"The 3rd Point of the acting method: Never Forget who you truly are."
Abhi took a step back in horror unable to process what he just saw.
"This game's creator wanted to make sure that 'One Of Us' won't be seen as a kid's game so he made sure to make the death animations as brutal and realistic as possible," Mike said.
After two or three seconds, Abhi finally reacts with a slow and low tone: "Makes sense."
"Now The Orange Cat Dixie will come and see this and vote out The Grey Cat Anita as the imposter after seeing this scene.
Oh, I forgot to tell you whenever a player sees a corpse they can "report" it. This action will immediately trigger an emergency meeting where the whole crew can vote out a cat.
If the most-voted cat turns out to be the imposter rat, then the cats win the game. If the rat doesn't get caught then the game continues to the next round, this goes on until there are only 2 players left. If one of them is a rat then the rat wins or else the players win." Said Mike.
"Alright understood. But wait why did you decide to kill the red cat instead of the grey cat even tho she was alone?" Asked Abhi.
"Glad you asked. Actually, let me tell you my full plan instead hahaha" Mike laughs in the tone of a generic evil villain.
"First obviously I enter the cotton ballroom and play with the cotton ball to avoid suspicion from any viewers.
After which all three cats cross through the cotton ball room clearing my name immediately and then grey goes to the left and red and orange go to the right.
Then I come back and go to the left in Grey's room, but I don't kill Anita instead I pretend like I'm doing tasks and go back to the cotton ballroom.
I don't kill Anita because red and orange were together on the right side, if they found Anita's body they would obviously suspect the only remaining member.
And acting like I am doing tasks with Anita would just clear my name of suspicion for her.
After that, I went and waited near the right side's entrance of the cotton ballroom, this was because I knew red and orange were two people doing the task on the right side whereas Grey is a single person doing a whole left side, meaning either red or orange will obviously come out first because of better work efficiency.
I predicted Red coming out first because he is our math teacher Ben, And Ben is one technical guy, he does everything as quickly as possible and has 0 patience. Whereas Orange, also known as Dixie our art teacher likes to take stuff slowly.
So I knew Red Cat Ben would finish his tasks quickly, and not even wait for Orange Cat Dixie to finish her tasks and come out with 0 patience…
just to fall right into my trap. HAHAHAHAH!
Just because of the habit of being quick with it, he got killed by me first and after I was done with him I also had the time to shapeshift into grey so I could fool the latecomer Orange Cat Dixie into blaming Grey Cat Anita in the emergency meeting.
This will make Grey Cat Anita defensive and start suspecting Orange Cat Dixie. As I have already cleared by name by pretending to do tasks with Anita, I would take her side and reflect the blame on Orange Cat Dixie, making her seem like a capper.
And this would leverage Grey Cat Anita's Vote to Orange Cat Dixie making me win the game HAHAHAHA!" Mike yapped…
"That… is way too much effort over a game. Does this have any prizes?" Abhi asked with a genuinely perplexed, mildly impressed and heavily concerned expression."
"Well, I wish there was cause I'm definitely going to win this." Replied Mike smugly.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
"Woo! I think Orange Cat Dixe is coming, time for my efforts to produce results!" Said Mike with an excited tone as he didn't let his eyes leave the screen for a second.
Just as the Orange Cat Dixie stepped onto the scene Yellow Cat Mike instantly self-reported the body
Tring! Tring! Emergency Meeting…
Orange Cat Dixie: Uhm I think Grey might have killed Red and self-reported the body near the right side entrance of the cotton ballroom.
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Grey Cat Anita: Heh, but I was in the left side still doing tasks.
Yellow Cat Mike: I can vouch for Anita, I went and did a few tasks with her before coming back and going to the upper side. I'm pretty sure Orange and Red went to the right together and then maybe Dixie killed Ben and instantly self-reported the body. I think she decided to target and blame the kill on Grey Cat Anita because you went alone to the left side of the map hence from her perspective, you were henceforth the most suspicious player Anita.
Grey Cat Anita: Hmm, that does make sense
Orange Cat Dixie: It indeed does.
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Grey Cat Anita: Let's just vote for Mike
Orange Cat Dixie: Sure why not.
Mike: Alright so voting Dix- WHY THE HELL DID YOU VOTE ME???
[Yellow Cat Mike was successfully put down.]
Winner Winner Rat Dinner!
Orange Cat Dixie: Yippe!
Grey Cat Anita: We actually won! I can't believe he really was the rat.
Dead Rat Mike: I hate you guys so much, why did you vote for me?!
Grey Cat Anita: Pretty sure all three of us had decided without even talking to each other to vote for you no matter what because you are showing a kid our gaming session.
Orange Cat Dixie: Haha I sure did.
Red Cat Ben: Me too!
Dead Rat Mike: BRUHHHHHHHHHH! You know what, now you're gonna have to play with the kid for doing me like this.
"Wait what?" Said Abhi.
Mike ignored him and continued to chat.
Red Cat Ben: WHAT!! Absolutely No Chan-
Mike forces Abhi to sit down and talk on the mic…
Dead Rat Abhi: Hello…
Red Cat Ben: Oh My God.
Orange Cat Dixie: Come on Mike you can't do that.
Grey Cat Anita: Yuhuh, you can't just throw away the rule book because you broke one rule.
Mike comes close to the mic and waits a few seconds before saying anything. "Guys Abhi has to catch another bus soon, he lives down Low City, we shouldn't hold him here for too long because of our 'rules'."
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Orange Cat Dixie: You know what, It's ok. He probably already knows about us anyway so might as well play with the little guy right? At least he should be more fun than Mike.
"Huh," Mike scoffed internally.
Grey Cat Anita: HaHa True, I think we should let him play with us for a bit won't hurt too much right Ben?
Red Cat Ben:... Ok whatever, but just this once. I DO NOT want this to be a repeating thing. Also boy what's your name?
The screen switches back to the menu page and startles Abhi, but he quickly recovers and answers.
Yellow Cat Abhi: Thank you sir and madams, and my name is Abhi.
Red Cat Ben: Alright Abhi so we can have a fun time today but in absolutely no condition shall you reveal the fact that we teachers come together to play video games alright?
Yellow Cat Abhi: Yes sir.
Orange Cat Dixie: Alright then let's play a few more rounds!
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"Maybe I should add another point to the acting method, your plan would never work if you try to act like an idiot." Said Mike.
"Hahaha!" Abhi laughed as he looked at all the exciting technology he was about to use. "Maybe the true lesson from this failure is that sometimes there is nothing failure teaches us, and we just fail." Abhi continued.
"Maybe, maybe not." Replied Mike.
"So I click on the left side to commit an action on this device right?" Abhi said while pointing at a 'mouse'.
"Yes, and the right click is to open a menu of options for any app or link you hover over" Replied Mike with a serious tone. "And the Keyboard should be self-explanatory, it's to write using the keys on the board, it also has different keys for various functions". Mike then pointed at a stand with a porus top and said "This is a mic, when you speak it transmits your voice inside and shares it with all others in the game, the closer you are to the mic the louder you get."
"I see, very informative. Thanks for telling me all this and letting me play." Abhi said as he carefully touched the keyboard and mouse.
"Don' worry bout it." Replied Mike going back to his brainrot lingo.
Red Cat Ben: Hey Abhi, have you never used computers before?
Yellow Cat Abhi: Nope, I didn't
Red Cat Ben: Hmm, interesting…
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Abhi slowly learned how to control all these new devices he got into contact with, he still wasn't great at using them after a few minutes, but he at least understood the basics.
Bit by bit he learned more and more about the computer as he played some rounds of 'One Of Us' with his teachers. Mike guided him around any doubts or problems he had.
Abhi slowly lost his sense of time while immersing in this brand-new experience. He felt like he could sit there for hours enjoying his time with everyone. But a random look at the corner of the computer screen made him realise how long it had been.
"Damn! 7:30, It's almost time for my next bus, I have to get going." Said Abhi.
"Alright." Replied Mike.
Abhi quickly packed his stuff, including the many food items he had for his mother, and paced to the exit, which was also the entrance. As he was swiftly walking, he shrugged past the fat kid he had previously been pushed by but didn't seem to notice. Mike followed behind him and also walked past the fat kid, not giving him attention either.
At the exit, Abhi bids Mike farewell for the day.
"I wish I could play with you guys more but as I said, I have a Job soon so I really need to get there as soon as possible. Thanks for giving me this day." Abhi said with a genuine smile and grateful tone.
"Ayy homie come on don' be so sentimental cuh, why ya acting like this da last time we talkin'... Also, I gotta Skibidi the hell outta here cus if I get home any later no amount of glazing and rizz is gonna stop Ms. Oxlong from Fanum Taxing the Sigma outta my ahh. So cya for now cuh, let's talk later skitter!"... Mike voiced his goodbye in the most modern way possible.
"O- Ok… cya later fo'sho homie, peace." Abhi was infected with brain rot.
Abhi started walking to the bus station while waving at Mike who was walking in the opposite direction. As he walked the smile still couldn't leave his face, his eyes showed a sense of peace and happiness yet the rhythm of his steps was quick as he didn't want to miss his bus again. After stepping inside the entrance of the bus station he saw the Bus leaving to get to the Yang stop.
But this time Abhi didn't back down and ran as fast as he could and just in the nick of time caught up to the bus and got in.
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