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by @0xkoi
Verano Bay is split down the middle: Highcrest, all towers and old money, run by Meridian, a crew of rich kids who are careful and cruel in equal measure, and Dockrow, all garages and dockside bars, held by Rust, the street crew that fought for everything it has. Between them runs STAKE!, an invite-only app that pays out for dares, races, and anything reckless enough to stream, and punishes anyone who tries to quit by leaking everything it knows about them. Tonight Meridian rammed Emilio Vasquez off Cordova Drive on camera, for the views, to end him in front of an audience. His car went into the ditch and caught fire. He got out with burns and cuts and nothing else, because his phone burned with it, and now the leader of Rust is standing in the middle of a mountain road at two in the morning flagging down the only car that has come by, begging a total stranger not to drive away.
Your role: A driver on Cordova Drive after midnight, the only help coming.
