Arena: A large, nice 1.8 million square foot mall with a single floor. Despite being abandoned, everything is stocked, floors are clean, food is fresh, and the lights are on.
The Elephant: The African elephant hunting you has human level intelligence, knows what you look like and smell like, and generally knows your hobbies/interests. The elephant upon confirmation of seeing you will stop at NOTHING to kill you. This elephant also has a slightly buffed sense of smell and hearing which means that farting/coughing/sneezing/sweating/talking loudly will make it more likely to pick up your trail/home in on you. The elephant can read/understand human writing.
Its Minions: Well, you think you can just hide away in some tiny closet?! WRONG! If it is frustrated in finding you; The elephant can press a button that will summon in 6 adult male chimpanzees next to it that also have human level intelligence. 1 of the Chimps has a universal key around its neck. The chimps will take orders from the elephant. If they are told to stick close, they will. If they are told to spread out and hunt, they will. If they are told to check the security cameras, they will. If the chimps find you, they will NOT kill you, rather, they will try to incapacitate you/drag you to the elephant so it can get the kill. They might try to bite into your leg to prevent you from escaping. As well, the Chimps also know how to operate security cameras. The chimps understand/can read human writing.
The Start of the Challenge: You will start off in a large department store (Macys) right next to the elephant. When the challenge starts, the 1st 4 minutes, the elephant will be frozen in place unable to see/hear/smell/sense you. Wisely take that 4 minutes to get away as much as possible/find a hiding spot/ etc! You will have a stopwatch that will show you the time once the challenge starts.
Success: You MUST stay in the mall for 24 hours to survive, and upon the time being up, the elephant (and the chimps if it summons them) will despawn violently aka explode (The elephant knows it’s possible fate, so it is very motivated to get you). You will also receive 35 million dollars as a reward for your adventure.
Failure: The elephant will ensure the slowest possible death for you.
Do you accept?
Not sure.
I think what i would do is try to get strong perfume (or other things that smell) and (when i was fast enough) spray some at the freezed elephant and then get a stash of food and hide, destroying at best most cameras on my way and spraying perfume all around
I probably should also look for weapons like pepper spray or something I honestly would hope for normal human intelligence because i often found hiding places some people would not checkBut i would likely die because i dont really have stamina so i could die before getting somewhere safe enough
Thats not a bad strategy at all. I like it. Smart on the weapons thing, idk why I didn’t think of that. It would definitely help that’s for sure
Sure. I’ll be in the electrical closet in the back of women’s shoes on the third floor. Women’s shoes is always the largest stock room with several floors. To save space most utilities will also be in this space. The floors are subdivided and barely tall enough for an adult male to walk through because large stacks of shoe boxes is not good and the need to separate colors sizes and styles is large. This department is driving the store and is only ever rivaled by the kids department but usually by a distant second and kids is a much smaller backroom stock. There should be a narrow back hallway that connects to cosmetics and the logistics dock. That will be barely large enough for an adult man.
I’m the crazy guy wielding the large wire from the air conditioning system. It is 3 phase 480 volts. Not that I need it. The metal scaffolding and racks for the floors are all connected to high voltage. You must cross those to get to the central pillar with the service elevator on the other side of this reinforced concrete bunker of a pillar that supports the air-conditioning units and utilities. Wake me up in the morning after the fireworks or when the barbeque is done. I’ve never eaten chimp or elephant before, shockingly.
Wow. You really thought this through, didn’t you ? Lol
I’ve worked Macy’s and Nordstrom… and American Eagle in my teens.
I am great at selling many things, but not women’s shoes. Back when I worked this stuff Nordstrom had around a dozen people making 6 figures or more in women’s shoes. I worked in a store that had 3 of them. When new stock came in for rare stuff, half of it went to these people. They had credit cards on file for many people and shipped them the inventory directly site unseen. I can tech sell all day long, but to read your emotions and know when to and when not to say ‘hot damn,’ nope, I’m not that guy. I can be honest and positive, but never emotionally manipulative for my own benefit. I had a lot of time to ponder that while playing stiletto fetch.
I was a pretty dumb kid too cause it never occurred to me how some people do that job for creepy reasons. Like I just knew the manager for women’s shoes at Nordstrom. I was a hotshot at Macy’s, but in men’s shoes and suits. AE was a summer in high school. The others were 18-19yo me… A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
Sadly op said it has only one floor
The stock rooms are subdivided between floors. What looks like typical high ceilings in a single story department store will be 2-3 floors in the back stock rooms. The floors are just very low ceilings. It has to do with quick access to good organization and maximum shelf space.
No! 7 human level intelligences in a confined space with me that will stop at nothing to kill me, they could always burn the mall down…
Holy cow that’s true! I didn’t think of that !
