How To Play The Pyramid

## Introduction

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

## *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** who receive the most votes will be sacrificed to **The Pyramid**, with the exception of **Episode 1**, where only **1 Raider** will be sacrificed.

### Other Clarification:

If there is a tie vote in **Floor 1**, unless the tie is between the **2 Raiders** who received the most votes (*who would both just be sacrificed rather than the tie being broken*), the **Offering** who received the lowest amount of votes would then submit a vote of their own, and break the tie.  This was the case in **Episode 3** of Season 1 where we saw **Sadie** break the tie between **Maddison** & **Mooly**.

## *Floor 2*

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

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

The **Pharaoh** will choose to keep **5 Raiders** safe for the episode, sending everybody else down into **The Catacombs**. The number of **Raiders** that get saved every episode *does not* change, but the number of **Raiders** who visit **The Catacombs** will decrease by 1 *every* episode, all the way to there only being 4 in the last episode of **Floor 2**.

**Raiders** in **The Catacombs** will have to decide in a vote to sacrifice one of their own to **The Pyramid**.

### Other Clarification:

The possession of **Power** or **Safety** *cannot* be transferred from **Raider** to **Raider**.  On **Floor 1**, a **Raider** who is not an **Offering** cannot swap places with a **Raider** that is an **Offering**, nor can a **Raider** that was chosen to be safe from **The Catacombs** by the **Pharaoh** swap places with a **Raider** who was sent down into **The Catacombs**.  This same rule applies to passing down your **Pharaoh** crown to another **Raider**.  The passing of **advantages**, unless the advantage specifies otherwise, *cannot* take place either.

## *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** will then take on these **2 Raiders** in a **Safety Challenge**, where they will be joined by the **Audience's Champion**, the player that the audience votes to give a chance at safety to, as well as the **Raider** that is neither: the **Pharaoh**, an **Offering**, or the **Audience's Champion,** that got the highest score in the **Pharaoh Challenge** (*randomly selected if the challenge was not score based, or if there was a tie*).

The winner of the **Safety Challenge** will be safe for the episode and will get to decide about saving one of the **2 current Offerings** from danger.

If an **Offering** is saved from danger, the **Pharaoh** will declare a new **Offering** that is neither the saved **Offering** or the winner of the **Safety Challenge**.

Once there are **2 Offerings** finalized, everyone else who is not either the **Pharaoh** or an **Offering** will vote between the **2 Offerings**, and whoever receives the most votes will be sacrificed to **The Pyramid**.

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

### Other Clarification:

If a **Raider** is named the **Audience's Champion**, they will have their name removed from the voting options for **Audience's Champion** for the remainder of the season (*unless we get to an episode where all of the available options have already been the **Audience's Champion** once*).  This was an idea brought forth by **Space#4242** at the beginning of **Floor 3** in **Season 1**.

## *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.

### Other Clarification:

The winner of the **Final 4** challenge will sacrifice **1 Raider**, and then the **Final 3** will endure another challenge, where the winner of that challenge will do the same.  Everybody plays in both challenges.

## *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 respective season.

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

The **Final 2** will be given their own *Shrines* to write their opening speeches to the **Jury**, and the **Jury** will then be given the opportunity to ask the finalists questions.

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.