Round 1
A meeting was called inside the office of planet Polus. In a most tragic manner, the crew mates had come together to mourn the loss of one of their dearest friends, and find the culprit for the murder.
"It was you wasn't it? I saw you running away all sus when I was rushing past admin! You're the impostor!" The red crew mate stood up smacking the table and accused.
The one speaking was none other than seat number 1 and the red crew mate. Yanfei, a girl of pinkish red hair and teal eyes wearing a reindeer spacesuit with an antlers designed helmet and a fake fluffy-deer tail sticking out the rear.
She stood from her chair directing her index finger at seat number 6 and crew mate yellow. Simp Bad, a blond man with a ponytail and wearing a regular yellow spacesuit with but a paper ship resting on his helmet.
"That's a wild accusation you're making there deer. Everyone knows only an impostor would accuse an innocent crew mate with so little evidence. Besides, what where you running so desperately from? You looked like the devil was chasing you." Yellow questioned.
The red crew mate swallowed and stiffened where she stood when cyan crew mate caught her spacesuit tail and began playing twist and tug with it. Later moving on to gleefully, shamelessly and absentmindedly fondling red crew mate bum despite being in a public meeting.
"Oh, our apologies about that, my princess and I where simply playing catch, but she just wasn't holding back very much." Cyan crew mate said.
Eula Lawrence, seat number 2 and cyan member of the crew. Originally seat number 6, she traded places with yellow in order to get some hands-on action with red during meetings. Something yellow was all too happy to indulge.
"Everyone, please deter from making baseless accusations. This is our first meeting and if we vote on executing a crew mate right now we would only make the impostor or impostors job more easy. The best course of action we can take is to report which of us where in the vicinity of the victim when she died and move on until we have more clues." A purple crew mate dictated order in the room.
Keqing, crew mate purple and seat number 3 of the crew. A girl wearing a cat ears like hairdo and helmet to match, a fake purple cat tail sticking out of her spacesuit.
"So far Yanfei has attested to seeing Simp being separating from his partner, this seems like a step in the right direction, and Eula was supposed to have been chasing after Yanfei. Eula, can you corroborate with her claim?" Purple asks.
Cyan gave a flick of her bangs and smiled elegantly as all eyes on deck landed on her.
"Why yes, as the captain of the Favonius Recognizance Company, I'm most familiar with observation and gathering of information. I could not just attest to my princess claim, I could probably identify the positions of everyone here as I was chasing after her." A lusty cyan declared.
And just as she was about to comment on her observations, a bored white 7 cut into the conversation.
"Before we start I just want to confess guiltily, that me and Paimon where at O2 during the time of the murder and could have, and I'm just saying, totally gotten away with it."
"W-what!!? L-Lumine please shut your mouth! Eh… everyone please ignore everything she just said! She has a few screws lose and the bad habit of acting a little creepy when she gets bored." A flying pet said.
"Gasp! Paimon, how could you say something so cruel to your partner in crime?" White jested.
"Lumine, have you not seen the way you get eliminated in this stage if you get voted off? Because Paimon sure isn't going to become fried Paimon! So shut. Your. Mouth! Besides, we where with Xiao which means he can vouch for us. Right Xiao?" The pet shushed her friend and asked their partner for the round.
A little to the left in seat number 5 and wearing a green spacesuit with a demon mask over the helmet, was the Adeptus Xiao.
"They left my side the moment red and cyan passed running from the north. I suspect they could've headed there before Yanfei and Eula tour brought them back to electrical." The green crew mated stated calmly.
"See, I told you we could've totally gotten away with it." White said.
"Shut up Lumine! And Xiao you traitor! Paimon is never going to bring you Almond Tofu ever again!" The flying pet cried betrayed.
Crew mate number 7 was made of a combo consisting of a blond and short haired girl wearing a white spacesuit with a flower adorning her helmet, and a flying pet that seems to follow her everywhere.
Outside the meeting office a lightning bolt struck, silencing all participants on the meeting.
"Before we hear cyan out, I would like to know what's her excuse for abandoning blue to chase red?" Pink and seat number tenth asked.
Raiden Ei, clad in a pink spacesuit with a dango adorned helmet.
"And why do I have to be the pink crew mate? Purple is more of my thing." She also asked.
"Sorry about that. I too have a purple motif and they said I have seniority. They also said making another cat theme spacesuit was a drag so purple was mine to keep." The cat mate responded.
"Forget the suit colors or all that nonsense! Who even invited the skank here?" An annoyed red brought up.
"I'll cook you ya stupid deer! Show some respect for my goddess, and I invited her! Please excuse her milady, she likes to forget her place in the food chain sometimes." Yellow said.
"Oh shut up you worthless simp! And you, why in the damn abyss did you accept his invitation? Aren't you supposed to be scared shitless of him in the main story?" Red crew mate inquired with extra venom.
Sparks flew between the two before—
"Kyaaaa! My eyes! She just attacked me! Kill her, she's an impostor!" Red found the sparks flying where real and got herself electrocuted.
Crew mate pink rose her chin high as she looked down on red from the other side of the table.
"You didn't seriously think I was going to stay like that for the whole story didn't you? I am the final boss here, I had therapy. But since we are talking about invitations now, who invited Miko here?" Pink asked with curiosity.
"What's the matter Ei? Afraid I might grow a tummy mouth and devour you for lunch?"
By pinks side found herself seated number nine and crew mate rose, Yae Miko. Wearing a spacesuit with fox ears and a tail.
A lightning ray punched out the office with a blast and blew off the dropship to pieces. No fox mates where harmed in the firing of that laser, she simply dodged. Though her seat and a portion of the table where gone for good.
"Hey! She's attacked twice now! Nobody but the impostor is allowed to attack in this game so why haven't we voted the skank off yet!? And seriously, who invited her fox friend?" A raccoon eyed red asked.
"Nobody really invited her, she wanted to be invited and so she put a commission for Paimon to bring her an invitation. Then Lumine here suggested stealing Childe's." Crew mate white pet said as she stretched.
"I see… Classical Miko." Pink said nodding.
"Are you kidding me? She just invited herself like— what kind of sick joke is this? Who even allowed this?" Red recovered.
"Calm down my princess, stressing is horrible for your skin. We simply had a shortage of players and we couldn't afford to reveal the ones that still haven't made an appearance, so we decided to play with the ones that have already been established to be a part of the story." Cyan said as she helped red relax with her caresses.
"Alright everyone, enough procrastination. Let's hear out the person who found blue dead and from there we'll listen to cyan story before giving each a consensus on what where our positions at the time of the murder. Red if you would please." Purple directed.
"Hey, you just made that sound like I'm your assistant or something… But yes I was the one who found Mona. I came across her at security while I was trying to hide from Eula… It goes whiteout saying but when I arrived Mona was already dead. She also exhibited blood gushing out of her head and some glass shards encrusted on her cranium trough her hat-helmet. I believe the culprit took her scrying ball away from her and beated her to death." Assistant red finished her report.
"Thank you for your contribution crew mate red. Now if I recall correctly, the one who was grouping up with blue was none other than cyan, right?" Purple said.
All eyes turned to cyan crew mate, who was busy lustily licking one of the antlers coming out of red spacesuit. She recomposed herself with the glamour of a noble before she appointed her defense.
"A yes, the prejudice faced by all Lawrence—"
"Eula, stop playing around and answer their questions." A hangry deer hurried up.
"—Blue said she was a renowned Astrologer and she could see the future, she also said the purple cat plan was stupid…"
The purple cat took emotional damage.
"….and she was perfectly fine by herself and left our task area to go into vigilance and use her powers where she would see the future and discern the identities of all the impostors at once. It would appear she died before she could activate her powers." Cyan shook her head.
The crew mate who could see the future, died before she could see squat. What a grand twist of fate.
"She sounded very sure of herself so I left too to find my princess." Cyan affirmed.
In a brief meeting before leaving the dropship, crewmate purple had encouraged everyone to stick in groups of two and perform a task each before following the lead of their respective partner.
"I understand your reasons for separating, but your chasing of Yanfei caused her to separate from me, which ruins my alibi. Whiteout my partner keeping a close eye on me I have no way to prove I just went inside communications and stayed there for the rest of the round. Even if I get one vouch next time I'm still going to be behind the rest." Purple said.
A samurai in an orange spacesuit with a maple leaf over his head, rose his hand in request. It was seat number 8, going by the name Kaedehara Kazuha.
"It wasn't just you and Yanfei that broke off, it would seem it happened to all of us. Me and my friend separated too after red and cyan rushed past us." Orange said.
"Hehe… sorry Kazu…. The deer kinda scares me a lot and when I saw her running my way I couldn't help but freak out a little." Yellow said timidly.
"Though even if we did separate, I can vouch for my friend innocence as I saw him entering decontamination, heading for Specimens. He was with me at all times before and the emergency alarm sounded not much after, which means he couldn't have had time to reach blue on the other side of the map." Orange crew mate declared.
"Fair enough, yellow has earned a vote of confidence, however that doesn't makes you Kazuha, free of doubt. The fact of the matter is that you two separated from each other's and lost the way of giving each a vote of confidence. But if I'm going to assume you where telling the truth when you said your friend entered decontamination, at least that clears him for this round." Purple spoke for everyone.
It would make sense for an impostor to earn favors from their respective partners by vouching for them, but if that wasn't the case Kazuha claim at least works for Simp. However, the crew mates still weren't going to just disregard the fact that Kazuha had nobody to keep an eye on him around the time the body was found.
The starting plan was to travel in groups of two and rotate partners each round in order to earn votes of confidence from different members. This plan was meant to slowly but surely corner the impostor as more crew mates would have others to vouch for them each round while the impostors would have to either lose their partner at some point or kill it which would bring great suspicions upon them.
For this method only one crew mate could carry it's task at a time and after clearing one it would be their responsibility to follow their partner to complete their next task before their turn comes again.
"Of course, my princess is innocent as she was too busy running for her chastity to kill anybody." Cyan spoke in reds defense.
"Not quite." Rose cut in. "Unless you had her in direct line of sight she could have easily killed and self-reported now that she was separated from her partner. So tell us, could you see her clearly as you chased?"
"But of course, my eyes never lost sight of that tentative spacesuit back zip and her cute reindeer tail." Cyan declares thirstily, to reds shivering.
"Then I guess she has a vote of confidence, however Eula, I have to inform you this round isn't looking too good for you. You couldn't have killed blue if you where chasing after red, but you definitely could have committed the murder if you left her like that before setting off to chase Yanfei. In this plan I devised nothing can be worse for anybody here than having their partner which they weren't supposed to lose sight of, winding up dead. And your actions are also responsible for causing mayhem and the reason some of us separated from our partners. If you fail to earn a vote of confidence next round you're likely going to end up being the first to be voted off." A detective-eske purple cat said.
Cyan gave no more mind to the accusations and resume happily harassing red under the table.
"I guess that's everybody but us this round. We where inside the laboratory and just finished entering decontamination to Specimens when the alarm went off. Red and cyan never passed by our side and we never separated. I can at the very least vouch none of us could have gotten to the victim this round." Pink shogun said.
"Lies. She trapped me inside decontamination and disappeared from my sight completely and then the alarm went off." A foxy crew mate accused with a vulpine smile.
"Actually now that I remember, it was Miko who said I should go into decontamination first and then she never entered the room when the door closed." The pink crew mate changed her mind and declaration.
Sparks flew and clashed between the two as they where ready to start fighting any time now. It would seem none had any intention to vouch for the other anymore.
The purple cat sighted.
"Sighs… This concludes our reports, if anyone wishes to cast a vote this round then you may do so….?"
White voted for herself. Crew mate red voted off pink.
"Lumine what are you doing!? Stop! You're doing this to scare Paimon aren't you? Because if you are it is not funny!"
"Tsk! I thought that fox would try to pull a prank and help me rid of the skank." An annoyed red complains.
Crew mate pink will remember that. Crew mate yellow will remember that. Crew mate rose will remember that.
Crew mate red was bathed in dark murderous glares that triggered her prey instincts even more than cyan by her side.
Crew mate purple cleared her throat and resumed.
"Anyways, the results are as follows. Eula came out of this round with a vote negative and so did Lumine and Xiao who where the closest to the victim at the best possible time for the murder to have occurred. Me, Kazuha, Raiden and Miko can't be defined as nobody can vouch for us. Yanfei and Simp earned a vouch each this round. I will now rearrange the teams and because we now have an odd number of crewmates, one team will have three members." The purple cat announced.
With the loss of one of their members, forming an all teams of two was no longer an option they could afford.
"Because they came out of the first round with a vouch each, red and yellow will be traveling together this time around."
"With all vengeful respect miss purple cat, I would like to accompany my princess this round. I trust it should come as no surprise that if the most trustworthy and the least trustworthy crewmates pair up, it wouldn't be much of a mystery if just one comes out the next round alive. So I don't see any reason why I couldn't go with her." Cyan presented her protest to purple plan.
"Actually, you will be coming with me so I can keep a close eye on you and protect the rest if you do turn out the impostor. The reason for me pairing Simp and Yanfei together is because it would stand to reason the impostor would like to eliminate the ones of us who garner more trust as the game goes on, so they can sow doubt for as long as possible. It's in our best interest to ensure their safety for at least one more round so when the third one comes, they would have earned two vouches each and become worthy of real trust. It also stands to reason there could be more than one impostor and if red or yellow are one of them but didn't act on the first round, then by placing the more trustworthy members together we can reduce the chances of the two impostors pairing up and providing an alibi for the other while whipping out a two crewmates team at the same time."
"I see, and this is also the reason why you want a team to travel in three right?" Kazuha the orange crew mate asks.
"Yes but my main reason is that the scenario of a full impostor team is unlikely when teams are being decided via round vouches. If at least one impostor lands in the three crew team then it won't be able to kill whiteout the third member immediately sounding the alarm, and in the case two of them turn out impostors then they'll be forced to leave a body behind which puts them at risk of someone finding out, and if they where to encounter another group after having killed one crew mate, then only one impostor could kill as the other would still remain in cooldown for a while, which will allow the other crew member time to sound the alarm."
The time for the meeting approached it's limit and it became time to get back to carrying out task for the crew mates.
"Team number one, Yanfei and Simp. Team number two, me and Eula. Team number three, Yae Miko and Raiden Ei. And finally team number four, Xiao, Kaedehara Kazuha, Lumine and Paimon." Purple announces the teams.
"Hey wait a minute. Didn't Yae Miko and the Shogun got to pair the last round?" White's pet asked.
"Yes, and despite encountering no incidents that would force them to separate, they refused to vouch for each other's. Should the same scenario repeat itself again we will know at least one of them is an impostor that tried to separate from his partner. That's all for this meeting, to your tasks everybody."