The Mall

**The Mall** is the third area in the game *Blue's Journey: Time's Up*. It is where Blue, Kane and Zarah travel to after escaping the Circus.

## Appearance

The Mall resembles a rundown mall that's been abandoned for years. Their are various graffiti left by other children giving hints. the walls are cloaked in wooden planks and wires hanging from the ceiling. The halls have been decked in corpses of dead Shoppers and children. Various shops seem to be blocked by fallen rubble. The only ones still assessable is an arcade, a Toyshop, a Clothes shop, a Food Court, and a Movie Theater.

## Playable

* Blue
* Zarah
* Kane
* Stellar

## Solution

The children adventure into the Mall and see its a giant shopping area. The Kids rest for a moment. Blue is out of breath and face is purple.

**Blue**: "That...goddamn...clown..."

**Kane**: "Catch your breath, pal. How are you feeling?"

**Blue**: "I feel fine. Alright, where are we?"

**The Protector**: "We're in...a mall."

The Mall resembles a rundown mall that's been abandoned for years. Their are various graffiti left by other children giving hints. the walls are cloaked in wooden planks and wires hanging from the ceiling. The halls have been decked in corpses of dead Shoppers and children. Various shops seem to be blocked by fallen rubble. The only ones still assessable is an arcade, a Toyshop, a Clothes shop, a Food Court, and a Movie Theater.

**Zarah**: "Blue is your back feeling okay?"

**Blue**: "Yeah, its just a scratch...It'll heal"

The kids walk around fora while until a bouncy ball randomly rolls up to them.

**Stellar**: "A ball? Where'd that come from?"

A Shopper will fall down from an upper floor and rush to the room in front of him.

The Shoppers are much bigger than Blue, standing three times his size. The Shoppers are human-looking monsters, having normal body proportions except for their slightly larger heads; and dressing in blackish (male) or red (female) casual or business casual attire. They also have different hairstyles, and also some being somewhat obese compared to the others. The males wear hats while the females wear bonnets. Their faces reveal their cut open mouths possessing sharp teeth and huge gums. Blood is pouring from their teeth and gums. Their eyes are a milky white socket. Some of them are multiple eyeballs or empty black eye sockets. Some of the Shoppers have Televisions, Clocks, or cable wires for heads.

**Blue**: "Woah!"

**The Protector**: "Step back everyone!

The Shopper stands up and twitched out of control. He runs into another room thats out of view. The kids will see that the shopper has rammed his head into a clock, dead.

**Stellar**: "Protector, you know what this thing is?"

**The Protector**: "I believe their called Shoppers. They're mindless monsters. Don't worry, just ignore them and stay out of their view."

Blue and the others will enter a dark kitchen store with some Shoppers inspecting some plates. The Shoppers are knocking over various items and attempting to fight over another. The Protector signals the children to keep quiet. Ignore them and move forward, then enter the gap through the door. They also find a tool shop filled with power tools. The Shoppers are inspecting, but some of them can be seen fighting each other for a power drill in the background. Another shop they find is an arcade, where their are child sized Shoppers playing on the arcade machines. Disturbing any of them will result in a game over. They exit the various shops and go towards the center and it is revealed to them they are in a massive sized Mall. The 4 Kids aren't sure where to go, so they separate in hopes to find the way out.

**Blue**: "Great, ANOTHER fork in the road!"

**Zarah**: "Anywhere can lead to an exit."

**The Protector**: "Well, we're NOT gonna split up again are we?"

**Blue**: "Protector, Kane and Stellar are already gone. Hmph, Protector you stay with Zarah. I'm going through the toystore..."

**Zarah**: "I'll go through the clothes shop."

**The Protector**: "Hold on, shouldn't we stay together You sure you wanna split up?"

**Blue**: "Yeah, I'll be fine."

Blue goes into the Toystore. Blue sees plenty of child sized Shoppers playing with the toys in the background. There is a female child shopper standing near the exit of the room. Blue must distract it with messing with a few toys. Blue topples a box over which gets her attention. Blue has to lure it far enough for him to be able to avoid her. Blue quickly avoids her seeing him and he goes inside of The Toystore's closet. Upon reaching the door, another Shopper spots him. Blue runs inside the room and pushes a shelf onto its body, crushing and killing it. He then hears a horde of them coming into the room and start to crawl through he door. He climbs up another shelf and into a vent.

Zarah goes inside a clothes shop. She encounters adult sized Shoppers.

**The Protector**: "Alright, be careful. Don't make any noise."

She sees a Shopper inspecting some clothes and appears to have a key in his pocket.

**Zarah**: "Protector, I have an idea and it involves me making noise

Zarah spots a wet floor, so she makes loud noises to make The Shopper see her. The shopper chases Zarah, but The Shopper slips on water and slides out of the shop. The Shopper bursts through a door and falls down a flight of stairs and snaps his own neck.

**Zarah**: "Erh! Are you okay??? Why am I asking if a monster is okay?!"

**The Protector**: "Well, I suppose that works to."

The key has fallen out of its pocket and Zarah runs to pick it up. She uses it to unlock the backstage. Zarah pushes open the door and has to climb over boxes to get to a vent.

**The Protector**: "Zarah! Some more are getting in."

She turns around to see a Shopper has wandered in. Zarah and The Protector quickly rips open the vent and crawls through.

Kane enters a food court. Kane walks around the food area. The tables are smashed and broken. Kane finds an exit to the store, but it is boarded up.

**Kane**: "You've gotta be kidding me. I need something to cut the boards. Stellar, are- Stellar?! Crap, she must've got lost...Why did we have to split up again?!"

Kane needs to find an axe to cut off the boards. While searching, many Shoppers are roaming around the area.

**Kane**: "I hate these things! Maybe theres something in the kitchen I can use."

Kane finds the axe in the kitchen area. Kade must then walk all the way to the other side of the room again and cuts off the boards to the door.

**Kane**: "Yes! Now, I can leave!"

A Shopper breaks through the door and notices Kane. Kaneis quick to react and smashes its feet with the axe and it collapses onto the ground. He then jams it in the skull multiple times to make sure the damn thing is dead. Kade enters the stairway and goes downstairs hoping to find an exit.

**Kane**: "Its not much, but hopefully I'll find Stellar."

Stellar finds a movie theater and finds a theater showing a massive row of Shoppers watching a movie where a bunch of clocks are showing on screen.

**Stellar**: "Ugh! I can't believe I lost Kane. What's wrong with me?!"

Stellar sneaks in the middle rows to try and go around all The Shoppers. Stellar must not make any loud noises and sounds or she'll be spotted. Stellar eventually is lead up to where the projector is. When trying to leave the room, she accidentally knocks The projector over, angering all the Shoppers.

**Stellar**: "Oops!"

They break through the projector room and chases Stellar. Stellar quickly goes through a door that has a long flight of stares. Stellar is chased all the way towards the basement. Blue, The Protector, and Zarah fall into the basement by the vent.

**Zarah**: "Blue! Your okay!"

**Blue**: "Yeah, but where's everyone else?!"

Kane finds the basement via the stairs. He rushes to Blue and Zarah to help them up.

**Kane**: "Yes! I'm glad you guys are safe! Where's Stellar?! I lost her on the way here."

**The Protector**: "Is that her?!"

The Protector points to Stellar, who runs right into them.

**Blue**: "OW!!!"

**Kane**: "Stellar! Your- OW! Okay!"

**The Protector**: "Guys! Get up and run!"

The Shoppers form a mob and starts to chase the children throughout the basement of the Mall. This goes on for a while until they find another staircase which leads to an emergency exit. They quickly leave and land into the streets. The kids run in the streets of The Chronometer. Blue stops to catch his breath.

**Blue**: "We're safe! We're all safe!"

**Zarah**: "Blue! Your face is turning purple again!"

**Blue**: "Just...need to catch my breath. We need to find a place to sleep."

**Kane**: "How about there?"

Kane points to The Chronometer's Apartment Buildings. The kids exchange looks.

**The Protector**: "Well, hopefully we can find food there. Come on and stay behind me..."

The kids enter the Apartments and walk up to an apartment room with a bed. TV, tables, and a refrigerator. The kids lay down on the bed to rest. Blue looks out the window and stares into the night sky.

## Trivia

* The Mall seems to be the home of most of the cities' residents.