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Description: Unfortunately for survivors, the mall was built to let people in instead of keeping people out. There are numerous entrances and exits scattered around the mall, and that doesn’t even include the direct entrances and exits some stores have. Everyone agrees that a lock isn’t enough. Rather than have the worst happen, everyone is encouraged to scavenge and locate what they can from the mall and use it to help barricade and block off entrances. At least one entrance has been barricaded and set up to use as a main entrance and exit. The rest need to be reinforced.

Goal: RP your survivor finding something to help barricade the mall. It can be a table or chairs from one of the many stores, or even one of the stands out in the middle of the mall floor. Have them add it to a barricade. There are barricades that lead directly to the mall, as well as barricades within stores themselves.

First time doing this quest? Please write a minimum of 100 words for 1 Arcade Token.

Repeating? Minimum word count jumps up to 300 in order to claim your 1 Arcade Token.

Feeling wordy? Go above and beyond the bare minimum for additional tokens! You need to meet this word count while doing the quest, so no going back to pad your quest to claim tokens! These token bonuses do not stack, so you can't write 100 words to claim 1 token, then add 300 words to claim 2 more tokens.

500 words = 2 Arcade Tokens.
600 words = 3 Arcade Tokens.
700 words = 4 Arcade Tokens.
800 words = 5 Arcade Tokens.


Stumped? Now’s a great time for your character to reflect on the crazy things that have gone down. Maybe they’re upset and need to calm down by nailing things into the barricade. Maybe they’re feeling creative and think the barricades could use more color and decide to go crazy with some glitter glue. The only requirement (aside from the word count) is that your character is doing something to improve the barricades protecting them and everyone else from the infected.

Whistle While You Work: Doing stuff alone is fine, but you don’t have to solo! Feel free to play along with some friends as you work together. The word count can be spread out throughout your total posts for the day.

The empty boxes don't do much, one would say. Gretel will look at you as if you were some low level unidentified creatures off the earth because you obviously don't use your brain and would die when something happens. She dragged the trolley through the stopped escalators, they were all stopped because it consumed a lot of energy, her destination was the grocery shop on the second floor.

There were popular brands but there were some small shops that were not that popular, those were Gretel's targets. She looted the useless trinkets no one would bother in the crisis, they didn't make good money however abundant of them would make magic and Gretel would be the magician. She folded the boxes, sealed the bottoms with the reliable duct tapes she found in the same storage room where the trolley was located. Making sure the seal was good enough, she poured the trinkets she collected into the box, the sound was as pleasant as fall of rain drops. When one was filled up, she repeated for the second box until all were filled.

Fake jewels that little girls would fond of, small trivial rusted metal cars, sparkly crystal balls that holding non-water, plastic price tags, notebooks in pile as well as color books. They weighed nothing individually but together they could give difficulty for someone to lift up. Her lips curved up in the least motion for her work and pushed the heavier trolley until she was near the escalator. Gretel put down some boxes aside and secured the rest with ropes she found earlier. The stairs worked like a jaggy slope and she carefully controlled the wheels of the trolley to prevent it roll down. She exhaled in relief reaching the bottom of it without disaster, she unloaded the boxes and went upstairs, loaded the remaining boxes onto the trolley and did it again. In the last turn, she piled the boxes she put down on the floor onto the trolley again and walked towards the destroyed entrance.

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It was another day and the job of reinforcement never come to an end until all the materials inside the mall had been used up. Like last time, she first checked where might have a breach or need further reinforcement. Some ignorant people might take whatever they see without thinking, people always think about themselves first, Gretel believed. She walked around the ground floor of the mall, the main entrance was already blocked with layer and layer of big obstacles, through the gaps between, she could peek there were infected dragging aimlessly.

Maybe it was the strong odor, they didn't seem to think of approaching the mall. She didn't find any entrances needed help on the east wing, so she moved on to the west through a long corridor. Since it was another side from where the bar located, it was quiet. However, Gretel was used to quietness. She soon sighed at the entrance with only a broom diagonally blocking the way. It should be what she needed to work on. After deciding, she had to collect materials, she thought IKEA would have what she wanted.

Since IKEA was open for adventure, the giant furniture there were looted for setting up barricades. Yet, it was not that easy since the store was like a big maze. She prepared herself with notepad, pen and make sure the whistle was on her before she braved in. The big store without lights was much better than when its lights flickered, it distracted your concentration and made the environment creepy.

Gretel grabbed a cart at the entrance, it was better than she holding the stuff by herself. Walking in the wide corridor, IKEA looked like a big monster. It was very quiet, even the sound of the rolling wheels can be heard clearly. She had made a plan, only search for the closest few rows from the entrance.

She would have taken the heavier props if not she was a weak girl which didn't do exercises besides jogging. Therefore, she weighed the boxes with un-assembled articles and selected those with right shapes and weights to put in her cart. Soon one cart is filled, and she grabbed the second cart while pushing the first one towards the entrance. She checked the first few rows and almost emptied them besides the big one, and it left her no choice but pushed forwards to check the next few rows.

Looked up to the sign hanging from the ceiling, with the flickering lights that gave her a headache, she barely saw it read "living room". Gretel thus believed the boxes she picked up were some low cupboard and storages for living room. Her hand touched some rolled up articles, pulling it out to check revealed it was rug for the floor. It weighed slightly lighter than carpet, Gretel thought it would be good for the base material as it's heavy to move but easy to roll around. With both hands, she hugged the rug into the shopping cart. It was a mistake.......she was too concentrated in filling her forth cart but she didn't notice she was going further inside.

More than that, the lights went out when she realized she was lost, not knowing where the entrance was. "Huge mistake......" she sighed. Pulling her cart, she wandered in the store, losing orientation. The surrounding was too dark to view her sketch, she wished she didn't need to use the whistle, that was too embarrassed.

Slowly she began to talk to herself, like "this way, not that way is the north?", she paused and awkwardly turned to another, walked a few steps and frowned in confusion. Without the lights, the store with clear indications became a maze to her......

It took her longer than expected to get out, luckily she did. With her ten carts of stuff, which she had to carry each cart down the escalator. Gretel already breathed heavily when all the carts were next to her. She took a short rest, not having any food or water had made her weak and had the danger of dehydration. She needed to make sure she let her body rest enough before doing other things. Again, humans are selfish, she had to take care of herself first.

She took the boxes off the carts and bean to assemble them according to the instruction. Soon, there were cupboards, coffee table, shelves. Gretel used the rugs for the base level, then she pushed the furniture towards the row of rugs. Since wounds would be bad at the time being, she carefully climbed up a ladder she found besides the entrance and put the coffee table up the shelves she lay horizontally. She had built a mini tower in front of said entrance, with the spaces of the shelves filled up with smaller objects like irons and table lamps for better strength.

Total: 812 words