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Fermentation Chamber Chaos
Your $75,000 batch of premium koji and miso is at risk as the TempMaster Pro chamber crashes during a critical 72-hour fermentation cycle. With retail orders due in days and the manufacturer's support line going straight to voicemail, you're facing potential bankruptcy. The regional sales manager who sold you this 'reliable' equipment is suddenly very interested in having a meeting.
Your Role
Owner of Umami Craft Ferments
Partner
Marcus Chen, TempMaster Regional Sales Director
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Digital 'I Don't'
Your dream virtual wedding is turning into a digital nightmare. An anonymous guest has started revealing your most intimate secrets in the chat, turning your 200+ virtual attendees against you one by one. With only 30 minutes until the ceremony, you must identify the saboteur and contain the damage before your relationship implodes.
Your Role
The Anxious Bride/Groom
Partner
The Vengeful Ex-Best Friend
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Last Call at Midnight
Your closest friend Alex calls you at midnight, their voice trembling and distant. Through broken sentences, they reveal they've taken pills and are contemplating ending it all. You have roughly 15 minutes to keep them engaged, find their location, and get them help - while managing their increasing emotional instability.
Your Role
Best Friend & Last Hope
Partner
Alex Chen (Childhood Friend)
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Underground Love Crisis
After a magical connection at last night's party, you spot your potential soulmate across the crowded subway car. As they move to exit at the next station, your jacket sleeve gets hopelessly caught in the closing doors. With only 90 seconds until their stop, you must convince the hostile Transit Officer to help free you before your chance at love disappears forever.
Your Role
Desperate Romantic Passenger
Partner
Transit Officer Reeves
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Sleep Lab Love
You've signed up for a 30-day sleep study offering $8,000 compensation. But after discovering shared dreams with Subject 23B, you realize the researchers are manipulating your emotional connection for a classified military experiment in dream-based intelligence gathering. Every night draws you closer to your dream companion, while every day brings more ethical compromises.
Your Role
Subject 17A - Sleep Study Participant
Partner
Dr. Elena Rossi - Lead Research Coordinator
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Ghosted By Project Partner
After a month of radio silence following your brief romantic involvement, Sarah Chen - your department's rising star - must work with you on the Morgan account pitch. With 18 hours until the career-defining presentation and tension thick enough to cut with a knife, you need to navigate both professional obligations and unresolved personal drama. The entire department's Q4 outlook hangs in the balance.
Your Role
Junior Account Manager
Partner
Sarah Chen, Senior Account Strategist
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AI Discrimination Dilemma
As Head of AI Ethics at TechCorp, you've discovered a devastating flaw in your hiring algorithm that's been discriminating against minorities and women for years. Your CEO demands a meeting in 15 minutes. Fixing the bias would mean admitting to years of systematic discrimination, potentially bankrupting the company. But covering it up could destroy thousands of lives.
Your Role
Head of AI Ethics & Compliance
Partner
Marcus Sterling, CEO of TechCorp
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Choose Your Side
Your best friends Sarah and Michael's friendship has imploded over a business venture gone wrong. At Sarah's 30th birthday party, surrounded by 40 mutual friends, Michael unexpectedly shows up. The room grows tense as both parties begin pressuring you to publicly declare your loyalty. Your choice will permanently fracture the friend group.
Your Role
Long-time mutual friend and business confidant to both Sarah and Michael
Partner
Sarah Chen (The Birthday Girl)
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Will Reading Showdown
Your grandmother's sudden passing has brought the family together for her will reading. As the executor reveals shocking stipulations that favor your estranged cousin, you have mere minutes to decide whether to contest. Your decision will permanently alter family dynamics and financial futures.
Your Role
Youngest grandchild and family mediator
Partner
Attorney Marcus Blackwood
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Dating After Death
Your girlfriend Sarah wants to change her relationship status and post couple photos on Instagram, exactly one year after your wife's passing. Your teenage daughter is still processing her grief, and your in-laws follow your social media closely. You have 10 minutes before Sarah posts.
Your Role
James Miller, 42, Widowed father of a 15-year-old daughter
Partner
Sarah Chen (Ambitious Tech Executive Girlfriend)
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Committee Coup at Dawn
Your PhD defense is in 48 hours, but your committee has revealed their true agenda. Three senior professors want dirt on your advisor's controversial research methods, threatening to tank your defense unless you comply. Your academic future hangs on navigating this ethical minefield while the tenure politics play out.
Your Role
Final-year PhD candidate in Quantum Computing
Partner
Dr. Eleanor Blackwood
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Fame's Hidden Romance
Your secret affair with A-list actor James Morrison is about to hit the tabloids. Celebrity photographer Marco Reeves has compromising photos from your private weekend in Malibu, and he's giving you 60 minutes to pay up. With Morrison's upcoming blockbuster premiere and his marriage hanging in the balance, the clock is ticking.
Your Role
Rising Music Producer
Partner
Marco Reeves, Veteran Paparazzo
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