Pole Mall
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Pole Mall 26.05 MHz: "Pole Mall is up and powered." |
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West Grayside [52,80], [53,80], [53,81] Basic Info:
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Pole Mall, or Pall Mall as it is known to the beleaguered locals, is a three-block shopping mall built around one corner of Clapton Stadium in the suburb of West Grayside. Pole Mall is unique in this manner, as all other malls have four tiles, with the exception of Lumber Mall, which has two tiles.
Coordinates: [52,80], [53,80], [53,81]
Pole Mall's unique design came when in late 1996, just as the second Mall Boom was drawing to a close, and like many malls in Malton was enacted as a stopgap to a dropping economy. The West Grayside suburban committee discovered at that time that the local economy was tanking, badly. The auto industry had recently hit a massive slump in the local area, temporarily shutting down many of the auto repair shops that made up much of West Grayside's economy. In addition, the Malton Rovers had been stealing many fans away from WG's Clapton Stadium with their recent string of victories, pulling much-needed dollars northward to Floyde Stadium in Barrville. West Grayside needed money- and fast.
Designer Hitoshi Abe was called upon to solve the suburb's crisis - Hitoshi had designed Clapton Stadium ten years earlier, and now saw the problem largely as a matter of business. Other than a few clubs and bars to the south, there was almost nothing to do in West Grayside other than the stadium. The response; build an add-on.
With a quick surge of funding from the city, Abe set out on the fastest and most ambitious construction project of his long-standing career. After only six months of work, Abe proudly cut the ribbon and opened the doors to Pole Mall in early June. The mall was done in the same curving style as the stadium, nestled up close and connected by a series of short, flowing skyways. It looked natural and charming, almost as if it had been built with the stadium rather than ten years after, and it did the trick- within the next three months attendance at Clapton games had tripled, and the suburb's troubles were over.
Pole Mall, though muted white on the outside and containing most of the staples of any Malton mass-shopping establishment, is by and large a gigantic Clapton Stadium gift shop- no other mall in Malton sports so much red, even a post-siege Caiger. Though the general mall decor is a fairly muted color that is easy on the eye, a duck into any of the sports stores or clothing stores will make you think you've walked onto the scene of a massacre. West Graysiders are immensely proud of the Crash- and of their mall. Pole Mall is also bracketed on several sides by tall, gray stone parking garages, which are angled largely in similar shape as the mall itself and often give the misconception that the entire mall is made of stone. Since the outbreak, most of these garages have collapsed after being damaged by various zombie hordes rattling through the area, and since upkeep of garages has never been high priority for survivors they remain collapsed today.
News
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October 2008
October 31st Members from the RRF's Team America were spotted in the NW corner of the mall. Strangely they were not craving bra!nz but instead were asking for "ganbah" , dancing, and repeating something that sounded a whole lot like Happy Halloween! It indeed baffled some survivors, but others knew just what to do! They gave the little zombies the ganbah they were looking for and sent them on their merry way. Oh the strange things Halloween Night brings. -- Zoey Zarg 05:28, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
October 15th The mall is barricaded, no sign of zeds outside. Fully powered. Couple of survivors inside. Everything looks dandy, at the moment. --Kuji Muji 7:55pm, 15 October 2008 (EST)
September 2008
September 19th The mall has been completely retaken with no zeds outside and fully powered... not many survivors inside though.--bhuwannabe 22:21, 19 September 2008 (BST)
September 17th The mall has been retaken and lit in 2 of the 3 corners. Only a few zeds outside... currently needs survivors to help defend it! -- Lucy Daniels 01:02, September 17, 2008 (EST)
September 13th
Section [53,80] of the mall has been breached by 20 zombies. -- Salamanca 04:06, September 13, 2008 (GMT)
September 12th
Pole Mall is back in survivor hands. -- Salamanca 16:58, 12 September 2008 (GMT)
September 11th
It's been an amazing thing to watch this stalemate between Survivor and Zombie, whenever the status of Pole Mall changes, be it sealed by barricades, or ruined by zombies, it's changed every couple of hours. Just when the survivors start to retake the mall, zombies come to reclaim it, and when those zeds get bored and leave, a small group of humans come to evict those remaining. It would seem that the zeds are using Clapton Stadium as a fallback spot when they're purged from the mall, so if the survivors truly want to pull out a victory, they're going to have to go to the nearby Stadium and fight them there.--Lancun 00:16, 11 September 2008 (EST)
September 9th The mall is under zombie hands *possibly ransacked* with the stadium cleared out in all corners and a total of 27 in the cemetery S-E of the stadium waiting to be revived and for reinforcements to arrive and clean the mall up and destroy any zombies in the way!--bhuwannabe 22:21, 9 September 2008 (BST)
September 7th The mall lies in ruins under the combined might of the Militant Order of Barhah and it's feral cloud. There are plenty of viable targets left in the immediate area --TouchingVirus 18:19, 7 September 2008 (BST)
September 6th The mall is being hit by repeated break-ins, but so far all attacks have been repelled. All the same, Pole Mall could benefit from additional defenders; bisfan has been spotted ?rising in the area. --RichterFury 08:08, 6 September 2008 (BST)
Pole Mall's North-West corner has fallen to the might of the Militant Order of Barhah. There are currently around 85 survivors spread throughout the remaining mall and rumours of several inside the stadium to the South-West. The number of casualties/barhah-enlightened is already in the high forties and rising with each wave of attack. The mall is completed dark now, the humm of a generator can't be heard anywhere. Sights of grogh and bisfan only improve their celebrity status amongst the MOB and improve morale. Of course, RichterFury should know that the MOB ?rises to any occassaion - see what I did there? - Seriously, no more freebies... All feral zombies in the area are encouraged to come to the mall and participate in the glorious feast we have prepared -- TouchingVirus 13:00, 6 September 2008 (BST)
September 5th Nine zombies in the northwest corner, barricades there are down, also many zeds in the blocks around the mall.-- User: deathdaniel2 Friday, 5 September 2008 14:50 GMT
It appears that the Militant Order of Barhah has arrived at Pole Mall. Let's be sure to welcome them with open arms, and many tasty "BRA!NZ!!!"--Jcarnell 16:09, 5 September 2008 (BST)
September 3rd Sections [53,80], [53,81] of Pole Mall have both been breached by 1 zombie. The zombie in Section [53,81] has been cleared. The zombie in Section [53,80] is still at large. Section [53,81] barricade level at EHB while section [53,80] barricade level is at VSB. Generator status for all three sections of Pole Mall is unconfirmed.-- Salamanca Thursday, 4 September 2008 04:48: GMT
August 2008
August 26th Calm and quiet. All safe with generators up and running. MJA
July 2008
July 29th The nearby Mall entry point (the fire station) was broken into by a single zombie but was dispatched of easily by Mall patrons before anyone was harmed. Pole Mall remains safe for any survivors. EHB.-- Epicramen
July 2008
July 18th Just arrived at the Firestation next to Pole Mall, the place remains at EHB, no zombies around.--Nonya B 03:49, 19 July 2008 (BST)
Barricading Policy and Mall Entry Points
All three sections of the Mall are to be kept at EHB++ at all times.
The Younghusband Arms (directly below the southeast corner) and Purt Walk Fire Station (in Kempsterbank, due north of Pole's NW corner) are designated VSB+2 entry points.
Radio Frequencies
With the lift on the radio jamming in the city, many new opportunities (and much confusion!) come to the survivors of Pole Mall. The current radio frequencies for each station of interest to the citizens of Pole Mall are to be listed here.
- 26.82 MHz - A radio frequency dedicated to the going ons in Pole Mall.
- 27.15 MHz - The designated mall distress frequency.
