Here are the rules.
Forum Assassin.

Ruleset:

Post if you wish to play, and be sure to read the following rules for reference:

1) You may only kill your target or your assassin if you can figure out who he is. If you guess at your assassin and guess wrong the kill attempt will fail and you will be disqualified.
Conceptualization: Your target is the person whom the voices in your head most want dead and whom you have the best chance of killing in secrecy. Likewise, your assassin is assumed to have a chance to get you alone and so, if you're good enough, you can kill him instead of the other way around. If you try to kill anyone else you miss and are locked up as a madman.

2) You make a kill by quoting your target's post and appending the kill phrase "In the end there can be only one!" Without the quote marks. Once you have made a kill attempt immediately post a link to the attempt in the death announcement thread. A coordinator will confirm your kill. If it is successful you will be PMed a new target. If it is not, your target will know who you are and may kill you when he has the opportunity. A kill attempt fails if: the kill phrase is incorrectly reproduced, the quoted portion of the post has been altered, there is an edit tag on the kill post, or there is anything in the kill post other than the kill phrase and the quoted post, or if there is another post between your kill attempt post and the post being quoted in the kill attempt. Attempting to kill someone on a kill attempt of theirs is not allowed, so no killing on kill posts.

3) If you put the phrase "booby trap" in the first post of a thread you created and your target posts in that thread then he is dead. Post a link to the thread in the deaths announcement thread and explain that your target fell to a booby trap. For simplicity's sake booby traps are assumed to require regular maintenance and so do not outlive their maker.
Conceptualiztion: You've set a trap in some out of the way place for your target. If he's foolish enough to walk into it it will certainly prove fatal. Booby traps created for one target do not work against a new target. I.E. If you are assigned someone as a target and you manage to kill them, your booby trap meant for tat person will be ineffective against a newly assigned target.

4) If you include the phrase "poison dagger" in a post and your assassin subsequently tries to kill you by quoting that post but neglects to edit out the poison dagger then your assassin dies rather than you. This is the only case in which editing your target's post is allowed, and then you may only edit out the poison dagger.
Conceptualization: You're a paranoid bastard so you're always ready for an attack. If the guy who's after you fails to sneak properly you'll stab him in the back in a heart beat.

5) The special tags ("booby trap" and "poison dagger") must appear in the body of your post, must be in correct English and must be consecutive. Poison dagger must be detectable when your post is quoted in order to be effective. The tags may be capitalized as needed, but no other alteration is permitted. They may not appear in a signature. Signatures occuring naturally do not count as part of a post as far as quoting or booby traps and poison daggers are concerned.

6) The game is restricted to one forum.

7) The Death Announcements thread, the Assassins Discussion thread, and any stickied OT Threads are holy ground. Kill attempts in these threads fail automatically.

8) You must have three posts in any given 24 hour period (three posts total for the entire weekend) or you will be disqualified. This means three dangerous posts; in the forum the game is played but not in one of the safe threads. If you suspect your target is not posting, bring it to the attention of the coordinators.
Conceptualization: If you don't post enough that's a sign that the stress has gotten to you and the nice men in white coats will come to pick you up.

9) The game begins as of the timestamp on the Death Announcements thread. Posts made before that time cannot be targeted and cannot carry any of the special tags. Players will receive their first targets slightly before the Death Announcements thread goes up via PM and should be careful not to jump the gun.

10) No using the search feature. Get out there and post.

11) The winner shall be the first player to win. There can be only one.

12) Trust no one. Your best friend might just turn around and kill you.

13) - This is limited to one forum only.


The Lord have mecry on your souls!

If you want some examples of how this works, I'll post some.

Looks interesting, and I am addicted to forum games, so if you could show an example?
At the same time, I feel this could very easily spam up the OOC section with threads, and add a lot of random posting to threads

I'd join, but the rules look like they could make my brain hurt. I'm having trouble understanding them. So yes, examples plz.

It looks like the way to win this game is to never post, which makes for a bad forum game.

It looks like a lot of posts in random threads which aren't intended to be used for this subject... all of them off-topic. Completely off-topic.

Alrighty... Examples...

Estarra will be hunting Fain in these examples.

Example 1:





Results: Estarra bumps off Fain. Clean kill, nothing special. As soon as Estarra did this, she'd post a post in the stickied Kill Threads.

Example 2:







Results: Estarra misses, Fain lives, and Fain now knows who is hunting him (Meaning, he can pull out an "In the end there can only be one!" on Estarra as well as his normal target, whoever it may be).
Reason: Your kill post MUST be the FIRST post AFTER the intended post your using to kill your target. Eventru jumped in there before Estarra could, meaning the shot missed.

Example 3:





Results: The overly paranoid Fain had Morgfyre waiting in the bushes. When Estarra came to attack, Morgfyre and Fain took out Estarra in a 2-on-1 handicap fight.

What happens if the proof posts get deleted for being off-topic?

Here's a few more (Since I can't have all that many quote boxes in a single post):

Example 4:





Results: Estarra noticed Morgfyre and was able to sidestep him and take out Fain. Fain = dead.
Reason: Estarra EDITED out the "poison dagger" phrase in Fain's post, ergo, it failed and Estarra wins.

Example 5:




Results: Estarra blows up Fain.
Reasons: Estarra laid a Booby Trap in this thread and Fain tripped it.

Example 6:




Results: Nothing.
Reasons: A booby trap MUST be an opening post of a thread.

Those are pretty much all of the examples you come across in the game.

And in response to Xavius's comment, there's a rule about that, you have to post at least 3 times a day in the forum section that the game is happening in.

It's usually best that the forum section that is being used for the game is made known to administrators and moderators that the game is being played there and posts saying "In the end, there can only be one!" are for the game.

And to add to this, the game is sort of a cat and mouse game. You go about posting as normal, just being a little more careful, and maybe trying to include "poison dagger" in your posts somehow.

Edit: This of course would only apply to the subforum (for example, this one "The Real World") that the game is being played in. Any kill attempts outside of that would automatically fail, and probably garner snickering by your target because know he knows who is targeting him, meaning he can kill you as well.

So... you've already asked for permission for off-topic posts in random threads, then? How did that go over?

Meh. This just makes reading the forums messier. Forum games like mafia are good because you can either follow it if you want to or just ignore the thread completely if you don't. Having random posts in random threads is just unnecessarily confusing and messy, imo.

No, because I haven't even started to plan on playing the game. And since when were off-topic posts completly out of normal in this forum?

Generally they're on topic, but deviate a little bit (and as the conversation goes on they deviate further, but if you actually follow the posts you can see the progression and where it's all coming from).

Encouraging completely off-topic posts is something very different. :/

I'm sorry, now that I see what you are talking about, this is not a very good idea, I think.
Plus, with us being able to edit posts without a hard coded "this post has been edited by soandso on thisdate," all sorts of cheating is possible

Man, when I first saw the booby trap and poison dagger thing, my first thought was to put it in white.

Except that some people use forum skins with a black background, so.

I know, but if I ever manage to pull it off, there will be much gnashing of teeth.