Chapter 1
Our Corner
Alex drops by for coffee on credit and ends up hauling a garbage truck that talks back.
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Rush City A story of friends, favours and fast cars
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The story of Alex
You begin by asking people to leave your friend alone.
You end with the whole city asking you for the same favor.
Chapter 1 · Mission 1
Coffee on credit.
Anton runs the best little coffee window in Old Town. Alex drinks there on a tab. This morning two men show up with a new rate.
AntonCash or the usual?
AlexThe usual.
AntonThen it goes on the tab.
VikMorning. New rate.
AntonI paid last night.
VikThat was last night.
AntonPut it down. That's my stock.
AlexHe told you to put it down.
VikYou run this place now?
AntonHe can't even afford the coffee.
LeonCould've just bought a coffee.
Chapter 1 · The night run
Somebody in the truck is still breathing.
Mara needs a driver for one quiet run. Nothing about it stays quiet — and the man in the back owes a lot of people money.
MaraOne truck. One yard. No questions.
AlexWhat's in the back?
MaraThat was a question.
SaulHey! Driver! There's a person in your garbage!
AlexDefine person.
AlexHold on to something.
SaulI'm holding on to garbage!
SaulA hatchback? I've ridden in nicer garbage.
AlexGet in. Your fan club's still looking.
Eight chapters
From a kiosk to the skyline.
Chapter 2
Other People's Debts
Somebody has to take the blame for the garbage truck, and the Landlord has a name ready.
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Chapter 3
Our Street
One kiosk becomes a street, and everyone wants a cut, a title or a bigger van.
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Chapter 4
Three Owners
The old covered market has forty empty rows, and the city promised them to everybody.
Anton wants ten rows. The Landlord wants rent. Dockside wants its trucks unloading every morning. Dan's crew wants a roof. The city said “sure” to everyone. One meeting, three owners, one market — and whoever Alex backs will send a bill.
Chapter 5
Night Money
Clubs, fuel and charity galas: the city after dark pays better and lies more.
Night Division raids Yana's “Parent-Teacher Night,” and four grown-up guests need a getaway in a retired school bus. It runs if you believe in it. Then Father Adrian invites Alex to lunch with the rich, and Nina shows him who does the actual work.
Chapter 6
Block Against Block
Every promise Alex made on the way up comes due in the same week.
Somebody leaves a gift-wrapped gas can at the market, and the war starts politely. One of Alex's drivers vanishes on a run that looks awfully familiar — and Alex doesn't leave people in the back of trucks. And the garbage-truck question finally gets asked properly.
Chapter 7
A Respectable Man
Wave Mall goes from a fence and a puddle to a skyline, and Anton has opinions.
Vera has drawings, investors and a hole in the ground at Willow Square, and she wants Alex in. First problems: a parking racket on the lot, a contractor who discovers inflation and old traders standing where the entrance goes. Anton knows every one of them.
Chapter 8
The Price of the City
Wave Mall finally opens, and everyone Alex ever did a favor for shows up.
Two thousand guests, eleven journalists, one footballer with giant scissors. It's the biggest night of Alex's life — and the perfect night for somebody to collect. Every choice so far decides who stands beside him. Three endings, none of them lonely.
Three endings.
All of them earned.
The people of Rush City
Friends survive.
Everyone else should have been nicer. Meet the crew Alex would drive through a wall for — and the people who keep building walls.
RITA'S GARAGE
Rush City PD · persons of interest
Rush City Tourist Board
Welcome to
Rush City.
Welcome to Rush City: one river, several hills, fourteen districts and an avenue that has not moved since it was built. Population: questionable. Parking: impossible. Enjoy your stay, mind the benches, and please return the car you arrived in.
- 1.6 × 2.5 kmof streets, hills and riverfront. Parking not included.
- 14districts, from Riverside Flats to the Iron Yards
- 20+landmarks with made-up names and very real attitude
- 309street shops to protect, rent or run, Mama Mia’s Last Pizza included
- 30businesses for sale, from $2,000 to $1,000,000
- 40lost parcels hidden in yards, alleys and up on the roofs
This is the game
Top-down. Full throttle.
The classic bird's-eye view, rebuilt for your phone: a living city at golden hour, cars that drift and crunch, police who actually get out of the car.
Wanted level
One patrol car
They run slower than you. They know it. You know it.
Up to three patrol cars
Still guessing where you are. A witness keeps phoning in hints.
Police SUVs join the hunt
The pros. They track you, sprint like you and never just forget.
Agents in fast black SUVs
Dark suits, darker SUVs, absolutely no sense of humour.
SWAT in heavy armoured vans
Built like a bank vault, somehow quicker than your hatchback. Rude.
The army and a tank, plus everyone else
Six stars. One tank. Zero chill.
Nobody shoots from a moving car — not you, not them. They pull over, get out and come to cuff you. Like the old days.
Build an empire
From a coffee kiosk to the skyline.
Buy the kiosk. Then the street. Then the people who thought they owned the street. Thirty businesses, from a newspaper stand to a casino — each one earns, each one gets raided.
$2,000
Prices from $2,000 to $1,000,000. The Arena? Tens of millions. Bring friends.
Yesterday’s News stand
Open-ish 24/7 kiosk
Shawarma Drama
Oops, I Bought Flowers
Sleepy Bean coffee window
Heel & Key repairs- Cracked Screen Clinic
Baguette Fever bakery
Suds Brothers car wash
Placebo Pharmacy
Lost Sock laundromat
Hair Today barbers
Clunk & Fix garage
Second Chance pawn shop
The Tipsy Pigeon pub
Scrap Happy yard
Pump & Dump gym- Seven Hills bistro
- Honk If Late cabs
Bang for Your Buck guns
Haul or Nothing trucking
Fill ’Er Up fuel
The Wobbly Flamingo club
Aisle Be Back market- Wheels of Fortune Motors share
The Snoozy Swan hotel
Boxes & Docks terminal
Wave Mall share
Floor 42, Glass Tower- Riverside Royale share
Wave Mall
Opening when it opens.
- Empty lot
- Fence & crew
- Concrete frame
- Facade
- Fit-out
- Grand opening
After dark
Nightmoney.
It spends the same. It just sleeps less.
Velvet
Clubs
Run the door, the bar and the dance floor. Hit the beat in the rhythm game, or get bounced.
Lucky
The casino
Roulette, cards and a house that always wins — until you own the house.
Hearts
Dates
Flowers, perfume, terrible jokes. Four people in this city might laugh at them.
Ticker
Rush Exchange
Real historical prices, funny names. Go long, go short, go broke with leverage.
SRCW Sir Coinsworth ▲ 1.2%CRGZ Couch Corgi ▲ 4.9%GZBG Gasbag Network ▼ 1.2%SPBM Speedbump ▲ 4.3%FFRT Fancy Fruit Computers ▼ 2.1%TNSF Teenysoft ▲ 3.6%HTRZ Space Heater Chips ▼ 3.7%LCRD Longcord Motors ▼ 4.3%LAML Look At My Lunch ▲ 0.2%ONEMR One More Episode ▼ 4.4%HPAX Holding Pattern Aerospace ▼ 2.5%STCKY Treacle Crude ▼ 2.5%SRCW Sir Coinsworth ▲ 1.2%CRGZ Couch Corgi ▲ 4.9%GZBG Gasbag Network ▼ 1.2%SPBM Speedbump ▲ 4.3%FFRT Fancy Fruit Computers ▼ 2.1%TNSF Teenysoft ▲ 3.6%HTRZ Space Heater Chips ▼ 3.7%LCRD Longcord Motors ▼ 4.3%LAML Look At My Lunch ▲ 0.2%ONEMR One More Episode ▼ 4.4%HPAX Holding Pattern Aerospace ▼ 2.5%STCKY Treacle Crude ▼ 2.5%
Rush City FM
Fourteen stations. Zero real brands.
Rush City FM is fourteen music stations, RUSH TALK and the police scanner: 210 songs by bands that don't exist, DJs who talk over the intro, ads for things you shouldn't buy, and news that reports your last car chase. Every car comes tuned to its own station, and the stations keep playing while you're away. All the bad advice you need.
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