Phase Connect’s Renamed Among Us Collab Ends With Nitya Nil Winning as Impostor

PHASE CONNECT — Nitya Nil won a round of Among Us as the lone impostor on Monday, slipping past a lobby of Phase Connect talents who had been stripped of their own names for the game. Bibi Biscuit pointed at her as the killer, but the votes did not follow, and Bibi spent the rest of her stream calling it the hardest she had ever raged at a game.

The collab was organized by Maemi Tenma, who said she had planned it as a twist on casual Among Us. Bibi, Komachi Panko, Malice Evermore, Nitya, Sinon Sinfonia and others on the call drew new names from a wheel: What, Where, When, Who, How, Me, That, You, Sus and a handful more, with the new name taped to their faces. Using a streamer’s real name was off limits, and the penalty was death in the game. The streamers were deafened and muted while playing and spoke only in emergency meetings, while ghosts could talk freely. The result was meetings in which players argued over whether “When” or “Sus” had been near the vent, and over who “Me” had been standing next to.

“I was correct and not a single person listened to me.” — Bibi Biscuit, after the second round

The first round lasted about a quarter of an hour, after which Tenma rebuilt the lobby and spun the wheel again, so that Bibi drew “Who” a second time. In the second round, Nitya said, she stuck close to the others and set up Sinon as her scapegoat, since Sinon had been trailing players out of nervousness and accusing nearly everyone. When a meeting was called, Bibi argued that Nitya was the killer, but the others did not vote with her. Malice said afterward that she had believed Bibi but hesitated, and that too much happened in the last 20 seconds for her to vote in time. Nitya said she was surprised she had been given the impostor role and won.

Bibi stayed on after the others signed off and talked through the round. She said it made her crash out, called it a rare event, and joked that she was quitting her generation, Phase Connect’s SAGA, over it. She added that she did not expect another Among Us stream with the group any time soon because of schedules. Tenma, she said, had put the collab together. Panko said she would like to do it again with more names added, and Malice thanked Tenma for organizing it.

Bibi spent the rest of the stream on a long chat about living in Tokyo. She recommended shopping in Ikebukuro and Akihabara, a weekday visit to avoid crowds, and an all-you-can-eat motsunabe, or offal hot pot, restaurant, then talked about how hard it can be to make friends in Japan and how she handles hosting guests.