Assassination 2020

mutantdevle · 2020-01-01 19:20:38

Keep your head low and your spirits high, at any second you may die.

Still unsure how to play? Make sure you read this thread thoroughly.

The rules:

- If you think you have assassinated someone, do not mention it in the thread! Instead, PM me on the forums linking me to where you assassinated them. I will then judge whether the situation counts as you getting them to mention your topic. My word is final.
- I will announce all successful assassinations in this thread.
- Do not tell people who your target is and what your mission is. If you are assassinated and have lost the game this rule is especially important as the person who assassinated you will now have your target. Telling people who your target was makes things harder for that player. Don't be salty about losing.
- You must be decently active to play the game. If you don't use the forums for a few weeks or are posting too infrequently you may be automatically assassinated. You should be active on [any part of] the forums a couple of times per week as a bare minimum.
- Do not break forum rules for the sake of this game. If you are banned from the forums it is likely that you'll be automatically assassinated for not being active enough.
- If you think your target is too inactive for you to have a fair chance of assassinating them then PM me on the forums and I will judge whether or not they should be assassinated.

▼Sample Mission Briefing

Players left alive:

1. 2B55B5G TNG
2. AllenCaspe9510
3. Crybaby
4. Different55
5. eleizibeth
6. Kira
7. Kirby
8. KirbyKareem
9. NorwegianboyEE
10. Onjit
11. peace
12. Processor
13. Slabdrill
14. taskmanager

Game events:

1st January: The game has begun.
3rd January: Processor is assassinated by Onjit.
5th January: AllenCaspe9510 is assassinated by peace.
8th January: Kirby, KirbyKareem and Slabdrill are killed for failing to respond to their mission briefing.
11th January: 2B55B5G TNG is assassinated by Crybaby who was then assassinated by Onjit.
13th January: Onjit is assassinated by TaskManager.

2b55b5g, peace

mutantdevle · 2020-01-03 01:37:06

The first person has fallen victim to the assassinations.

Processor has been eliminated by Onjit:
https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 31#p771231

The topic was "Pingohits".

Agent PRO is dead.

Norwee, Processor, rat, Onjit, TaskManager, 2b55b5g, peace, Minimania

Onjit · 2020-01-03 01:38:00

not so PRO after all

ahahahaha

rat, TaskManager, peace, Luka504, Processor, Minimania

mutantdevle · 2020-01-06 00:22:31

The second person has fallen victim to the assassinations.

AllenCaspe9510 has been eliminated by peace:

▼Hidden text

The topic was "Blue Keys".

Agent A9510 is dead.

AllenCaspe9510, rat, Onjit, TaskManager, Different55, 2b55b5g, Processor, peace, Nattasan, Andymakeer, Minimania, BuzzerBee

mutantdevle · 2020-01-08 11:51:59

A week has passed since the killings began. And, I don't know about y'all but, I'm having a lot of fun.

It seems 3 agents weren't up to the job as they failed to pick up their mission briefings. Well, either that or they were assassinated long before the year even started

Agents KB (Kirby), KBK (KirbyKareem) and S (Slabdrill) are all dead.

Agents whose job it was to assassinate these punks will be compensated with a new mission.

As a week has passed, I'd also like to clarify something:
- Agents must claim their kills through their PM with me. I will not automatically resolve successful kills.
- Kills must be claimed within 1 week of the qualifying post taking place. So you can't complete your mission and then claim on it 6 weeks later.

Thank you for listening to this service announcement.

2b55b5g, rat, peace, ShadowsEdge, Minimania

mutantdevle · 2020-01-11 13:39:46

A third person has fallen victim to the assassinations.

2B55B5G TNG has been eliminated by Crybaby:
https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 32#p771832

The topic was "Walls of text".

Agent TNG is dead.

peace, Minimania, Norwee, TaskManager, Onjit, 2b55b5g, ShadowsEdge

mutantdevle · 2020-01-11 17:27:42

The fourth person has fallen victim to the assassinations.

Crybaby has been eliminated by Onjit:

▼Hidden text

The topic was "Benjaminsen".

Agent C is dead.

Kira, Minimania, ShadowsEdge, TaskManager, 2b55b5g, peace, Different55, Raphe9000, Luka504, rat, Onjit, BuzzerBee

mutantdevle · 2020-01-13 11:18:51

The fifth person has fallen victim to the assassinations.

Onjit has been eliminated by TaskManager:
https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 10#p772110

The topic was "EE Dying".

Agent O is dead.

Kira, Norwee, Luka504, TaskManager, Minimania, Onjit, 2b55b5g, ShadowsEdge, Processor, rat

mutantdevle · 2020-12-01 05:20:05

mutantdevle wrote:

If there are still multiple players alive by the end of November 2020 the game will automatically end and restart for 2021.

Welp, the game technically died in January though there have been plenty of assassination attempts since then. When I wake up tomorrow I will share the document I kept of the commentary on this game and open this thread for discussion.

For now, I declare Onjit the winner since he had the most kills. I figured there'd be no activity for this game in November which is why I declared Onjit the winner at the end of October and gave him 1 month of discord nitro as a prize - so congratulations to Onjit for winning the Halloween costume contest!

Given the (usual) lack of activity on the forums, I've decided I won't be hosting this game for 2021. However, I hope activity on either this forum or the EEU forum picks up enough to have the game return in 2022!

TaskManager, AllenCaspe9510, Different55

mutantdevle · 2020-12-21 21:16:27

Oh yeah I was supposed to make a post here. Would y'all believe me if I said I've not slept in 20 days?

▼Missions featured

▼Featured mission details

Your task is to assassinate [Different55]. To do this, you must make him talk about [Soniety]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of Soniety through pronouns do count towards this mission.
- Mentions of Soniety through his alternative names (eg. SonyTV) do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [KirbyKareem]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [EE Bots]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of EEU bots do count towards this mission.
- Mentions of bots outside of EE/EEU do not count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [NorwegianboyEE]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [hummerz5]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of hummerz5 through pronouns do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [taskmanager]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [Steam]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of steam as in the gaming platform do count towards this mission.
- Mentions of steam as in water vapour do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [Kirby]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [Forum Raids]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of forum raids on forums in general do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [Crybaby]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [Discord]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of discord as in the voice chat app do count towards this mission.
- Mentions of discord as in a disagreement between people do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [Kira]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [Woot Farms]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of ‘woot farms’ through a different noun phrase used to describe posts intentionally trying to earn woots do count towards this mission.
- Mentions of noun phrases used to describe posts intentionally trying to earn ‘likes’ in ‘like systems’ outside of woots do not count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [Slabdrill]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [UnitEE]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of other variations of EE (like EEU) do not count towards this mission.

As a result of your target's untimely death, you have inherited the target [Kira]. In order to kill him, you must make him talk about the number [5.7]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of 5 or 7 independently do not count towards this mission. The target must explicitly say 5.7.

Your task is to assassinate [eleizibeth]. To do this, you must make her talk about the phrase [“I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one”]. If she is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, she will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of the phrase without necessarily quoting it do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [2B55B5G TNG]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [Walls of text]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of ‘walls of text’ through a different noun phrase used to describe large chunks of text do count towards this mission.

As a result of your success, you have inherited the target [eleizibeth]. In order to kill her, you must make her talk about [Beta Membership]. If she is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, she will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of 'beta' without the word 'membership' do count towards this mission provided the context is clearly about beta membership.

Your task is to assassinate [Processor]. To do this, you must make him talk about [Pingohits]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of Pingohits through pronouns do count towards this mission.

As a result of your success, you have inherited the target [KirbyKareem]. In order to kill him, you must make him talk about the [Bruce Smiley]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of Bruces that are explicitly not the Bruce smiley will not count towards this mission.

As a result of your target's untimely death, you have inherited the target [Crybaby]. In order to kill him, you must make him talk about [Benjaminsen]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of Benjaminsen through pronouns do count towards this mission.
- Non-specific mentions of Benjaminsen (eg: "the original owner of EE") do not count towards this mission.

As a result of your success, you have inherited the target [eleizibeth]. In order to kill him, you must make him talk about [invisible portals]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of portals that are not described as invisible do not count towards this mission.
- Mentions of invisible portals not related to EE/EEU do count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [AllenCaspe9510]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [Blue Keys]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of keys that are not explicitly blue do not count towards this mission.

As a result of your success, you have inherited the target [taskmanager]. In order to kill him, you must make him talk about the phrase ["HELp"]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of the word help that do not reference the spelling of "HELp" do not count towards this mission.

Your task is to assassinate [Onjit]. To do this, you must make him talk about the topic of [EE Dying]. If he is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, he will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of EEU dying do count towards this mission.

As a result of your success, you have inherited the target [rat]. In order to kill her, you must make her talk about [Snagsanga Quest]. If she is to do this, as directly prompted by your own words, she will die.
Extra information:
- Mentions of 'snagsangas' that do not mention the word 'quest' do not count towards this mission.

▼My commentary throughout the game

31st December 2019 wrote:

These missions are going to be hard lol. A lot of people have targets who they'd not usually interact with and topics they'd not usually talk about.
On the other hand Processor's mission really suits the kind of thing he'd talk about.

1st January 2020 wrote:

I love Kira's and Norwegianboy's approach to just immediately start talking about their topics. Norwegianboy almost got peace out already by doing so but he may have made it too obvious by basically going "hey peace, speed runs!", we'll see. And, although Kira's topic is being treated seriously, I don't think Norwegianboy is going to fall for the obvious trap.

3rd January wrote:

I didn't expect Processor to be the first to go. Onjit got him good, no mess, no fuss, just mentions the topic, directs it at the target, bam. Dead. Meanwhile, Kira and Norwegianboy aren't getting any luck. Peace is refusing to bite Norwegian's bait and it seems he has no interest in the topic that Kira created.
Allen, both Kirbys and Slabdrill are yet to respond to their initial PMs
Lmao at Rat majorly blocking Norwegianboy lol: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 51#p771251
^^ Actually, seeing this makes me think i shouldn't announce who is responsible for the kill when someone dies. Whoever kills Norwegianboy is gonna have a hard time killing peace. I've already done it for Onjit so I'll do it for everyone else too but that's something to keep in mind for next time. On the other hand, I think it's less fun if people don't get to see what post got someone killed.
Yeah Norboy is pretty screwed. Everyone knows his mission at this point lol.

4th January wrote:

Kira has successfully got Norwegianboy to mention hummerz but hasn't claimed on it through a PM to me. The mission states that mentions of hummerz through pronouns count towards the mission and it seems Kira hasn't noticed that Norwegianboy mentions hummerz through pronouns: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 83#p771383
It makes me realise I need a rule on how long you have to claim your kill. Eg. if Kira were to notice this post counts a few months from now should he be able to claim on it?
I think the time should be 1 week. I'll implement this rule publically on the 8th of January.

5th January wrote:

TaskManager's attempt on Onjit here is so subtle and sneaky. It has a solid chance of going through: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 40#p771440
It'd be pretty funny if he gets the assassination in a thread Kira created with the sole intention of assassinating his own target.
Peace actually just PMed Allencaspe asking him if he liked blue keys. If this was in a thread it would be a definite assassination but he just had to do it in a PM.... I legit don't know how to resolve this.
So I spoke with Processor about how to resolve this (without saying who it involves) and the conclusion we came to is that PMs should count as they are technically considered threads on the forums.
Peace's new mission is a horrible one to get, especially for him.
The extra information on peace's mission is "- Mentions of the word help that do not reference the spelling of "HELp" do not count towards this mission." So his poor spelling might actually help him out here

9th January wrote:

It's interesting to see how paranoid people are about everything being an assassination attempt lol.
peace has just created this thread and the concept of it is ridiculous. If anyone else were to post this then people would immediately suspect a trap but, since it's peace, the insanity of it might seem normal to people. https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 87#p771687

10th January wrote:

So it turns out Onjit's forum game 'fake expert' is a ruse designed to make Crybaby send him a PM containing 'Chris Benjaminsen'. I wonder whether it will go the way he hopes it does or if it will backfire https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … p?id=46594
Okay, peace's attempts are just painful now: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 50#p771750

11th January wrote:

Well this is interesting. Onjit says he has the kill on Crybaby but is going to wait to claim it. Meanwhile, in anticipation of round 2, TaskManager plans to have his topic be his answer in Onjit's game hence making Onjit mention TaskManager's topic when he lists everyone's answers. Let's see how this unfolds.
Also, I want to give feedback on Onjit's game because I do think it seems like a fun idea but, since assassinations could be taking place in the thread, if I influence how the game works I could influence how that resolves. So for the sake of being impartial, I guess I can't give input.
2B55, rat and diff are the only remaining players who have yet to attempt an assassination.
So had Onjit claimed immediately, 2B55 would still be alive. And if Task assassinates him before he claims, Crybaby is going to end up surviving Onjit's trap.
Lol @ Onjit's comment in peace's thread: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 18#p771818

12th January wrote:

It seems Onjit has dodged TaskManager's attempt to assassinate him by changing how he handles his game. I think Onjit saw the attempt for what it was and now suspects TaskManager as his assassin.

13th January wrote:

Lol nevermind. TaskManager got him good. Onjit doesn't seem happy about the ruling. Maybe there is some debate to be had for future games of this about whether his post does or doesn't count as just quoting TaskManager. But since he rewrote what TaskManager said rather than quoted him via the forum function, I don't consider it a quote. TaskManager and I also did not view what Onjit was doing as simple quoting when he told me his plan so I feel this was a fair judgement.

15th January wrote:

Potential mechanic idea for next time: if someone sends me a PM guessing who their own assassin is and what topic they're trying to assassinate them with is, they kill their assassin. This could potentially make the game more interesting and encourage people to be less obvious. For balance, each player could be limited to 1 guess or 1 guess per month. Either way, this is something that can be discussed after the game.

31st January wrote:

The first month draws to a close. The game has been quiet for a while now. I wonder what methods of assassination people are currently thinking of.

17th February wrote:

Happy Birthday me. Although there have been no assassination attempts in quite a while it is clear from the occasional post on the forum and people occasionally messaging me that it is still on people's minds.

8th March wrote:

This is the first assassination attempt I've seen since mid-January. I've not been keeping up with the mafia games I haven't signed up for so I don't know if there's been any there but this is the first attempt on Kira by diff that I have seen. It was very subtle and it's a shame that Kira didn't fall for it: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 84#p776084

14th April wrote:

Taskmanager has informed me of this assassination attempt. It wasn't successful and also, as far as I know, the first attempt I didn't spot myself. https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 44#p778944
It seems Taskmanager has tried another attempt which Rat seemingly isn't falling for.

4th May wrote:

Taskmaster is shooting another shot. I hope it goes through simply on the basis that we haven't had a kill for months. https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 75#p780375
Rat really doesn't wanna bite lol. She probably realises it's an assassination attempt.

30th May wrote:

Kudos to TaskManager for trying so adamantly but it seems at this point he is solely relying on Assassinate being entirely forgotten about. https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 70#p781670

16th August wrote:

Lol even I had forgotten about this game for a while. I've nothing to report though I find it unlikely there's actually even going to be any more kills. I'm currently wondering if I should bother rehosting this in 2021 given the lack of activity on the forums and instead hope the forums are more popular by 2022.
Hmm, now that I think about it I do recall Rat mentioning Soniety recently - I wonder if she did that with the intention of trying to turn it into an assassination attempt.

23rd August wrote:

This is the first mention of the game I've seen in a while: https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 66#p784366
I'm hoping it prompts people to make some kill attempts - peace has mentioned his subject but not really directed it towards his target

8th October wrote:

I doubt there will be any more kills to be honest.

I'd really like to host this again for 2022 as it was incredibly fun to do so but there is definitely not enough activity on the forums for a 2021 game. It seems people forgot about the rule: "If you think your target is too inactive for you to have a fair chance of assassinating them then PM me on the forums and I will judge whether or not they should be assassinated." as pretty much any player could have been assassinated for this since the forums as a whole was so inactive in the latter part of this year.

Within my commentary, I mentioned some topics for discussion once the game is over. These are the main ones that I'd like to open this thread up for discussion on:

1. Should I continue to announce what post got someone killed? This is a problem as it means if the person killed was too obvious about their target then it will be much harder for their killer to get the next kill. My opinion is that I may as well announce this as it would be fairly easy to work out which posts could have got someone assassinated and it's just generally more fun to do so.
2. Should players be able to send in guesses for who they think their own assassin is and what their topic is? If they correctly guess both their assassin and their assassin's topic then their assassin is killed as a form of 'self-defence'. This would make players want to be less obvious as it risks getting themselves killed. If yes, how should this mechanic work? I personally think each player should get 1 opportunity to do so (per person trying to kill them) and that there should be no penalty for a wrong answer.

TaskManager, Different55

TaskManager · 2020-12-21 21:32:30

llololol
this was kinda fun ngl
this was my last attempt of assassinating rat:

▼big

also yes i've relied mostly on her simply forgetting about the game

▼peace shamelessly trying to assassinate me

mutantdevle

peace · 2020-12-22 11:50:59

oh **** off taskmanager

mutant i want to join another yeat (2021) but not wiht ridicolous topics

Luka504, Joeyjoey65

Luka504 · 2020-12-22 13:34:29

peace wrote:

oh **** off taskmanager

Yeah! Stick it to 'em, peace!

Minimania

mutantdevle · 2020-12-22 15:07:18

peace wrote:

mutant i want to join another yeat (2021) but not wiht ridicolous topics

I don't currently plan on hosting the game in 2021 - but if activity picks up on the forums then I will consider hosting later in the year if there is enough interest.

Also, the topics are not rediculous. They are all related to EE and have/do occur in regular conversations. The difficult part is then engaging your target in that conversation. You will need to think of smarter or more subtle ways of doing that

2b55b5g · 2020-12-22 22:23:20

I did attempt to assassinate once but oh well that ended up badly
It was a bad attempt anyway

AllenCaspe9510 · 2020-12-23 08:43:38

Lol, I didn't even read anything and just went on with the game. Peace assassinating me was really dumb move I made.

Yes, I know how to assassinate but uh... my target is inactive lol.

peace · 2020-12-23 12:14:22

norwegian was ttoo obvious lol it was actually fun seeing how safe i was

Norwee · 2020-12-23 13:27:57

What do u mean. I haven’t even tried to assassinate you yet Peace.

peace · 2020-12-24 12:12:24

oh **** off it wa sobvious

Minimania · 2020-12-24 12:29:04

Who's Crybaby?

mutantdevle

BuzzerBee · 2020-12-24 22:39:53

peace wrote:

oh **** off it wa sobvious

Be nice pls

Joeyjoey65

Onjit · 2023-02-13 13:19:40

Just wanted to bump this to say that this forum game was one of my favourites, it was a lot of fun

mutantdevle, 2b55b5g

mutantdevle · 2023-02-13 18:20:28

Onjit wrote:

Just wanted to bump this to say that this forum game was one of my favourites, it was a lot of fun

Aww thanks <3

I just wish I came up with the idea sooner. Can you imagine playing it back when the forums were truly active? This kinda just stagnated after the first month, albeit people were still trying to get kills. I hope there will come a time when I could host something like this again.

Onjit

Tomahawk · 2023-02-13 18:54:48

My heart when Onjit bumps a thread:

Onjit · 2023-02-14 01:45:31

mutantdevle wrote:

Onjit wrote:
Just wanted to bump this to say that this forum game was one of my favourites, it was a lot of fun
Aww thanks <3
I just wish I came up with the idea sooner. Can you imagine playing it back when the forums were truly active? This kinda just stagnated after the first month, albeit people were still trying to get kills. I hope there will come a time when I could host something like this again.

Oh yeah, if we played this even a few years earlier it would have been amazing

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