{"id":11359,"date":"2025-10-11T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:18:56","slug":"among-us-non-binary-edition-gnosia-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2025\/10\/11\/among-us-non-binary-edition-gnosia-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Among Us Non-Binary Edition — Gnosia — First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nTrue, I never heard of anybody falling for an especially attractive pair of kidneys\n<\/p>\n

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\nOur protagonist Yuri, wakes up onboard an interstellar space ship and discovers their memories are missing. They have no idea who they are, where they are or what’s going on. Which is a bit of a handicap as they find themselves in a situation where one of the four other people on the ship isn’t actually human but a gnosia, a human infected by a murderous alien lifeform devoted to murdering any human it can. Normally in such a situation the ship would blow itself up to prevent infection from reaching an inhabited planet, but in this case the onboard AI has been persuaded to pause proceedings and give the crew the chance to sniff the gnosia out — by playing werewolf.\n<\/p>\n

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\nFive people vote, one will be send to cold sleep. If the right person is chosen, the AI will no longer see any gnosian infection onboard the ship. If they guessed wrong, on to the next round. And sadly, they guessed wrong, but the ship has to go into warp before the next round of voting can take place. During warp humans are helpless but gnosia can walk round freely. Which mean they can kill with impunity. And indeed one of the four doesn’t wake up from warp.\n<\/p>\n

\"a<\/p>\n

\nNow with three people and each of the other two voting for the other, the casting vote lies with Yuri. With basically no information to go on, Yuri has to trust their instincts, but choses wrong. All die. O the embarrassment. But then Yuri wakes up again in the same medbay he woke up at the start of the episode and the real game can begin….\n<\/p>\n

\"Setsu,<\/p>\n

\nAnd yes, Gnosia<\/cite> started life as a video game<\/a> and honestly the whole setup of this first episode really shows its origins. Yuri having amnesia gives the rest of the crew an excuse to explain the setting through them, while the rest of the episode does a neat job of showcasing the game dynamics. For what’s basically an entire episode of people talking to each other with no real action, it held my attention well. The animation looks good even if the direction has a penchant for weird facial close-ups. But the setup gave me problems.\n<\/p>\n

\"Do<\/p>\n

\nBecause it is all a bit artifical. The gnosia are such an existential threat –the planet the ship left from being hinted at being overrun by them– that ship AI have standing orders to self destruct, yet it allowed itself to be overridden and get the crew playing werewolf instead. That and the fact the AI can infect gnosia presence but not pinpoint it necessary to tell the story Gnosia<\/cite> wants to tell, I understand that. So is making Cold Sleep dangerous enough that you can’t just sent the entire crew into it or again you wouldn’t have a story.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut you could just cycle people through cold sleep without the need for an elaborate voting ritual. Select one crew member, see if putting them to sleep erases the gnosia detection; if not defrost them and go onto the next. That way you’d never get into the situation where the gnosia has the upper hand.Similarly, from the gnosia point of view it makes no sense to let this voting drag out, if they’re free to move around and murder anyone they want during warp. Why stop at just one, why not the entire crew?\n<\/p>\n

\nThese are just minor quibbles for me though. With three of the crew (Yuri, Racio and Setsu) seemingly non-binary and SQ being bi if her flirting with Yuri and Setsu both is an indication, this looks to be a rather queer series. And while the setup for it is a bit dodgy and gamey, it’s still interesting enough to make me want to watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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