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Timber Permit Tangle
Your family-owned lumber mill in Cascade Falls faces immediate shutdown after satellite imagery reveals a spotted owl nesting site in your primary harvesting zone. With 47 employees depending on Friday's payroll and $2.4M in winter contracts at stake, you have 30 minutes to negotiate with an Environmental Protection Agency enforcer who seems suspiciously eager to make an example of your operation.
Your Role
Operations Manager & 3rd Generation Mill Owner
Partner
Senior EPA Enforcement Officer Diana Thorne
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Priceless Piece Stolen
As head of security at the Metropolitan Museum's special collections wing, you've just discovered an ongoing heist during a suspicious power outage. The museum's prize possession - a newly acquired Fabergé egg worth $35 million - is missing from its display case. You have 15 minutes before backup power fails completely, and you suspect an inside job.
Your Role
Chief of Museum Security
Partner
Inspector Diana Cross
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Luxury Chocolate Challenge
You've invested €350 in an exclusive Belgian chocolate tasting experience at the renowned 'Maison du Cacao.' As other guests whisper concerns, you realize the truffles taste suspiciously like corner shop chocolate. The defensive owner is now confronting you about your 'insulting' observations.
Your Role
Frustrated Tourist/Amateur Chocolate Enthusiast
Partner
Madame Dubois - Master Chocolatier
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Social Media Scandal
Your new partner just posted an intimate selfie of you both at 3 AM, tagged with heart emojis and 'Finally Together!' Your ex is a major client at your firm, and your professional network is already reacting. You have 30 minutes before the workday starts to contain this PR nightmare.
Your Role
Marketing Account Executive at Vertex Solutions
Partner
Claire Montgomery - Senior PR Director
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High Stakes After Hours
As the Night Operations Manager of Golden Sands Casino, you receive an unexpected visit from Gaming Commissioner Blake at 2AM. With irregularities in your books and unauthorized VIP comps hidden throughout the system, you must navigate a surprise inspection while protecting your establishment's secrets. One wrong move could expose years of carefully concealed operations.
Your Role
Night Operations Manager
Partner
Gaming Commissioner Sarah Blake
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Deadly Greenhouse Accident
Multiple workers have collapsed inside BioTech's industrial greenhouse complex due to an invisible CO2 leak. As the night shift supervisor, you must coordinate an emergency response while managing limited oxygen supplies. Time is running out for your unconscious colleagues.
Your Role
Night Shift Supervisor
Partner
Marcus Chen, BioTech Emergency Response Director
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Dangerous Animal Emergency
The automated feeding system for six apex predators has critically malfunctioned during the night shift. Marcus Chen, the only qualified repair technician, is refusing entry citing severe safety violations. With food supplies depleting and animals growing agitated, you have less than 30 minutes to negotiate a resolution before emergency protocols are initiated.
Your Role
Night Shift Zoo Safety Coordinator
Partner
Marcus Chen - Senior Systems Engineer
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Paradise Lost
You're six days into a $12,000 prepaid luxury beach house rental in Bali with six friends. Late one night, you discover that two friends, who handled the booking, secretly pocketed $4,000 by downgrading accommodations and lying about the actual costs. With five days left and growing tensions, you must confront the betrayal while preventing the group from completely falling apart.
Your Role
Lead Organizer of the friend group
Partner
Maya Chen - Property Manager
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Breaking News Breakdown
You're anchoring the 9PM national news when the teleprompter suddenly dies mid-broadcast. Your tech director, Marcus Chen, who's been passed over for promotion, is deliberately slow-walking the fix while millions watch. With breaking news about a developing national crisis coming up, you must navigate the next 15 minutes without a script while convincing Marcus to restore the system.
Your Role
Lead News Anchor
Partner
Marcus Chen (Technical Director)
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Truth at Thanksgiving
During a seemingly perfect Thanksgiving dinner, you accidentally discover evidence of your mother's decade-long affair with your father's business partner. As tensions rise and conversations become loaded with double meanings, you must navigate this explosive information while your entire extended family sits obliviously around the dinner table. Your father keeps asking why you're so quiet.
Your Role
The youngest adult child (28) who discovered the secret
Partner
Aunt Margaret (Family Matriarch)
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Meeting Mom's Boyfriend
Your ex-wife demands an immediate meeting with your new partner before allowing next week's scheduled visitation with your children. She's threatening to withhold access unless this happens today. Time is 6:45 PM, and you have until 8:00 PM to make this work or risk missing your kids this weekend.
Your Role
Recently divorced father with a new girlfriend of 3 months
Partner
Katherine (Ex-Wife)
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Space Race Stakes
Your company's crucial satellite launch window is in jeopardy after competitor SpaceVantage filed detailed safety violation allegations with the FAA. With only 72 hours until the scheduled launch and $890M in contracts at stake, you must defend your company's safety protocols while uncovering potential corporate sabotage. Time is running out, and your responses could make or break your company's future in the commercial space race.
Your Role
Chief Safety Officer at AstroTech Launch Systems
Partner
FAA Safety Director Regina Martinez
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