Word: assassination
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...aftermath of my team’s defeat, I am beginning to wonder if the red-in-tooth-and-claw competition offered by Assassin is really such a good thing after...
...such inglorious fashion ended my week of playing Quincy House Assassin...
Originally, before my death—and the subsequent deaths of my valiant teammates in Sunday’s final shootout—I had intended to write a column singing the praises of Assassin, that much-ridiculed and frequently-banned adornment of Harvard’s house life. I planned to point out how the game encouraged house spirit, how it expanded one’s circle of friends and acquaintances and how it encouraged a spirit of martial solidarity rivalled only, I imagine, in the fraternal order of final clubs and the rabble-rousing ranks of the Progressive...
...intended to point out, too, how Assassin offers the cosseted Ivy League Last Man a chance to experience what a real man should experience, albeit in an artificial, nerf-dart sort of way. I speak, of course, of the thrill of the hunt, the delicious paranoia that comes with knowing that every dark corner, every shadowy alcove might conceal a killer and that one’s life hangs by an ever-so-thin thread. I speak, too, of the great struggle for mastery, in which one establishes one’s superiority by force of arms, without recourse...
...mansion decorated with grand staircases, stained-glass windows and prehistoric pottery. In one corner, there's a glass-walled computer room filled with a dozen flat, plasma screens that monitor the solar system. Beside them sits an evil-looking robotic biped that serves alternately as sophisticated jukebox and lethal assassin...