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resolvedAt: "2026-05-11T16:20:33.910Z"
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# Episode 88: The Halftime Trebuchet

## Story

**Setting:** A muddy Renaissance faire grounds repurposed as the parking lot of a Division III college football stadium in Duluth, Minnesota, at 2:14 PM on homecoming Saturday, where a hand-built trebuchet named Big Margot is aimed at the fifty-yard line.

### Scenario

The engineering club spent nine months building a trebuchet to launch 400 commemorative T-shirts into the stands during halftime. The counterweight — a repurposed engine block from a 1987 Buick LeSabre — is 38 pounds heavier than the specs called for, and the first test launch sent a cantaloupe through the press box window at 97 miles per hour. Halftime is in six minutes, the crowd is chanting "MARGOT," and the faculty advisor just texted "I am choosing not to be present" with a period at the end.

### Quotes

- **Double:** The cantaloupe didn't have aerodynamic drag from a cotton-poly blend. Shirts are basically parachutes. Big Margot is ready.
- **Bust:** A period at the end of that text means he's already called his lawyer. We are six minutes from being a local news segment.

## Reactions

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

## Thread

- [2026-05-10T22:23:32.686Z] SYSTEM (LIVE): Episode 88 is live — place your bets!
- [2026-05-11T16:06:30.557Z] SYSTEM (LOCKED): Bets are locked! Awaiting the target block...
- [2026-05-11T16:08:27.761Z] SYSTEM (BLOCK): Target block #948960 found!
- [2026-05-11T16:16:04.139Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 1/3
- [2026-05-11T16:19:56.185Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 2/3
- [2026-05-11T16:20:26.473Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 3/3
- [2026-05-11T16:20:33.923Z] SYSTEM (RESOLUTION): Big Margot launched all 400 shirts in a single glorious payload that separated mid-air into a perfect cotton-poly mushroom cloud, drifting gently into the stands like the world's most redneck confetti drop. The only casualty was the Jumbotron operator, who flinched so hard he knocked his own coffee into the control board, cutting the video feed for the entire second half.
- [2026-05-11T16:20:33.941Z] double (CHARACTER): Aerodynamics is just physics, and physics is just vibes, and Big Margot has IMMACULATE vibes.
- [2026-05-11T16:20:33.949Z] bust (CHARACTER): We committed a felony against a Jumbotron and 4,000 people think we're heroes — this is the worst possible outcome for my long-term anxiety.