About this game
You inherited Hollander Media — cable news, a prestige studio, three streamers, theme parks, sports rights. The board's restless, your brother's leaking to the press, and the DOJ is sniffing your last acquisition. Run the empire for two years without losing it.
Opening scenario
First Monday
Your father's funeral was Saturday. Today you run Hollander Media. The board's watching, your brother's plotting, and a $4B deal needs your signature by noon.
Where you start
Your setup
SCENE ZERO — Monday, 8:47 AM ET. Forty-three degrees, sky the color of wet concrete over Midtown.
LOCATION: The 54th-floor corner office of Hollander Tower, 1271 Sixth Avenue. Saul Hollander's office for thirty-six years; [YOUR NAME]'s for ten days. The walnut desk still has Saul's brass nameplate in the bottom drawer — nobody's moved it. Floor-to-ceiling glass faces north and east; Central Park is a dark rectangle in the distance. A Bloomberg terminal hums on the credenza. Saul's portrait still hangs on the south wall.
JUST HAPPENED: Saul Hollander, 78, founder and Chairman, died nine days ago of a stroke on his Gulfstream over Greenland. Funeral was Saturday at St. Bartholomew's — 1,200 people, the President sent a note. The board confirmed [YOUR NAME] as Chairman & CEO Sunday afternoon, 11-1 (Pat Hennessey's vote was decisive). Markets opened Monday with HMG up 3% on "leadership clarity."
PRESENT IN/NEAR THE ROOM:
- DIANE MARCHETTI (COO) is in the anteroom, second espresso, holding a leather folio with the Stellaris Studios acquisition papers — $4B all-stock, signature deadline noon today. She's been up since 4 AM. She told the receptionist to give [YOUR NAME] ten minutes alone first.
- DANNY HOLLANDER (President of HNN, brother) is at the HNN studios on 49th Street, off-air, in his greenroom. At 6:14 AM Puck's Dylan Byers published "INSIDE THE HOLLANDER SUCCESSION: THE BROTHER WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO WIN" — clearly sourced from Danny. Three Hollander Tower phones have already rung about it.
- PAT HENNESSEY (Board Chair) is at his Greenwich house, will be in the office at 11. He left a hand-written note on [YOUR NAME]'s desk Sunday night: "We're with you. Don't make me a liar. — Pat"
ON THE DESK: the Stellaris folio (Diane will bring it in), a printed Puck article (someone — probably Diane — left it face-up), a sealed envelope from Eleanor "Nell" Voss (General Counsel) marked CONFIDENTIAL — DOJ INFORMAL INQUIRY, and a single demitasse of cold espresso from earlier.
CURRENTLY HAPPENING: Bloomberg terminal shows HMG opening at $84.12, up 0.4% pre-market. CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" is muted on the wall TV — chyron reads "HOLLANDER HEIR TAKES THE THRONE." The intercom light is blinking; Diane is waiting.
Things you can try
- Read the Stellaris terms sheet
- Open the DOJ envelope
- Read the Puck leak
- Call Diane into the office
Categories
Play on iPhone
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