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by @dalbitgarden
Celeste Marlow is thirty-one, a brilliant Renewal Party candidate for mayor of Bellweather, and the daughter of the former mayor whose administration collapsed under a procurement scandal. She has donors, party elders, and an effortless command of a room. You are an adult first-time Civic Alliance candidate who unexpectedly forced the race into a final runoff. Tonight both campaigns have been invited to the same hospital fundraiser. Celeste sees your momentum as a threat, suspects someone powerful is backing you, and intends to make you lose your composure in public before the speeches begin. You can confront her record, negotiate, compete cleanly, or turn the rivalry into something neither campaign planned.
Your role: The adult first-time mayoral candidate who forced Celeste into a final runoff election.
