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Thirteen cases, all playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end at 100/100 (Case One is 95 + 5 optional by design). Case Three — Rendezvous at Big Gulch. The racket only shakes down businesses that are doing well, so to get extorted you must run a genuinely excellent locksmith shop. Frank reads MODERN LOCKSMITHING cover to cover and retains all of it while understanding none of it, which for locksmithing is the correct ratio. The street won't talk because paper doesn't stand in your doorway on a Friday; Halloran opens up only after you offer to fix his door, and his extortion ledger has been lying open on a public counter for two and a half years because nobody ever asked to see his book. Case Four — Revenge and Remorse. Section 14 paragraph 9 was written in 1949 for a 1949 timer, and this bomber files his timing stub twice because he cannot leave a thing not-quite-square, which shortens the contact throw and energises the trigger first. Follow the manual and it completes. So Frank disarms it backwards — the one time in nineteen years he departs from a written instruction, because he can prove the instruction is wrong in four sentences. Carries PQ1's Captain loop and an explicit refusal of PQ3's centre-pixel bug. Case Five — The Butler Did It. Chain of custody on a birthday cake: photograph, weigh with a witness, seal all forty forks. Eleven pounds light in the tier nobody cuts, because she was inside it for four minutes while forty people looked at it. And Frank will not suspect the butler because the literature says it is always the butler, so suspecting him would be quoting rather than investigating. It is the butler. Case Nine — The Final Insult. The marriage is a gate, not a subplot: the finale is locked behind actually answering the counsellor's question, and Jane's terms are "before you go, not after". He doesn't disarm the envelope, he swaps it and writes in a winner by hand. He picks the one he liked. Two point budgets came in over (110, 115) and are trimmed to exactly 100. Sprite generation needed a kill-and-restart: two overlapping runs were competing for the farm and producing "Resource temporarily unavailable" — one clean pass at pool 2 completed all four sets with zero failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"look": "SECTION 14, PARAGRAPH NINE. Four sentences. In this manual since 1949. 'Where a device employs a mechanical timer, the officer shall separate the leads in the following order: earth, return, feed, trigger.'",
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"use_text": "You read paragraph nine aloud, twice, because that is what the paragraph is for. Earth, return, feed, trigger. Then you look at the device, and then you look at the paragraph again. Paragraph nine was written in 1949, for a mechanical timer built in 1949, in which the trigger lead was the last thing energised. On this device — on all four of his devices, and you have seen the photographs of all four — the trigger lead is energised *first*, because he files the stub twice and the second pass shortens the contact throw. Take earth first on this one and it completes. The manual is wrong. The manual has been wrong since 1949. It has never been wrong before because nobody has ever reached paragraph nine and lived to file a note about it. (+15)"
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"look": "Under the stairs, against the inside face of the wall, eleven pounds of it wired to a dollar-and-a-quarter alarm clock with two bells. The minute hand has been snapped off and filed flat, and then filed again, at about four degrees off square, because the first pass was not right. Eleven minutes.",
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"synonyms": "device explosive charge timer wires",
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"use_text": "Standing orders require you to establish a cordon and wait for the bomb squad. The bomb squad is nineteen minutes out. The clock says eleven. So you kneel down under a staircase in an empty records annexe and you do the thing the manual tells you not to do, in the order the manual tells you not to do it, because you have read the manual eleven times and today you also read the device. Trigger. Feed. Return. Earth. Backwards. Every step of it backwards, deliberately, by a man who has never knowingly departed from a written instruction in nineteen years, and who is departing from this one because the instruction is wrong and he can prove it in four sentences. The bells do not ring. Eddie Casales is released at eleven o'clock and nobody apologises to him, because a department does not apologise, so you do it yourself, on the steps, in front of a newspaper man who is there for something else entirely. They find the man on Thursday. A court clerk, twenty-two years in, who in 1946 signed an exhibit register he should not have signed and has spent eleven years removing buildings that contained a copy of it, and who could not, at any point in those eleven years, leave a timing stub not-quite-square. Section 14, paragraph nine is amended in the spring. The amendment is four sentences long. It is signed by Captain Ed Hocken, who also asks you, that same afternoon, whether you have been to see the coroner. Somewhere behind you Officer Al says something and everybody laughs and everybody freezes, smiling, holding it — except the clock, which is still going, and which will now go on going for another forty years in a property store in a box. (+25)"
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"name": "casales",
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"sprite": "casales",
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"x": 130,
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"look": "Eddie Casales, brought along in the car because you were not leaving him in a cell for a fifth day, standing well back on the pavement where you put him.",
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"synonyms": "eddie suspect prisoner accused",
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"use_text": "You tell him to stand across the road and if the bells ring to run and keep running. He asks why you brought him. You tell him that a man who has been in a cell for four days for something he did not do is entitled to watch it come off him."
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"name": "clockface",
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"sprite": "clockface",
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"look": "The clock on the device. Two bells, a dollar and a quarter, minute hand filed twice. Nine minutes.",
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"synonyms": "clock alarm timer bells",
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"use_text": "You reach for the clock, because the clock is the part that is counting and the clock is what a reasonable man reaches for. Paragraph nine does not mention the clock. Paragraph nine has not mentioned the clock since 1949."
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