Live Among Us happened last week on Friday from 8-11 p.m. Tyler Goss, Assistant Director of Student Programs, said that people didn’t actually die, like what happens in the online version of Among Us. Instead, those who died in-person just played dead.  For those of you who don’t know, Among Us is a game that is reminiscent of Mafia. You have a group of crewmates who must find out who the imposter is before they kill each of them. 

First-year Lizzy Kirkton said her favorite part of live Among Us was running around as an imposter and, as a crewmate, completing tasks. Tasks are what the crewmates can complete to win without discovering who the imposter is. “I hate [online] Among Us, but this Among Us was a lot of fun,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to play real-life Among Us.” 

Sophomore Ethan Spicher was skeptical about live Among Us, but, like Kirkton, he was impressed by this event. He enjoyed the tasks and appreciated that they were varied but easy to accomplish. He thought that Campus Activities Council did a really good job giving the imposters authentic abilities. 

In online Among Us, imposters can sabotage the game, and if the crewmates don’t complete a task in a set amount of time, they lose. In the in-person version, Spicher said that Goss had a speaker that would play a siren when the imposter sabotaged. Two or three people would then have to come and turn it off in a certain amount of time. He mentioned that sophomore Luke Wheeler was the best bluffer in his group. 

Another piece that wasn’t available in the in-person Among Us was an ability where the imposters can move around the map in the vents. According to Goss, the “Campus center, as far as I am aware, is not equipped with secret passages.” He was going to allow imposters to sneak around on the balcony around the second floor of the Campus Center, but it was wet outside and that would have been a give-away for who the impostor was. “For the most part, we were able to preserve the same feel and strategy from the online version.” 

The event took a ton of prep work from CAC, Goss mentioned. He said that more prep time would need to be added if they were to do this event again. “I felt like the game was very well organized and my CAC team did a phenomenal job of running it!”