Street Wars
<div class="IPBDescription">This looks SO fun</div><a href="http://streetwars.net/" target="_blank">http://streetwars.net/</a>
The site says it all. Basically it's a real world game where everyone that plays is a watergun assassin. You give a picture of yourself, your home address, work address etc and you become someones victim. At the same time you get the info of one other person on these neat plastic ID cards and they are your victim. You hunt them down at work or at home and squirt them with water somehow.
you should watch the videos on the site, they are interesting.
Closest game to me is Toronto so I can't play <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
The site says it all. Basically it's a real world game where everyone that plays is a watergun assassin. You give a picture of yourself, your home address, work address etc and you become someones victim. At the same time you get the info of one other person on these neat plastic ID cards and they are your victim. You hunt them down at work or at home and squirt them with water somehow.
you should watch the videos on the site, they are interesting.
Closest game to me is Toronto so I can't play <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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That's actually what global warming is. A bunch of people got together and cooperated to make the ice caps melt and the sea levels rise, in order to soak their targets. True story.
(Plus, seeing people come to the meetings wearing harnesses for their weapons was good for a few lulz.)
It's nice that it works so well and everything, but how can you actually prove that you got the person...say, if they don't give their target to you or something? It just seems like "oh, you squirted me? well, no one's here, so you didn't squirt me"-potential.
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I think it's generally because the age group that participates isn't 11 years old :/. I think alot of the people photograph/film their hits as well, espically the ones where the hunter wastes hours and hours to hunt down their target.
I think it's generally because the age group that participates isn't 11 years old :/. I think alot of the people photograph/film their hits as well, espically the ones where the hunter wastes hours and hours to hunt down their target.
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As much as you'd like to think that only 11 year olds hold a fondness for cheating, I know there has to be at least a few people that have done this...so I'm just wondering how they handle it.
And since much of this seems to take place in/around other peoples' homes, it doesn't seem like it'd be very feasible to photograph or document it. Like the woman who broke into that one guy's house to squirt him...then you'd have documentation that you broke into someone's house that they could potentially use against you if they ever had to.
They were playing for big money and someone got killed for real (in the show obviously), because they had tricked someone just to get their kill.
Kinda put me off the idea really......
As much as you'd like to think that only 11 year olds hold a fondness for cheating, I know there has to be at least a few people that have done this...so I'm just wondering how they handle it.
And since much of this seems to take place in/around other peoples' homes, it doesn't seem like it'd be very feasible to photograph or document it. Like the woman who broke into that one guy's house to squirt him...then you'd have documentation that you broke into someone's house that they could potentially use against you if they ever had to.
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Keep in mind Im talking about the one the local radio station does, I don't know about other similar events. However, getting onto this one was a pretty big deal, so you had to be serious about it to compete. They also screened and hand-chose all the participants to rule out possible lamers. I think the people also filled out tons of liability forms that stated you wouldn't injure other contestants/sue your attacker for things damaged, etc etc.
This was in one of the episodes of one of the CSI series too, I think it was New York.....
They were playing for big money and someone got killed for real (in the show obviously), because they had tricked someone just to get their kill.
Kinda put me off the idea really......
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Did the episode of X-Files where the guy died inside a computer game put you off the idea of playing any more video games? How about the episode of Monk where the guy's fiancee turned out to be a murderer? Did that put you off the idea of marrying?
My squirtgun would contain dye. Water-based of course. But red like blood. Bru-ha-ha!
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My squirtgun would contain lye. Let's see them retaliate when they're <i>blind!</i>
If you want a long list of different ways of playign check out <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/killer/" target="_blank">Killer</a> from SJ Games, they have a very good collection.
Our meathod required getting your target alone and simply letting them know they were killed. As we were playing with friends cheating was not a problem, but the paranoia aspect was awsome <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
More advanced forms of Killer involve traps. Traps are awsome, but have to be elaborate to be fun, and require much stricter rules.
The rule was you couldn't shoot someone 5 minutes before, during, or 5 minutes after class. So the next years when they were both targets they would wait until 5 minutes before class and literally run across campus.
There's another version of killer with playing cards where you wink at people to kill them and the object of the game for the killer is to wipe everyone out, and for the targets to catch the killer.
I played killer on campus in college, it's great fun. It wasn't limited to water pistols though, the killer could use his imagination to produce a plausible method of assasination. I picked a lock on a locked and put a fake bomb in there with "boom your dead" written on it, for example.
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Yah, the SJ Games book on killer has a good amount of ideas for this. One of the better ones was to take a sharpie, outline the edge of a CD and leave a note along the lines of "contact poison, you are dead" under it.
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There's another version of killer with playing cards where you wink at people to kill them and the object of the game for the killer is to wipe everyone out, and for the targets to catch the killer.
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I have never played this but I always see it explained as beign played at a table/party.
The rules are really simple. Pick out the jack of spades and a few random cards so that there are as many cards in the pile as players. Then everyone picks a card and the person who gets the jack of spades is the killer. The game starts when the last person to draw says go. A person is killed when winked at, and a anyone can win the game by declaring who the killer is. If you guess wrong, you are out of the game. Players need to be careful about when they announce they are dead, in order to not make it obvious who the killer is. The killer wins if he kills all but one person.
Yah, the SJ Games book on killer has a good amount of ideas for this. One of the better ones was to take a sharpie, outline the edge of a CD and leave a note along the lines of "contact poison, you are dead" under it.[...]
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Would never work nowadays. Imagine if an uninvolved person finds it and panicks. You'd be imprisoned and buttraped for terrorism.
Would never work nowadays. Imagine if an uninvolved person finds it and panicks. You'd be imprisoned and buttraped for terrorism.
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Heh, you do have to be careful about playing any sort of live action game with norms around. I know all of my friends and I were listed in the file of people in cults when we were in HS (Live action Vampire aparently does that).
Games like this are only really doable when either EVERYONE is in it, or everything is very subtle. There are stories of Steve Jackson runnign a game at a convention that had a nice chunk of $$ as the prize (consisted of having to Nerf assassinate Mr Jackson himself, but gettign around his 6 bodyguards wat the problem)