Nothing to do for three hours.

Hey everyone! The non-stop slew of activity that was fresher's week is finally over and today's the day I start my lectures! It's time to start learning some shit!

...Or that would be the case, if my very first lecture hadn't just been cancelled on account of a power cut. Suffice to say I am rather peeved, I got up at 7:30 for this!

But anyway, this does mean I now have three hours to kill until my next (hopefully UN-cancelled) lecture, so what better way to spend the time than write a blog post! I've been falling behind on them after all.

I think I'll talk about the Durham Assassin society.

The assassin society has the following slogan, "Make friends, then kill them!" That is the general gist. A standard deathmatch game has the following rules: any member of the society can "kill" any other member through a variety of interesting methods, from the mundane (shooting with nerf guns, stabbing with paper knifes) to the down right ridiculous (time bombs, voodoo rituals, pits of bubble wrap). From the moment the game starts in a couple of weeks, it is running all the time, everywhere. Well, almost everywhere, the game for obvious reasons is ineffective during lectures and in certain other areas, but for the most part, anywhere is fair game to be brutally murdered. Legendary assassinations quite literally go down in history through the retelling of stories. It's all very geeky.

I, through a brief moment of sheer insanity, (or probably just stupidity), put my name down for this bloodbath.

I'm scared.

I am however, interested to see how it all plays out. The people who run the society (more commonly referred to as "The Guild" naturally) are known to be brutally efficient in their kills. They WILL come knocking at your door and wait for you to leave so they can kill you. In this game, camping really is a legitimate strategy! It is up to you to devise escape methods, up to you to learn about your targets and when they'll be at their most vulnerable, and it's up to you to cast aside your fear and become a cold, killing machine. Fun times!

So tell me, anyone who's at uni, what interesting societies you signed up for! And when I say interesting, I mean interesting.

Until next time.

Jake

EDIT: Turns out all my lectures today were in that same building. Every single one of them: cancelled. This does not bode well for the rest of the year.