TDD17 Rules, Phase 2

Congratulations to our remaining players for surviving to the second phase of the game! As promised, the rules of the game will now change.

1. There will be no further Skulls distributed; instead, you will be competing to hold onto one of the six that have already entered circulation.

2. Missions will remain the same, except that they will no longer award a Skull. Instead, you will be given a private preview of my plans for the next Killing Floor, and have the option of going into the Killing Floor with any player of your choosing. This is obviously highly risky, but may be worth it as I will explain below.

3. The Chain will otherwise proceed per usual, with the last person in the Chain choosing their opponent of anyone other than the winner of the Mission.

4. The winner of the Killing Floor will now have the opportunity to steal a Skull from any player in the game with the exception of the winner of the Mission. If the winner of the Killing Floor already has a Skull, they must choose one of the following options:

a. To move a Skull from someone who has one to someone who doesn't;
b. To trade their Red Skull for someone's Blue Skull, or vice versa; or
c. To swap a Red Skull and Blue Skull belonging to other people.

The winner of the previous Mission will also be immune from any of the above actions unless they grant permission to be involved in any such transfers. If the loser of the Killing Floor had a Skull, then the winner of the Killing Floor will still have a chance to move it to a non-Skull holder of their choosing, but only after completing the previously mentioned Skull-related action.

5. The Skulls are important because you must have Skull of either color to proceed to the final phase of the game, otherwise known as the Final. After four more Missions and Killing Floors, anyone who is not in possession of a Skull will be automatically eliminated. This is why the winners of the Missions may choose to go into the Killing Floor, as there is a limited window to avoid instant elimination.

6. The colors of the Skulls are significant for the first challenge in the Final, which will be a three-on-three team challenge with each team consisting of the Blue Skull and Red Skull holders, respectively. This challenge will be the sole challenge that heavily favors a high activity level and teamwork, so you should position yourself to have the strongest team possible for it. The losing team of this challenge will automatically be sent into a three-way Killing Floor, and only the winner of that together with the remaining players will proceed to the next challenge(s) in the Final, the details of which I will be keeping secret until we get to that point.