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Wedding Suit Standoff
With only 3 hours until your wedding ceremony, the rental company's delivery reveals a moldy, damaged tuxedo. The aggressive store manager accuses you of causing $2,800 in damages during the fitting last week. Your entire wedding party is waiting, and your phone is blowing up with messages.
Your Role
Anxious Groom-to-be
Partner
Vincent Blackwood - Elite Formalwear Regional Manager
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Intern's Deadly Mistake
Your promising intern just accidentally sent confidential merger documents to your biggest competitor, potentially exposing $2.8B in proprietary strategy. As VP of Operations, you have 20 minutes before the board meeting to decide: take the career-ending fall yourself, or expose your intern's fatal error. The decision will haunt someone forever.
Your Role
Sarah Martinez, VP of Operations
Partner
Marcus Chen, Board Chairman
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Ordering Food and Drinks
Order from a restaurant menu
Your Role
Customer
Partner
Waiter
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Sprinkler System Showdown
You're the head chef at an upscale restaurant during peak Saturday service. The kitchen's getting smoky, and you've just discovered someone deliberately disabled the sprinkler system. With 200+ diners in the building and a possible fire starting, every second counts.
Your Role
Executive Chef
Partner
Marcus Chen, Restaurant Owner
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Toxic Kimchi Warning
As head fermentologist at Seoul Flavor Labs, you've just received alarming bacterial test results from your flagship kimchi line. With major investors arriving in minutes for a crucial tasting session that could secure your Series B funding, you must navigate a moral minefield. Your mentor and CEO, Dr. Park, is pressuring you to stay quiet about the results.
Your Role
Senior Fermentologist & Product Safety Lead
Partner
Dr. Jin-Soo Park, CEO & Lead Investor
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Century-Old Starter Crisis
Your family's historic artisanal bakery faces ruin when someone poisons your century-old sourdough starter hours before Michelin-starred critic Anton Dumont arrives. With only 90 minutes until his arrival and your sister unreachable in Tibet, you must identify the saboteur and salvage the starter that's been in your family since 1923.
Your Role
Junior Baker & Family Heir
Partner
Chef Marcus Sterling
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Celiac Crisis at Midnight
Your best friend Sarah is showing severe symptoms of gluten contamination at the trendy 'Pure & Simple' restaurant, where you're celebrating her promotion. The dismissive head server insists their kitchen is '100% gluten-free certified', but Sarah's violent reactions never lie. With a packed house watching and Sarah's condition deteriorating, you must navigate both medical urgency and institutional denial.
Your Role
Sarah's Best Friend and Medical Advocate
Partner
Marcus Chen, Head Server at Pure & Simple
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Desert Well Showdown
Your family ranch's ancient water rights are being challenged by TerraCore Mining during the worst drought in 50 years. With only 72 hours until the emergency water board hearing, you must prove your historical claim to the aquifer or lose everything. Your opponents have endless resources and a team of lawyers - you have a box of old documents and your grandfather's word.
Your Role
Third-generation rancher and water rights holder
Partner
Marcus Sterling, TerraCore Legal Affairs Director
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Virtual Reality Power Grab
As Director of Platform Security at MetaCore Industries, you've discovered encrypted communications revealing your development team is building a competing metaverse platform using company resources. With a major investor meeting in 48 hours, you must decide whether to report the betrayal or join their technically superior rebellion. Your career, friendships, and the future of virtual reality hang in the balance.
Your Role
Director of Platform Security
Partner
Katherine Chen, Chief Innovation Officer
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Double Agent Dilemma
Your career at TechVault Industries is stable but unremarkable. Late one night, a competitor's VP corners you in a parking garage with an enticing yet dangerous proposition: triple your salary to feed them inside information. The catch? One wrong move could destroy both your reputation and freedom.
Your Role
Mid-level Data Analytics Manager at TechVault Industries
Partner
Marcus Chen, VP of Strategic Acquisition at RivalTech
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Phone Store Shakedown
Your phone's screen is cracked, but the repair shop technician has found 'deeper issues.' They're holding your unlocked device hostage, threatening to wipe everything unless you agree to their marked-up service package. Your entire digital life - photos, messages, work documents - hangs in the balance.
Your Role
Desperate customer with an unlocked phone containing critical personal/work data
Partner
Marcus Chen, Senior Repair Technician
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Partner's Poison Play
Your co-founder and trusted partner of 8 years drops a bombshell during the most critical week of your startup's life. Hours before meeting Goldman Sachs, they reveal their plan to join your biggest competitor - with your tech playbook in hand. The IPO roadshow starts in 20 minutes, and $890M in potential funding hangs by a thread.
Your Role
CEO/Co-founder of TechVault Solutions
Partner
Marcus Chen, Lead Investment Partner at Goldman Sachs
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