The dilemma. Imani, your best dispatcher, gave Signal News your real idling-emissions figures, which are worse than your brochure says. The board, the lawyers and your whole council want her gone by Friday.
From the gameThe painting on this decision card in Meridyen.
What would you do?
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Dilemma
Your best dispatcher talked to the press
Imani, your best dispatcher, gave Signal News your real idling-emissions figures, which are worse than your brochure says. The board, the lawyers and your whole council want her gone by Friday.
If the roll succeedsOwning the numbers turns a scandal into a story about honesty. Imani gets a promotion.If it failsThe full data is even worse than the leak. Customers ask for discounts and Daria asks for a drink.
What happenedShe goes. The story stays, now with a sequel about how you treat whistleblowers.
What happenedIt does not blow over. It just gets quieter, and closer.
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
Protect her publicly and publish the full data yourself.Bold · decided by a d20 roll against 13
Succeeds: Owning the numbers turns a scandal into a story about honesty. Imani gets a promotion.
Fails: The full data is even worse than the leak. Customers ask for discounts and Daria asks for a drink.
Fire her for breach of confidence.Certain outcome
She goes. The story stays, now with a sequel about how you treat whistleblowers.
Say nothing and let it blow over.Certain outcome
It does not blow over. It just gets quieter, and closer.
About this card
This is one of 8 hand-written dilemmas set in Meridyen (The present day), 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 “Your best dispatcher talked to the press”?
There are three: “Protect her publicly and publish the full data yourself”; “Fire her for breach of confidence”; “Say nothing and let it blow over”. 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 full data is even worse than the leak. Customers ask for discounts and Daria asks for a drink.
What happens if the bold choice succeeds?
Owning the numbers turns a scandal into a story about honesty. Imani gets a promotion.
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.
