Beer Run

Beer Run is a live Twitch chat RPG built around the local pub's "informal economy." You're a chancer — grafting between jobs, pulling heists with the crew, and trying not to end up face-down in a police van.

The whole game runs on a single rhythm: Graft between jobs with BeerQuest, pull Jobs solo or as a crew, and deal with Trouble when it shows up — foes, zone heavies, and the occasional shared street boss that half the chat piles into.

One character. One level. One heat meter. Everything feeds into the same pub-crime story.

Every session follows the same loose pub-crime loop. You don't have to play all three modes but they all feed into each other — XP, heat, rep, and kit flow between them.

The shop refreshes each round with 4 items drawn from the full 361-item pool. There is a 25% chance per round that a fifth bonus slot appears — this always stocks a consumable (Crew Insurance or Dodgy Health Pack).

The shelf is archetype-aware: each slot prefers a role not already present, so you'll typically see a spread of Striker / Earner / Hauler / Minder rather than four of the same thing. Each item shows a role badge so you can read the shelf at a glance.

BeerQuest is the always-on RPG layer. While you're waiting for the next heist round, you're out grafting — exploring zones, scrapping with foes, resting off fatigue, and levelling up your crew stats. Type !bq status to see where you're at.

Each day you get 3 contracts drawn from the pool — complete all 3 for a 50c bonus payout. Completing them on consecutive days builds a streak multiplier on the all-done bonus: +10% per day, capping at 2×. Miss a day and the streak resets.

Sample contracts: do 3 explores, work the pub 3 times, raid the cellar twice, show your face in the snug, run the rooftops once, win 2 scraps, pull off 2 jobs, take down a heavy.

Stake 5–300c on a coin flip: double or nothing, 49% win, 60s cooldown. The landlord keeps a sliver. Pure gambling — don't stake what you can't lose.

Questlines are auto-assigned story chains — 14 chapters in all, running from your first pint to Level 20+. Complete one and the next kicks off automatically. Each stage has a goal — explore a zone, win a fight, find an item — and pays out XP, cash, or gear. Finish a full chapter and you earn a permanent honorific title. Type !story to see where you are.

Progress ticks in chat, on the web app, and via the extension — any surface, same progress. The opening arc:

Then it keeps going. Chapters 6–14 take you through the Snug Society and over the rooftops into the late game (Lv 16–20): The Snug Society (Made Member), Over the Rooftops (Skyline Ghost), Pillar of the Community, The Lock-In (Lock-In Legend), Brand Ambassador, Midnight Logistics (Fence's Friend), The Connoisseur, Turf Accountant, and Last Orders (Stuff of Legend). Every chapter mints its own title — and you need all 14 complete before you can prestige.

Your questpack holds up to 3 trinkets (a 4th slot unlocks at Level 20) — passive items that buff your BeerQuest performance. Equip them with !bq equip <trinket>, remove them with !bq unequip <trinket>. Buffs stack — multiples of the same type multiply or add depending on the buff.

Your heist gear also feeds BeerQuest: weapon attack → +hit damage, utility/insurance defence → +block, haul/crate items → +loot odds. So keeping your kit well-equipped matters even when you're just grafting.

The web Equipped panel shows all 4 tiles at all times — the 4th shows a lock icon and “Unlocks Lv20” until you reach the threshold.

Every explore has a chance of drawing a heavy — a zone mini-boss who ambushes you mid-explore. They're tougher than regular foes, hit harder, and always drop an item win or lose. Well, you need to win to get the drop. Obviously.

Heat is what draws them. Higher heat = more likely to get jumped. Keep heat low by resting, and the heavies leave you alone. Let it stack and Big Ronnie starts turning up every other alley trip.

Sometimes a BeerQuest explore goes sideways in a much bigger way. A street boss spawns — a full shared heist-level encounter that anyone in chat can join. These are the same bosses from the main heist encounters (Cuff Squad, Pubwatch Response Unit, etc.) running with all the usual machinery: phases, sweeps, overlay cards, the works.

The difference is the scale. Street bosses spawn from the continuous game and the whole community takes them on together — not just whoever joined the round.

Every round draws one event from the 78-event pool. Events affect the whole crew — they're not targeted at individuals. The event resolves before the run outcome is calculated.

Some runs end in a boss encounter — a real-time fight in chat. The entire crew competes together against a single boss, played out live on the stream overlay.

Every piece of equipped job gear has a condition starting at 100%. Each completed job costs 1 condition point. A failed job costs 2. Gear never breaks entirely — but once it drops below 30% it's classed as WORN and only contributes half its stat bonuses until repaired.

Worn kit shows up with a warning in !stash and !loadout, and on the web loadout panel with a Repair button. The stat halving applies silently — it's on you to stay on top of it.

Every piece of kit has a role — a label that tells you what it's actually for. The daily shop shelf deliberately stocks different roles so there's always a real choice to make, not just a numbers race.

Spend cash to push item XP into a piece of owned kit. Each polish bumps its rank, which stacks small permanent bonuses on top of its base stats — more success, more reward, more crates depending on the item's role. Rank bonuses are doubled from the previous patch, so it's genuinely worth the investment now.

Burning a hole in your pocket? Crack a crate: a proper grab-bag: mostly gear (rarity-weighted over the whole shop), with cash pockets, banked crates, XP finds, and Beerquest bag items in the mix. 📦 Bronze 250c (cheap and cheerful), 🥈 Silver 700c (better odds), 🏆 Gold 2,000c (guaranteed rare or better). Already own the drop? It's fenced on the spot for 40% of its price. And every crate has a small chance of a straight cash stash instead.

Every so often the streets shift for everyone: an ⚡ XP Surge (+15% XP, 15 min), 🍀 Lucky Streets (+5% run success, 15 min), or a 📦 Crate Rush (+1 crate on winning runs, 10 min). Events announce themselves in chat when they hit — !market shows what's live and how long is left. Keep an eye out for stashed chests on your runs too; some doors just happen to be open.

Hit Level 50 and complete all 14 chapter questlines and you can sell up — resetting level, stats, and bag, but you walk away with a quarter of your cash plus all your titles, kit, and crew. Each prestige mints a legend star. It’s meant to be a grind — selling up is the endgame flex.

The Legend Board: every star is a choice. Spend it on one of six permanent perks — browse with !prestige board, spend with !prestige pick <perk> (or use the board in the web app's character panel).

Titles are bragging rights you wear on your character — pick one with !title <name|number> or the dropdown on the web app's Character panel. They come from four places:

Chapters — every completed questline awards its title (Cellar Boss, Skyline Ghost, Lock-In Legend…). The brand shelf — collection milestones at 25/50/100/all 154. Your record — 21 stat milestones earned automatically, including Barrel Chested (100 runs), Sticky Floor Veteran (250), Forklift Certified (500 crates), Jammy Beggar (10 streak), The Brink's Mat Of Beer (2,000c haul), Pub Enemy No. 1 (25 arrests), Minted (10,000c), and Pillar Of The Community (Allegedly) (L50). Legend stars — Local Legend (★1), Pub Royalty (★3), Five Star Establishment (★5).

The brand being stolen is drawn fresh every round from 154 options. It flavours the narrative and sets the scene — it doesn't directly alter base odds, but the vibe matters.

Every clean run logs the brand you lifted onto your personal shelf. Each find has a 3% chance of being a ✨ vintage. Browse your shelf on the web app's Brands stash tab or with !collection.

Milestones earn titles: 25 — Shelf Starter, 50 — Brand Botherer, 100 — Century Club, and all 154 — The Full Cellar.

Every crate you haul on a run gets banked automatically. The fence pays a price that drifts between 1–6c per crate, ticking every 10 minutes — and occasionally SURGES to 9c for about 8 minutes (announced in chat — that's your moment to sell the lot).

Check the going rate with !market and cash out with !fence all. The web app's Shop tab shows the live price, a trend sparkline, and a one-tap fence button.

Call someone out with !beerbrawl <name> [stake] (short: !bb). They get 60s to !bb accept or decline. Both fighters put up the same stake (10–5,000c, escrowed) — winner takes the pot. Declining costs nothing.

On accept there's a 45-second betting window, then the fight goes live on an arcade-style VS card on the web app — fighters left and right with HP bars and gear, the blow-by-blow log underneath.

Fighters use the BeerQuest verbs — attack / take cover / parry / rush — via !bb <verb> or the web buttons. Every verb runs the same per-verb cooldown for both fighters (attack 5s, take cover 6s, parry 8s, rush 10s) — so it's about reading your opponent, not typing speed. Macros win nothing here.

Your HP pool, attack and defence come from your crew stats and equipped gear — duels never injure your real character. Cash only. First to drop wins; if the 3-minute bell rings, it goes to points (highest remaining HP%). Dead-even = a draw, everyone refunded.

During the 45s window anyone (except the fighters) can bet 5–5,000c, one bet each. It's a parimutuel pool: winners get their stake back plus a share of the losers' pool, split pro-rata by bet size. The house skims 5% of the losing pool for the pub fund. Back the winner alone and you take the whole losing pool.

When you join a run you're assigned a random job from 65 possible roles. Your job gives you a narrative title and may adjust your base stats for that round — it rerolls every run, so you can't lock a specific one.

Every runner can pick one of six classes with !class <id> or the dropdown in the web app. First pick is always free. Changing later costs 300c and has a 10-minute cooldown.

Classes give flavour-level modifiers — none is mandatory for anything, but each feeds a distinct playstyle. Type !class with no argument to list them all in chat.