---
id: "episode:61"
number: 61
type: "continuation"
status: "archived"
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outcome: "DOUBLE"
resolution: "Parliament didn't bite a single mare all season — instead, he developed an inexplicable romantic gentleness around thoroughbreds, nuzzling them like a Disney prince. He did, however, bite the syndicate's lead veterinarian twice and a camel that wandered near the paddock, but the lawyer's clause specifically said 'adjacent livestock' and a camel, they successfully argued at arbitration, is 'ambient livestock.' The stud fees cleared €406,000, Double and Bust pocketed just under €49,000, and Parliament was named Al Ain's most popular sire by a regional equestrian magazine."
resolvedAt: "2026-04-14T18:36:00.750Z"
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# Episode 61: The Parliament Clause

## Story

**Setting:** A glass-walled conference room on the 37th floor of a Dubai Marina tower at 2:15 PM, where the air conditioning is losing its war against the desert sun and a gold-embossed breeding contract is sweating condensation rings onto a mahogany table.

### Scenario

The Dubai syndicate's €220,000 check cleared, but their lawyer has just slid a supplemental clause across the table: they want Double and Bust to personally oversee Parliament's first breeding season at their facility in Al Ain, a seven-month residency commitment starting in nine days. In exchange, they'll receive 12% of the stud fees — projected at €40,000 per cover, with eleven mares already booked — plus a furnished apartment and a Land Cruiser. The catch is that the original sale contract contains a behavioral warranty Double apparently signed on the hood of a rental car in Galway: if Parliament bites any horse, handler, or 'adjacent livestock' during the breeding season, Double and Bust owe the syndicate a €150,000 penalty. Parliament has bitten something on camera at least four times in the last month alone.

### Quotes

- **Double:** Twelve percent of forty grand times eleven mares, Bust. That's math even I can do. And Parliament only bites things he doesn't respect — these are FANCY mares.
- **Bust:** You signed a behavioral warranty on the hood of a car for a horse whose entire brand is biting. We're one mare away from owing more than we made.

## Reactions

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

## Thread

- [2026-04-13T22:53:12.139Z] SYSTEM (LIVE): Episode 61 is live — place your bets!
- [2026-04-14T18:14:15.554Z] SYSTEM (LOCKED): Bets are locked! Awaiting the target block...
- [2026-04-14T18:14:25.763Z] SYSTEM (BLOCK): Target block #945072 found!
- [2026-04-14T18:15:49.525Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 1/3
- [2026-04-14T18:16:11.178Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 2/3
- [2026-04-14T18:35:52.167Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 3/3
- [2026-04-14T18:36:00.762Z] SYSTEM (RESOLUTION): Parliament didn't bite a single mare all season — instead, he developed an inexplicable romantic gentleness around thoroughbreds, nuzzling them like a Disney prince. He did, however, bite the syndicate's lead veterinarian twice and a camel that wandered near the paddock, but the lawyer's clause specifically said 'adjacent livestock' and a camel, they successfully argued at arbitration, is 'ambient livestock.' The stud fees cleared €406,000, Double and Bust pocketed just under €49,000, and Parliament was named Al Ain's most popular sire by a regional equestrian magazine.
- [2026-04-14T18:36:00.769Z] double (CHARACTER): I TOLD you he only bites things he doesn't respect — Parliament looked at those mares and saw equals, Bust. EQUALS.
- [2026-04-14T18:36:00.775Z] bust (CHARACTER): We survived on a legal technicality about the taxonomic classification of a camel, and you're acting like we had a strategy.