Have
you ever played a game called chor police? Well I have. Let’s take the no. of players to be 10. Here’s
how the game goes, since there are 10 -people we will make 10 chits. Out of the
ten chits, 4 chits will be special chits containing the police, the king, the
queen and the murderer. The person who gets the police chit has to find the
murderer before he or she kills the king. While the police try to find the murderer,
the murderer tries to find the king.
When he does the murderer calls out the name of the king. If it is
really the king, the detective is expelled from the game. If the murderer gets
the wrong person, he is expelled from the game. If the police gets the wrong person,
he too is expelled from the game. The queen has the right to stop the expulsion
of any player. The rest of the chits are
blank. Chor is thief in Hindi, Thus the name. Now these aliens followed a
similar method to expel the people, But without the chits of the queen and
king. They just contained chits of the thief and the police. The police had to
find the thief. If the person failed after three chances, he was terminated,
literally. This was no game but a matter of life and death. If you failed you
were told to kill yourself, but if you refused, they did it themselves. So said
our headmaster during his speech, but before the speech there was a whole lot
of drama, which I will tell you about in a moment.
This
drama happened just as soon as I had finished meeting my friends Ania, Shreedha
and Aruni.
Here’s what happened: I had just seen Aruni’s
bag and after seeing it I felt discouraged to approach her and went back to Daphne.
There I filled her in and she pushed me no more. Just as I finished filling her
in, I heard a high-pitched scream. Me and Daphne turned towards the source
abruptly and saw a fair girl, about our age screaming and struggling “No, I will not get
capped.”. I looked fearfully at Daphne but to my surprise she wasn’t scared, in
fact far from it. She was as cool as a cucumber. “Don’t worry Dorothy, come
with me to the washroom. I will give you a fake cap. That will fool those
foolish sous aliens.” By now I trusted
her and asked our supervisor whether I could use the washroom. He showed me the
way, after sometime Daphne followed me. Once we were in the bathroom, she gave
me a pink colored cap which was very similar to the ones the sous aliens shot.
I immediately wore it and went to join the rest of the explorers. After I had
reached my camp mates, Daphne came out.
After this our headmaster David gave us the speech I mentioned earlier
and then the games started. The games
were conducted by sous aliens. Now I want to make this clear that sous aliens
aren’t your ordinary aliens with antenna and all but far from it. They looked just like us except for the fact
that they had white pupils. Creepy
right! Now here’s the thing the games
were conducted with all the groups not just only the explorers on one side and
a separate group on the other. Now the first round went smoothly, I only got a
blank chit. The second round however was very bad. No, it was not that I was
expelled but I got the police chit and had to find the culprit which I did. The
hard part was announcing the name, I neither wanted to die nor did I want be
responsible for anyone’s death but I was saved by Daphne who knocked me over. I
pretended as if I was hurt and was taken to the infirmary for treatment. There
I sat till the end of the second round. How did I fool the nurse you ask? Well
along with healing powers Daphne could also cause injuries. After the second
round ended, I went back to the hall.
The game wasn’t very eventful after that (for me at least) That is until
the last round of round 3. The person who was the police was a girl named Marie
and the thief was none other than Shreedha. Marie promptly discovered Shreedha and
Shreedha walked towards the loser’s corner almost immediately. I was worried
for my best friend. After the sous aliens collected all the chits, came the
death of the losers. The people around me were excited all except Aruni,
Daphne, Ania, Aisha and me. I could understand Aruni’s concern but not Aisha or
Ania’s. Just as Shreedha took the gun to shoot herself There was a bang and time
stopped!
