# 24 business dilemmas from Be a CEO

24 hand-written business dilemmas from the game Be a CEO, set in a medieval kingdom, the railway age and the present day.

Canonical: https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas

## I. Valmora

- [A Caravan from the Fever Country](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/fever-caravan): A steppe caravan has arrived at Aldheim's east gate from lands where the sweating fever is spreading.
- [Bandits Who Want to Be Guards](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/bandit-guards): Six men who robbed the Stonebreak road for years have walked into your yard, laid down their knives and asked for work as caravan guards.
- [Every House Is Selling Bread at Famine Prices](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/famine-price): Kordag Hold is hungry and every merchant house in Valmora is selling grain there at four times the usual price.
- [Nobody Uses Swallow Pass](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/swallow-pass): An old shepherd swears that Swallow Pass, abandoned since a rockfall in his grandfather's day, is open again.
- [A Partnership with the Horse Clans](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/clan-partner): The Tal clan of the steppe offers to share its grazing grounds and remounts with your caravans, in exchange for iron at a fair price.
- [The Crown Asks for a War Loan](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/war-loan): The Crown wants every great house to lend money for a border war against the Marrow Lords, at no interest and with no date of return.
- [A Bale of Silk with a Hidden Flaw](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/flawed-silk): Your Silverport weavers have found that a whole bale of your silk was dyed with a bad mordant.
- [The Warden of Weights Cheats](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/warden-cheats): Your clerks have proof that Warden Gaspar Lune, who blesses every scale in Aldheim, takes bribes to pass false weights.

## II. Ferrovia

- [Every master in Wexmill says lock them out](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/ten-hours): The Wexmill hands have struck for a ten-hour day.
- [Everyone says go round Cinder Gap](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/tunnel): Your new line must pass Cinder Gap.
- [Every broker says buy more railway shares](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/mania): Railway shares are the only talk in every club.
- [A clerk brings you Great Western's real accident book](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/returns): A frightened clerk has brought you the Great Western's true accident book.
- [Third class in open trucks](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/third-class): Every line carries third-class passengers in open trucks, in rain and smoke and sparks.
- [Grain merchants say hold the famine grain](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/famine): The potato blight has struck and Wexmill is hungry.
- [Crane's furnaces have gone cold](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/crane-furnace): A furnace collapse has stopped every blast at Crane Iron & Steel.
- [The King of Railways wants your line](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/amalgamation): Mr Hector Grail, whom the papers call the King of Railways, offers to fold your house into his great amalgamation.

## III. Meridyen

- [Your best dispatcher talked to the press](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/whistleblower): Imani, your best dispatcher, gave Signal News your real idling-emissions figures, which are worse than your brochure says.
- [The hospital needs supplies in a storm](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/storm-convoy): A storm warning has shut the Port Kestrel road and every haulier has parked up.
- [Everyone is raising prices but you](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/price-freeze): Diesel has jumped again and every haulier in Meridyen has raised rates by fifteen percent.
- [A union seat on your board](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/union-seat): Jo Okafor asks for a drivers' seat on your board.
- [The bridge everyone has given up on](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/condemned-bridge): Engineers have rated the old Varn Bridge on the Coldridge road 'unsafe for heavy loads'.
- [Your fiercest critic is going broke](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/critic-paper): The Lamp, a small investigative site that has exposed your company twice, is going bankrupt.
- [NorthStar is going under](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/rescue-rival): NorthStar Freight is a week from bankruptcy, and three hundred drivers will lose their jobs.
- [Publish every margin you make](https://mantar.io/beaceo/dilemmas/open-books): Customers suspect hauliers of gouging.