Fire Tokens

**Fire Tokens** are a twist that is used in every Rarvivor season. Inspiration of this twist comes from S40 of US Survivor: Winners at War, however the fire tokens there seemed unoptimized and Rarvivor strives to utilize them better.

## Design Philosophy

The design philosophy is to make fire tokens the means to purchase utility items rather than advantages like idols or extra votes.

## Acquiring Fire Tokens

There are several ways for players to obtain fire tokens during the game.

* Players start with 1 fire token in the beginning of the game.
* There are fire tokens hidden in the idol searching system (usually 10)
* Some challenges offer fire tokens as a reward, most notably Auction or Temptations.
* After a player gets voted out, they have to bequeath their fire tokens to any player still in the game.

## Spending Fire Tokens

### Fire Token Menu

Fire token menu appears every season but their contents changes throughout Rarvivor existence. These changes are usually made to add new items (ex. idol validation for S7 onward), to remove some items (ex. pull a player removed after S8), to add items for specific seasons (ex. partner swap for Blood vs Water seasons) or to balance already existing items with changing prices (ex. mutiny changing its price multiple times), adjusting specific uses (ex. idol clues being able to be purchased once per episode instead of once per day) or simply changing the name of an item (ex. "what is hidden in the color scheme?" to "peanut butter").

### Challenge Advantages

A lot of challenges offer one time only advantage for fire tokens. In the tribe portion of the game, the most common advantage is not counting the worst scoring player on the tribe to the tribe score average (ex. in Flappy Copter). At the individual portion of the game, social challenges usually come with a challenge advantage that can give you more resources (ex. extra currency during Auction). Time or score based challenges usually come with a certain % improvement to players score (ex. 5% time reduction in Maze Puzzles). Challenge advantages are often stack-able, meaning a player/tribe can purchase challenge advantages multiple times.

### Other

Occasionally and not in every season, there are events where players can spend their fire tokens:

* **Pay For FTC:** In some seasons after Touchy Subjects challenge, the players get an option to pool their fire tokens for a final 2 or a final 3 Final Tribal Council scenario. If there is a tie, the FTC scenario is publicly randomized, but if nobody pools any fire tokens, then it is privately randomized.
* **Pet Island Advantage:** During S3, there was exile island called Pet Island, where the player competed in a Guess The Survivor Player challenge. If they guessed the player correctly, they receive an idol, provided it hasn't been guessed correctly before. When the players got to the Pet Island, they had to choose between 10 urns, which determined how many questions they get with the ability to choose again for 1 fire token.

* **Idol Activation**: During S1, the player had to pay 1 fire token for a found idol to become a 50/50 coin or 2 fire tokens for it to become a normal idol. If they paid nothing, the idol is just a souvenir. This event was used just during S1 and it has not reappeared since then.

## Trivia

* Coffee holds the record for most held fire tokens during their vote out with 7. (S1)