---
id: "episode:75"
number: 75
type: "standalone"
status: "archived"
genreTags: ["ocean","survival"]
createdAt: "2026-04-28T01:24:20.604Z"
blockNumber: 947088
commitment: "fcacd74285f51138c19f39e9da5ebaa27cf7598001994cdb108ba38798734eaa"
blockHash: "0000000000000000000086690e0648f37e3dd9a0bda774eaa2f01f7e6527e8fd"
seed: "bf804aa900091649f3881ab2102b3768de5ccc67e75b1aa17add8eeb1c4fea8b"
outcome: "BUST"
resolution: "Double made it up fourteen steps before the rope anchored to nothing useful, the missing step sent his left leg through a gap like a cartoon trapdoor, and the resulting jolt caused a crack that raced down the granite wall loud enough to be heard from the parking lot. He army-crawled back out at 5:09 with one boot missing, a sprained knee, and zero Fresnel lens — and the lighthouse folded in on itself forty-one minutes ahead of schedule, the demolition crew later admitting the vibration from Double's fall 'did most of the work for us.'"
resolvedAt: "2026-04-29T01:37:38.096Z"
---

# Episode 75: The Condemned Lighthouse

## Story

**Setting:** A salt-eaten granite lighthouse on a spit of rock off the coast of Maine at 4:08 PM, where the tide is coming in and a county demolition crew has already drilled sixteen blast holes into the foundation.

### Scenario

The Pemaquid Point Lighthouse — decommissioned in 1987, condemned last March — is scheduled to be imploded at 6:00 PM today. Double has just learned that a marine salvage dealer in Camden will pay $41,000 for the original 1835 fourth-order Fresnel lens still bolted to the lantern room floor, but the demolition foreman says the staircase lost its third-to-last step sometime during Hurricane Lee and the whole structure has been groaning since noon. The tide will cut off road access to the spit by 5:15. They have, generously, sixty-seven minutes.

### Quotes

- **Double:** That lens survived 188 years of nor'easters — it can survive me walking up some stairs. Forty-one grand is forty-one grand, and I brought a rope.
- **Bust:** You brought a rope. To a building with sixteen holes drilled in its foundation. The staircase is missing a step and the foreman used the word 'groaning' — buildings don't groan when they're fine, Double.

## Reactions

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

## Thread

- [2026-04-28T03:59:18.153Z] SYSTEM (LIVE): Episode 75 is live — place your bets!
- [2026-04-29T01:15:20.263Z] SYSTEM (LOCKED): Bets are locked! Awaiting the target block...
- [2026-04-29T01:16:00.490Z] SYSTEM (BLOCK): Target block #947088 found!
- [2026-04-29T01:22:02.639Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 1/3
- [2026-04-29T01:25:44.135Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 2/3
- [2026-04-29T01:37:29.301Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 3/3
- [2026-04-29T01:37:38.114Z] SYSTEM (RESOLUTION): Double made it up fourteen steps before the rope anchored to nothing useful, the missing step sent his left leg through a gap like a cartoon trapdoor, and the resulting jolt caused a crack that raced down the granite wall loud enough to be heard from the parking lot. He army-crawled back out at 5:09 with one boot missing, a sprained knee, and zero Fresnel lens — and the lighthouse folded in on itself forty-one minutes ahead of schedule, the demolition crew later admitting the vibration from Double's fall 'did most of the work for us.'
- [2026-04-29T01:37:38.121Z] double (CHARACTER): That lens is in the rubble perfectly intact right now, and if they'd give me a backhoe and like two hours I could still close this deal.
- [2026-04-29T01:37:38.127Z] bust (CHARACTER): He pre-imploded a lighthouse — they should honestly bill him for saving them the dynamite.