Re: [HOE] "How do you lock the Characters into the Mall?"

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

Sounds vaguely similar to the...uh...crap, I forgot what they're called.
The people in Fallout 2 that lived underground and eventually became so
accustomed to living underground that they couldn't leave.  The descendants
of the survivalists.  Under the old farmhouse.

Man, my memory SUCKS tonight.

Anyway, that's definitely a groovy idea.  That and Theo's BorgMall idea
really should be written up as some sort of collaborative effort and put up
on the site.  Heck, I'd help.

--Kai Tave


>  An idea that I've had in my head since I was in high school was about
>Southcenter Mall, which is here in Seattle.  It's this mall that's been
>around for 30 years, has really high, vaulted celings in places, with
>skylights, and a food court with a HUGE skylight across the whole of it.
>  Oh, and the mall is in the Tukwila valley, where any mudslides or lava
>flows from Mount Rainier would probably end up...
>
>  So I've got this picture in my head of a group of people walking across
>this old field of ash and dried lava, when one of them falls into a
crevasse
>that turns out to be a skylight of the mall, crashing to the floor 40 feet
>below.
>  Turns out when Mount Rainier was erupting, ash and lava covered the mall,
>breaking though many of the doors before hardening, and covering the top
>with a layer of ash and silt.
>  A tribe of (mutants? normal folks?  survivalists?) discovered the big
>skylight into the food court and presently grow crops underneath it.  The
>character (or character) that falls in injures himself, but discovers a
mall
>that doesn't look too picked over, and as the characters loot through the
>mall, they discover they aren't alone...
>
>  I have this image of people walking through a darkened hall, seeing
people
>huddled around flickering fires, watching the characters with suspicion...
>
>  Okay, now I'm gonna have to write this one up.
>
>  Maybe I'll throw in the "Watership Down" Automatons from the Librarian's
>Almanac from last year...
>
>
>
>  - Rich
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