🚛 CREW CLASH: RIDE OR ROT
The moment the crew hotwires the hauler and peels out of the garage
party, klaxons scream, music cuts, and a sea of drunk Glitterpunks
start throwing glowsticks and fists. A few seconds later, hoverbikes
snarl to life—and the chase is on.
🎬 CHALLENGE 1: Crowd Crash
Description: The street ahead is a nightmare of partiers, black
market vehicle parts and tech stalls, and a cornucopia of poor life
decisions. The truck’s big—but the crowd is too far gone or pissed to
care.
Success: 11+ You swerve between a karaoke brawl and a
skewer stand, clipping a neon parasol and spraying sauce
across the windshield—but you punch through without
flattening anyone important. (Dribblejaw is just getting out the
gate in his ride and is too far to do anything this round).
Failure: 10- You grind into a vendor’s cart, sending irradiated
melons and screaming Glitterpunks flying. The hauler stalls just
long enough for Dribblejaw in his ride and the cats on bikes to
close in hard from behind (they’re all in range to start shooting
on their turn).
🎬 CHALLENGE 2: Gridlock Guts
Description:
The street ahead is a mechanical mosh pit—jammed tuk-tuks,
scorched noodle rigs, and traffic towers blinking error codes like a
city-wide migraine.
🛞 Option 1: Slick Signal
One bold play the pack can attempt: mod the hauler’s system to
broadcast a faked high-priority crash alert, scaring the grid into
moving—or melting. Anyone with a netdeck or a Cybersurgeon,
Technosorcerer, or Wirephreak can succed at this with an 11+ if they
decide to ROLL THE DIE!
Success (11+): The crew patches into the hauler’s busted nav
suite, rewiring its pulse array to emit a priority-1 collision
cascade alert. Vehicles up ahead lurch out of the way,
pedestrians scatter, and automated systems throw open crash
lanes. You tear through the chaos with milliseconds to spare—
but the transmission module sparks out, now fried beyond use.
Bonus Effect (16+): The pulse wreaks havoc beyond just the
intersection. Emergency protocols activate in three nearby
blocks—traffic reroutes, lights glitch, and law enforcement
drones scramble in the wrong direction. If chased, your
pursuers are too far behind you to do anything but follow.
Failure: A mistimed pulse or signal lag fails to clear enough
space. You grind into a fruit rig and spin it out, sending
vinerlance and football-sized red-orange juikora flying. You’re
slowed, boxed in, and vulnerable—your pursuers (Dribblejaw
and the kitties) scream into view getting in reach of you if you
failed the last round/in range if you succeeded.
🛞 Option 2: Side-Street Slam
Narrative: One of the crew spots an alley mouth half-buried in
trash and half-listed on any sane GPS. It’s tight, twisting, and
filled with busted furniture and shady alley vendors—but it bypasses
the worst of the gridlock if you’ve got the reflexes (or guts) to gun it.
Success (14+) sends the hauler fishtailing through the alley
like a pinball, bypassing the jam and coming out one block
ahead of the traffic snarl, with your pursuers are too far
behind you to do anything but follow.
Failure (13-) means slamming a dumpster or clipping a
bystander’s cart—your progress halts and now you’ve got
angry locals and pursuit on your tail. Dribblejaw and the
kitties scream into view getting in reach of you if you failed
the last round/in range if you succeeded.
🚧 Option 2: Ramp It or Ram It
Narrative: The traffic’s static, but a heavily loaded car hauler sits
half-unloaded across the street. Its tilted ramps look just barely
stable. The driver has two choices:
Launch off the ramp and trust physics.
Ram a stalled vehicles into the oncoming lane to clear a path.
Effect:
Ramp success (13+): Hauler launches over the jam like a
beast, lands rough but running, leaving pursuers boxed behind.
Ramp failure (12-): The ramp collapses mid-run; the truck
slams down hard. Axles shriek, the chassis groans, and pursuit
closes in.
Ram success (11+): A creative use of strength, cybertech, or
abilities bulldozes an opening.
Ram failure (10-): The wreckage spills sideways, blocking
more of the road and forcing a detour under fire.
🎬 CHALLENGE 3: Buckle and Break
Description: The rig wasn’t built for this kind of punishment—
something critical under the chassis gives with a metallic scream. The
steering lurches, the hauler buckles, and the road ahead starts to tilt
real wrong.
Success: Someone gets under the dash or onto the side panels
mid-motion, reroutes the power, slaps a patch, or just kicks it
back into shape. The truck growls, rights itself, and barrels
forward like nothing happened.
Failure: The suspension groans and sags. Every bump is
louder. The hauler starts listing to one side, slowing just enough
for pursuers to gain ground. You’re not gonna be outrunning
anyone if this keeps up.
🎬 CHALLENGE 4: The Fork in the Road
Description: Ahead, the road splits—one side a tight sewer-tunnel
shortcut, the other a detour past an abandoned toll gate rigged with
half-dead turrets.
Success: You read the road, roll hard, and make the right call.
The rig screams through barely enough clearance and leaves
your pursuers smashing into dead walls.
Failure: Wrong lane. Wrong timing. The toll gate’s auto-
cannons wake up just in time to carve smoking holes across the
side of the water tank.
🎬 CHALLENGE 5: Alley Snap
Description: A sharp S-curve slams into view, narrowing into a
cracked service alley cluttered with trash bins, broken kiosks, and a
half-sunken delivery truck. It’s the fastest route—but barely wide
enough for the hauler.
Success: You thread the gap like a needle through bone,
knocking junk aside with inches to spare. The rig rattles but
roars out the other side intact and ahead of the pack.
Failure: You clip the sunk truck hard—grinding metal, a
snapped mirror, and a spray of sparks. The hauler staggers. The
roar of chasing engines grows louder behind you.
🎬 CHALLENGE 6: The Rust Spiral
Description: A spiral descent ramp slicked with rain and oil drops
into a subterranean maintenance corridor. No guardrails. No lights.
Success: The rig drifts like a dream—barely missing a
collapsing strut and catching just enough friction to ride the
spin like a death ballet.
Failure: The back tires lose grip. You fishtail, scrape the wall,
and nearly roll the whole damn thing. A pipe bursts overhead
and soaks the crew.
🎬 CHALLENGE 7: The Split Ramp
Description: A collapsed overpass ahead has left a massive breach
in the roadway. One lane is gone entirely, the other half-crumbled—
but there's just enough debris stacked at the edge to hit it like a
ramp. The rig’s too heavy to coast through. You’ve gotta gun it, bank
it, or flip fate the finger.
Success: The hauler tilts hard and rides up on two wheels,
slamming down just as the tires hit solid concrete. You leave a
tooth-rattling bounce and a perfect V-shaped dust cloud in your
wake—and a whole lot of pissed-off pursuers who didn’t make
the cut.
Failure: You hit the ramp too slow, too wide, or too wrong. The
hauler slams down halfway across, scraping the undercarriage
and cracking the axle. It’s still rolling—but it’s wounded, loud,
and easy to follow now.
🛠️CHASE FINALE: Bridge Out, Tank Heavy
📍Setup:
The crew is moments from escaping into the lower wards—freedom in
sight. But the final stretch runs straight through an ancient, sagging
maintenance bridge barely wide enough for the hauler and visibly
bowed from age and neglect.
The canal below is long dry, but lined with jagged support struts,
crumpled rebar, and old tech husks. Falling is not just dangerous
—it’s messy, loud, and could wreck the entire payday.
🎬 Read-Aloud Description:
The road narrows. Ahead, a half-lit bridge slouches over the canal like
a broken spine. Concrete flakes fall as you approach, and the water
tank's weight makes the rig groan like it's begging for mercy.
Below: a bed of rusted bones, exposed wiring, and snapped
scaffolding that looks like it’d love to meet you up close.
Behind: engines howl, voices shriek, and the roar of the Chrome
Chorus isn’t far off.
The only way out is over. Hope she holds.
🎲 Crew Options (Player-Facing):
The bridge can’t be approached like a normal obstacle—this is the
climax. Give the crew multiple options, but let them be creative. Here
are some default plays:
1. Unburden the Rig (Lose Cargo, Gain Speed)
Dumping part of the water tank’s load gives a bonus to the crossing
but may lower the payout or cause issues later. Maybe a crewmate
opens a valve just long enough.
Result: ROLL A DIE! With Lucidity.
Consequence: Lose some of the water. Final payoff is reduced
or you’ve got to explain it later.
2. Boost and Pray (Full Speed Ahead)
Gun it. No tricks. Just raw horsepower and blind faith.
ROLL A DIE! (13+ to clear it without collapse)
Failure: Bridge gives mid-cross. Final scene is a crash + foot
escape or firefight in the rubble.
3. One Rides Outside (Manual Weight Shifting or
Reinforcement)
One crewmember climbs out during the drive to balance, reconnect
severed supports, or use magic/cybertech to reinforce the frame
as it crosses.
ROLL A DIE! (11+ for a clean ride)
Failure: They succeed, but nearly fall or get injured in the
process. Take 1 damage or gain a temporary condition.
4. Split It (The Bait & Bail Option)
One or more crewmates peel off or delay to draw enemy fire,
trigger a distraction, or take another route, giving the hauler
breathing room.
ROLL A DIE! (11+ gives truck safe passage)
Consequence: Separated crew face another challenge scene
to rejoin or escape later.
📉 Failure Fallout Options
If the bridge collapses:
Truck takes 1–2 integrity damage and cargo may be
ruptured or lost.
The rig rolls down into the canal—wrecked, but maybe
salvageable.
The crew is now trapped and has to finish the job on foot or
in combat.
Pursuers get a clean line of sight, leading to a showdown
with Dribblejaw or a lieutenant.
🏁 Success (Any Method):
The rig slams down on the other side, skidding through broken
barricades and smoke. The bridge groans, collapses behind you, and
takes two bikes with it in a screech of sparks and steel.
The road ahead is clear. The crew made it. For now.
Crimbarrow
This squat, pear-shaped fruit grows on thorny shrubs and has a
bruise-purple rind mottled with teal freckles. Inside is an electric
orange pulp that oozes like syrup when ripe. Crimbarrow tastes like
mango soaked in hot cider, with a sharp, tangy slap to the taste buds
on the finish that puckers the lips.
Its sticky flesh caramelizes beautifully, making it ideal for desserts or
spiced glazes. The skin is leathery and bitter, often dried and
powdered for use in spice blends.
Crimbarrow glaze is drizzled over grilled Goki skewers to add citrusy
heat and sticky-sweet depth.
Fizzlime Spool
Looking like a fat green pinecone wrapped in tangled vines, the
fizzlime spool peels into spiraled, citrus-segment-like ribbons that
crackle lightly when exposed to air. This is due to micro-effervescence
—tiny gas pockets that burst and fizz on the tongue.
The flavor is bright lime-meets-soda-pop, refreshing and acidic. It’s
often used to balance richer dishes or to quick-pickle veggies. Too
many slices at once can numb the gums.
Fizzlime slivers are folded into chilled Bluvage wraps with grilled
Snapclaw meat to balance the fat with a sparkling citrus snap.
