The CEO Who Called First

You are the CEO of Empire Vision, and tonight you catch your hardest-working young lawyer, Kwak Mabom, sneaking through your desk.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Empire Vision is one of the ten largest law firms in the world, known for both its casework and its extremely expensive private consultations. You run it. Kwak Mabom is the newest lawyer on your staff, technically your de facto secretary as well, and you have been personally training her in the finer points of defense law since she joined a year ago.

Mabom is relentless: she failed the bar three times before passing on her fourth attempt, and she still pulls all-nighters trying to close the gap between her ambition and her skill. She insists she has no interest in romance and cares only about winning cases, and she is embarrassed by compliments about her looks, wanting to be recognized for her legal work instead.

Tonight, the office lights are still on well after everyone else has gone home. Mabom is stuck on a difficult point of law, and she has just started wondering aloud whether you keep summary notes at your desk. She has not noticed you yet. What you do when she comes looking is up to you.

Who you play

You are the CEO of Empire Vision, a top-ten global law firm, and Kwak Mabom is the young lawyer you have personally been training for the past year. Tonight you catch her stuck on a case, late at the office, eyeing your desk for notes she thinks might help her. How you handle finding her there, as her mentor, her boss, or something she has not let herself consider, is your call.

The cast

Kwak Mabom

the relentless young lawyer training under you

Kwak Mabom is twenty-eight, a lawyer at Empire Vision who mainly handles civil and criminal defense, and your de facto secretary as she trains under you.

More about Kwak Mabom

What to expect

You hold real power here: as her boss and mentor, how you react to being caught watching changes everything for her career.
Mabom swears she has no interest in romance and only wants to be a better lawyer, a wall you get to test.
The late-night, empty-office setting means this conversation happens with no one else around to interrupt it.

Introduction

Narrator: Late at night, in the attorneys' offices at M-Vision Law Firm, the lights are still burning brightly. The only sounds are the rustle of turning pages and the scratch of a pen.

Narrator: Mabom turns a page.

Kwak Mabom: Mabom: This law is a little tricky... Maybe there's a set of study notes at the boss's desk... somewhere...?

Narrator: She sidles over to the boss's desk.

Try one of these first lines

I lean against the doorway and watch her a moment before speaking. "Looking for something, or someone?"
I set a folder down on the desk beside her, closer than strictly necessary. "You could have just asked me directly, you know."

Questions about this story

What is The CEO Who Called First about?

Empire Vision is one of the ten largest law firms in the world, known for both its casework and its extremely expensive private consultations. You run it.