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Banking on Time
As CEO of Heartland Community Bank, you have 45 minutes to defend against federal regulators threatening charter revocation. Evidence suggests systemic BSA/AML compliance failures under your watch. Your community's financial lifeline and your career hang by a thread.
Your Role
CEO of Heartland Community Bank
Partner
FDIC Senior Examiner Victoria Steele
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Visa Clock Countdown
Your H-1B work visa expires in 48 hours, and your sponsor company, TechGlobe Inc., has just announced a major restructuring. Your direct supervisor, who championed your visa renewal, has been let go. Time is running out as you navigate corporate bureaucracy and immigration requirements.
Your Role
Senior Software Developer on H-1B visa
Partner
Diana Chen, interim HR Director
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Microsecond Money Meltdown
Your quantum-enhanced trading algorithm has detected a cascading error that's about to trigger catastrophic sell orders across 47 major client portfolios. With only 30 seconds until the next automated trading window, you must identify the quantum decoherence pattern and manually override the system before $4.2 billion in assets evaporate.
Your Role
Senior Quantum Systems Engineer
Partner
CLAIRE (Chief Liquidity & AI Risk Executive)
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Underground Truth
As the owner of a legitimate cross-border warehouse business, your world crumbles when Homeland Security discovers an elaborate smuggling tunnel beneath your property. You have 24 hours to prove your innocence before asset seizure begins. The tunnel's sophistication suggests inside knowledge, but you genuinely know nothing about it.
Your Role
Owner of BorderLine Storage & Logistics
Partner
Special Agent Sarah Martinez
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License to Lie
Your team's critical ISO-27001 certification, the foundation of your company's client relationships, was obtained through testing center fraud three years ago. An external auditor has uncovered irregularities in the documentation. You have 15 minutes before a formal interview to decide how to handle this revelation that could destroy your career and those of your colleagues.
Your Role
Senior Information Security Manager
Partner
Ms. Diana Blackwood
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DNA Database Dilemma
As CEO of GeneTrust, your once-promising biotech startup is 72 hours from bankruptcy. With 50,000 customer DNA profiles in your database, a secret consortium of buyers is offering enough to save the company - if you violate every privacy promise you've made. Your lead investor is pressuring you to take the deal, while your Chief Ethics Officer threatens to blow the whistle.
Your Role
Dr. Sarah Martinez, CEO of GeneTrust
Partner
Marcus Chen, Lead Series-A Investor
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House of Cards
Your last hope rests in a tense meeting with Marcus Chen, the bank's ruthless foreclosure specialist. With three missed payments and a underwater mortgage, he's offering one final arrangement - but the terms seem designed to extract everything you have left. Time is running out as you navigate this psychological battle for your family's home.
Your Role
Homeowner facing imminent foreclosure on a $285,000 mortgage
Partner
Marcus Chen - Senior Foreclosure Resolution Specialist
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Rising Tide Reassignment
As Coastal Operations Director at PacifiCorp, you must select 30% of employees for mandatory inland relocation before rising sea levels claim the facility. With only 72 hours until evacuation protocols begin, you must balance department functionality, employee circumstances, and corporate pressure while navigating increasingly hostile staff reactions.
Your Role
Coastal Operations Director
Partner
Regional Director Victoria Chen
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Silicon Valley Showdown
During your Series B pitch to Apex Ventures, lead investor Marcus Chen unexpectedly reveals documentation of your previous failed startup's mismanaged funds. With $50M in potential funding hanging by a thread, you have minutes to salvage your reputation and keep your current company alive. The other partners are watching closely.
Your Role
CEO of TechFlow Solutions, a promising AI infrastructure startup
Partner
Marcus Chen, Managing Partner at Apex Ventures
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Social Media Money Trap
You're a mid-tier crypto influencer who endorsed 'MoonCoin' to your 500K followers. After the coin crashed 98%, leaving followers devastated, legal documents arrive from Goldman & Morris LLC representing those who lost everything. You have 15 minutes to negotiate with their ruthless senior partner before they file a $50M class action lawsuit.
Your Role
Social Media Influencer (@CryptoLifestyle)
Partner
Victoria Blackwood, Esq.
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Space Station Severance
As Operations Director of Helios-7 Manufacturing Station, you must reduce the crew by 50% within 6 hours due to sudden budget cuts from Earth Command. With only one transport vessel available and life support systems at capacity, you must choose who stays and who goes while maintaining critical station operations. Every minute delayed costs the company millions and risks total station shutdown.
Your Role
Helios-7 Operations Director
Partner
Director Chen, Earth Command Oversight
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Duplicate Employee Dilemma
As Director of HR at Helix Biometrics, you've noticed disturbing inconsistencies with your star programmer, Sarah Chen. Micro-expressions, behavioral patterns, and DNA trace analysis suggest she's been replaced by an illegal clone. You must confront this situation before the board meeting in 30 minutes, knowing that clone trafficking carries a mandatory 25-year sentence.
Your Role
HR Director at Helix Biometrics
Partner
Marcus Sterling, Chief Security Officer
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