice	2	1	10	rocketman1555	29 October 2008	Officers
12	Reign of the Hunted	ichaelm	0	0	9	starpug	7 December 2008	Officers
13	Hell is for Children	Inuyashakusho (Deeisenberg)	0	0	2	robotman09	15 December 2008	Officers
14	Murder from Behind	genes_girl	0	0	5	Aia	16 December 2008	Officers
15	The Bloodiest Bedlam	Aia	1	0	2	cooltiger	21 December 2008	Officers
16	The Agonizing Abyss	eyeball138	3	1	12	rocketman1555	31 December 2008	Officers
17	The Painful Plateaus	robotman09	6	3 (1 guessed out)	19	croman74	13 January 2009	Officers
18	The Great Fear	Pleiades	2	0	10	starpug	2 February 2009	Officers
19	The Westley Wind	starpug	0	0 (1 guessed out)	5	sweetcoop	24 February 2009	Officers
20	The Mobbing at Mosca	sweetcoop	0	0	3	Pleiades	4 March 2009	Officers
21	The Hotel Hell	croman74	2	0	4	trajectoryroxs	6 March 2009	Officers
22	Periculosus Mors	trajectoryroxs	0	0	6	cooltiger	9 March 2009	Officers
23	The Bloody Graveyard	Jocool	0	0	3	croman74	10 March 2009	Officers
24	The Final Fall	Cooltiger	0	0	1	eyeball138	10 March 2009	Officers
25	Death Incarnate	rocketman1555	0	0	2	trajectoryroxs	12 March 2009	Officers
26	The Bloody Knife	Thewho	1	0	5	JonnyC	3 April 2009	Officers
27	The Macabre Massacre	EastStroudsburg13	1	0	3	trajectoryroxs	8 April 2009	Officers
28	Nightfall	chia (gave up)	2	0	9	none	16 April 2009	Officers
29	Bloodbath of Betreyal	X_SOninja_X	1	0	5	Gyourkoshaven	6 June 2009	Officers
30	Ashes to Ashes	JonnyC	0	0 (1 guessed out)	4	haven chuck	2 July 2009	Officers
31	Guernica	Inuyashakusho (Deeisenberg)	0	0	0	none	6 July 2009	Officers	The Assassinator gave up
32	Death of the Innocents	Inuyashakusho (Deeisenberg)	0	0	1	Starpug	7 July 2009	Officers
33	The Powerful Purge	fmtiger124	0	0	1	eyeball138	7 July 2009	Officers
34	A Bit of Culture	dudeincolorado	0	0	1	croman74	8 July 2009	Officers
35	The Time is Now	fmtiger124	2	1	3	Pleiades	11 July 2009	Officers
36	The Forsaken Forum	croman74	1	0	2	JonnyC	20 July 2009	Officers
37	Stairway to Death	Pleaides	2	1	4	nejanimb	25 July 2009	Officers
38	Old-School Murder	gyourkoshaven	2	0	5	robotman09	23 August 2009	Officers
39	Sepolcro di Dispiacere	robotman09 and Deeisenberg	1	0	6	eyeball138	14 September 2009	Officers
40	Death on the High Seas	starpug	0	0	6	rocketman1555	27 September 2009	Officers
41	Ezekiel 25:17	RandomPerson52	1	0	2	fmtiger124	4 October 2009	Officers
42	DON'T PANIC	nejanimb	0	0	3	robotman09	4 October 2009	Officers
43	Revenge of the Fallen	AlphaTauri	0	0	6	SOninja	9 October 2009	Officers
44	Rouge Assassin	DarkSabre	2	0 (3 Guessed Out)	10	croman74	18 October 2009	Officers	The Assassinator used a special set of rules involving 10 officers and each officer got a "co-accusation" and a normal accusation
45	The Poetic Assassin	gneissisnice	0	0	5	AlphaTauri	2 November 2009	Officers
46	Ashen Cadavers	X_SOninja_X	1	0	5	blue cobra	8 November 2009	Officers
47	Join the Dark Side	blue cobra	1	0	6	none	21 November 2009	Officers	The Assassinator committed "suicide"
48	Killing on the River	sweetcoop	0	0	4	none	39 December 2009	Officers	The Assassinator gave up
49	A Red Herring	robodude	3	3	5	fmtiger124	10 February 2010	Officers
50	Scylla's Sceptre	EastStroudsburg13, robotman09, Deeisenberg, starpug, fmtiger124, and DarkSabre	5	1	8	RandomPerson52 (Got majority of Accusations)	25 February 2010	Officers
51	Where No One Has Died Before	zyzzyva98	3	2	4	winneratlife	14 April 2010	Officers
52	Checkmate	robodude	3	1	7	fmtiger124	25 April 2010	Officers
53	The Wanderer	amerikestrel	1	0	7	EastStroudsburg13	13 May 2010	Officers
54	The Untouchable	paleonaps	1	1 (1 guessed out)	6	zyzzyva98	3 June 2010	Officers
55	The Cup of Death	winneratlife	1	0	3	fmtiger124	21 June 2010	Officers
56	Mission Impossible	Paradox21	5	1 (4 guessed out)	10	none	4 July 2010	Assassinator	This was the first game won by an Assassinator.
57	Judgment Day	IdahoSciGuy	3	3	8	robodude	4 August 2010	Officers
58	A Killing Carol	robodude	1	1	3	Paradox21	22 August 2010	Officers
59	At The Bell's Chime	robodude	0	0	4	fmtiger124	30 August 2010	Officers
60	The Lottery	RandomPerson52	5	0 (1 guessed out)	10	AlphaTauri	14 September 2010	Officers
61	Murder Theater	zyzzyva98	0	0	3	trajectoryroxs	17 October 2010	Officers
62	Game Over	IdahoSciGuy	4	1	0	robodude	23 October 2010	Officers	The Beans were spilled by trajectoryroxs
63	The Mob Seizes Power	IdahoSciGuy & ???				zyzzyva98	1 November 2010	Officers	The second Assassinator's identity was never revealed. A modified version of the rules were used, set up to be similar to traditional games of Mafia
64	The Hosts of History Arise	kjhsscioly	4	1	9	ophiophagus	31 December 2010	Officers
65	The Psychopath Next Door	quizbowl & paleonaps	3	2	6	winneratlife	28 March 2011	Officers
66	The Revival	fmtiger124	1	0	8	brobo	3 April 2011	Officers
67	A Partisan Divide	Kokonilly	0	0	1	winneratlife	10 April 2011	Officers
68	Heroes and Villains	Kokonilly	0	0	2	Luo	10 April 2011	Officers
69	Rise of a Dynasty	thewinner	1	1	6	winneratlife	12 April 2011	Officers
70	Rational Revenge	aubrey048	0	0	1	Kokonilly	18 April 2011	Officers
71	Rise of the Unknown	fmtiger124	1	1	3	zyzzyva98	19 April 2011	Officers
72	Pandora's Box	ophiophagus	3	1	5	EpicFailOlympian	25 April 2011	Officers
73	Gunfight at the S.O. Corral	zyzzyva98	3	2 (3 guessed out)	14	none	7 May 2011	Assassinator
74	Dead Island	IdahoSciGuy	1	0	0	AlphaTauri	27 May 2011	Officers
75	The Point of No Return	AlphaTauri	4	1 (1 guessed out)	12	harryk	14 June 2011	Officers
76	Blue Sands	harryk	0	0	1	TheGenius	25 July 2011	Officers
77	Coup d'état	paleonaps	3	0	10	fmtiger124	27 July 2011	Officers	A modified set of rules were used where there were 10 officers, each with 3 accusations, and clues were given in bursts of five
78	Destiny Calls	fmtiger124	1	1	4	RandomPerson	8 August 2011	Officers
79	Elementary My Dear Watson	rocketman1555	9	5	9	none	12 August 2011	Assassinator
80	The Wretched Wraith	--	3	1 (4 guessed out)	4	none	31 August 2011	Assassinator
81	End of the World	haverstall	11	3 (2 guessed out)	19	none	12 September 2011	Assassinator
82	The Great War	paleonaps	3	0	8	Littleboy	24 November 2011	Officers
83	A Christmas Killing	harryk	7	1	19	EASTstroudsburg13	24 December 2011	Officers
84	It's Fairy Tale Time	Littleboy	0	0	3	foreverphysics	23 February 2012	Officers
85	A Simple Test	TheGenius	7	2	16	harryk	20 March 2012	Officers
86	The Labyrinth City	foreverphysics	12	3	17	none	26 April 2012	Assassinator
87	Crossfire	AlphaTauri	3	1	13	twototwenty	24 June 2012	Officers
88	A Social Experiment	Kokonilly	3	2	7	none	18 July 2012	Officers	The Assassinator gave up
89	The Promise of Dying	zyzzyva98	1	0	12	twototwenty	10 August 2012	Officers
90	The Theory	Littleboy	5	1	13	mnstrviola	18 August 2012	Officers
91	The Epidemic	aim4me26	0	0	5	twototwenty	11 September 2012	Officers
92	The Eleventh Hour	TheGenius	1	0	3	foreverphysics	20 September 2012	Officers
93	S.S Scioly	mnstrviola	7	7		fozendog	30 September 2012	Officers
94	Panem Chaos/The Lost Planet	Littleboy	3	1	21	iwonder	9 October 2012	Officers
95	Wright State Gone Wrong	iwonder	1	1	12	strawberrygirl	17 November 2012	Officers
96	Dear Diary	Skink	0	0	0	Littleboy	2 December 2012	Officers
97	Gotta Catch 'Em All	EpicFailOlympian	4	1	12	SilverNight	6 December 2012	Officers	While SilverNight made the correct accusation, it was solved by Cedavis6
98	The Most Dangerous Game	Cedavis6	1	0	6	none	26 December 2012	Officers	The Assassinator gave up
99	The Event	twototwenty	1	0	5	SilverNight	16 January 2013	Officers
100	Mafia Reborn	zyzzyva98, EastStroudsburg13, and robotman(?)	4	2	10	Skink, aim4me26	26 January 2013	None	The game ended due to general inactivity
101	The Rise	fozendog	1	0	7	Liv	22 May 2013	Officers
102	Cerberus Unleashed	Liv, quizbowl, and unknown	5	3	9	iwonder, thehydrogenpoptart	7 July 2013	Officers
103	Murder by Death	TheGenius	6	1 (1 fired)	18	fozendog	28 July 2013	Officers
104	Cyborg Invasion	mrburrito				none	11 October 2013	None	The game ended due to general inactivity
105	Jester's Revenge	zyzzyva980				none	1 April 2015	Officers	This game was an April Fools joke and not a legitimate game of Assasinator
105.5	Death by Death, A Bland Title	UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F	4	1	7	none	5 April 2015	Officers	The game ended due to general inactivity
106	Curtain Call	Panda Weasley	9	0	13	dragon_fruit35	21 March 2016	Officers
107	The Unforgivable Curses	dragon_fruit35, SOnerd, and JasperKota	7	5	18	Fluffy Crustacean	25 April 2016	Officers	A modified set of rules was used which allowed for 7 officers and 21 accusations
108	At the World's Fair	Fibonacci924	2	1	5	dragon_fruit35	14 June 2016	Officers
109	Another Wright State Gone Wrong	Entomology	4	1	17	[NerdyTotoro]	1 July 2016	Officers
110	Rumble in Rio	EastStroudsburg13	7	2	22	Fluffy Crustacean	5 August 2016	Officers
111	Third Down	dragon_fruit35	11	5	17	azuritemalachite	23 September 2016	Officers
112	The Ides of March	Fibonacci924	3	1	12	JasperKota	29 May 2017	Officers
113	Friday the 13th	pikachu4919	8	2 (1 guessed out)	16	whythelongface	18 June 2017	Officers	Up to 3 replacements of dead officers by civilians were allowed, given that the potential replacements solve the clues correctly. The Assassinator also redefined "guessing out" to mean running out of accusations rather than making three incorrect accusations.
114	The Amazing Race Death Edition	lumosityfan	4	1	7	daydreamer0023	23 July 2017	Officers
115	Pictures at an Exhibition	bernard	5	0	11	Alex-RCHS	14 August 2017	Officers
116	And Then There Were None	whythelongface, NeilMehta	6	5 (2 guessed out, 2 were fired, 1 was an assassinator)	14	dxu46	7 October 2017	Officers	The Assassinator whythelongface committed "suicide"
117	Winter Olympics	Froggie, knottingpurple	7	3	14	kate!, UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F	15 February 2018	Officers
118	New Life	Tailsfan101	1	0	7	Name	26 March 2018	Officers
119	Shadow Of Death	TheChiScientist	0	0	1	Anomaly	10 April 2018	Officers
120	World War III	pb5754[]	2	1	7	Tailsfan101	16 April 2018	Officers	TheChiScientist and Anomaly were co-conspirators, but not co-assassinators
121	Mystery Land	John Richardsim	5	1	7	Anomaly	1 May 2018	Officers
122	The Most Magical Place on Earth (Not)	eddpmett	4	1	7	none	13 May 2018	Assassinator
123	He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not	UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F	6	2	12	pb5754[]	24 June 2018	Officers
124	Fool's Gold	dxu46	0	0	4	hippo9	20 August 2018	Officers
125	Mystery of the Tomb	Anomaly	0	0	3	luanne	31 August 2018	Officers
126	The Phantom of the Opera	luanne	1	1	5	linzhiyan	7 September 2018	Officers
127	From the Ashes I Have Risen Again (for the 127th time)	Name	0	0	0	dxu46	17 September 2018	Officers
128	The Dark Abyss	Name	1	1	10	linzhiyan	18 September 2018	Officers
129	A Forbidden Love	yxu08	0	0	7	dxu46	9 October 2018	Officers
130	Spooky Szn	linzhiyan	3	1	13	pb5754[]	23 October 2018	Officers
131	(Your Lives are in) Jeopardy!	kate!	3	1	8	MadCow2357	5 December 2018	Officers
132	MH370	JoeyC	4	4	9	waffletree	26 December 2018	Officers
133	Zoo Escape	waffletree	2	2	10	TheChiScientist	7 January 2019	Officers
134	Cyberstrike	MadCow2357, dxu46	3	1	10	JoeyC	19 February 2019	Officers
135	A Series of Unfortunate Non-Harmless April Fool's Day Pranks	pikachu4919	4	0	6	Here	1 April 2019	Officers
136	A SciOly Pandemic	Tailsfan101	0	0	4	waffletree	1 May 2019	Officers
137	Checkmate	lindsmaurer	3	1	12	DatSciolyBoi	13 May 2019	Officers
138	Tanks and Turrets	TheCrazyChemist, DatSciolyBoi	3	3	11	amk578, CPScienceDude	22 June 2019	Officers
139	Summer Vacation	CPScienceDude	3	1	6	TheCrazyChemist	17 July 2019	Officers
140	Walmart Hide-and-seek	waffletree	2	1	5	amk578	9 August 2019	Officers
141	Backyard BBQ Mayhem	Lumosityfan	2	1	3	sciolyperson1	22 August 2019	Officers
142	Town Of Sciolyville	hmmm	-	-	-	TheMysteriousMapMan	1 September 2019	Officers
143	City Of SciOlypolis	TheMysteriousMapMan	-	-	-	TheCrazyChemist	25 September 2019	Officers
144	Avalon	MadCow2357	-	-	-	none	23 October 2019	Assassinator
145	Deja Vu	TheChiScientist	-	-	-	SilverBreeze	25 November 2019	Officers
146	A Superstore By Any Other Name	LittleMissNyan	10	-	17	Torchic	12 February 2020	Officers	The Assassinator used a modified set of rules. There were no officers - anyone could protect, and a correct protection was rewarded with an accusation. When a user with accusations died, an extra 24 hours was given to finish solving the clue, and whoever solved it received the dead user's accusations.
147	Memopolis	CPScienceDude, Madcow2357	8 (three died from inactivity)	-	11	Tailsfan101	12 April 2020	Officers	The Assassinators used a modified set of rules. There were no officers, rather two teams who competed against each other using a system of points. The clues were also formatted into memes.
148	5361766520746865207369746521	pepperonipi	3	2 (1 revived, 1 'half-dead')	8	Torchic	2 June 2020	Officers	A special provision was added shortly before the end of the game that killed officers were not entirely dead until the end of the next round. However, this would not be used as the Assassinator was correctly accused within hours. While Torchic was the accusing officer, the Assassinator's identity was determined by multiple people.
149	The Dark Knight Returns	Game in Progress	HAHA	HAHA	HAHA	Game in Progress	28 June 2020	Game in Progress	The game was limited to seven total accusations and seven deaths.

NOTE: Several name changes have taken place as the Assassinator games have progressed:

tehkubix had his name changed to sachleen.

Inuyashakusho had his name changed to Deeisenberg.

trajectoryroxs had her name changed to Liv.

robodude had his name changed to brobo.

paleonaps95 had his name changed to paleonaps.

RandomPerson52 had his name changed to RandomPerson.

robotman09 had his name changed to robotman