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Giant Tank About Bursts
As Head Marine Specialist at Ocean World, you've just discovered hairline fractures spreading across the 2-million-gallon shark tank during peak weekend hours. With 400+ visitors in the viewing gallery and critical pressure readings climbing, you have 15 minutes before catastrophic failure. Your supervisor is actively undermining your authority.
Your Role
Head Marine Specialist (Dr. Sarah Hayes)
Partner
Operations Director Marcus Chen
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Money Trail Dead End
As Senior Internal Auditor at Meridian Capital, you've uncovered your CFO's complex embezzlement scheme totaling $47M through offshore accounts. But they're three steps ahead - they've doctored email threads and meeting minutes that implicate you as the mastermind. Join their scheme or face federal charges.
Your Role
Senior Internal Auditor
Partner
Marcus Chen, Chief Financial Officer
Challenged
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Therapist Network Nightmare
Your insurance company has abruptly changed networks, forcing you to abandon your trusted therapist of three years. With only two weeks of medication left and worsening anxiety symptoms, you must navigate a labyrinth of bureaucracy to either maintain continuity of care or find a new in-network provider. Time and emotional resources are running out.
Your Role
Long-term therapy patient with anxiety disorder
Partner
Ms. Thorne, Insurance Network Operations Manager
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Hide or Run
You're trapped under your desk at MetroTech Solutions during an active shooter situation. Your phone is at 12% battery, and you're the only one who knows where the second shooter is positioned. You must coordinate with 4 colleagues via silent text messages to help them escape, while ensuring your own survival.
Your Role
IT Support Manager
Partner
Detective Sarah Chen
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Negotiate or Lose Everything
After six months of interviews, you've landed your dream role at Vertex Technologies. But in the final hour, HR Director Marcus Chen reveals the offered salary is 40% below market rate. You have exactly one meeting to negotiate a fair deal, or you'll be blacklisted across the industry. Your rent is due next week, and your current job ends tomorrow.
Your Role
Mid-senior Software Architect desperate for this position
Partner
Marcus Chen, Senior HR Director
Challenged
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Wrong Embryo Transfer
As Chief Medical Officer of Evergreen Fertility Center, you've just discovered a catastrophic mix-up: embryos from two families were swapped during IVF procedures last month. One pregnancy is already 6 weeks along. You have 30 minutes before an anonymous whistleblower leaks this to the press.
Your Role
Dr. James Morrison, Chief Medical Officer
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen, Legal Counsel
Challenged
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Deep Water Disaster
An explosion has crippled the Horizon Delta platform, leaving you in charge of 47 surviving crew members. With the rig listing at 12 degrees and multiple fires threatening the methane storage tanks, you must coordinate emergency evacuations while preventing a catastrophic environmental disaster. Your decisions in the next 30 minutes will determine not only the fate of your crew but potentially that of the entire Gulf Coast ecosystem.
Your Role
Platform Operations Supervisor
Partner
Coast Guard Commander Hayes
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Witness or Whistle-blower
During the annual holiday party at Vertex Solutions, you witness Mark Chen, the charismatic VP of Sales, cornering Sarah, a 22-year-old intern, in the dimly lit copy room. His behavior is clearly inappropriate and predatory, but Mark controls project assignments and promotions. Your career, Sarah's safety, and the company's reputation hang in the balance of your next move.
Your Role
Mid-level Project Manager
Partner
Katherine Mills, HR Director
Challenged
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Exchange Program Ultimatum
As the newly appointed International Student Coordinator, you've discovered alarming discrepancies in enrollment numbers. Dr. Victoria Chen, your superior, has given you an impossible choice: help fabricate documentation for phantom students or watch your career-defining certification get permanently revoked. Time is running out as the accreditation board's audit looms.
Your Role
International Student Program Coordinator (6 months into role)
Partner
Dr. Victoria Chen (Dean of International Affairs)
Challenged
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Ward 7 Power Failure
You're working the night shift at Blackwood Psychiatric Hospital when a catastrophic power failure plunges Ward 7 into darkness. With six high-risk patients unsecured and backup systems failing, you must maintain control while dealing with Dr. Reeves, the demanding head psychiatrist, who's trapped off-site but monitoring the situation via emergency phone.
Your Role
Night Shift Nurse (Level 2 Security Clearance)
Partner
Dr. Marcus Reeves, Head of Psychiatric Services
Challenged
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Deadline Do-or-Die
Your team's critical year-end project for Nexus Solutions is corrupted hours before the CEO presentation. The backup drive is missing, your team has scattered in panic, and VP of Operations Marcus Sterling is demanding answers. With millions in contracts at stake, you must navigate office politics, technical challenges, and team dynamics to salvage what remains of the project.
Your Role
Senior Project Manager, Digital Innovation Division
Partner
Marcus Sterling, VP of Operations
Challenged
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Likes, Lies, and Lives
As the personal assistant to wellness megastar @SoulfulSunshine (4.2M followers), you've discovered her signature supplement line contains unlisted synthetic stimulants linked to cardiac arrests. With mounting pressure to maintain silence and evidence of two hospitalizations already covered up, you must navigate a web of legal threats, moral obligations, and financial survival.
Your Role
Personal Assistant & Social Media Manager (6 months in role)
Partner
Maya Sterling (CEO of Sterling Wellness Empire)
Challenged
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