Can You Survive? | *in progress*

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Purple gets right into your personal space, leaving you with nowhere to run. Which is good, as running isn't what you're planning on doing. You switch your tablet to your left hand, and punch Purple in the stomach with your right hand. Purple staggers backwards, winded.

"Now leave me, Brown, and everyone else the hell alone." You order. Purple sits down on the floor trying to catch her breath, and quickly nods.

"Let's fix the lights." Brown suggests.

You linger by the security door for a second, just to make sure you didn't kill Purple.

You and Brown reach Electrical. Brown heads straight to the lights, then you hear him scream.

"What is it, Brown?" You ask, before noticing.

It's Lime.

Lying on the ground.

Face down.

In a pool of blood.

With a knife sticking out of her back.

"Oh no-" Brown gasps, staggering backwards in fear.

The doors slam behind you.

"Double oh no" you add

You shakily scroll through your tablet until you find the button. Emergency meeting.

The doors soon slide open and you and Brown head to Cafeteria, carrying the lifeless body of Lime between you.

You and Brown (and Lime) are the last to enter. Shocked gasps fill the room.

"We don't know what happened, we found Lime in electrical" you explain.

Blue and Green go off to do 'serious talk'.

You and Brown take the leftover seats, you're next to Orange and Brown. You can see Brown shaking, and tell him that it's going to be alright. Brown nods, not fully convinced, but at least happy knowing you have his back.

Blue declares:

"Lime... is no longer with us. And it was no accident. There has been a murder"

"And we know that no one aside from us was in The Skled" Green added, fiddling with his tablet as he spoke, not looking up at the crowd he was talking to

"So there is a fraud. An imposter. They walk among us. And they are dangerous" Blue carried on.

The tension in the room grew.

"So I have asked Green to set up a voting system. We will then select who we think is this imposter, and... eject them."

"What do you mean, 'eject'?" Orange cut in

"Well, get rid of." Green slowly explained.

"Meaning?" Black questioned

"We will remove their O2 supply, and send them out of the trash chute into space." Blue explained calmly.

"We will do WHAT!?" Yellow demanded.

"The imposter is an alien. So we can tell if we ejected the right person or not. The imposter can survive without O2." Blue said

"What if we... eject a good person?" Brown nervously asked from next to you.

"If process of elimination is what it takes, it's what we shall do" Blue states coldly

"But that's messed up!" Black protests

"Whoever killed Lime is messed up." Blue says in monotone and shrugs. "They should have thought about that before they killed her"

"It's done." Green declares.

"So now we vote?" Purple asks

"First, discussion. What do we know?" Blue asks.

"Well, I was with Brown so he is safe" you declare.

"Yeah." Brown agrees

"Ok. And when the doors got shut, I was stuck with black and yellow" Orange said

"I was with Green." Blue said.

"I saw Pink downloading in weapons" Green says

"And I was with Cyan in storage when the meeting was called" Red confidently declares

So it has to be Purple." Orange finalises, "she's the only one without an alibi.

"I was in security!" Purple quickly protests

"Security is close to electrical, it's Purple!" Yellow realises

Purple looks towards you pleadingly. You have an idea

"Purple was in security, me and Brown walked past when we were heading for electrical."

Black intervenes, "Anyway, no one was prepared for this, I think that we need to skip then be on the lookout for any suspicious activity!"

"I agree" Red declares

"W-What if the killer strikes again?" Cyan quivers in fear next to Red

"So we need to vote now!" Orange declared. "I think Purple is the most suspicious so far. Even though White and Brown saw Purple, Purple could have killed Lime then headed back to Security."

You pick up your tablet to vote.

Red voted for skip
Orange voted for Purple
Yellow voted for Purple
Green voted for skip
-Lime is dead-
Blue voted for skip
Cyan voted for Purple
Purple voted for Orange
Pink voted for Purple
Brown voted for skip
Black voted for skip
White voted for skip

"We'll meet back in here at 6:00 for dinner. Until then we should carry on with tasks" Blue instructs

Everyone leaves to do their tasks. You follow Purple into upper engine.

"Just so you know. I saved you from the votes just then." You whisper. "So no funny business. I hear you've bullied anyone, you're outta here"

Purple audibly gulps "Okay, okay. I got it." She says defensively.

You know you wouldn't purposely set Purple up. You wouldn't trick everyone into voting out a crewmate, even Purple. We need numbers to survive. But the important thing is that you've scared Purple now. She's no longer a problem. Or is she?

Red runs up to you, and Purple scurries away.
"Come with me to do your tasks. I want you to be safe."

You notice Cyan behind Red. And then you think of Brown.

All you know is that you don't want to be alone.

Choice:

- go with Red and Cyan (Page 61)
- go with Brown (Page 62)