The Courier standing beside the black fastback on Route 17

An endless survival-horror drive

TheNightRun

The car is sanctuary, target, and prison.

A sealed package in the trunk. Headlights returning in the mirror. The city lights stay ahead, but Mercy County will not hold still.

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StatusComing soon

FormatSingle player

SignalKRD-7 · 103.7 FM

The drive

Motion keeps you alive

The road turns every choice into a moving wager. Outside the car, every repair and every warm light asks how long you can afford to stay.

Keep the car moving

The black fastback is shelter and lifeline. Damage follows every hard contact, and every roadside repair leaves you exposed.

Choose when to stop

Pull over for a tire, a dark headlamp, a building with one light on, or evidence you may not see again. Staying costs time. Leaving costs answers.

Watch the dark

Some headlights keep returning. Outside the car, a steady beam can buy a few seconds, but only while you hold it there.

Keep the evidence

The manifest carries selected observations into the next run. A note from one drive can change what you notice on the next.

Route 17

The city stays ahead

Black Ridge holds steady. The mile markers do not. Drive by the radio, the road surface, and the warm lights that should mean someone is still awake.

Read the road

Known records

People on the road

The Courier has no name. Daniel Mercer disappeared from a route he knew by heart. The rest survives as headlights, statements, and gaps in the file.

The driver

The Courier

The job starts at Last Light: a sealed package in the trunk, an address in the city, and headlights that keep returning in the mirror.

Open profile

Missing road worker

Daniel Mercer

A Mercy County road worker who knew every marker, culvert, and old alignment. Then his measurements stopped agreeing with the road.

Open profile

The Mercy County line sign beside Route 17

The public record

Mercy County remembers

County notices, road records, missing-person files, station logs, and photographs have their own home. The paper trail starts in the Mercy County Archives.