Season 1, Episode 5

## "So Many Opportunities To Be Betrayed"

- Josh on **Day 9**

As **Leanne** and **Rowan** were sacrificed to **The Pyramid**, and **Mooly**, **Sadie**, & **Zoro** uncovered more of the riddles to the **shrines**, the **Raiders** found out they would be splitting into 3 teams of 6 for the 5th and final challenge of the first floor, **40 Vases**, a challenge in which they would try to be the team that *did not* break the 40th and final vase.

The **Yellow Team** consisted of; **Homeboi**, **Jessica**, **Koolaid**, **Nito**, **Pino** & **Zoro**, the **Blue Team** consisted of; **Agustin**, **Flow**, **Gentoo**, **Josh**, **Sadie** & **Trent**, and the **Red Team** consisted of; **Icon**, **Jay**, **Mooly**, **Shea**, **TANMAN** & **Zackary**. Almost as soon as the challenge began, there was a plan for the **Yellow Team** and the **Red Team** to work together against **Blue**, but **TANMAN** saw to it to secretly work with allies on the **Blue Team** against **Yellow**, in the hopes of having his floor-long target, **Koolaid**, falling into danger.

Catching a scent that the **Red Team's** proposal might not be legit, **Jessica** confronts **TANMAN** and pleads, out of the worry that she would be voted out if the **Yellow Team** lost the challenge.

As the challenge came down to the bitter end, feelings were scattered, and bonds were betrayed. **Koolaid** attempted to turn the **Blue** and **Red** teams against each other.

Despite many attempts of persuasion and working together, the alliance set by **Blue** & **Red** at the beginning of the challenge would prevail, setting **Homeboi**, **Jessica**, **Koolaid,** **Nito**, **Pino**, and **Zoro** as the **Offerings** for the episode.

The heat was high, and **The Pyramid** was never more in distraught than in the aftermath of the **40 Vases** challenge, and none of the **Offerings** felt safe.

Despite being at the crossroads of many intertwining alliances that all felt strongly about voting their long-awaited target, **Koolaid**, out of the game, **Shea** made a promise to **Koolaid** to try and flip the vote on to **Homeboi**, another **Raider** with a strong social presence, however, near the beginning of the *10th Day* inside the game, **Koolaid** made the decision to unfortunately pull himself from the game, due to the high level of stress that was being put onto him from rumors circling throughout **The Pyramid**, leaving the others to decide to vote to sacrifice one of the remaining **Offerings**.

With **Koolaid** out of the picture, the crosshairs seemed to shift to one of the bigger physical threats in the game, **Jessica**, and one of the bigger social threats, **Homeboi**.  In attempt to persuade the other **Raiders** in one swoop, **Jessica** began to question everyone why she was seen as a threat at all when the next stage of the game was going to be based on the social aspect.

What the **Raiders** hadn't taken into account is that **The Heartifact** landed in the hands of **Jessica** this episode, still allowing her to vote, without actually being able to vote.

As the episode concluded, the majority of the **Raiders** decided to part with the social threat, making **Homeboi** the **9th Raider** sacrificed to **The Pyramid**, as the remaining **16 Raiders** moved up to the second stage of the game, *Floor 2*.