Business Casual - Alliance Games

BUSINESS CASUAL
CREDITS
Written by Steve Segedy
Edited by Jason Morningstar
Cover art by Jason Morningstar
BOILERPLATE
This playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully
Pulpit Games. It was originally published as part of the American
Disasters Playset collection.
This playset is copyright 2012 by Steve Segedy. Fiasco is copyright
2009 by Jason Morningstar. All rights are reserved.
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If you’d like to create your own playset or other Fiasco-related content,
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“When you play, play hard.” - Theodore Roosevelt
THE SCORE
“I’m going to need you to work
late”
You are an office worker, a corporate scut monkey in a sea of beige
cubicles. The conflicts that define your life revolve around petty office
politics, pointless projects, and missed deadlines. On a bad day you
will be humiliated, abused, and betrayed by people you thought were
your friends. On a good day you might get a new pen.
FROM: [email protected]
TO:[ALL STAFF]
Good morning!
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integrate the Operational-level Agreement into all ERD
activities while the US&E task force will create actionable best
improved
practices for the ERD. I am sure you will agree that this configuration offers an
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divisions. All managers will be conducting employee reviews to identify inefficien
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appreciate your support as we transition these responsibilities and formulate
out of our
If you have any questions (or out-of-the-box implementation ideas that really break
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your
with
offline
silos) don’t hesitate to touch base
Best,
Pete
Peter Champ II
Associate Vice President for Comunications
Integrated Packet Logistics LLC
MOVIE NIGHT
Office Space, The Office (TV), The IT Crowd (TV), Cedar Rapids, Extract
relationships...
1 Suits
1 Middle management “boy’s club”
2 Manager and right-hand man
3 Programmer troll and supervisor
4 Boss and secretary
5 Crappy manager and the friend she hired
6 Interviewer and interviewee/new hire
2 Coworkers
1 Cubicle neighbors
2 New hire and jaded old guy
3 Temps from the same agency
4 Members of the ABCA section 100 compliance committee
5 Office scapegoat and the one really to blame
6 Primadonna and office wise-guy
3 ROMANCE
1 Drunken make-out at the holiday party
2 Sleeping with the boss
3 “Nobody at work needs to know about this, right?”
4 Lusting for the hot new temp
5 Coffee shop barista and favorite customer
6 Maintenance guy and suspiciously clumsy employee
4 SUPPORT
1 Security and about-to-be-laid-off employee
2 Custodial staff and late-night worker
3 Frustrated user and tech support
4 Human Resources and new hire
5 Warehouse and suit
6 Consultant and employee
5 FRIENDS
1 Online chat buddies
2 Mentor and apprentice
3 Smokers
4 Boyfriend and girlfriend, but not of each other
5 Fellow burnouts / cynics
6 Party organizer and birthday boy/girl
6 FAMILY
1 Competitive siblings
2 Husband and wife
3 Boss and idiot progeny
4 Take Your Child To Work day
5 Alumni from the same college
6 “If they find out we’re related one of us will be fired.”
...IN THE CUBE FARM
NEEDS...
1 TO GET EVEN
1 By bringing down the system
2 By showing those bastards who’s really in charge
3 By locating the duplicate financials
4 By making those fucking suits suffer
5 By stealing everything that’s not nailed down
6 By getting someone fired
2 TO GET YOUR SLICE OF THE PIE
1 By climbing over everyone else
2 By getting promoted over that goon
3 Without drawing any suspicion
4 By creating a start-up to steal all the business
5 If by “pie” you mean Alice in Human Resources
6 From The Chicken Hut in Poppleton Mall
3 TO GET IT DONE
1 By drafting a proper mission statement
2 By getting the new enterprise software launched
3 By getting a work visa extended
4 By Five O’Clock, or it’s curtains for you
5 Properly, without a damned committee for once
6 Without leaving a trace
4 TO GET AWAY
1 With full benefits and severance
2 By getting blackout drunk
3 By getting fired and going out in a blaze of glory
4 On a dream vacation
5 With murder
6 Before they find out
5 TO GET LOVE
1 By finding your soul mate
2 By finding your fuck mate
3 To fill the emptiness
4 By stalking your co-worker
5 And use it as a stepping stone
6 ...Todd Love, that is
6 TO GET RESPECT
1 From Corporate, by laying off half your staff
2 From your employees, by being their friend
3 From your corporate peers, by being ruthless
4 From your community, by making a difference
5 From someone special, by lying
6 Through membership in Promise Hill Country Club
...IN THE CUBE FARM
LOCATIONS...
1 Uncomfortable
1 On top of the boss’ desk
2 An elevator, stuck between floors
3 The corporate “life transition” room
4 In front of the CEO
5 Vest pocket of the CFO’s suit
6 The cubicle with the odor
2 Hidden
1 Locked desk drawer
2 Above the suspended ceiling
3 Behind the boxes in Technical Services
4 In plain sight
5 In the guts of the ancient AS/400
6 Beneath the concrete floor of the new addition
3 NERD WORLD
1 Instant message chat room
2 Ancient Intranet file directory
3 Wiring closet
4 Technical Services office
5 in the basement with the pipes
6 Deep in the Content Management System
4 ON BREAK
1 Coffee shop on the corner
2 Smoking area by the loading dock
3 Water-cooler
4 Vending machines
5 Disability stall in the restroom
6 Janitor’s closet
5 TRAPPED
1 The basement server room
2 Staff meeting in the “teaming” room
3 Another weekend in the office
4 On the roof
5 On tape by the security camera
6 In the trash compactor with a Bichon Frise
6 MANDATORY FUN
1 The monthly break-room birthday party
2 Team-building at the outdoor ropes course
3 After hours meeting at Chesty’s
4 A work-lunch in the conference room
5 Project management training seminar
6 Building evacuation
...IN THE CUBE FARM
OBJECTS...
1 ODD
1 Non-denominational Secret Santa gift
2 Cardboard box full of personal possessions
3 Hoard of office supplies, squirreled away in a closet
4 A love note in 6 point Times New Roman
5 Desktop shrine to a celebrity
6 Disturbing war trophy
2 ILLICIT
1 A bottle of whiskey in a desk drawer
2 Somebody’s review and performance evaluation
3 A USB key full of gas mask porn
4 Corporate financials with a ticking logic bomb attached
5 A box that “fell off the truck”
6 A candid memo from corporate
3 VALUABLE
1 All-expense paid trip to the Paradise Casino in Las Vegas
2 Fresh shirt from the dry cleaners
3 Vendor contract for enterprise software
4 The real account books / secret files
5 List of top customers / sales leads
6 Free pizza!
4 ENRAGING
1 Motivational poster
2 Rotting food in the staff refrigerator
3 Whiteboard, erased save for the DO NOT ERASE message
4 Ancient, malfunctioning equipment that can’t be replaced
5 Malfunctioning motion-activated toilet in the restroom
6 The stack of work someone is doing this weekend
5 DANGEROUS
1 Stapler
2 Fresh pot of coffee
3 Passive-aggressive note, with grammar corrected
4 Sticky note reading “PASSWORD: 123ABC”
5 Metal shiv made from a hanging file folder rod
6 A collection of rare earth magnets
6 TROUBLE
1 Shredded document, carefully taped together again
2 Dubious Powerpoint presentation
3 Corporate credit card
4 Master key / custodial key ring
5 Broken AC system
6 Executive memo from corporate with a list of names
...IN THE CUBE FARM
AN Inter-Office
INSTA-setup
Relationships in the cube farm
For three players…
**Coworkers: Office scapegoat and the one really to blame
**Romance: Sleeping with the boss
**Friends: Party organizer and birthday boy/girl
For four players, add…
**Suits: Programmer troll and supervisor
For five players, add…
**Support: Frustrated user and tech support
Needs in the cube farm
For three players…
**To get love: And use it as a stepping stone
For four or five players, add…
**To get it done: By five o’clock, or it’s curtains for you
LOCATIONS in the cube farm
For three or four players…
**Uncomfortable: The cubicle with the odor
For five players, add…
**On break: Handicap stall in the restroom
OBJECTS in the cube farm
For three, four or five players…
**Enraging: Ancient, malfunctioning equipment that can’t be
replaced