Tompson Mall

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Tompson Mall Lockettside [20, 81] - [21, 82] Poncione Grove (Ruddlebank) St. Alexander's Hospital Ingram Avenue Jenner Lane wasteland (Ruddlebank) Tompson Mall Tompson Mall the Beer Building the Cheeke Building (NT) (Ruddlebank) Tompson Mall Tompson Mall St Irenaeus's Church Hinckesman Bank (Ruddlebank) Butler Avenue wasteland Hind Crescent Railway Station 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.

Tompson Mall is a four-block shopping mall in the suburb of Lockettside.

	Short-wave Radio Info
	This group or location has a dedicated radio frequency. Frequency: 27.20 MHz Transmitter Coordinates: Tompson Mall

Tompson Mall is home to Malton's only headwear specialty shop (aka the Hat Store), which is located in the Northeast corner.

After witnessing the success of Joachim Mall in its first few days, the suburban councils of Malton went berserk- this was the kind of raw capital they needed! Joachim's size alone drew a huge amount of customers, to say nothing of the interior, some coming all the way across the city to shop or just look, and the thought of losing all that money was almost physically painful to the councils. Plans were made immediately to begin work, and thus the Malton Mall Boom of the 70's had begun.

Tompson Mall was the first of these new malls, based almost directly off the Joachim design. Paid for by funding from the community, the foundation was laid down before the gala surrounding Joachim's opening had even ended. It gained mixed reviews as construction progressed- while most of the Southwest was thrilled to not have to travel across town to shop any more, others had already done so and subsequently paid a visit to the site of the new mall, where the similarities made themselves obvious almost right off the bat. Construction was halted for a time as the council withdrew the plans (the first floor had already been built) and made alterations to the upper levels, attempting to make their building stand out from the rest.

When the plans returned, the solid, blocky edges of the Joachim idea now softened towards the top, gliding and merging together to form a circular ring bent lightly inward past the walls. The roof- a solid, no-nonsense work of steel and sheeting- was to have no glass openings at all, precluding the use of natural light for the plazas inherent to the design. In addition, the exterior was to have only the barest ornamentation, preferring bare concrete to flashy paint or siding.

Many railed against the idea at first- it sounded like an abortion of the beautiful look sported by Joachim and the two other malls currently being planned for construction elsewhere. But construction progressed, and slowly the council's vision began to become clear. The mall, while not particularly eye-catching, was aesthetically pleasing to look at due to the softening lines, and those lines drew the eye straight to the roof. On the roof, at points around the shield-like steel cap, twelve gold-plated statues had been affixed, each representing a different point in the Malton constitution. The effect was to draw the viewer closer and closer, and eventually straight inside. There the interior decoration took over, an it was more than able to do its job- spiralling designs of wood and vinyl in various shades of orange and brown created a calming, comfortable effect wholly unlike the exterior ideal and specifically designed to make people want to stay longer- and subsequently, spend more.

While not a hugely acclaimed success, Tompson did reasonably well at its opening and continued to pull in a profit all the way up to the Outbreak, at which point it became a major refugee depot and gathering point for survivors. The success of this can be partially attributed to both its location- the closest mall to six entire suburbs in the south corner which lack their own- and the fact that Tompson Mall is the location of Hats Off, the largest headwear store in the entire city. Even post-Outbreak the store is somehow adding new products to its stock, which states volumes for both the mall and the people who run it.

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Barricades

Tompson Mall was a resource for the Tompson Mall Irregulars and was heavily defended, although never used as a safehouse, to defeat the point of enemies attacking the mall.

The mall is usually kept at max barricades by its inhabitants, and efforts to try and enforce the previous policy of keeping the mall at VS proved futile. Entrances on the west side come and go, and St. Irenaeus's Church to the east is usually at VS.

When the mall is under siege the inhabitants can keep watch using the Thompson Barricade Guard Scheme.

Radio Transmitters

All radio transmitters and portable radios should be tuned to 27.20 MHz. This frequency will be used to distribute news and issue danger reports including Zed break-ins.

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All news prior to June 2009 has been moved here.'"

June 2009

Tompson mall reclaimed from zed control. --Bjorn 19:56, 17 June 2009 (BST)

Historical Section

The Fall Of Tompson

In early January 2006, a large zombie horde comprising of Da Shamblin' WAAAGH, The Undying Scourge, the Minions of the Apocalypse and the Shambling Seagulls laid siege to Tompson Mall and the surrounding area, and after several days of struggle broke through the barricades, slaughtering all within. The slow process of repopulation has now begun, but it may be weeks before the Mall has recovered.

• January 2006 Assault on Tompson Mall
• January 2006 Siege of Tompson Mall

Songs

Tompson has inspired a song, much like a tune was made for Caiger Mall. It remains to be seen if more people will write such songs, or if other malls or important areas will adopt the tradition.

Off to Tompson in the Blue

Off to Tompson in the Blue was written by Arthur Patstone during the April-May ’07 Battle for Tompson Mall. Since the song was written things have turned in favor of the survivors, but at the time the humans in the NW quarter were outnumbered nearly 2 to 1 by their zombie attackers. Arthur wrote the song to rally his fellows, who were the first real comrades he had met in Malton.

Off to Tompson in the Blue

(A tribute to the Tompson Mall Defenders. Keep those ‘cades up boys!)

(Chorus)

And we’re all off to Tompson in the blue, in the blue

Where the zombies die by the ton

Where the axe heads flash and the pistols crash

To the boom of an ol’ shotgun.

Oh I am just a simple scout and I walked the streets all day

Till a sudden thought came to my head that this was not the way

For I’m sick and tired of running, with a life that is forlorn

So I’m off to join the TMD, and I’m off tomorrow morn

I’ll leave aside my length of pipe, I’ll leave aside books for now

I’ll leave aside all but my axe, I’ll make these zombies bow

And I'll leave aside my Mary, she's the girl that I adore

And I wonder if she'll think of me when she hears the undead roar

And when the war is over and dear old Tompson’s free

I'll take her to Irenaeus to wed, and a scout's wife she will be

Well, some men fight for silver and some men fight for gold

But the TMD are fighting for the land that the zombies stole

Written by: Arthur Patstone, adapted from Off To Dublin In The Green

Tune: The Jolly Ploughboy