{{spoiler}} The assassin is a quick, frustrating enemy found reasonably quite early into the game.<br> Assassins are made of have a special type very strange anatomy, their limbs actually being of flesh with negative weight. This, however, allowing allows them to dodge pretty much all of your attacks and also move (and dodge) extremely fast. They also explode gratuitously in gratuitous spray of gore on death, spraying huge quantities of coating your equipment in blood everywhere that is sure to coat and rust your equipmentlikely rusting it. As such, it is strongly recommended that you might be clever to take out assassins at range whenever possible, should you be able to actually hit them from afar.
Their limbs will always weigh in the negatives (like a [[sol stone]]) so it can be beneficial to the player to carry assassin carrion with them if given the opportunity.
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=== Trivia ===
* While assassin corpse will weight around 3g after death, this is mostly due to the negative weight of their limbs. It is actually possible to pick up the limbs cut off in combat and use them as a temporary [[Sol Stone]], until they rot away. That is an acknowledged [[Cheats and Exploits|bug]] as it can lead to degenerate behaviour of trying to cut off as many assassin's limbs as possible before his inevitable death, to get more negative weight from these body parts.