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Missing Mail Mystery
Your neighbor, a meticulous retired prosecutor, presents damning security footage showing someone identical to you stealing packages from the building's mailroom. With a reputation for pursuing legal action and a history of successful convictions, she threatens to involve law enforcement unless you can explain yourself. The timestamps coincide with your work-from-home schedule.
Your Role
A work-from-home professional living in the Parkview Apartments
Partner
Mrs. Eleanor Blackwood
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Surrogate's Second Thoughts
As a professional surrogate in your eighth month, you've maintained strict boundaries until now. But when James Mitchell, the intended father, reveals his partner left him and breaks down in your presence, the lines blur dangerously. With only weeks until delivery, you must navigate complex feelings while honoring your legal and ethical obligations.
Your Role
Sarah Chen - Professional Surrogate (8 months pregnant)
Partner
Dr. Victoria Shaw - Ethics Board Director
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Race Car Transit Crisis
Your $4.8M Formula 1 car is stuck at Frankfurt customs with qualifying rounds starting in 6 hours at Silverstone. Major sponsors are threatening to pull out, and your team principal is unreachable. Every minute costs thousands in potential losses and your career hangs by a thread.
Your Role
F1 Team Logistics Director
Partner
Klaus Weber - Senior Customs Operations Manager
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Shopping at Duty Free
Purchase items at airport duty-free shop
Your Role
Traveler
Partner
Duty Free Sales Assistant
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Mars Rover Delivery
You're the lead security officer responsible for transporting NASA's $3.2B Perseverance-X rover from JPL in Pasadena to Cape Canaveral. Foreign agents have infiltrated your transport team, and severe weather patterns threaten your 2,800-mile journey. One wrong decision could destroy humanity's next leap into space exploration.
Your Role
Chief Transport Security Officer
Partner
Director Sarah Chen, NASA Security Operations
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Hurricane Supply Run
As Regional Emergency Coordinator, you must navigate three critical supply trucks through flooded streets of New Orleans' 9th Ward. Local gangs and desperate residents are coordinating to ambush relief convoys, and your drivers are reporting hostile crowds forming. Time is running out as water levels rise and supplies dwindle at the emergency shelter.
Your Role
Regional Emergency Coordinator
Partner
Captain Sarah Martinez - Emergency Operations Command
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Quantum Lab Lockout
Your $40M quantum computing lab faces catastrophe hours before a critical DoD demonstration. Security footage is wiped, the quantum stabilization matrix is corrupted, and all evidence points to Dr. Sarah Chen - your most brilliant student. With the Pentagon arriving at 0900 hours, you have exactly 3 hours to uncover the truth and salvage both the project and your reputation.
Your Role
Dr. James Morrison, Lead Quantum Research Director
Partner
Colonel Marcus Hayes, Pentagon Quantum Computing Oversight
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Patient Zero Transfer
You're the Emergency Response Coordinator tasked with orchestrating the covert transfer of the first confirmed case of a deadly novel pathogen. Time is critical - the patient is deteriorating, social media rumors are spreading, and multiple agencies are demanding jurisdiction. You must maintain operational security while navigating a web of competing interests.
Your Role
CDC Special Operations Coordinator
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen, WHO Regional Emergency Director
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Wrong Patient Medication
As the attending nurse on a chaotic night shift, you've discovered a catastrophic mix-up: Patient Sarah Chen in Room 204 received an epidural meant for Rebecca Martinez in Room 206. With both patients now at risk and legal implications mounting, you have minutes to manage this crisis before it escalates into potential malpractice.
Your Role
Night Shift Charge Nurse
Partner
Dr. Victoria Blackwood, Chief of Obstetrics
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Mental Health Ultimatum
After three panic attacks at work, your doctor strongly urges immediate stress leave. But your supervisor at Maxwell & Reed Investment Banking has made it clear: those who take extended leave don't make partner. With the biggest promotion window in five years approaching, you must navigate this career-defining conversation without revealing your full vulnerability.
Your Role
Senior Investment Associate, 7 years at the firm
Partner
Catherine Blackwood, Managing Director
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Broken Organ Transport Chain
A time-critical heart transport operation has hit a devastating snag when your regular courier service experiences a system-wide shutdown. With only 4 hours of viability remaining for the donor heart, you must navigate through a maze of regulations, competing services, and questionable offers to ensure delivery. Your decisions will directly impact whether a 12-year-old recipient lives or dies.
Your Role
Emergency Logistics Coordinator at Regional Organ Procurement Organization
Partner
Dr. Helena Reeves - Transport Chain Director
Challenged
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Witness Transfer Compromise
Your witness transport route has been compromised, forcing an emergency protocol activation. As the lead protection officer, you must safely relocate your high-value witness while navigating potential surveillance and maintaining strict operational security. Time is critical, and there's strong evidence of an internal leak.
Your Role
Lead Witness Protection Officer
Partner
Captain Sarah Morrison - Internal Affairs
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