Game Gyaru

Chapter 19: With us 1

After everything that had happened leading up to and during sports day. Both Hakuta and Shiuka were both elated to enjoy their weekend as lazily as possible. For the former, that involved trying out another cheap game he downloaded for his Toystation.

"Wait a second, I know this game." Which caught her attention seeing as it was a popular title that had taken the world by storm. Casual gamers and even those who didn't play games at all knew about it with how many videos and streams there were online.

"Yeah I know, it's 'Someone's Sus'." He responded. Admittedly, he didn't get into it when the game first launched into popularity. That being he wasn't interested in the social aspect of most games and didn't have many friends to fill a lobby like those who steamed the title. So most of his experiences with it were lived vicariously through others.

He wasn't surprised she knew of this game. It was a popular game across the world and Rouko appeared to be aware of it when she used to famous words uttered by this game. "Anyway, we can't play at the same time." Without a split screen mode like the other ones they usually shared with each other. Only one of them could properly play the mini-games within it.

"That's fine." It didn't stop her from leaping onto the couch to join his side. "I'll keep my eyes on places you didn't notice. That way, we'll know who the fakers are." Since the mini-games weren't challenging at all, he didn't think it was necessary. Then again, it was nice to be able to have some help in this online game when his attention was placed elsewhere.

The rules of this game were simple. Most players were given tasks to complete in order to win the game. However, for each lobby of ten, there were either one or two fakers hidden among them. Those players had the goal of sabotaging and preventing the players from succeeding in their goals.

This was done multiple ways. The most common and popular method was to kill off enough people in order to secure a victory. However, there were risks involved with it. Were one caught in the act of murder, then they'd easily get voted off and killed via the crusher machine on the spaceship. A rather brutal way of death, but apparently required according to the game's lore about killing the fakers. Not that anyone cared about lore in a game like this.

There was another way for the fakers to win. This required a bit more thinking since the risk involved meant possibly giving the good guys a chance to finish their tasks in time. Fakers could sabotage certain parts of hardware to force the players into tough choices in order to save the ship. Generally most were able to fix them and get on their merry way, so this was mainly to create traps to kill more people.

The benefit was generally not worth the effort, so most players strive for the first way.

"I've only played a couple of rounds, but I think I've gotten into the swing of things." He said as they got matched into a new lobby. Things started off simple enough as he was one of the good guys trying to keep this ship up and running. Most players didn't care for sticking together, so he was left wondering the halls towards each objective.

As stated before, the mini-games were simple that pretty much anyone could do them, even a toddler. They mainly consisted of gathering samples of plant life, reconnecting some wires, and apparently calling someone's mother in a prank call. However, each game required the player be vulnerable to attack while doing them, as well as taking away vision of their surroundings so they wouldn't spot fakers going for kills.

As he walked into the room of his next task. There Hakuta found the first one killed on this round. Immediately, he call a report to get the others to be aware of the death and discuss possible suspects.

"I think I saw the purple guy going in there when you were about to start that other task." Shiuka had her eyes glued to the screen, mainly around the edges. So she was able to discern the smaller pixels that he didn't notice. "He must've killed blue and vented out."