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Beauty Clinic Betrayal
After a botched dermal filler procedure leaves you with severe asymmetry and nerve damage, Luminous Beauty Clinic's legal team is pressuring you to sign an NDA. With mounting medical bills and your career in jeopardy, you must navigate their intimidation tactics while gathering evidence for a malpractice suit.
Your Role
Distressed patient with visible facial complications
Partner
Ms. Victoria Sterling
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Publication Gone Wrong
Your career-defining research paper on neural plasticity is facing immediate public retraction from Nature Neuroscience. The journal's Chief Editor has given you 24 hours to defend against serious methodological flaws identified by peer reviewers. With your reputation and research funding at stake, you must navigate this academic crisis before the morning deadline.
Your Role
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University
Partner
Dr. Helena Blackwood
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Fire Half Your Team
As Regional Director, you have 4 hours to terminate 50% of your high-performing team due to sudden budget cuts. Your CFO demands the cuts by EOD, but your choices will impact real lives, company culture, and your own conscience. Each team member has unique circumstances that make this decision excruciating.
Your Role
Regional Director of Operations
Partner
Marcus Sterling, Chief Financial Officer
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Compromise or Condemn
You're a senior analyst at Vertex Capital, on track for VP. Your boss, Marcus Sterling, has called you to his office after hours with 'evidence' of alleged trading violations. He's suggesting your upcoming promotion could depend on more than just merit, while holding your career hostage with documents that could destroy your reputation – true or not.
Your Role
Senior Financial Analyst (user chooses gender)
Partner
Marcus Sterling, Managing Director
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Client Crisis Countdown
During your make-or-break presentation to MegaCorp's executive board, CEO Sarah Chen catches a significant discrepancy in your quarterly projections. With $50M in contracts hanging by a thread and 14 minutes left in your slot, you must navigate through this crisis while maintaining composure. Your entire team's jobs - and your career - depend on how you handle the next few moments.
Your Role
Senior Account Director at DigiTech Solutions
Partner
Sarah Chen, MegaCorp CEO
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Embargo Break Emergency
Your research assistant's social media blunder has exposed confidential quantum computing breakthroughs during QuantumTech's annual conference. With stock prices plummeting and legal teams mobilizing, you have 30 minutes to contain this PR nightmare before the board meeting. The leaked findings could revolutionize the industry – or destroy your career.
Your Role
Chief Research Officer at Nexus Quantum Labs
Partner
Dr. Victoria Sterling, Board Chairwoman
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Elevator Service Trapped
You're stuck between the 23rd and 24th floors of your office building at 7:45 PM. The emergency service dispatcher from Apex Elevator Solutions demands proof of the building's maintenance contract before dispatching help. With your phone at 12% battery and the temperature rising, you must navigate corporate bureaucracy while managing growing claustrophobia.
Your Role
Junior Account Executive at Sterling & Hughes Financial
Partner
Marcus Chen, Apex Emergency Services Dispatcher
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Replace or Be Replaced
As Director of Operations at Meridian Tech, you've received an ultimatum from the board: secretly implement AI to replace your department's workforce while maintaining team morale, or lose everything you've built. You have 15 minutes to convince the AI Ethics Officer that your automated transition plan is both humane and necessary, without revealing its true scope.
Your Role
Marcus Rivera, Director of Operations
Partner
Dr. Sarah Chen, AI Ethics Compliance Officer
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Tenure Vote Scandal
Hours before your crucial tenure vote, devastating personal criticisms from confidential committee discussions have leaked to the entire faculty. As accusations fly and alliances crumble, you must navigate a minefield of academic politics to salvage your career. Your Department Chair demands an immediate meeting to address the situation.
Your Role
Assistant Professor seeking tenure
Partner
Dr. Victoria Sterling, Department Chair
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Pension Plan Panic
As Senior Accountant at Meridian Holdings, you've uncovered disturbing evidence that the company's $2.8B pension fund is an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Your mentor and friend, the CFO, is behind it. Exposing the truth means destroying thousands of retirees' lives, but staying silent makes you complicit in fraud.
Your Role
Sarah Reynolds, Senior Accountant
Partner
Marcus Chen, Chief Financial Officer
Challenged
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Digital Double Disaster
Your state-of-the-art AI hologram clone, meant to deliver a flawless pitch to Quantum Ventures' board, has catastrophically malfunctioned. Instead of presenting your carefully crafted slides, it's now broadcasting your unfiltered thoughts in real-time to twelve of Silicon Valley's most powerful investors. With $50M in funding at stake, you have mere minutes to regain control before your inner monologue destroys your career.
Your Role
CTO of Neural Mirror, a struggling AI startup
Partner
Regina Blackwood, Lead Investor
Challenged
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Office Romance Fallout
Anonymous photos of you and Sarah from Accounting have surfaced, showing intimate moments at last month's corporate retreat. Your CEO has called an emergency meeting - the same day major restructuring announcements are due. Your career, reputation, and relationship hang by a thread.
Your Role
Senior Project Manager, Digital Innovation Division
Partner
Katherine Chen, Chief HR Officer
Challenged
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