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The [[GameStop]] situation isn't over. Melvin squeaks “my shorts! My shorts! As the promontory on which he is marooned is thrust higher. The rate of ascent is slower but it is clear there is no way down.
The [[GameStop]] situation isn't over. Melvin squeaks “my shorts! My shorts! As the promontory on which he is marooned is thrust higher. The rate of ascent is slower but it is clear there is no way down.


Graeber flees into the retail maelstrom
Graeber flees into the retail maelstrom, taking bedding and placards he has at last found his calling.
 
[[John Thomas “J.T.” Palmer|J.T. Palmer]] hollers “Graeber! Graeber! You'll be killed! But to no avail.


===Clear-out of the retail ghettos===
===Clear-out of the retail ghettos===
IOSCO tanks roll into the demilitarised zone, bombing civilian facilities in the search for concealed FWMD. Wickliffe lends munitions and vehicles to the effort, pulling out day traders in a cynical show trials that suggest some malign retail force, and that Wickliffe and the professional industry is the victim.
IOSCO tanks roll into the demilitarised zone, bombing civilian facilities in the search for concealed FWMD. Wickliffe lends munitions and vehicles to the effort, pulling out pink-haired day traders in a cynical show trials that suggest some malign retail force, and that Wickliffe and the professional industry is the victim.
 
Meanwhile a resistance is brewing — the Occupy Wall Street movement led by none other than Officer Graeber.
 
Attention is thus diverted toward the retail clear outs and the protests, while the FWMD smuggling can continue apace.
 
Boone notices the grey sedan, with the driver, going the other way.
 
[[The alpha dens]]