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Stadium Concert Countdown
Your equipment truck has overturned on I-95, just 4 hours before a sold-out stadium show for 60,000 fans. As Production Manager, you must secure replacement gear and coordinate with the ruthless Tour Director who's threatening to end your career. Time is burning, millions are at stake, and your phone won't stop ringing.
Your Role
Lead Production Manager
Partner
Victoria Stone, Global Tour Director
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Playground Safety Standoff
As the building's maintenance supervisor, you reported dangerous playground equipment months ago through proper channels. Now, a 6-year-old has suffered a severe arm fracture, and the property management company's legal team is trying to shift blame. You have 15 minutes before they initiate formal proceedings against you.
Your Role
Building Maintenance Supervisor
Partner
Ms. Victoria Sharp, Corporate Legal Counsel
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Hostile Department Takeover
Your prestigious Linguistics & AI Research Department faces an aggressive merger from the Data Science Division. Dr. Victoria Sterling, your longtime academic rival, has orchestrated a forced consolidation that threatens to dissolve your specialized program and scatter your graduate students. You have one meeting to defend your department's autonomy before the Board of Directors makes their final decision.
Your Role
Department Chair of Linguistics & AI Research
Partner
Dr. Victoria Sterling, Head of Data Science Division
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Arctic Station Evacuation
A catastrophic storm system threatens to destroy Outpost-7, your Arctic research facility. With communications down and only one partially damaged helicopter available, you must convince the stubborn Station Chief to authorize an immediate evacuation. Time and fuel are critically low, and not everyone will make it out.
Your Role
Deputy Station Manager & Safety Officer
Partner
Chief Alexandra Volkov
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Safe House Tonight
You're working late at Haven House shelter when a high-risk client needs immediate extraction with her children. The abusive ex-husband is watching the building's main entrance from his parked car. You must coordinate a covert exit strategy using your network of safe houses, but one wrong move could compromise everyone's safety.
Your Role
Night Shift Coordinator at Haven House
Partner
Marcus Webb - Property Manager
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Scientific Saboteur Standoff
Your groundbreaking pharmaceutical research is being systematically sabotaged, with contaminated samples and corrupted data appearing weekly. All evidence points to Dr. Sarah Chen, your research partner of three years and closest colleague. With a critical FDA review approaching, you must confront her in a high-stakes meeting that could destroy both your careers.
Your Role
Lead Research Director at Helix Pharmaceuticals
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen - Senior Research Scientist
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Wildlife Smuggling Suspicion
You're transporting rare but legally acquired exotic reptiles across borders with valid CITES permits and documentation. At a remote border crossing, an aggressively suspicious customs officer begins an intense inspection, convinced you're part of a smuggling ring. Your animals' lives depend on maintaining composure while protecting your rights.
Your Role
Licensed Exotic Animal Transporter
Partner
Senior Customs Officer Chen Wei
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Code of Discrimination
As a data journalist, you've discovered patterns of racial discrimination in CityHouse AI, an automated tenant screening system used by 70% of local landlords. With evidence of deliberate bias in the code, you confront the system's architect in a tense meeting. Time is running out as more applications are being processed, and the company is already moving to patch the system and destroy evidence.
Your Role
Independent Data Journalist
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen, Chief Algorithm Architect
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Smart Drug Shutdown
A wave of cognitive enhancement drug use has thrown an elite university into crisis. As the Dean of Academic Affairs, you've discovered that up to 40% of students may have used 'smart drugs' during finals. With graduation approaching and the university's reputation at stake, you have 12 hours to decide how to handle thousands of potentially compromised exam results.
Your Role
Dean of Academic Affairs
Partner
Dr. Victoria Sterling - Board of Trustees Chairwoman
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Quarantined Cruise Crisis
As Cruise Director of the Paradise Dream, you face an escalating nightmare: a highly infectious respiratory illness has spread through your vessel, affecting 15% of the 3,000 passengers. Multiple ports have denied entry, medical supplies are depleting rapidly, and you're caught between increasingly hostile passengers and maritime authorities demanding impossible protocols.
Your Role
Chief Cruise Director of Paradise Dream
Partner
Maritime Control Authority Commander Chen
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Shelter Capacity Crisis
With temperatures plummeting to -15°F and 150 people seeking refuge, you must manage your shelter's remaining 8 beds. Outside, protesters demand transparency about your selection criteria, while inside, tensions rise between current residents and newcomers. Every minute of indecision puts lives at risk.
Your Role
Emergency Shelter Coordinator (Night Shift)
Partner
Deputy Director Winters
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48 Hours to Stay
Your F-1 student visa status has been flagged for immediate review due to a processing error at the International Student Office. With deportation looming in 48 hours, you must navigate a maze of contradictory bureaucratic requirements while facing an unsympathetic immigration officer who seems more interested in meeting removal quotas than helping students.
Your Role
International Graduate Student (Computer Science)
Partner
Senior Immigration Officer Marcus Thorne
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