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Lost in Translation
You're a junior executive trying to impress potential Korean clients over dinner at an exclusive Seoul restaurant. After confidently waving away the English menu, you've just ordered what turns out to be an ultra-premium ₩850,000 ($650) per person specialty course. Your expense limit is $200 total, and your career hangs in the balance.
Your Role
Junior International Sales Executive
Partner
Mr. Park, Senior Account Director
Challenged
Survived
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Dental Tool Emergency
During a routine dental cleaning, your patient suddenly swallows a broken scaling tool. As the attending dentist, you must manage this critical situation while preventing panic, maintaining professional composure, and navigating potential liability issues. Time is of the essence as the sharp metal instrument could cause internal damage.
Your Role
General Dentist (2nd year of practice)
Partner
Dr. Victoria Shaw - Senior Medical Director
Challenged
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Kitchen's Dirty Secret
As Executive Chef at La Maison D'Or, you've built a stellar reputation over 15 years. Tonight, you discover evidence that your Restaurant Manager has been serving expired luxury ingredients to cut costs. With health inspectors due tomorrow and reservations fully booked, you must navigate between exposing the truth or becoming complicit in a scheme that could destroy lives—and your career.
Your Role
Executive Chef with 15 years tenure
Partner
Marcus Sterling - Restaurant Owner & Hospitality Mogul
Challenged
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Stolen Pipes Scandal
Security footage places you at Oakwood Apartments on the night $12,000 worth of copper piping vanished from the building's maintenance room. As a maintenance worker with after-hours access, you're the prime suspect. The aggressive property manager is convinced of your guilt, but you know you're innocent.
Your Role
Night Shift Maintenance Technician
Partner
Marcus Chen, Senior Property Manager
Challenged
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High-Risk Patient Escape
As the night shift psychiatric nurse coordinator, you've just discovered that Marcus Chen, a patient with a history of violence and paranoid delusions, has escaped. Police are en route, but you must carefully navigate HIPAA regulations while providing crucial information. Time is running out, and the patient's last known location was near a populated area.
Your Role
Night Shift Psychiatric Nurse Coordinator
Partner
Detective Sarah Reeves
Challenged
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Star-Crossed Kitchen Crisis
You're the head chef of Le Crépuscule, minutes away from your first Michelin inspection. Your sous chef just discovered that someone deliberately tainted your signature dishes with excessive salt and rancid ingredients. With 18 minutes until the inspector arrives, you must identify the saboteur, salvage what you can, and save your restaurant's reputation.
Your Role
Executive Chef de Cuisine
Partner
Marcel Laurent, Restaurant Owner & Financial Stakeholder
Challenged
Survived
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Ketamine Clinic Safety Breach
As lead therapist at Mindscape Therapeutics, your evening ketamine therapy session spirals into chaos when patient Marcus Chen experiences a severe dissociative episode, threatening both himself and others. With five other patients mid-session and limited security personnel, you must prevent a chain reaction of panic while managing legal liability and strict medical protocols.
Your Role
Lead Therapist - Evening Shift Supervisor
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen (Clinic Director)
Challenged
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Prescription System Breach
As a respected physician, you discover hundreds of fraudulent opioid prescriptions have been issued under your DEA number over the past month. The DEA investigator across from you seems convinced of your involvement. With your medical license and freedom at stake, you must prove your innocence while uncovering who compromised the system.
Your Role
Dr. Sarah Chen, Emergency Medicine Physician
Partner
Special Agent Marcus Rivera
Challenged
Survived
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Toxic Table Nine
It's a busy Friday night at your upscale seafood restaurant when multiple diners from Table 9 collapse with severe food poisoning symptoms. As Executive Chef, you must manage the immediate crisis, protect other diners, and handle the arriving health inspector while your reputation hangs by a thread. The source of contamination remains unknown, and time is running out.
Your Role
Executive Chef of 'The Pearl' restaurant
Partner
Health Inspector Diane Marshall
Challenged
Survived
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Group Therapy Gone Wrong
During a late-night group therapy session, Marcus, an unstable participant, reveals detailed plans to harm Sarah, another group member, after the session ends in 30 minutes. As the therapist, you must navigate patient confidentiality laws while preventing imminent violence, knowing that any misstep could result in tragedy or legal consequences.
Your Role
Group Therapist (Dr. Sarah Chen)
Partner
Dr. Marcus Blackwood
Challenged
Survived
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Fatal Lab Mix-Up
As the Medical Director of St. Mary's Hospital, you must inform two cancer patients and their oncologists that their biopsy samples were switched six months ago, resulting in incorrect treatments. One patient received unnecessarily aggressive chemotherapy, while the other's cancer was undertreated. Both legal counsel and the hospital board are breathing down your neck.
Your Role
Medical Director of St. Mary's Hospital
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen, Chief Legal Counsel
Challenged
Survived
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Underground Surgery Proposal
Your colleague Dr. Sarah Chen needs your help with an emergency gallbladder removal for an undocumented patient who can't access traditional healthcare. The procedure would be performed tonight in a converted basement clinic, using questionably sourced equipment. Your medical license and freedom hang in the balance.
Your Role
Senior Resident Surgeon
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen - Trauma Surgeon
Challenged
Survived
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