The Mall - Remastered: In Print at Space Penguin Ink

The Mall Remastered: The Mall is a wet, gooey, practical effects filled TTRPG adventure set in a 199x mall pulled out of time and space. The mall’s denizens are trapped inside with a creature not bound by any one form. It slithers among them now, preparing to assimilate and imitate its victims until no one is left! 

What is is the Remaster?

This Remastered Edition includes four additional pages of content, a narrative tweak where the mall manager is an active antagonist throughout the module, a new map for the reworked lower levels of the mall, along with a complete overhaul on annotation and re-linking for the entire text.

Touchstones

• John Carpenter's The Thing [Film]. 
• Astron-6's The Void [Film]
• Maggie Siebert's Bonding[Short Story Collection]
• Kazuo Umezz’s The Drifting Classroom [manga]

Soundtrack

The following soundtrack was made using the premise: What if there was an alternate universe  Yellowjackets/Fear Street style mini-series for The Mall.

• Spotify
• Youtube

What's in THE MALL:

• THE MALL is a pdf of a complete adventure module for Liminal Horror. 

• Custom Mall Character Creation:
  • A web-based version of the new character creation is up on the Liminal Horror website. 
• The Drifting Mall: Events throw the mall out of reality, trapping PCs inside. 
• Children of [redacted]: The mall is filled with a quickly propagating "monster" that has the ability to change forms and assume/replace characters. Flesh and fungus body horror is abound as the Children grow in number, assimilating and consuming the denizens of the mall.
  
• Descending Into Chaos: As the reality of being trapped in the mall with a monster that can look like anyone sinks in, the population of the mall fractures in their response to the crisis at hand. 
• Whisper Cards: A new mechanic created for THE MALL. These tiered prompt cards are given out at triggers and help reinforce the horror-movie themes of the game. The more  cards a player recieves, the more likely they are to be REPLACED. 
• DOOM Clock: This is a sequence of events that will happen if the players do nothing (or go their own course). It compiles the motivations of different variables within the module and helps keep events moving toward DOOM. 
• Factions: The Mall has 14 named NPCs (as well as random denizens and those created by players). There are also factions that have drives. They can be interacted with or completely ignored by the party, but they will continue to plot and strive to achieve their goals.
  
• Locations:  There are 23 keyed locations in a massive multi-floored map (based on my local mall, The Lloyd Center). The mall was built over an old mining operation, and as such there is an additional [redacted]
• Encounter and Nightmare Tables: There is content abound to help the Facilitator ratchet up the tension as players struggle to survive in the mall. LIMINAL HORROR (TTRPG )

The Mall is an official adventure module for Liminal Horror (a modern hack of Cairn), it is a rules-lite, fail forward TTRPG system.  The core rules can be accessed a few different ways:

• PDF version can be purchased on it's itch.io page.
• A free web-based version can be found here.
• A physical + pdf can be purchased at Exalted Funeral.

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Contributors:

• Vi Huntsman (@ImmaWaffleBunny) provided dev and copy editing  [website].
• Zach Hazard Vaupen (@zachhazard) created the cover[website].
• Garbage Goat (@Garbagegoat1) made 7 interior illustrations capturing the mall this module is based on [website].
• Trevor Henderson (@slimyswampghost) created an interior illustrations for The Mall [website]

Content Warning

This module has the following content warnings for death, human sacrifice, hallucinations, drugs, people trapped/imprisonment, instances of self-inflicted harm, temporal disorientation, and body horror (bones and foreign objects breaking through skin, unwilling bodily transformation, bodily disfigurement).