You are the table captain. You are also a player with a seat. You run the clock, the vote and the printed sheets. You never invent story. If this sheet does not cover it, take the worse printed outcome and write "dispute" on the card.

What you hold

Your seat card, the Decision Cards, the Rules Card, a timer, six leak chips (S L W X H Z), the exhibit envelopes, a d20.

The room runs in lockstep

The narrator reads each inject to every table and starts one room timer. Your table timer follows the narrator. When the narrator calls time, votes are revealed. The room timer wins any disagreement.

Before the first box

Read the safety opening sentence aloud (the narrator has it on the room card). Anyone at your table may say "stop" at any point: raise a hand to the narrator, pause your table, and follow the one question on the safety page. A stop is never voted and never costs a decision.

One decision box (3 minutes, the same for all three decisions)

1. Narrator reads the inject and says "start". Start your timer.
2. Each seat says one sentence, in seat order: CEO, CFO, CIO, CISO. No debate.
3. Up to two questions to the characters. Read the printed answer; if there is none, say "not in the brief".
4. The table sets the triangle: 12 points across Money, Time, Quality, between 1 and 8 on each. Write them on the card.
5. The CISO says one sentence: "We are deciding X because we know Y and do not know Z."
6. At the narrator's half-time call, check you are at step 4. At about one minute left, call the vote.
7. Everyone lays one card (A, B or C) face down, then all reveal together. A choice needs a strict majority: 3 of 4, 3 of 5, 4 of 6, 4 of 7, 5 of 8 seats. A tie fails: go to step 9.
8. If the narrator calls time with no majority: say "no resolution". Then apply option C of that card with its printed cost AND its complication, no roll, no triangle effects (still reset the triangle to 4, 4, 4). On Decision 1 only: take chip Z and read the Expiry cell of the Decision 1 text sheet. On Decision 2 and 3: read the Expiry cell of that card; you do not change your chip.
9. A tie or no majority, with time left: say "Tie. One re-vote, no debate. Cards face down. Reveal together." Re-vote once. If there is still no majority, wait for the narrator's call and go to step 8. If the narrator has already called time, go straight to step 8.

After the vote: resolve it from print

1. Apply the "Cost now" line on the Decision Card, before any roll. A line marked "Cost when Decision 3 resolves" is NOT applied now: write it on the card and apply it after Decision 3 (the card says whether it applies). Costs not marked later are applied now, including the Financial cost.
2. Check the triangle: an arm at 7 or more cancels one printed step on its paired risk (Money-Financial, Time-Security, Quality-Reputational). If the option prints no step on that risk, the shield does nothing; there is no refund. An arm at 2 or less adds one step to that risk, once. If a decision ended by expiry, skip the triangle entirely.
3. Roll only in doubt. An option that fits the facts and whose groundwork is done succeeds without a roll; otherwise roll a d20 against the target printed on the option (automatic, 10+ or 15+). Who throws the die is the narrator's call; the specialty grade belongs to the seat that proposed the carried option.
4. Add to the roll: +1 for each other seat that backs the carried option with a concrete commitment, meaning that seat's own sentence names a person, a budget or a deadline (up to +3 in total). The seat that proposed the carried option adds its specialty grade (+3, +2 or +1 from its role card) when the narrator rules the option uses that specialty; the proposing seat is the seat holding that decision's card, because the vote is face down. There is no card-holder bonus.
5. Band: target met or automatic is Full: no complication. 1 to 3 below is Partial: the intended result happens, plus the complication told as a story beat that sets up a follow-up choice; it moves no marker on the risk board. 4 or more below is Failure: the complication applies in full and moves the board. Printed costs apply in every case, and shields cancel printed cost steps only, never a complication. A different seat checks the arithmetic aloud.
6. Find your cell on the card, read the quoted line, do the bracketed cue, take the chip named. Never read anything in square brackets.
7. Move the risk board. If any risk reaches Critical (the worst step), read its line from the Critical lines below, aloud. If Financial reaches Critical, also run the board call now, once per game: one sentence from each seat. Reset the triangle to 4, 4, 4.

Shields count once

An arm at 7 or more cancels ONE step in total on its paired risk. If the option's own cost and a deferred cost both sit on that risk, cancel the option's own cost first; the deferred cost then applies.

Past Critical

A risk never goes past Critical (the worst step). Steps beyond it are lost. Read its Critical line once, when it first reaches Critical.

Shield words on the cards

If a cell says "unless the [Time or Quality] arm is 7 or more", that is the shield rule for that complication. Apply it exactly; do not guess a different one.

Leak status

When the narrator says "Table captains, read your leak status", read the line on your chip: line one at Inject 4, line two at Inject 5, and the Inject 6 line at the end.

The first call (one minute, before Decision 1)

The CEO names the incident lead, the owner of the old system and the CSIRT contact. Any seat can object, which triggers a vote. If nobody at all is named, Security goes one step worse before Decision 1. If only some are named, no penalty: an unnamed old-system owner makes Decision 1 option A a 10+ roll, and an unnamed CSIRT contact makes Decision 3 option B a 10+ roll.

Opening round (60 seconds, before the rules)

Seat order. One sentence: the one risk this warning creates for BioGenix that your seat owns, said as "if this happens, then that". If the answer is a category word, generic or about last time, say once: "Say it as if-then, for BioGenix, today." Then move on. Write each line on the seat card.

Critical lines (read aloud when a risk reaches Critical)

• Security: "The CTO: 'The attacker has reached a new part of the research environment.'"
• Financial: "The CFO: 'We cannot fund the next week of response without going to the board.'" Financial Critical also forces one beat: an emergency board call, one sentence from each seat.
• Reputational: "General Counsel: 'A stakeholder has heard about this from someone other than us.'"

Decision 2 and 3 extras

• Restart before certification sits on the CEO's Leadership Calls card. After the Decision 2 result ask once: "Does anyone call Restart before certification?" If yes: vote, then the CEO rolls against a target of 15+, and each other seat whose sentence in the Restart vote names a person, a budget or a deadline adds +1, up to +3. The card gives the three outcomes.
• Consultant offer (Decision 2 only, optional): after Restart, ask the CFO once "Does the table want outside help?" If yes, read the card line, vote (a strict majority, on the same ladder as an Executive Decision), and the CFO ticks. If the narrator has already called time, skip Restart and the consultant. At the narrator's one-minute call, stop and skip whatever is left, the consultant first.
• Decision 3: step 0, read Counsel's note aloud and fill in the two checkboxes before you start the timer. After the roll, apply the deferred Decision 1 cost last.
• Your box on the table timer is 3 minutes. The room's block (8 minutes for Decision 2, 5 for Decision 3) also holds resolution. Be done before the narrator's next inject.

The soft calls

• Does an assist count? Only if the seat's sentence names a person, a budget or a deadline for this option. If it does not, +0 and no discussion.
• Anything this sheet or the card does not settle: take the worse printed outcome and write "dispute" on the card. Your call is final at the table; do not ask a helper to rule. Helpers swap materials and point at the line.

Marks tracker

Draw two boxes on the Decision Record: Ways in shut, Leak stopped. Tick them when your cell cue or chip line says to. At the end, containment is reached only if both are ticked.

Never

Add story. Rule on a dispute for another table. Read bracketed text. Open Exhibit C: it stays sealed for the debrief.