Wednesday

AniCu (Curtin Uni's anime club) held a modified and shortened game of Assassin's. For those of you who haven't heard it, Assassin's is a game played largely across universities in America and involves a large number of people signing up, receiving information on a 'target' (their timetable, picture etc.), and must find a way of 'killing' that target when they're alone using a variety of creative, mostly harmless weapons. Wikipedia it if you care for more, but I personally think it's an awesome game. It's designed to promote a sense of "healthy paranoia" as you're walking along with your best friend and all of a sudden they draw a nerf gun and start shooting at you. I spent some time training with my Maverick and designing my outfit so that it maximised mobility and accessibility to a variety of weapons, including but not limited to three Nerf guns, a foam sword and a spoon. The day did not quite turn out as I expected it to though- we were not walking around, searching for targets, but walking around talking to each other and trying to find out who our target was. You see, AniCu's variation on the game, as well as being much shorter (Assassin's can take months to finish, as once you kill you target you acquire theirs, until you are the last remaining assassin) was based on codenames. I was told I was Solineum (however the hell that's spelt) and was supposed to kill Lithium and Xenon. Much of the game was spent asking people if they knew who these people were, and if they wanted to know anyone else's identity in exchange. To aid with identification, fake money was stashed around campus which, if found, could be exchanged for the name or picture of your target. I spent the first two hours of the game looking for money so I could cash it in, when someone on my team came up to me and said he knew the identity of Lithium. I gave him $1000 for it and he told me, then as I went to look for the person, he poked me in the back with a ballpoint pen.