As the scene opens, we see Linus sitting at a table writing a letter. Linus writes: "Dear Great Pumpkin, I'm looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you will bring me lots of presents." Over comes Charlie Brown.
"Who are you writing to, Linus?"
Linus looks hard at Charlie Brown. "This is the time of year to write to the Great Pumpkin. On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys for all the children."
"You must be crazy. When are you going to stop believing in something that isn't true?" says Charlie Brown in disgust, and walks away.
Only slightly bothered, Linus gets back to writing: "You must get discouraged because more people believe in Santa Claus than in you. Well, let's face it... Santa Claus has had more publicity." At this point, Snoopy comes up to Linus to see what he's up to. Realizing that Linus is writing to the Great Pumpkin again, like every year, Snoopy busts out laughing. I mean, really insulting, demeaning, hurtful laughing. Like, in a really mean way. Linus glowers at Snoopy, who walks away, still laughing. Struggling to control his rising temper, Linus gets back to writing:
Lucy comes over now. "Not again! Writing a letter to a stupid pumpkin!? You make me the laughing stock of the neighborhood. All they talk about is my little brother who always writes to the Great Pumpkin. You better stop it or I'll pound you!"
Scarcely had Linus begun writing again when Charlotte Braun,
aka DAaaMan64, comes up to him. Yes, all the way from Europe. "Somehow they're all getting into my house," thinks Linus. "Should change the locks."
"You're wasting your TIME, zee Great Pumpkin eez a FAKE!" says Charlotte, then turns around and stomps away.
Linus' face twitches. He sneers. Watching Charlotte walk away, there is the barely-audible sound of something snapping. It was the pencil Linus had been writing with. Yes, in anger, he had just snapped his pencil in half. But the snapping sound may as well have been Linus' last strand of sanity. With each of Charlotte's receding footfalls, the anger rose up higher within him until he charged after her, grabbed her by the shoulders, and screamed maniacally,
"I'LL MAKE YOU
ALL BELIEVE IN THE GREAT PUMPKIN!!! I'LL MAKE YOU BELIEVE, OR YOU'LL PAY!"
Charlotte screamed, but her cry was cut short as Linus, with superhuman strength, picked up Charlotte and shoved her into her own suitcase. He then somehow got to the airport and shipped her back to France, where she arrived safe and sound and lived a long, happy life.
Author's note: Yes, the Mafia hit DAaaMan64, aka Charlotte Braun, a plain ol' townie but no, Linus didn't KILL her - he just took her out of the picture. What did you THINK was going to happen? Peanuts is a family strip, guys, come on."Great Pumpkin," shouted Linus, "They don't believe in you! But I do. I DO! And I'll make them believe... I'll
make them believe, one way or another!!"
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Slowly, word of Charlotte's forced departure spread among the children of the neighborhood.
Charlie Brown, the townie spokesman, stepped up, and said,
You just want me to run over to kick that football then pull it away to watch me fall on my back and kill myself.
The gang seemed confused, so he followed that up with, "Well, we also need to figure out who's guilty! So we'll vote! Everyone get a piece of paper, and write on it who you think is the one responsible for shipping Charlotte back to France in her suitcase."
Everyone got together and voted. The vote turned out to be for
RABicle, who wasn't even around to defend himself. Well, it didn't matter much. They found him, carried him over to the kite-eating tree, and tossed him up there.
"BUT NO!!" RABicle shouted.
"I'm Marcie! I'm the townie investigator!" But it was too late. The tree had a firm hold on RAB and wouldn't let go. "Fine. Guess I'll just hang out here the rest of the game."
Up in the tree, RAB found one of Charlie Brown's old kites, and broke it. Out of spite. And anger.
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Elsewhere! Peppermint Patty, the townie vigilante, had just learned that her friend, Marcie, had been thrown up into the kite-eating tree, and she was furious. She wandered down the street and grabbed the first person she could find. It didn't matter that it was
Spak-Spang, a random adult from the Peanuts universe. She grabbed him, the
poor regular townie, and kicked him so hard in the seat of the pants that he ran home crying, and locked the door.
"Oh," said Peppermint Patty, a little embarrassed. "Chuck's not gonna be happy about that."
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Day 1 SummaryRABicle, aka Marcie the townie investigator, has been voted out.
DAaaMan64, a townie, has been hit by the Mafia.
Spak-Spang, a townie, has been hit by Peppermint Patty, the townie vigilante.
Note: since Peppermint Patty hit an innocent, she will die if she hits another.
No one needs to vote today to survive.
VOTING FOR DAY 2 BEGINS NOW!
Topic: Mafia XXIX: "It's the Great Pumpkin (Mafia), Charlie Brown" Day 2 (Read 12381 times)
