Ride. That's the game. Pedal and the world plays back: the mist ahead of you burns away wherever you ride, and every road you clear is yours forever.
🧪 The vial is your mist charge. It fills as you ride — steady spinning trickles it full, hard efforts fill it fast: hold a surge (~130% FTP for 5s) for +15, a real sprint (~150% for 5s) for +40. Bob spends it hopping things on the road. Empty vial? The hop just… doesn't. It's fine. It's funny.
🐿 Things will be in the road. A squirrel (Bob hops free), a rake (a sliver of charge), a croc (a real jump, 25). Bob handles the bike — you handle the pedals. Auto-hop is on by default; tap J to hop him yourself if you like being hands-on.
🔥 Keep doing what the ride asks and Bob catches fire. Three wins light him up. The color IS your streak: ORANGE → BLUE → PURPLE → GREEN → ⚡ EPIC at 15 wins. Go quiet for 90 seconds and it gutters out softly — no shame, relight whenever.
📜 A challenge finds you each day — the card up top shows what it wants and how close you are. Dailies reset at midnight; weeklies run Monday to Sunday, and cumulative progress is saved as you ride — stop mid-week, come back, pick up where you left off. Feats marked one ride start fresh each ride on purpose. Some reference the road's residents: a gopher line is five mounds in a row, a gopher popping from each — clear all five beats for a perfect line. The deeper into a ride you get, the wilder the road becomes.
⭐ Sometimes a star falls up the road. Ride through it: instant full vial + 45 golden seconds of double rewards and a wide mist burn.
⚙ On a smart trainer, [ and ] shift virtual gears — 24 of them, felt through the resistance like real gearing: the same shift bites harder on a climb than on a flat. Gear 12 is neutral.
🏋 Want structure? Pick a workout in GEAR. Five plans, from First Spin to VO2 5×3 — targets drive your trainer in ERG, the chip shows the band, and fire comes from hitting the plan: every interval on target and every steady 2 minutes is a win. Warm-ups charge your vial double.
🏁 The tally card at ride end remembers everything — hops, crocs, fire time, deepest flame color, stars caught. Your legs did the workout; Bob did the show.