[Muse]

I am personally fine with whatever anyone wishes to do to rule number #1. However, I am of the opinion that if your character has expressed enough through roleplay that they intend to get hostile with whoever the other player(s) are and the reason for such, then an OOC message isn't all too necessary. But, whenever it comes to PC assassins and characters that might be hired to kill another PC, that area does somewhat grow a little bit gray and I'm unsure of how that specifically would be handled. I assume the message of the mark would be enough but timed assassins are a common thing for medium to higher level characters sooooooo.. *Shrugs.*

As long as there is a clear way that an instigating PC shows IC that there is harm intended or possibly intended towards a targeted PC, I am fine with it. Again, that area does somewhat grow gray with assassins, but I would assume that if a PC assassin was hired by another PC to commit permanent harm to another player that they would keep logs/screenshots of that RP for the DMs when/if asked for it.