Your Role is Crewmate: Chapter 1
Summary:
Red and Purple are returning to Industria with a hull full of corpses, a haul full of nothing, and a certainty that their contract terminates here for a mission gone horrifically wrong. Purple has one more sleepless night to pass before they get to relive the worst day of their life. Maybe tasting MIRA’s boot won’t be so bad this time around with Red on their side… For Purple, that day never comes. Instead Purple wakes up at a pizza party where no one is dead. ——— There is a New Game mechanic in the alien imposter arsenal. With every reset they have a fresh opportunity to exterminate the Skeld for good. How do you destroy an enemy with unlimited chances to end you? And why is Purple the only one who can remember every time loop?
Chapter 1 - Loop 1.0: A Pizza Party Where No One Is Dead Anymore
The ship was always quiet. Sleep was always hard. The faint choke and warble of the breached storage hull grating its way through space travel was new, and also did not help with the sleep thing.
Try as they might, sticky gaze to the ceiling, Purple could not sleep. They simply stared as the steady hours of the night shaved away, jagged and alone. Purple could not pretend this level of insomnia was just another “same as always” on the ship.
This was the sticky sleeplessness of too many thoughts, and too few people, and too much hollow ache in their chest that was only starting to unfurl and crawl into their organs. Death made the ship quiet. Death made sleep hard.
A cam screen flickered and whined. It kicked Purple’s heart into high gear as they tore back their sheets and shot out of bed, eyes to the screen, scanning its shimmer for anything—tentacles, aliens, blood, Red’s blood, maybe.
The fizzle faded. A silent and stagnant medbay resolved on screen. A false alarm. Purple’s shoulders eased. They rubbed their visor and clambered back into the cot stuffed haphazardly in the corner of the security office. Purple’s gaze drifted back to the ceiling, and this ceiling above their bed was the same as always.
