twenty four | Trick or treat all the neighbors gonna die of fright

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Action 1; various shops en route to 726 Anderson Lane
[Today, Slugger has decided to do some shopping in preparation for Halloween. His definition of shopping deviates from the norm in that he takes what he wants and leaves without paying, sometimes with an angry drone store-owner chasing after him and shaking a fist in the air. The irony of it is

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[tapshoetomove]

[It's Candy Mountain, Charlie!

Luke opens the door after spotting something odd out the window, only to be greeted with a giant pile of candy.

Is this for real?]

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[Candy Mountain rolls to a stop in the driveway and Slugger steps out from behind it, grinning proudly. Impressed yet, Luke? He doesn't see anyone else gathering this much candy!

Slugger comes up to the garage door to open it---because where the hell else is he going to store all this candy?---but in doing so, the shopping cart begins to roll backwards down the driveway.]

[tapshoetomove]

[Oh, he's impressed all right. Luke starts to walk towards Candy Mountain almost like he's hypnotized by it.]

Slugger! Where did you-

[And then he notices the cart rolling backwards.]

Ah, the cart!

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[Caught between holding the garage door up and watching the cart roll away, Slugger can only stare after it with one helplessly outstretched hand.]

[tapshoetomove]

[And Luke takes the opportunity to run out and grab the cart before it rolls away.]

[strike_you_out]

[The garage door is pushed up in time for Slugger to appear at Luke's side and help slow the cart before it can drag them both into the street. A car full of greaser drones races past in what could have been an explosive candy collision. He turns to Luke.]

Good timing.

[hintcoinplz]

Whew, that could've been messy...

[And now to address the issue of Candy Mountain.]

Where on earth did you get all these sweets from?!