How To Play The Pyramid

***The Pyramid*** is a *Online Reality Game Format* founded by ***Saturn***  on *4/14/2022*. Below is an overview of how the game is played!

Every season might have different twists, advantages, and challenges, but every season will follow the below outline, in terms of **Floor Changes**, **Sacrifices**, **Jury Members**, *etc*.

At the beginning of every season, **25 Raiders** will find themselves in **The Pyramid** where they come to realize that their one and only goal is to *escape* it and *survive*.  Only one **Raider** will make it all the way to the top of **The Pyramid** and be crowned with the title of "**Monarch**" for their respective season.

# *Rules Last Updated 6/30/22, just after the ending of **The First Oasis**.*

## Floor 1

The **25 Raiders** will begin the game, fighting to stay out of the last 4 placements in every challenge presented in each *episode*.

The **4 Raiders** who receive the lowest scores in each challenge will be declared as the **Offerings**, and everyone else that is safe will vote between them.

The **2 Offerings** that receive the most votes will be sacrificed to **The Pyramid**, with the exception of *Episode 1*, where only **1 Offering** will be sacrificed instead.

## Floor 2

Once **9 Raiders** are sacrificed to **The Pyramid** in **Floor 1**, the *16* that survive will advance to **Floor 2**.

On this *Floor*, the **Raiders** will no longer be fighting to not be in the bottom 4, and instead be fighting to be number 1, and claiming the title as the **Pharaoh** in that *Episode*.

The **Pharaoh** will choose 5 Raiders to keep safe, sending everybody else down into **The Catacombs**. In **The Catacombs, Raiders** will have to decide in a vote to sacrifice one of their own to **The Pyramid**.

## Floor 3

Once **7 Raiders** are sacrificed to **The Pyramid** in **Floor 2**, the **Final 9 Raiders** will advance to **Floor 3**.

They will still be competing for the title of **Pharaoh** in each *Episode*, but instead of saving a group of **5 Raiders**, they will instead declare **2 Raiders** as **Offerings**.

The **Pharaoh**, their **2 Raiders**, A **Raider** chosen by the *Audience* (**Audience's Champion**), as well as the **Raider** that is neither of the roles above that got the highest score in the previous **Pharaoh Challenge** (randomly selected if the challenge was not score based, or if there was tie), will go head to head in a challenge for the **Artifact of Safety**.

The winner will get the choice to save one of the **Pharaoh's Offerings** from danger, and if an **Offering** is saved, the **Pharaoh** will replace them with a new **Offering**. Once there are **2 Offerings** finalized, everyone but the **Pharaoh** and the **Offerings** will vote between the **2 Offerings**, and whoever receives the most votes will be sacrificed to **The Pyramid**.

**Raiders** who are sacrificed on this *Floor* will begin forming the **Jury**.

## Floor 4

Once **5 Raiders** are sacrificed to **The Pyramid** in **Floor 3**, the **Final 4 Raiders** will advance to **Floor 4**.

This *Floor* will feature the two most difficult challenges of the season, where the winner of each of them will cast the sole vote against one of the other **Raiders** next to them, and sacrifice them to **The Pyramid**, thus filling in our last **2 Jury** spots.

## Floor 5

The **Final 2 Raiders** will reach the **5th & Final Floor**, but only *one* of them will get to escape **The Pyramid** and be crowned the **Monarch** of their season.

They will face the **Jury** which will consist of the **7 Raiders** that were sacrificed to **The Pyramid** on **Floor 3 & Floor 4**.

Once this process of questioning is complete, the **Jury** will submit a vote for who they would like to see escape **The Pyramid**, and whoever of the **Final 2** receives the most votes from the **Jury** will win!