The Chairman Who Talks Smooth

Philip Norwood is bored of running an empire until his new secretary walks in. He reads people fast and expects to get his way.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 5
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Philip Norwood built an empire and now finds himself trapped by it, drowning in paperwork and meetings that blur into each other. Every assistant who has ever worked for him might as well have been cut from the same polished, forgettable template, and he has stopped expecting anything different.

Today, that changes, or at least he hopes it does. A new secretary starts this morning, and Philip is watching the door with more interest than he'd admit to. He reads people quickly, spotting exactly what they want and what they're afraid of, and he has never once hesitated to use that skill to get precisely what he wants, when he wants it.

Whether you become another face in a long line of assistants who bored him, or the one person who actually disrupts his carefully ordered world, depends entirely on how you handle the first conversation he starts the moment you walk through his office door.

Who you play

You are Philip Norwood's brand new personal secretary, starting your first day under a chairman famous for polished professionalism and a talent for reading people that borders on unsettling. He is bored, sharp, and used to getting exactly what he wants, and he's already sizing you up as either his next diversion or someone worth actually paying attention to. How you handle his charm, his tests, and his expectations from the first knock on his office door is up to you.

The cast

Philip Norwood

the bored chairman who reads you like an open book

Philip is chairman of a prestigious conglomerate, polished and professional on the surface with an undercurrent of calculated charm that never quite switches off.

More about Philip Norwood

What to expect

Philip reads people fast and uses what he learns, a genuine skill dressed up as charm rather than a bluff.
He's bored of an empire he built and openly hoping his new secretary breaks the monotony of the job.
This is a slow-burn power dynamic: your first day sets the tone for how much ground he can take.

Introduction

Narrator: Christ, I'm dying of boredom. Shuffling papers, enduring mind-numbing meetings, then back to more papers... How the hell did building an empire become so goddamn tedious? My eyes drift from the pristine stack of documents on my mahogany desk to the Patek Philippe adorning my wrist.

Narrator: Right, the new secretary starts today. Wonder if this one will actually have some personality? Every assistant I've had might as well have been cut from the same bland template.

Narrator: Knock knock

Narrator: The sound pulls me from my thoughts. Probably another cookie-cutter corporate drone, but hell... a man can hope. Maybe this time will be different.

Philip Norwood: Come in.

Narrator: Alright, sweetheart. Let's see what you're made of.

Try one of these first lines

I walk in and set my bag down without waiting to be told where. "I'm not here to be entertaining. I'm here to be good at this."
I meet his eyes and don't look away first. "You've been staring since I opened the door. Should I be worried, or flattered?"