A clerk brings you Great Western's real accident book
The dilemma. A frightened clerk has brought you the Great Western's true accident book. Their returns to Parliament hide eleven deaths. Your counsel say gentlemen do not inform on gentlemen, and that it will poison the trade for years.
From the gameThe painting on this decision card in Ferrovia.
What would you do?
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Dilemma
A clerk brings you Great Western's real accident book
A frightened clerk has brought you the Great Western's true accident book. Their returns to Parliament hide eleven deaths. Your counsel say gentlemen do not inform on gentlemen, and that it will poison the trade for years.
If the roll succeedsThe Inspectorate prosecutes. Lines across the realm suddenly discover their own missing pages.If it failsThe book is called a forgery and the clerk recants. You are sued for libel.
What happenedTheir chairman thanks you, coldly, and promises reforms nobody will check.
What happenedThe clerk goes, and so does the book. You hear later that he emigrated.
No right answer.
In the game the roll is d20 plus your adviser’s skill. Here the bonus is a flat +2.
The options and what happens
Give the book to the Railway Inspectorate.Bold · decided by a d20 roll against 13
Succeeds: The Inspectorate prosecutes. Lines across the realm suddenly discover their own missing pages.
Fails: The book is called a forgery and the clerk recants. You are sued for libel.
Warn the Great Western privately.Certain outcome
Their chairman thanks you, coldly, and promises reforms nobody will check.
Send the clerk away.Certain outcome
The clerk goes, and so does the book. You hear later that he emigrated.
About this card
This is one of 8 hand-written dilemmas set in Ferrovia (1846, the height of the railway mania), one of three ages in Be a CEO, a business strategy game where you run a trading house. Each dilemma has one bold option, decided by dice, and safer options with certain outcomes. The text above is the card exactly as it appears in the game, with the amounts it showed on the first day of a new game.
Questions
What are the options in “A clerk brings you Great Western's real accident book”?
There are three: “Give the book to the Railway Inspectorate”; “Warn the Great Western privately”; “Send the clerk away”. The first is the bold option: the game rolls a d20 plus your adviser’s skill against 13. The other two have certain outcomes.
What happens if the bold choice fails?
The book is called a forgery and the clerk recants. You are sued for libel.
What happens if the bold choice succeeds?
The Inspectorate prosecutes. Lines across the realm suddenly discover their own missing pages.
Written by the Mantar Tech team from the game’s own data and text. Be a CEO is in closed alpha, so numbers and cards can change. About the art: much of it was made with AI tools and then selected and edited by hand.
