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

[RICH CROTTY <iamrebis@excite.com>]

  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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