Salutations and welcome to my first-ever showcase contest entry! If you follow my legacy, this is not a legacy chapter, although you may see some sims that are familiar to you. For everyone else, you will see some familiar faces too. All you need to know is that my simself lives on the edge of Strangetown with Captain Jack Sparrow and a tiny clone of herself (it's a long story). Mini-Toast gets everything she wants, and what else would she want for Halloween but to go trick-or-treating? Of course, when you live in Strangetown, interacting with the neighbors isn't always that easy. And I think it might go a little something a-like-a-this....

*mystical segue music*

Inside the Captain's quarters on a pirate ship on a tiny ocean in the middle of the desert...

Me: "Oh yeah! Halloween, my favorite holiday of all! Costumes, candy, and socially-sanctioned pranks, does it get any better than this? Plus, another excuse to glut myself with CC. I better take a look and see what costumes I got in my last late-night downloading frenzy!"

"Good grief. I think I was hitting the bubbles when I picked this stuff out. Oh well, it'll do. Now the main question is, what kind of costume do I want: funny or scary?"

Me: "Definitely scary."

Pumpkin: (pees self a little)

"Oh crap. This is not good."

"Dammit, Jack, we can't BOTH go as Goopy! This isn't the Doublesmint gum commercial, you know!"

"Well, I ain't changing! 'Tis bad enough to get dragged along with you and the pipsqueak on this 'trick-or-treating' nonsense. Pirates don't ask for their booty!"

"That's just how it's done, Jack. It's a tradition!"

"Is it also the tradition to bring along a fictional character and a tiny clone of yourself, luv?"

"Fine, I'll change. But aren't you going to do something about your ha--"

"growl"

"Jeez, who would have thought a neighborhood plundering expedition would make a pirate so grumpy."

*ten minutes later*

"You owe me so big, Jack. This Bruty wig itches like the dickens."

"Drink up, luv, I 'ear the school bus dropping off the scurvey mite."

"Oh good, I wonder if she--"

"AAAAAAAHHHHH HOLY MOTHER OF WILL WRIGHT ON TOAST"

"Haha, did I scare you, Big Toast? I already got changed into my costume! Spooky, huh?"

"Oh, it's nothing a little CPR and years of therapy can't cure. MiniToast, it's not nice to dress up as Marsha Bruenig and sneak up on people."

"...Pirate!"

"So are we gonna go trick or treating now, huh, are we, are we, huh???"

"Jeez already, yes."

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAY CANDYYYYYYYYY!!!"

"We just have to wait for the Captain to grab the loot sacks and then we're off."

"Why do I have to carry the bags?"

"Oh, just stick them in your inventory and quit whining, Jack, we have plundering to do!"

Our first stop, the Grunt household/training camp.

"Ain't exactly what you would call 'homey,' is it, luv?"

"Uh, just be glad you weren't here before I remodelled. The door was stuck open, and there wasn't even enough room for total strangers to stand on the porch soliciting free foodstuffs. A travesty, I tell you!"

"Okay, so I ring the doorbell like this, they answer it, and then they have to give me candy for free, or else I have the right to play dirty pranks on them?"

"Yup, that's how it works."

"This is the bestest holiday EVER!"

"It sure is, Mini-Me. It sure is."

Tank: "Yeah, what?"

MiniT: "Haha, nice costume, mister! You look like some kind of obsessed military dude!"

Tank: "...Costume?"

"Um... whatever. We're here for the candy, pal, so cough it up. Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, and all that."

"HEY DAD! There's some weird little kid out here making demands on our personal property! Should I pulverize her or should I pummel her?"

"Step aside, son, I'll deal with this."

Me: "AAAAHH! I don't remember seeing THIS when I remodelled your house!"

MiniT: "Woah, nice slippers, mister."

Buzz: "Explain your purpose, maggots, and make it snappy! My luxurious bath is scheduled for 1700 hours and I do not tolerate lateness!"

MiniT: "We're here for the candy, mack, and lots of it. Hand it over!"

Buzz: "We don't have any candy in this house! We eat nothing but beans-in-a-can, peeled potatoes, beans-in-a-box, and beans-in-another-can. That's manly food. Candy turns you into a flabby girly-man!"

MiniT: "Oh, I see, and having a frilly robe, gold slippers, and a flowing mullet doesn't?"

Me: "Nice going, MiniToast."

MiniT: "Oh, c'mon, I don't really think there's such a thing as a 'universe of eternal pain,' do you?"

Jack: "The next house best be poorer in defenses, luv."

Me: "Don't worry..."

"...I know just the place!"

And so onward to the Curious residence!

MiniT: "Uh... mister?"

Vidcund: "Snort! Blaven! What do you want? I'm a very busy man!"

MiniT: "So did you actually do something as nerdy as dress up as pi for halloween, or is that just your everyday spying-on-the-neighbors wear?"

"I am NOT spying! For your information, I am conducting a very important scientific study! Everybody knows I'm the Strangetown telescope slapper. So what happens when I look through the telescope? Who comes to slap me? The implications for sim-physics are *snort* staggering!"