Coffee-break exercise: Trick or treat

On a piece of paper, make a list of five tricks and five treats.

Now allocate a character to each trick and each treat.

Then choose one trick and one treat character and see how they play off each other, leading up to a jumpscare or an uncanny manifestation.

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