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resolvedAt: "2026-06-02T16:46:40.418Z"
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# Episode 110: The Sunken Stradivarius

## Story

**Setting:** A half-flooded basement archive beneath a conservatory in Ljubljana, Slovenia at 7:20 AM, where seventeen inches of brown water are lapping against rows of wooden instrument lockers and something is making the overhead pipes hum in B-flat.

### Scenario

A burst water main overnight has turned the conservatory's underground storage into a wading pool, and inside locker 19-C — which is padlocked and belongs to a deceased professor whose estate is in probate — someone can see through the vent slats what appears to be a violin case stamped with a Sotheby's auction tag from 1973. The water is rising about an inch every forty minutes. A locksmith can be here in two hours, the executor of the estate is unreachable on a hiking trip in Montenegro, and the fire brigade says they'll pump the basement but not before noon. Double has found a crowbar in the custodian's closet. Bust has found a Slovenian property law statute on their phone that says unauthorized forced entry into a probate-held asset carries a fine of up to €40,000 — or, if the asset is damaged, criminal charges.

### Quotes

- **Double:** Last time I hesitated on old wood behind a locked door, someone else got $340,000 worth of organ pipes — I'm not watching a Strad drown because of a padlock and a dead man's paperwork.
- **Bust:** You're comparing a choir loft in Kentucky to breaking into a dead professor's locker in a country where you don't speak the language, can't read the laws, and are currently standing in sewage.

## Reactions

- **Double:** 0
- **Bust:** 0

## Thread

- [2026-06-01T16:24:18.872Z] SYSTEM (LIVE): Episode 110 is live — place your bets!
- [2026-06-02T16:05:36.218Z] SYSTEM (LOCKED): Bets are locked! Awaiting the target block...
- [2026-06-02T16:09:07.919Z] SYSTEM (BLOCK): Target block #952128 found!
- [2026-06-02T16:22:26.843Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 1/3
- [2026-06-02T16:33:36.089Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 2/3
- [2026-06-02T16:46:32.360Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 3/3
- [2026-06-02T16:46:40.433Z] SYSTEM (RESOLUTION): Double pried open locker 19-C with the crowbar, splashing triumphantly through the rising water — only to find a 1973 Sotheby's-tagged case containing a student-grade Czech factory violin worth about €200, while the conservatory's security camera (which Double didn't notice behind the pipe junction) captured the entire break-in, and the executor's hiking buddy turned out to be a Slovenian district judge who filed the €40,000 property violation charge from a mountain hut in Durmitor before lunch.
- [2026-06-02T16:46:40.440Z] double (CHARACTER): That violin had TONE, though — you can't put a price on tone, and frankly €40,000 is a bargain for the story.
- [2026-06-02T16:46:40.448Z] bust (CHARACTER): You're right, you can't put a price on tone — but apparently a Montenegrin judge can put a very specific price on crowbar-related felonies.