stateofdecay | 📸 Fashion Show at the Outlet Mall

Everyone is instructed to meet Mara Kaufman at the Bridal Shop in the Prescott Outlet Mall mid-morning on the 6th. A moderately sized indoor shopping mall, it contains several outlet stores, including the Macy’s as well as the only GAP in the Quad area. At the time Day Zero occurred, many outlets were preparing for Prom Season, and as such there is an above-average amount of formalwear still available in the mall.

There are two phases to this event: one where Mara and her scavs will fetch options for everyone who attends, and one where there will be a final fashion show in the Bridal Shop, so selected for its existing raised catwalk. Mara has set up a generator and turned the lights on the Bridal Shop, but the rest of the mall is without power. 

Whitney’s scav corps have already cleared and secured the building of straggler zombies, but [Volunteer A] is jump-scared by one that was hiding in a Macy’s dressing room. Quick, kill it!

Whether or not they participate in the runway show themselves, Beau & Carter Betancourt give everyone a numerical score after they finish their catwalk. Mara awards the highest scorer with a jeweled tiara she found in the Bridal Shop. 

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Beau dragged in a couch from elsewhere in the mall just so they could sit in style for this showing.

"This is black tie formal. You can't be showing knee, Mud." She looks over his outfit again, and makes a note on her handheld whiteboard. "A bit of nipple is fine, though."

Edited (ofc it's a couch sorry) 2024-12-07 21:09 (UTC)

Carter leans on her sister’s shoulder, nodding in approval at whatever is on this whiteboard. “It’s almost a look.” She concedes. “If you had a suit jacket and pants instead of the shorts.”

"Sweatpants," Mud tries to negotiate. "Or assless chaps."

"They're not gonna let you have your ass out," Dutch says skeptically.

"You're saying there ain't gonna be a single ass out?"

“To my understanding, all dinosaurs were extremely shy about their asses.” She says without popping a smile

Beau's whiteboard features a stick figure, with arrows pointing to every part of the body so far Mud wants to be indecently exposed. She writes "ASS" and draws the arrow.

"What if we got you leather pants? Really hug those curves."

"Gonna wind up yanking my damn leg off gettin' 'em off again." This is not necessarily a negative, just a fact.

"We can cut them off you," Beau says, with the confidence of someone who will not be taking on the job of removing Mud's pants after he's spent several hours sweating in them. (Duke and Bunny, maybe. They have strong noses.) "What's your favorite dinosaur?"

Mud gives Beau the confused squint of a man who dropped out in eighth grade and has done everything in his power to not learn a damn thing since.

"Me?"

“Mud, don’t call yourself a dinosaur. That’s so mean.” Carter circles the head of the stick figure and writes brain with little stars around it, as another thing they should be highlighting. Maybe asking a lot of an outfit. But she’s confident

📸 Fashion Show at the Outlet Mall

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.

SHOPPING MONTAGE: Mud & co.