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The high school I went to had a very interesting tradition. The graduating class would host a sort of battle royale the month before we all graduated. And this was way before Fortnight and PUBG were even a thing. Now the rules were pretty simple you had to pay five hundred rupees ( 7–8 USD) to join and it was winner-take-all however. The game would only last about two weeks. So in the case that there was more than one survivor at the very end the prize pool would be split. Every single day you would receive a text message from the game master. He would tell you who your target of the day was. This was the person that you had a hunt down and kill. Not physically with a knife alright .
All you had to do was mark them on their skin with a marker which was pretty funny because the battle royale took place in the summer. So we had people showing up to school in 90-degree weather with hoodies and jackets on. Now there were a couple of other rules.
1. You were not allowed to skip school or cut classes if you were caught doing anything. So you’d be disqualified.
2. You were immune while in class. This was to prevent the game from interfering with actual schoolwork.
3. If you killed someone your new target would be their target.
So if Sam killed Ben and Ben’s target with Shelly, Sam’s new target would be Shelly.
4. If you killed three people in the span of 24 hours you would gain immunity which meant nobody could touch you for 24 hours. So that was the more aggressive strategy. Hunt down three people and you could relax.
5. You had to kill at…
