One full story · Easy · Free to replay · No login
A familiar workday. A story you can change.
Tomorrow’s event needs its brochures. Today’s invoice needs handling. Step into the office, meet your very curious colleagues, and work out what happens when a familiar request changes.
A fictional office adventure. Explore the labeled objects or use the text choices. Every route has a cat, a finish, and room for imperfect decisions. No timer, score, or specialist knowledge required.
One complete story. Every path is yours.
The 4 p.m. payment
Tomorrow’s event. Today’s invoice. One change nobody expected. Take over the afternoon shift and decide what happens next.
From the helpful-scammer breakdown
About 5–8 minutes, depending on your route, estimated · No login · Replay as often as you like
Your role and how to play
Your seat at the desk
You handle invoices at a small events company.Get the print invoice handled before cutoff and keep the event preparations moving.
You are playing a fictional role. No finance or cybersecurity experience is needed to try the story.
How to play
Read the scene, choose your next move, and adapt to what happens next. On a quick optional detour, explore your desk with one of the cats. An object can reveal another possible action. Regular story choices stay available above the detour.
Story actions make no real calls, send no emails, and move no money. There is no timer or pass mark. Every route has an ending.
Four curious colleagues in your corner.
PancakeWhat do we know?
PoptartWhat might we be assuming?
SimbaWhat do we do next?
TigerHow does this work here?
Fictional teaching example. No score or employee record. Choices stay in this page’s memory and reset on refresh.
Another complete adventure · Free · Medium
The quiet update
A noon briefing. A very helpful AI. Your choices carry through three connected chapters as the team decides what “done” really means.
About 18–27 minutes, depending on your route. No coding, login or payment needed. Leave time to finish; this public run resets if you leave or refresh.
Play the free AI adventure →Guidance behind the story and reporting practice
- Business Email Compromise (opens in a new tab)
FBI · Independent verification of payment changes. The company, messages, policy and outcomes in this story are fictional.
- Microsoft: built-in reporting and destinations (opens in a new tab)
Reporting controls in supported Outlook versions and organization-configured destinations. Checked 2026-10-24.
- KnowBe4: Phish Alert Button for Microsoft 365 (opens in a new tab)
An alternative reporting route for companies that have deployed this add-in. Checked 2026-10-24.
- Cornell IT: Gmail reporting screenshot (opens in a new tab)
A real Gmail desktop menu reference; Cornell’s internal reporting destinations do not apply to other employers. Checked 2026-10-24.
- Google: avoid and report phishing emails (opens in a new tab)
Gmail’s Report phishing steps on a computer. These steps do not describe the Gmail mobile app. Checked 2026-10-24.
- Apple: macOS 26 Mail screenshot reference (opens in a new tab)
The genuine Mac toolbar reference, displayed as a cropped detail with a CyberPsych outline. Checked 2026-10-24.
- Apple: junk controls in Mail on Mac (opens in a new tab)
The Junk control in Apple Mail on Mac. Checked 2026-10-24.
- Apple: report junk in iCloud Mail, including iPhone & iPad (opens in a new tab)
iCloud Mail junk controls on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web. Junk filtering is not a company phishing handoff. Checked 2026-10-24.
- Microsoft’s Outlook on the web screenshot (opens in a new tab)
Official interface reference. The interactive practice is a recreation, not this screenshot.