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Starting the next round, Joey looked at his screen and saw that he was an Imposter, along with Mokuba. “Oh, interesting,” Joey commented. He started the round by going to the top of the lobby and faking the key task that everyone else was doing. He then walked over and faked the maze task, afterwards heading to the lava pit and faking the temperature task. “Okay, I’m actually gonna try to get a kill here,” he said to himself.
At that point, the lights went off. Joey ran through Vitals, into office past Admin, and out towards Weapons and Communications. Checking to see if no one else was around, and with the lights coming back on, he ran upwards. Once he was by Electrical, Marik was running by. As soon as he was in range, Joey clicked the ‘kill’ button and Marik was dead.
Joey quickly ran back over near a hole and jumped in. He was deciding where he wanted to vent to when the body was reported.
"I found a body!" Mai said as the meeting started.
“Okay, Serenity, I know it looks bad, but I really just want to be with you,” Duke said.
“Where was the body?” Tea asked as Serenity laughed a little.
“You know, Marik got caught last game, so I’m not surprised he was killed first,” Bakura said.
“Wow,” Yugi said as everyone started laughing. “Throwing him under the bus are we? Is it you again?” he asked.
“He left me to kill everyone last game, so I'm fine with this,” Bakura said. "Okay, I'm kidding..."
“Is it really you again, where was the body?” Tea asked again.
“Well, that was last game, but I’ll never forget,” Bakura said again. “Back when he was the devil!”
“Okay, this was above Communications,” Mai said finally able to talk. “To the right of Electrical fence.”
“I saw some people walk into Laboratory…” Tea said thinking about who she could clear.
“I’ve been with Serenity; we’ve been together like…”
“That’s what I was about say,” Serenity said. “Duke saw me trying to complete tasks.”
“We’re like… glue on a sandwich,” Duke finished. Serenity agreed.
“Tristan, what did you do this round?” Tea asked.
“I went down and I did the little maze thing, the light thing that you have to track, and then I went up and I did the… uh… switch next to the telescope,” Tristan explained.
“I saw you walk into Laboratory last, and that… it seems like you would cross paths with the body,” Tea mentioned.
“I did see Mai and Tristan do the lights with me,” Mokuba said.
“I will say, I did see Mai. Mai fixed it and I walked in too late and Mokuba walked in after,” Tristan explained.
“I just want to thank Serenity for not killing me as we hung out together for the first time in months,” Duke said.
“And shout out to Yugi for not stabbing me,” Bakura said. “Because I think he has something against me, so good stuff.”
Everyone started talking at once as the voting countdown was at ten seconds. “I’m gonna skip for now,” everyone said as they placed their votes.
“Is no one gonna comment on what I said about Tristan? Like, he could’ve crossed paths with the body?” Tea said at the last second.
“Eh, I don’t know, he seems like a good guy,” Bakura said.
“That’s a very big accusation to make on the very first round. It was just one body,” Tristan said.
“I’m just saying, I’m just saying,” Tea said as everyone vote to skip.
“I completed one task, so I’m just doing my job,” Duke said as the next round began.
Joey took a deep breath, glad no one caught on that he didn’t say anything that entire discussion. “Okay, we uh… got away with it,” Joey said as he ran with everyone into Office. “Well, that’s great.” Walking out, he soon made his way up to the Laboratory. “I don’t know what to do next…”
Joey walked down near the door that leads to decontamination. “I literally have no idea…” he kept saying to himself. “Let me just…” He hopped into the hole he was nearby. “No wait, this is a bad idea,” he said seeing that Tea was near one of the other holes. “Oh, okay,” he said as he looked at all the holes he could jump out of.
Joey jumped out of the hole near office, where he could see someone in decontamination. He took a peak inside, but there was no one there. “Oh, interesting,” he said as he walked back into Admin. “Someone just went out of there. Fascinating.” He walked out and was nearby Weapons and Communication. He walked around and saw Duke doing a task in Communication. Joey ran up and was about to kill him when an emergency meeting was called.
“Okay, someone called a meeting right as I clicked report,” Tristan said. Everyone then noticed who it was that got killed.
“No! Serenity!” Duke exclaimed.
“Okay, I was gonna say it was early on, and she just had to have died, so I clicked on the button because I just saw it on Vitals,” Bakura said.
“Tristan, you were over the body?” Tea asked.
“Yeah, it’s down in the bottom right next to where you match up the Specimen things,” Tristan explained.
“I’m still suspicious of Tristan after that round,” Tea added.
“Hold on, Mokuba, did you see anything?” Bakura asked again.
“I saw Mokuba come from that direction,” Yugi said.
“Mokuba went down there,” Bakura noted.
“I was down below, in the walkway between the Specimen and the area because I was trying to make sure no one came that way from bottom right,” Mokuba tried to explain.
“Tea, you just saw me do the Lava thing,” Tristan said trying to make his case.
“There is no way…” Bakura started, still on the Mokuba case.
“So I was between the doors at where Yugi was coming from,” Mokuba said trying to defend himself.
“No, Mokuba. There’s no way because I saw you going there,” Bakura said again.
“I was making sure nobody came from Serenity so whoever was above me got her,” Mokuba said again. Joey wanted to say something, but Bakura spoke up again.
“Came from Serenity? What do you mean? We didn’t even know Serenity was down there.”
“Well Serenity is the one that’s dead and Tristan just said he was over the body!” Mokuba said in a last-stitch attempt to make his case.
“Mokuba, I am so sus of you right now,” Yugi said as everyone started casting their votes, chuckling.
“I don’t like that,” Tristan said as more people casted their votes. Joey, who was quiet the entire time, wasn’t sure what to say or do, since it was clear that people were now against his imposter buddy.
“I… this is all my fault. I didn’t stick with Serenity…” Duke said in defeat. Joey then heard his name being called out.
“Joey, what were you doing? You’ve been awfully quiet,” Bakura said.
“No, I was up with Duke at the end there. Duke, who was approaching us while we were in that room?” Joey asked.
“Uh…” Duke started.
“Do you mean communications?” Mai asked, “Because that was me.”
“Okay, that was you?” Joey asked.
“Yeah I was coming in,” Mai said.
“I was in the complete opposite direction of that,” Tristan said.
“And where was Serenity’s body?” Joey asked. Someone was about to answer when Tristan spoke up again.
“I… I don’t like what Mokuba just said, but Tea is also throwing out heavy accusations against me, so I just have to…” he trailed off.
“Because I’m suspicious of you,” she replied.
“I… I’m voting for myself because it’s my fault Serenity is dead…” Duke said. Everyone started chuckling. “I should’ve stuck with her. Serenity, I’m sorry.” Everyone was still laughing as the votes were tallied up. One vote for Duke, one for Yugi, and four for Mokuba.
“Maybe he killed him?” Tristan said jokingly.
“You’re throwing your vote at Yugi, Mokuba?” Bakura asked.
“Wow,” Yugi said slowly as Mokuba was thrown into the lava, with a few people laughing.
“I guess we’ll never know,” Bakura said as the next round started.
Joey sighed, moving a little. “Okay, uh… oh, I’m the only one left in here,” he said as he moved past Bakura and headed down and out of office. He ran past Weapons and Communication.
“Duke, probably came up here,” he said going into Communication, where Mai was doing a task. Joey ran up and faked his task. Seconds later, Duke came running in. “Oh damnit, there’s the timer,” Joey said as he watched the countdown slowly. Duke then ran out, and Joey followed behind. Right as they made the corner towards office, Joey quickly killed Duke and ran away. He jumped into the hole that was nearby, and vented to the Storage area.
Popping out, he quickly ran back outside and ran over to the Laboratory. Tea passed by him going in the opposite direction. “Interesting,” he said quietly to himself. “I can try faking this,” he said as he stood on the scanner. Once he did, a body was reported.
“This was outside Weapons,” Tristan said.
“Where was Weapons again?” Joey asked.
“Bottom middle,” Tristan explained.
“Hey Mai…” Bakura started.
“No wait, Joey," Mai started, "Joey, you said you were following Duke last time and this time, right? So where did you go?”
“I went to do the thing with Duke,” Joey bluntly replied. Snickers were heard once he finished speaking.
“Duke’s dead now,” Bakura said.
“Yeah, he’s dead,” Tristan added.
“Yes?” Joey asked. “…And?”
“Did you kill him?” Bakura asked.
“No! No! …Maybe. He might have deserved it.” Joey could hear the others laughing as he continued his thought. “But I’m gonna say no.”
“Okay, I don’t know if he’s a genius or a moron…” Tristan said. Joey had to laugh along at that. “Tea, what were you doing?”
“I was finishing my sample task, and then…” she trailed off.
“I was actually up in the Medical area, wherever that is, top right-ish…” Others started to speak up when Tea suddenly spoke.
“I saw Joey there, I did see him there,” she said.
“Yeah, I was up there,” Joey agreed. There was a small pause.
“Oh wait a second,” Bakura started. “You have Tea and Joey confirming each other?”
“Can I point something else out?” Tea asked before Bakura could finish his statement. “I’ve been suspicious of Tristan for two rounds. He was over the body last round, he reports the body this round.”
“Yeah, because I’m doing my tasks, and the bodies are everywhere,” Tristan defended.
Bakura spoke up. “He went hard on Mokuba, so unless we don’t have the other guy yet… Mai, I have a question for you, you came into the room a little bit late…”
“We don’t know if Mokuba was bad,” Tea quickly threw out.
“Because I went straight to the Upload… I went to Communication to do my Upload where I left Joey and Duke…” Mai started.
“Why are you protecting Tristan, Bakura?” Tea asked.
“I’m… I’m feeling Tea or Joey,” Tristan said quickly.
“Because I think we got a bad guy already, I think we have one of them,” Bakura answered.
“We don’t know that!” Tea said back.
“I think it’s Joey,” Mai said as she voted for him.
“I’m voting Tea,” Tristan said as he voted for Tea. “She keeps accusing me, and I don’t like that. This is my defense!” Bakura and Yugi both voted to skip, while Joey still didn’t make any vote.
“I’m pretty sure we got the first guy correct,” Bakura said.
“Yeah, I think so too,” Tristan agreed as the round started again. “It’s Tea or Joey in my head…”
“…Okay then,” Joey said as everyone ran around again. “I have no idea what to do now,” he said with a small laugh as he exited the office back by Communications and Weapons. “Should I sabotage something?”
As Tea ran off, Joey stopped to look at his map of fake tasks. “Hmm… Oxygen?” He started heading in that direction, with Tea following close behind. The two of them entered the room with the tree, where Joey walked up and faked the wiring task in there. After a second, Tea ran out of the room.
“Okay, she might be going for the emergency meeting, I don’t know,” Joey said as he ran up the hallway towards Lights and Security. Joey then ran past Lights and outside by Reactors, going all the way back to the Laboratory.
“I have no idea what to sabotage. First time being imposter, and I don’t know what to do!” Joey walked into Lab and saw Mai by the telescope. Walking up to her, Joey killed her and ran towards the bathroom. He jumped into a hole and vented all the way down to Office. Joey walked up and left to the outside. The lights started dimming, and Joey ran back up to see if anyone else was up there. He walked up to lights and opened the door. He peeked inside, and stepped out. “Okay…” he said to himself. “Should I fix them…?”
He then saw Tea run up towards Electrical, and Joey quickly went in and killed her… right as Tristan passed by, door closing behind them.
“Oh, well… that’s a problem,” he said while chuckling to himself. He was still on a cooldown, and had no choice but to just follow Tristan and hope the body doesn’t get reported before he could try to kill him. “This is going to be an issue.”
Tristan finally got the door open and reported the body. Just as he did, an idea formed in Joey’s brain.
“This is Big-Brained time.”
“Okay…” Tristan stared, but before he could say anything else, Joey interrupted him.
“It was Tristan! I saw him do it! Oh my God, I saw him!” Joey yelled out quickly. “I literally saw him!”
No, no, no, no, no,” Tristan repeated. “Joey was at the door, he didn’t report anything, and then he came chasing after me thinking he could kill me again but didn’t realize there was a cool down.”
“No, I was actually stuck in there, the doors were locked down…” Joey tried explaining. Bakura then spoke up.
“No, I disagree. There were two people dead. Joey couldn’t have known that you can kill two people in one round.”
Oh… My… GOD!” Tristan screamed in the background.
“No… it doesn’t matter. I literally saw him kill him,” Joey said.
“YOU’RE LETTING THE DUMBEST PLAYER GET AWAY WITH THE SMARTEST THING!” Tristan yelled again.
“Wait, you gotta remember. Tea confirmed Joey was on the top right and now Tea’s innocent,” Bakura said. “It’s you, and I was with Yugi a lot this round.”
"No, no, no! And Tea’s screaming at the computer right now because she accused me so much!” Tristan said again.
“Okay, so she’s screaming and look, if I’m wrong then at least…” Bakura started saying before Joey spoke up again.
“I literally saw him do it!” he said with a small laugh in his voice.
“Oh my fucking God,” Tristan said as he placed his vote.
“Yugi, you trust me, right?” Bakura asked.
Yugi laughed. “Oh God, You’re the last person I trust.”
“We’ve been hanging out for so long,” Bakura said as he placed his vote. Joey finally voted for the first time in this game for Tristan as Yugi continued laughing.
“We definitely got one of them, since there’s four of us,” Tristan noted.
“Oh, I hate to do this Tristan,” Yugi said. “I hate to do this.”
“OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU MORONS!” Tristan yelled again.
“I hate to do this too because he helped get the other guy… so I don’t fucking know at this point!” Bakura said with a laugh.
“Oh my God, you guys got played so hard!” Tristan said as the votes were tallied, one for Joey, three for Tristan.
“I don’t know,” Yugi said with another laugh.
“Joey, don’t you be lying to us,” Bakura said.
“Joey, I swear to God…” Yugi said as Tristan got thrown into the lava.
“And now he’s gonna gloat about it for days, you’re welcome,” Tristan said annoyed.
“Is this… is this big brain?” Yugi asked.
“Uh…” Joey stared before everyone muted.
“How do I do this?” Joey saw that he had a cool down, so he decided to follow Bakura the entire time. As the lights went out (Joey figuring Mokuba was the one who did that), Bakura headed towards Electrical. Joey followed behind. Soon, Yugi caught up with them as the three went in. Once the lights were fixed, Yugi and Bakura headed back out, most likely heading towards the button. Joey ran up behind Yugi and swiped at him, ending the game with an imposter victory.
“I can’t believe that worked,” Joey said. “I can’t believe it.” Everyone was laughing in the background.
“He admitted to killing Duke!” Tristan yelled.
“I was pointing so many fingers at Tristan, and Bakura was ‘protecting’ him so I thought…” she said before laughing again.
“Joey totally lied! The first round, he and I weren’t hanging out together at all. I was so confused, I didn’t say anything. I was thinking… was I with him?” Duke said.
“Joey, I locked those doors for you so you had a chance to lower your cooldown with Tristan,” Mokuba said.
“I appreciate that,” Joey said. “Wow, Tristan saw me kill, and we’re both in this room and I’m like ‘Oh God, thirty seconds, what am I gonna do’?” Everyone laughed in response.
“I was like, oh he can’t kill me I’ll report the body,” Tristan added.
“I still can’t… my lies were terrible, and everyone still believed them! I said I killed Duke!” Joey said.
“Your lie was so bad, I believed it!” Duke said.
“And I was Third imposer for sure. I owe Tristan an apology,” Tea said laughing. “Everything was just pointing towards Tristan.”
“Okay, that was fun though. I’m ready for another round,” Joey said.
“I have to go. I wonder if I can get Seto to play a round or two,” Mokuba said.
“I’m going to let Yami play a round too,” Yugi said. “He said he’s ready to play.”
Marik laughed “Oh he is? This is going to be interesting.”