Some of the things in this chapter are once again based on games that I've watched. Hope you all enjoy.
Players: Yugi - Dark Blue. Joey - Yellow. Tristan - Black. Tea - Pink. Serenity - Orange. Mai - Purple. Duke - Red. Bakura - White. Mokuba - Dark Green. Noah - Light Green.
Map: Mira HQ.
"Okay guys, how do we feel about changing the map?" Yugi asked.
"I'm up for it. Is it the one we haven't done yet?" Serenity asked.
"Yep!" Yugi said. "There are different tasks on this one, and there's a thing where you can check the sensors and see who passed by at certain locations."
Tristan stretched his arms as Yugi kept explaining the map to people who haven't played on it. He had played on the map a few times, and while he preferred the other maps to this one, he felt like this map did have its advantages, like the vents for example.
"Are we all ready?" Tea asked.
"Ready!" Mokuba said.
"Okay, everyone's here. I'm starting up the game. Good luck!" Yugi said. Tristan muted up as the game started. He looks at the screen and saw that he was a crewmate.
"Aw man. Can I be imposter at least once?" he asked as the game started. He checked his map, noticing that he didn't have any tasks in the starting room. He saw a few people walking over to do tasks as he ran out and down the hallway. He pulled up his map again, wondering what task he should start with.
"Alright, let's go into Reactor first." He ran up past Medbay, into the locker room, and opened the door to Decontamination. Yugi was with him as they ran through Decontamination, and the top door opened. The two ran into Reactor. Tristan ran over and started his number pad task. After that task was done. He ran over and saw Yugi doing his assembling the gem task.
"Okay, he's doing that task," Tristan said slowly as he ran over and started his sorting task. After putting the bones, leaves, and gems in their respective boxes, the Reactor alarm started going off. "Oh hey, I'm already here," Tristan said as he ran over. Yugi also ran with him. The two stood on either side of the Reactor and placed their hands on the pad, stopping the meltdown.
"Okay, now what should I do?" Tristan asked, pulling up his map. Suddenly, a body was reported. Tristan unmuted as the discussion started.
"Tea's body is down by Weapons, under the Cafeteria," Bakura said.
"Oh, Joey is dead too!" Mokuba said.
"Before we start talking about this, I just want to say, it's really easy to get a lot of kills in one round on this map, just because it's smaller than the others. So we have to be kind of quick if we want to win this as crewmates," Yugi said.
"I one time saw the imposters win on this map in two rounds," Noah said.
"Oh wow, that's fast," Mai said.
"Okay, so Tea was over by Weapons?" Duke asked. "Who saw her last?"
"I only saw her at the beginning doing a task where we all spawned in," Tristan said. "I went up to Reactor with Yugi and haven't seen anyone else this round. We were the ones who fixed the Reactor."
"I can confirm that," Yugi said. "And right now, I think I can clear Tristan if there were two deaths… but if those deaths were one person… then it could still be Tristan."
"Nah, I can clear both of us. We could've killed each other at any moment, and we didn't."
"Alright, we should be good then," Yugi said.
"Who saw Joey last?" Serenity asked.
"I saw him going up towards the upper area, where Admin, Electrical, and Oxygen are. I didn't see anyone else head up there though," Bakura said. "I was in Cafeteria doing tasks in there and I went down to do my Weapons task and I found Tea there."
"Hmm," Duke said. "Bakura, are you sure this isn't a self-report?"
"No, it's not. I was running down the hallway and saw Joey heading North, and then went down to Cafeteria. I didn't even see Tea during that entire time. When the Reactor went off, I was already in the Cafeteria doing tasks. I'm thinking there was someone else in the room with us."
"Alright… so where was everyone else?" Mai asked.
"I went back to the beginning of the level because I had tasks to do there," Noah said. I didn't see anyone around there though."
"I did see Joey run past me when I was doing a task in Admin. He was running into Oxygen, but that was the last I saw him," Duke said.
"…I have nothing right now, I'm skipping," Noah said as he placed his vote.
"I have Medbay scan if anyone wants to clear me," Bakura said as he also placed his vote.
"I can clear Yugi, but that's pretty much it," Tristan said as he placed his vote to skip. A few others placed their votes as well.
"…Good meeting everyone," Mokuba said with sarcasm in his voice. "Everyone, get your tasks done," he said as he placed his vote. The final tally was everyone voting to skip.
"Mokuba, you were quiet throughout that entire meeting," Yugi said.
"I didn't really have any information to give. I didn't see a lot of you this round," Mokuba said as the next round began. Tristan muted and pulled up his map.
"Alright, I have two tasks here." He walked up to the trash chute task and pulled down the lever. Once that was done, he went down to just outside the storage room and fixed his first wiring. As he did, the lights started going out.
"Oh, that's not good," he said as he left the wires and started heading North. He got to the area where the three hallways meet when the lights finally came back on. He ran into Electrical and saw Noah, Yugi, Mai, and Serenity there.
"Are there any dead bodies around here?" Tristan asked as he walked into Admin and looked around. "…Nothing," he said slowly as he went to the card task and entered the card code 34626. Once he did, he left Admin and went back south.
Suddenly, a body was reported. Tristan unmuted as the discussion started.
"Real quick, who was there at lights?" Yugi asked. "I saw Noah, Mai, and who else?"
"I was there!" Serenity said.
"And I got there at the end and saw everyone leave," Tristan said.
"Okay, and where was the body?" Yugi asked.
"Mokuba's body was on the Medbay scanner. I was going there to do my Medbay scan, because I said I would do that task last meeting in case anyone wants to confirm me, and his body was right there."
"Well, considering that everyone was at Electrical fixing the lights… Duke, where were you this round?" Yugi asked.
"I went to Reactor to do tasks up there, and then when the lights went out, I ran back down into Decontamination, and then I walked out, and went into Communications to see if I could see anything on the sensors, and then the body was reported."
"Communications is right above Medbay, and I didn't see you coming from Reactor at all," Bakura said.
"The lights were out, so of course you weren't going to see me. I didn't see you either. I'm sorry I missed a body, but I didn't see anyone," Duke said.
"Well… it could be someone in Electrical that joined us at the last minute to look innocent. Right now, I only trust Yugi and Tristan since they were cleared for those first two kills," Mai said. "So, I'm also sus on Noah and Serenity."
"I was up in Oxygen watering the flowers before the lights went off," Serenity said.
"Did anyone see her getting the watering can from Storage?" Mai asked.
"I got it last round, so I didn't have to go there this round," Serenity explained.
"I did see Serenity heading that way earlier in the round," Yugi said. "Do we have any other leads?"
"I still think it's Duke," Bakura said as he placed his vote.
"It's not me. If everyone else was up by Electrical, then I think Bakura's self-reporting," Duke said as he also placed his vote.
"Oh great, it's between the two of them, isn't it?" Tristan said, rubbing his forehead. "I don't know who to vote for… I kinda want to skip."
"Should we be skipping on seven?" Mai asked. "This map is pretty small, remember?"
"I think we could skip, but we'll have to keep an eye on Duke, and if even the slightest of suspicious things happens, we call a meeting," Noah said as he placed his vote.
"Or we can all stick together, and if anyone else decides to stray away, we vote them out. That way it's harder for the imposter to kill someone," Yugi said as he also placed his vote.
"I'm sticking with you Yugi," Tristan said as he placed his vote to skip. A few others placed their votes as well.
"Please let this be the right choice," Serenity said as she placed her vote. The final tally was two votes for Duke, one vote for Bakura, and four votes to skip.
"Wow, okay!" Duke said. "You're really going to believe Bakura?"
"Because I know it's you!" Bakura responded as the next round began. Tristan muted as the next round began.
"Okay, time to really think about this," he said. Checking his map, he saw that he still had a lot of tasks left. "Do I even want to finish my tasks? I feel like I'm going to die either way!" He sighed and ran over to Yugi, who was doing his vending machine task.
"Eh, might as well stick with Yugi for now," he said as Yugi finished his task and ran North, with Tristan following him. They ran up to Admin, where Yugi started doing another task. Tristan walked over and looked at Admin table.
"Alright, nothing too much going on here." Once he got out of Admin table, the lights started going out. "Oh here we go again." He ran over to Electrical and up to the panel. He flicked the switches and the lights came back on.
"Alright, I'm gonna go back, and see if something happened." He ran out and went to Admin. Seeing nothing in there, he ran out and walked back down the hallway.
"I might go button and see if-" Suddenly, as he approached the Cafeteria door, he saw someone pop out of the vent that was right next to him.
Tristan gasped loudly. "OHHHHHHHHHH! NO! NO! NO! DON'T KILL ME! BUTTON!" he said frantically as he ran down to the button table, with the imposter hot on his trial.
Right in the nick of time, Tristan approached the button and called a meeting. Tristan unmuted and started speaking quickly and loudly.
"I know who it is! I know who it is!" Tristan exclaimed.
"Mai's dead!" Serenity gasped.
"Yeah, but we can still get one of the imposters out! I was running down from Admin to see if there were any dead bodies, and guess what I saw? I saw DUKE! He hoped out of the vent, and chased me down trying to kill me! But I got here just in time!" Tristan said, pride evident in his voice.
"Well Duke, do you have anything to say about this?" Yugi asked. There was a moment of pause before Duke finally spoke up.
"Can you go into the vent?"
Everyone started laughing, even Duke was chuckling. "Alright then, we're voting for Duke!" Tristan said as he placed his vote for the imposter.
"Real quick, did anyone see Mai last?" Noah asked.
"I only saw her at the beginning of the round," Serenity said. "She was heading towards Reactor last time I checked."
"Was there anyone else near that area?" Noah asked.
"…I don't think so," Bakura said.
"…You don't sound convinced. Did you see someone go in that direction?" Noah asked as he placed his vote.
"No, I didn't," Bakura said as he also voted. "Anyways, we'll get one of the imposters out right now, but I'm still keeping an eye out for the other one."
"So, we're all voting for Duke?" Yugi asked.
"Yeah, he vented in front of me," Tristan said as Yugi placed his vote.
"Wait a second, I haven't even said my peace," Duke said.
"Alright, you have ten seconds, defending venting," Tristan said with a laugh. Everyone else was also waiting to hear Duke's defense.
"…I don't know how to do it."
Tristan stared laughing, followed by everyone else. "Oh man, I should have taken my vote back," Tristan joked as everyone finished placing their vote. The final tally was Duke voting to skip, and everyone else voting for Duke.
"Aw man, my first time as the imposter, and that had to happen," Duke said as he was dropped from the ship.
"Better luck next time," Tristan said as everyone muted and the next round started. "Alright, at least we have one imposter out." He opened his map, looking to see which tasks he still had. "Alright, let's do this one," he said as he ran down and over to the weather balloon task. As he started the task, he started thinking about who the other imposter could be.
"Right now, I trust Bakura, since he was also pushing for Duke. Serenity. I think I trust her too. So it's between Yugi and Noah… But I was able to clear Yugi for those first kills. Which leaves only Noah."
Once he finished the task, he opened his map again. "Oh, I have to go back to the Reactor. Great." He ran up into the Cafeteria, and into the hallway. He ran up and over, passing Communications and into the locker room. He stopped at the doors to Decontamination, where he saw Noah on the other side.
"Hi Noah…" he said as the door opened. As Tristan went inside, it was only a second when he was Noah open his mouth and stab him. Tristan's ghost flew over his body as Noah hopped into the vent that was nearby.
"Well, I should have seen that coming." Tristan said as the Oxygen alarm started going off. He unmuted for the other ghosts.
"Hi Tristan," Mokuba said.
"Hey guys. I just got a revenge kill," Tristan said as he flew up and did his last set of wires.
"That was so unfortunate for Duke," Tea said.
"Yeah, it was. I almost had you too. When I saw you pass by, my only thought was that you had to die," Duke said as the alarm stopped.
"Too bad!" Tristan said as he started laughing.
"How many of you still have tasks?" Mai asked.
"I'm done with all mine," Tea said.
Tristan pulled up his map. "I still have one more up in Oxygen." He flew up to Oxygen, where he saw Serenity running to do the watering flowers task. Tristan flew over and did his filtering task.
"Uh… I still have all my task… hehehe," Joey said quietly.
"What the- What have you been doing this entire time?!" Tristan asked.
"I was watching Noah. I wanted to see who he was going to kill," Joey said.
"Get your tasks done! Or else we're not going to win this game!" Mai exclaimed.
As Tristan finished his task, he saw Serenity running down, and so he followed her. "I'm gonna stick with Serenity for the rest of the game now that my tasks are done."
"Hey, what about me!" Duke asked as his ghost floated over to them.
"I was here first!" Tristan exclaimed.
The two ghosts followed Serenity as she ran into Admin to enter her card code. The two then saw Noah running up and before the two knew it, they saw him swipe Serenity and run into Electrical.
"No!" both Tristan and Duke said as they saw Serenity's ghost flying over her body.
"Wait, why are you upset?" Mai asked. "Noah could win this. He only needs one more kill."
"But not Serenity!" Duke said.
"Hi guys!" Serenity said as she unmuted for the ghosts.
"Serenity!" Joey exclaimed. "I'm sorry that good-for-nothing imposter killed you!"
"Joey, that's how you play the game. You had no issue when Serenity was the imposter with me," Tea said.
"That's different!" Tea was about to respond when a body was reported. Tristan muted as the people still alive started discussing.
"Okay, I found this over by Admin table," Bakura said.
"Oh… wait… okay, I think it's Noah," Yugi said.
"Why me?" Noah asked.
"Because I'm pretty sure it isn't Bakura because he was the first one to suspect Duke, and because the game didn't end, he was right about him. And I know it isn't me, so that leaves only you," Yugi explained.
"I'm thinking along those lines too… But maybe it could be you Yugi, and you could be secretly laughing to yourself and putting all the blame on Noah."
"I think that is what he's doing, because it isn't me," Noah said. Tristan could hear the desperation in his voice, and he knew that there was no way Noah was winning this.
"No it isn't. I've been susing Noah all game, and I haven't said anything because we were all focused on Duke, but Noah was also quiet for most of the game, and he wasn't going all out on Duke when he was clearly the imposter. Also, Tristan cleared me in the first round from those two kills!" Yugi explained.
"And you've been quiet during this game too. Duke must have gotten both of those kills because you were too busy marinating Tristan," Noah accused. Tristan saw Bakura placing his vote. "Bakura, who did you just vote for?" Noah asked.
"I voted for Yugi," Bakura said.
Tristan almost spit out the soda he had started drinking. "What!? Bakura! What are you doing!?"
"What?" Yugi asked.
"Yeah, I voted for you," Bakura said. "Vote for who you think the imposter is."
"I'm voting for Yugi too, this game is over," Noah said as he placed his vote. Tristan though he heard something in his voice, but he couldn't figure it out.
"You guys are going to throw the game. If you both voted for me, then we lost! I was cleared first round, remember?" Yugi said. "I'll still vote for Noah, but we…" Tristan saw the tallies, and breathed a huge sigh when he saw two votes for Noah, and one vote for Yugi.
"Oh, thank God," Tristan sighed.
"Oh… Bakura… we're you joking?" Yugi asked.
"Of course I was," Bakura said. "There's no way Noah is winning this one."
Noah sighed as he was dropped from the ship. "Yeah, I should've killed Bakura instead, since he was pretty much clear, and so was Yugi, but I wanted to try to get everyone in one go."
Tristan unmuted as the victory screen appeared for him. "Bakura, you really had me going there for a second!" Tristan said.
"Yeah, what was that for?" Joey asked.
Bakura chuckled. "I just wanted to have a little fun. I think Florence would be proud of me for that deception." Tristan could imagine the spirit getting flustered at the mention of that name.
"Hey, Bakura. You should let Florence join us for one game," Noah said.
"Yeah, I think he would like this game, since it involves killing everyone…" Duke said, trailing off a little.
There was an awkward silence before Bakura spoke again. "Alright, he'll play, but only if we stop calling him 'Florence'."
"Well then… what do we call him?" Tristan asked.
"…I have no idea!" Bakura said chuckling.
"This can only go so well," Mokuba said.
Might as well throw Yami Bakura in there next time!
