Taxi Veitzek

Action Gas Condition Money

Short trip −5 −1 – 2 +10 – 30 Long trip −15 −3 – 6 +40 – 100 Attack or crash — −10 – 30 −(random loss) Refuel +50 — −50 Repair — +20 – 40 −100 – 200

💰 Economy

Basic rides: +10–30 V$.

Dangerous deliveries or cult-infested routes: +100–200 V$.

Repairs, fuel, and bribes drain your funds.

Rare passengers (like ex-cultists or government scouts) can unlock new storylines or gear.

⚙️ Gameplay Loop

Drive clients across dangerous, semi-open-world routes.

Maintain your taxi — gas, damage, and cleanliness affect your pay.

Choose dialogue options: being friendly, distant, or hostile changes how passengers react.

Random encounters:

🧟 Wendigos — mutated locals or supernatural predators haunting the forests.

🦹 Thieves — roadside ambushes; you can fight back or chase them down.

🚶 Normal Passengers — provide lore, rumors, or new routes.

😶‍🌫️ Strange or cultish passengers — may try to manipulate, trap, or attack you mid-ride.

Night/Day cycle — night brings fog, glowing eyes in the trees, and worse payoffs but better bonuses.

🌲 Setting Tone

The island looks like rural Montana — dense pine forests, misty lakes, rotting barns, and half-collapsed radio towers. You’ll hear whispers over the radio between rides, old gospel songs twisted into cult hymns, and the growl of something heavy running parallel to your car in the dark.

🚖 Main Premise

You’re a lone taxi driver stranded on the remote island of Veitzek, a rugged, forested expanse once thought uninhabited. After the Acolytes of the Truth cult severs communication with the mainland by destroying the signal tower, the government cuts its losses. Now, you make a living doing what you know best — driving — ferrying survivors, drifters, and strangers across cracked highways, fog-filled logging roads, and abandoned towns.

Your ultimate goal: earn $500,000 Veitzek Dollars to fund a route off the island — or rebuild the tower yourself.

🚖 Who Could Show Up in Taxi Veitzek The island of Veitzek looks empty, but its roads are never truly quiet. Most you'll meet are human—lost, desperate, or deranged—yet some are Martyrs, the island’s second inhabitants: people transformed by cult rituals into something part-beast, part-person. 🧍‍♂️ 1. Everyday Survivors The majority still clinging to ordinary life.

• Stranded travelers, farmers, or mechanics left behind.
• Store clerks or delivery drivers running broken routes.
• Former soldiers who now trade protection for supplies. They are frightened but pragmatic—they'll barter, plead, or lie to survive. 🧥 2. Outlaws & Desperate Folk Law died when the signal did.
• Scavengers and raiders who block roads.
• Highway gangs using fake breakdowns to ambush.
• Smugglers and black-market drivers. They might rob you, beg for a lift, or join you for uneasy protection. 🔥 3. The Cult & Its Believers The Acolytes of the Truth still roam, spreading warped doctrine.
• Preachers and enforcers maintaining roadside shrines.
• Pilgrims seeking "illumination through the road."
• Locals who test your loyalty. They speak in riddles, trying to decide if you are part of their prophecy.

4. The Martyrs Once human. Now altered. The cult's early experiments twisted their bodies into furred, animal-like forms to "reveal the soul’s true image." Many escaped, revolting against their creators, but the damage stayed.

• Appearance: Humanoid with partial animal features (fur, tails, mismatched eyes).
• Behavior: Some hide from fearful humans. Some guide travelers or hunt cultists. Rarely, one loses control and reverts to a feral trance. Encounters are tense; they are victims of the cult's "truth," not its servants. 🌲 5. The Lost & Changed Those the island itself seems to have warped.
• Hunters who vanished and returned wrong.
• Infected wanderers driven by hunger or voices.
• Spirits repeating their final moments. They are glimpses of what happens when the island forgets someone ever lived. ⚙️ 6. Authority & Outsiders Strangers who haven’t given up on the old world.
• Scientists or contractors studying anomalies.
• Government scouts left behind after evacuation.
• Mercenaries or journalists documenting the "Veitzek event." They bring brief reminders of the old world—and higher stakes if you help or betray them. 🕯️ 7. The Uncanny Encounters that simply don't fit anywhere.
• People who know your name before you speak.
• Passengers who mirror your movements perfectly.
• Versions of yourself, slightly off.
• Figures that leave behind warmth in an empty seat. In Veitzek, most are still human, but humanity’s shape changes fast. Your passengers may talk like people, look like Martyrs, or move like something caught between both. The trick is deciding who’s real long enough to get paid.