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Triage Under Fire
Multiple GSW victims from a downtown shooting are flooding your understaffed ER. As the only attending trauma surgeon on a chaotic night shift, you must make rapid triage decisions that will determine who lives and dies. The hospital administrator is breathing down your neck about liability while critical patients continue arriving.
Your Role
Dr. Sarah Chen - Night Shift Trauma Surgeon
Partner
Dr. Victoria Pierce - Chief of Emergency Medicine
Challenged
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Viral Post Meltdown
After a frustrating client meeting, you vented on social media about their impossible demands. The post has gone viral, reaching 50k shares overnight. Tomorrow morning, you're scheduled to close a $4.5M deal with their parent company. Your CEO is calling an emergency damage control meeting.
Your Role
Senior Account Director
Partner
Katherine Blackwood, Chief Executive Officer
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Greek Life Gambit
As faculty advisor to Kappa Theta Nu, you've uncovered disturbing evidence of dangerous hazing rituals that sent two pledges to the hospital. The problem? Chapter President Ashley Blackwood is Dean Blackwood's only daughter, and the dean controls your pending tenure review. Time is running out to address the situation before initiation night.
Your Role
Associate Professor of Sociology & Faculty Advisor to KΘN
Partner
Dean Victoria Blackwood
Challenged
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Jump into Hell
As lead smoke jumper, you're parachuting into Montana's Bitterroot Valley where an explosive crown fire threatens to engulf the mountain town of Pine Haven (pop. 2,400). Your 6-person team has 45 minutes to establish fire lines and coordinate evacuations before the wind shift creates an inescapable death trap. The local Fire Chief is uncooperative, convinced his ground team can handle it alone.
Your Role
Smoke Jumper Captain
Partner
Fire Chief Marcus Reeves
Challenged
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Benefits or Bust
Your routine SNAP benefits review has turned into a hostile investigation. Mrs. Blackwood, your case worker of 6 years, confronts you about suspicious deposits totaling $840 last month - money you earned helping your cousin's off-the-books catering business. Admitting this could terminate your benefits, but lying to a federal agent is worse.
Your Role
Single parent receiving SNAP benefits
Partner
Mrs. Regina Blackwood
Challenged
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Shot Through the Heart
You're facing a hostile three-person HR panel demanding justification for your religious exemption from mandatory workplace vaccination. Your job hangs by a thread as corporate policy tightens. With mounting pressure and skeptical faces across the table, you must articulate your deeply personal beliefs while maintaining professionalism.
Your Role
Senior Software Developer seeking religious exemption
Partner
Director of Human Resources, Margaret Thorne
Challenged
Survived
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Toxic Sewage Breach
Flash floods have overwhelmed the city's main wastewater treatment facility, creating an imminent biohazard crisis. Raw sewage is backing up into storm drains and threatening to contaminate the municipal water supply. As the night shift supervisor, you have 30 minutes to prevent catastrophic system failure or 500,000 residents will lose access to clean water.
Your Role
Night Shift Plant Supervisor
Partner
Emergency Operations Director Marcus Chen
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Desperate for Relief
Your chronic pain medication prescription is valid, but you're shaking, sweating, and clearly in withdrawal. The new pharmacist eyes you with open suspicion, questioning every detail. You must maintain composure and advocate for yourself while fighting through brain fog and anxiety to prove you're a legitimate patient.
Your Role
Sarah Martinez, chronic pain patient with valid prescription
Partner
Dr. Marcus Chen, PharmD
Challenged
Survived
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Missing Package Mystery
Your $1000 limited-edition collector's item has vanished in transit, and customer service is a labyrinth of contradictions. Three different representatives from MegaShip Express keep passing blame between departments, while your credit card payment deadline looms. Time is running out to locate your package before the dispute window closes.
Your Role
Frustrated customer who ordered a rare collector's item
Partner
Sandra Chen, Senior Customer Resolution Specialist
Challenged
Survived
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Board Meeting Breakdown
Your mentor, the Head of Technical Operations, has fallen ill minutes before a crucial quarterly board presentation. With no time to prepare and gaps in your technical knowledge, you must navigate aggressive questioning from board members who expect detailed insights into system architecture and performance metrics. Your career trajectory hangs in the balance.
Your Role
Junior Technical Operations Manager
Partner
Marcus Sterling, Board Chairman
Challenged
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Lost in Translation
Your PhD defense was going smoothly until your translator, Dr. Wei Chen, suddenly switches to an archaic academic dialect you've never encountered. With your career hanging by a thread, you must find ways to communicate your groundbreaking research on quantum computing to three increasingly irritated committee members. Time is running out, and your translator seems to be deliberately sabotaging your responses.
Your Role
PhD Candidate in Quantum Computing
Partner
Dr. Wei Chen - Senior Translation Officer
Challenged
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Botched Dental Drama
After a $12,000 dental implant procedure leaves you with chronic pain and nerve damage, the prestigious clinic is stonewalling your complaints. Dr. Marcus Chen, your once-charming dentist, now coldly refers to page 8 of your consent forms. You have 48 hours before the statute of limitations expires on filing a formal complaint.
Your Role
Distressed patient with severe complications from dental implants
Partner
Dr. Marcus Chen, DDS - Chief Implant Specialist
Challenged
Survived
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