Crosslane: Outrun the Dust

The Dry is behind you. It has been for years. You are a courier on the last open road, running deliveries between towns that are running out of time. Three lanes. Swipe to change lane, jump the wreckage, slide under the barriers. Do not look back — it is closer than you think. SIX REGIONS, SIX VEHICLES It starts with a bicycle and a bag of post. Cross the wheatbelt and you earn a motorbike. Then a car, a four-wheel-drive, a racer, and finally something somebody built in a shed and never finished. Each one is faster than the last — and wider, and slower to change lanes. Speed is never free. 120 DELIVERIES Every run is a job for somebody: seed before sundown, vaccines with six hours of ice, water for a farm with no bore. Twenty stories per region, each with its own distance to beat. RUN IT YOUR WAY Go back and run any region you have finished, on the vehicle it was built for. Or take Free…