The Chokepoint Monopoly

Rivo Zann is freezing, starving, and one missed debt payment away from being processed into biological fertilizer by the Gresca city syndicates. At absolute rock bottom, he awakens the [Chokepoint System], which issues dangerous, hyper-specific missions with seemingly pathetic rewards: the deed to a rusted fire escape, the air rights to a three-foot alley, or the zoning permit for a single sewer grate. But when the city's most ruthless mega-corp attempts to lay a billion-dollar energy grid, they discover their entire route is legally blocked by Rivo's three-foot alley. Suddenly, Rivo isn't just surviving; he's installing toll booths on the ambitions of the ultra-rich. With every mission, Rivo braves violent gangs and corporate hitmen to secure his bizarre portfolio, and the rewards visibly transform his life from a hunted beggar into an urban warlord armed with municipal codes. But as he begins strangling the syndicates' supply lines, the elites decide that assassination is cheaper than paying rent. Can Rivo monopolize the city's infrastructure before the syndicates bulldoze him into the concrete?