Pole Mall

[52,80], [53,80], [53,81] (bic) (statuses) (update) Pole Mall 26.00 MHz: The mall is barricaded with no zombies outside the structure. Sirbradock (talk) 13:30, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Pole Mall West Grayside [52,80], [53,80], [53,81] Cundham Drive (Kempsterbank) Purt Walk Fire Station (Kempsterbank) Keppel Boulevard (Kempsterbank) Club Tremlett (Kempsterbank) Blackburn Alley Pole Mall Pole Mall Pettman Alley Clapton Stadium Clapton Stadium Pole Mall a carpark Clapton Stadium Clapton Stadium the Younghusband Arms Goodenough Boulevard Basic Info: Malls are an excellent place to find a wide range of items; the only major items that cannot be found here are revivification syringes and fuel cans. As such, Malls are frequently used as safehouses and fortresses by survivors. Zombies often check inside (when they can get in), and organized zombie groups sometimes lay siege to them. They are listed as a Tactical Resource Point. Characters with the Shopping skill can loot specific stores. Those without will find these items at random: Bookstore: books, poetry books. Drugstore: first aid kits. Gun Store: pistols, pistol clips, shotguns, shotgun shells. Hardware Store: crowbars, fire axes, flare guns, spray cans, knives, portable generators, toolboxes. Liquor Store: beer, wine. Sporting Goods: baseball bats, Binoculars, cricket bats, fencing foils, golf clubs, hockey sticks, pool cues, ski poles, tennis rackets. Tech Store: GPS units, mobile phones, radios, radio transmitters. Malls are large buildings, and are barricaded as such.

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 blocks, with the exception of Lumber Mall, which has two blocks.

Coordinates: [52,80], [53,80], [53,81]‎

An inside view of the mall days before the outbreak

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

• February 28 ^th* Some survivors tried to take back the pole mall, but they failed. pole mall still in zombie hands . --w00t

• February 25 ^th* After a few attempts to secure pole mall, it has once again fallen to the zombies, pole mall is ruined. --simmitynl

• February 07 ^th* Zombies have gotten to SE, at 10+ as they are dragging outside and killing. No barricade whatsoever. --Kerem Landm

• November 26 ^th* Zombies have overrun NW, numbers at 30+ as they begin to move into NE. --Amnennar
• November 24 ^th* seems the zombie activity has died down 3 zombies alive with 35 dead in NW 7 dead in NE and 2 dead in SE 2 alive and unknown dead outside of Purt Fire house, A frequently used Entry point. -- Shadowskater
• November 14^th 29 outside NW corner. The Mall still holds out, NE and SE have power, all corners currently EHB. A lot of healthy survivors inside. --Alexander Ignus
• September 17^th 20+ zombies in each of the northern corners, only about a dozen survivors still inside the southeast corner. West Grayside revive points are clogged with the defenders. Poll Mall has fallen. Smoked 08:40, 17 September 2010 (EST)
• September 15^th

LUEshi's Rangers continue to attack Pole Mall, with at least 42 confirmed casualties within the last two days. This is unrelated to the zerging PKer problem. --Cummisar 10:03 EST

• July 18^th

We need people to cade, FAK, and stay in NW corner. Mike411 05:05, 18 July 2010 (BST)

• July 04^th

All sections EHB with power, at least half a dozen survivors in each. 3 zombies outside northwest section. Everybody get in here. --Nick Sawyer 06:44, 4 July 2010 (GMT)

• July 02^sc

3 zed remain the northeast section, that is ruined as well, one survivor spotted, fighting them. The other two is lightly barricaded, no zombie outside. No genny either. --HunButcher 18:12, 2 July 2010 (BST)

• June 26^th

75+ Zombies inside. All 3 sides ruined along with Clapton Stadium. Big Bash 3 has come to West Grayside.--Black Tongue 23:16, 26 June 2010 (BST)

• May 22^th

All's well.--Feyrlt 00:43, 23 May 2010 (BST)

• May 03^th

The Mall is rebuilt and powered, lots of survivors inside. --Josh Grimes 12:29am Tuesday (GMT)

• April 25^th

The mall has fallen again --Feyrlt 01:05, 26 April 2010 (BST)

• April 23^th

Rebuilding, but not many survivors around. --Feyrlt 01:38, 24 April 2010 (BST)

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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), Purt Walk Fire Station (in Kempsterbank, due north of Pole's NW corner), and Club Tremlett (also in Kempsterbank, North east of Pole's NE 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.

• 26.19 MHz - The official West Grayside frequency.
• 27.55 MHz - The frequency of adjacent Kempsterbank, often heard in the NE corner.