Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Issue: 63   Editor: Nyxxinator


The Order Targeted UnlimitedDistraction
Just as we here at the Buzz thought all the week's action had passed, suddenly the hitlist was used again but this time, it was to hitlist members of The Order. Initially, six members were hitlisted anonymously for $20,000,000 each. Shortly afterwards, prettybunneh and odbV4 were bought off. However, later on, dbV4 was hitlisted again but for $30,000,000 meaning the total spent was $130,000,000. Since then, four of the remaining five who were hitlisted have been killed with the remaining one being bought off.

In order to find out the reasons for the hitlists, I posted for anyone to bootmail me if they knew anything. This brought some successes and various players gave me ideas of who may have been responsible for the bounties but there was no luck on the hitlister bootmailing me themselves. Therefore, I decided to follow up on the leads of which I had been given. This then lead me to iNisZ, Boss of new crew to the Stats, The Enclave, which has since been taken over. I decided to ask him a few questions as to whether he had any business involved with hitlist. When asked first time, he replied, "More interesting stuff will happen in a week - maybe 2." A slip of the finger on the keyboard maybe. However, when realizing this didn't answer my question, I repeated the question. But this time he was very secretive and when I asked him whether he had anything to do with it, he simply replied, "No Comment."

You may think that this is conclusive, that The Enclave are the culprits. This is where you may be wrong. While in conversation with iNisZ, I was bootmailed by a user who wishes to remain anonymous who claimed he knew who hitlisted The Order and why. He unfortunately could not name who this person was but what was revealed was "he's hitlisting with his daily bank %" and the reason for the hitlists are because "he just wants to get rid of The Order, thats all." If you're thinking of trying to find this person, you'll have a lot of trouble because "he's 100% underground, not even his closest friends know his account."

So, currently there are two potential culprits, which one, if at all, is correct, we will never know. With the person behind it keeping as tight-lipped as they have been, I don't think the real identity of the user will be revealed. What's more, this may not be the end to the attempts to create confusion within The Order as no statement has been issued by either party of claims that it will not happen again.

With four being eventually shot for their bounties, this again shows being in a crew doesn't make you invincible and also heats up the debate about whether it is wise to join a crew in the first place.