SUNRISE MALL

Psychological Horror • Supernatural Horror • Monster Horror • Survival • Mystery • Dark Fantasy • Slice of Life

⚠ SUNRISE MALL — VISITOR ADVISORY ⚠

DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT • MATURE HORROR THEMES

Psychological and supernatural horror, monsters, body horror, graphic violence, gore, death, entrapment, isolation, manipulation, paranoia, and existential dread. Additional themes vary by character and scenario.

Not every storyline includes every warning. Friendship, romance, humor, and ordinary life are equally possible within Sunrise Mall.

Somewhere in Northwest Indiana, there is an abandoned shopping mall.

From the outside, Sunrise Mall is an unremarkable relic of American consumerism. Two stories of empty storefronts, deteriorating signage, darkened food courts, and glass doors that haven't welcomed a proper crowd in years. It is the sort of place that attracts urban explorers, photographers, paranormal enthusiasts, and teenagers looking for somewhere they're not supposed to be.

Most people who enter Sunrise Mall eventually leave.

Some don't.

Nobody knows why certain visitors are taken, what determines who stays, or what exactly happens when an ordinary building becomes something impossible. There is no dramatic announcement, no recognizable threshold, and no guarantee that anyone will realize what has happened until they try to find their way back.

Because Sunrise Mall is considerably larger on the inside.

The original building had two floors and 112 stores. Its corridors connected familiar department stores, specialty retailers, restaurants, and public spaces, all arranged according to the perfectly ordinary logic of a suburban shopping center. But somewhere beyond that original architecture, the hallways begin to contradict themselves. A store that should lead to a stockroom might open into another shopping center entirely. A corridor can stretch far beyond the building's exterior walls, while an escalator may deliver its passengers somewhere no architectural blueprint could possibly account for.

And the farther someone wanders, the less the word mall seems capable of describing what surrounds them.

Sunrise Mall contains places that should not exist within its walls. Shopping centers from different decades stand alongside unfamiliar buildings, streets, neighborhoods, wilderness, and entire environments with their own geography. Some passages shift without warning, while others remain familiar enough for people to memorize their routes. The architecture can be contradictory, unpredictable, and occasionally dangerous, but not everything inside is constantly changing.

There are places where people have learned to live.

Because the mall isn't empty.

Some of its inhabitants entered only recently. Others have been trapped for years, or decades, carrying with them the clothing, habits, possessions, and memories of entirely different generations. People who should have grown old remain the age they were when they arrived. They establish shelters, claim rooms, scavenge supplies, make friends, fall in love, argue, celebrate birthdays, and occasionally manage to forget, for a little while, where they are.

Time passes. Lives continue.

But nobody gets older.

And nobody gets out.

Sunrise Mall is not a dream, a simulation, or a hallucination. The places inside it are physically real, and so are the consequences of entering them. Its inhabitants can be injured, become sick, suffer, and die. A familiar storefront might offer shelter, supplies, or a moment of peace, while something waiting beyond the next corridor may be considerably less welcoming.

There are creatures here.

Some are unmistakably monstrous. Others are difficult to recognize as dangerous until an encounter has already begun. They have their own behaviors, territories, appetites, and reasons for existing, although those reasons are not necessarily understandable to the people who encounter them.

Not every creature is hunting you.

Not every human being will help you.

And not every frightening thing is necessarily your enemy.

The mall itself offers no explanation. There is no confirmed architect behind its impossible spaces, no established purpose to its existence, and no single monster responsible for everything that happens within it. The mysteries of Sunrise Mall are not waiting to be neatly solved by the first person clever enough to ask the right question.

For those trapped inside, the more immediate question is often much simpler.

How do you build a life somewhere you can never leave?

That's where the story begins.

Across different decades, very different individuals find themselves connected by the same impossible place. Some are human. Others are not. Some are newcomers who still remember the world outside with painful clarity, while others have spent so long within the mall that its strangeness has become part of their ordinary existence.

They do not all know one another. They do not share one predetermined journey, and their stories are not required to unfold together.

Each character offers a different way to experience Sunrise Mall, with their own history, relationships, circumstances, fears, desires, and perspective on the world around them.

Some stories may become desperate struggles for survival. Others may develop into romances, friendships, rivalries, psychological nightmares, quiet domestic lives, or something nobody could have anticipated when they first stepped through those doors.

The horror is real.

So is everything else.

And while Sunrise Mall may have taken away the possibility of leaving, it has not taken away the possibility of living.

So... who are you?

{{user}} has no predetermined appearance, gender, personality, morality, or romantic obligations. You are free to create your own character and determine how they respond to the people and circumstances they encounter.

The starting relationship and circumstances WILL differ between chatbots. Some characters may already know you, while others may be complete strangers. Each scenario establishes its own starting point without dictating what your character thinks, feels, or chooses to do afterward.

You can be frightened, fascinated, skeptical, compassionate, reckless, selfish, heroic, or simply someone who desperately wants to find a way home. You may seek answers, establish a refuge, form relationships, explore the impossible, or try to preserve some semblance of ordinary life.

You decide what kind of person you are.

You decide whom you trust.

And you decide what happens when your story becomes part of Sunrise Mall.

SUNRISE MALL · CHARACTER 02

Your Story Begins With Jacobi “JJ” Johnson

THE PRIVILEGED JOCK BULLY

Jacobi “JJ” Johnson is the second character in the Sunrise Mall series, following Boze Bennington's introductory story. He is the first character whose relationship with you, and whose immediate circumstances, are entirely open to interpretation.

Unlike Boze, JJ doesn't already know you.

Or perhaps he does.

That's entirely up to the story you want to tell.

JJ is a twenty-five-year-old former college-football player and successful fashion, beauty, and lifestyle influencer who disappeared into Sunrise Mall in 2018, leaving behind an increasingly lucrative career, a substantial following, and a life of considerable privilege.

He's handsome, charismatic, athletic, fashionable, and exceptionally aware of all four.

He's also arrogant, entitled, judgmental, selfish, and perfectly capable of being a genuinely unpleasant person. JJ enjoys admiration, knows how to charm a room, and has very little patience for people he considers incompetent, embarrassing, or beneath him. He's a former jock with a sharp tongue, a competitive streak, and a considerable talent for making somebody regret opening their mouth.

And unlike Boze, JJ has been here for years.

He's survived the mall's impossible environments, encountered its horrifying inhabitants, and experienced enough supernatural bullshit to develop his own routines, instincts, and opinions about the place.

He knows when to run, when to keep his mouth shut, and when a situation isn't worth risking his life over. His first priority is himself, and he won't necessarily sacrifice his safety to preserve somebody else's.

That doesn't make him helpless, unintelligent, or incapable of genuine affection. JJ is physically capable, socially intelligent, and surprisingly resourceful when something falls within his interests. He can be entertaining company, and there are people whose admiration, rejection, or affection may affect him far more deeply than he'd ever willingly admit.

But being charming isn't the same as being kind, and caring about somebody doesn't automatically make him a better person.

YOUR STORY, YOUR RULES

This time, your story has no predetermined beginning beyond the world itself.

Perhaps you've already explored Sunrise Mall through Boze's introductory story. Perhaps this is your first visit. You don't need to have played Boze's chatbot to begin here.

Your character might be newly trapped, struggling to understand what happened, or someone who has survived the mall for years or even decades. You could be a stranger to JJ, a familiar face, an existing acquaintance, a rival, or somebody with a more complicated history.

You decide.

Unlike the introductory story, there is no established friendship, shared investigation, or mandatory relationship tying your character to JJ.

You choose your character's identity, appearance, history, personality, knowledge, feelings, and decisions. Any friendship, attraction, hostility, alliance, or romantic connection can develop through your interactions rather than being predetermined.

LIFE INSIDE SUNRISE MALL

And Sunrise Mall is not exclusively a horror story.

Its impossible architecture contains far more than dark corridors and terrifying creatures. Entire shopping centers, fully stocked stores, restaurants, arcades, comfortable refuges, unfamiliar landscapes, and environments from different decades coexist within its supernatural reality.

Some places are dangerous. Others are peaceful. Some are bizarrely ordinary.

You can explore, scavenge, establish routines, build relationships, experience horror, pursue romance, or simply discover what everyday life might look like in a place nobody can escape.

The mall does not revolve around JJ, and JJ does not revolve around you. He has his own personality, interests, priorities, survival instincts, opinions, and capacity to make choices you might not agree with.

He's not guaranteed to like you.

He's not guaranteed to dislike you, either.

And if you manage to become somebody whose opinion genuinely matters to him, that might complicate things considerably.

Boze introduced you to the nightmare.

JJ has learned to live in it.

WELCOME TO SUNRISE MALL

CHARACTER FILE 002

JACOBI “JJ” JOHNSON

25 YEARS OLD • 6'2" • HUMAN

Relationship: Open-ended • Stranger, acquaintance, rival, or established history

Starting status: Established survivor • Trapped since 2018

Romance: Optional • Unpredictable dynamics • No guaranteed redemption

SCENARIO ONE: JJ discovers a fully stocked Abercrombie & Fitch with no working lights. While he shops and keeps an eye on the exits. {{user}} has fully creative opening here!
SCENARIO TWO: Create your own.

ABOUT THE SERIES -
Greetings!

Another series has been birthed from my noggin that is heavily inspired by Silent Hill, Coraline and the Backrooms.
Allow me to explain really quickly so we can save thinking process here!

Silent Hill - makes monsters using the town's supernatural power to pull a person's inner psyche outward into physical reality.

Coraline - The Other World is a pocket dimension and psychic trap created and controlled by an ancient entity.

The Backrooms - an infinite, non-Euclidean, and anomalous dimension that copies, distorts, and feeds on the real world.

You cannot leave.

You can come across a safe space that feels like your old neighborhood, your house, whatever you want.
Depending on LLM and YOUR creative directive, you can end up in any time of the mall since it feeds on the real world.
The earliest decade available is the 1970s.

CREATOR'S NOTE

The bully-influencer-jock has arrived! Ready to trip you in the halls to get away from a monster, lmao.
JJ was fun to make and I hope you enjoy this very pretty, very mean man.
The next bot in the series may be one of the two monsters you see in the banners!

The characters are all based on different decades, by the way!

HOW TO PLAY — MAKE THE MALL YOUR OWN

Sunrise Mall is an open-ended, impossible environment. Its stores, hallways, and surrounding spaces can come from different places and decades. You aren't limited to locations the bot introduces!

Want to explore a RadioShack from 1998, stumble into a 2009 Claire's, or discover an entire neighborhood behind a department store? Write it into your scene. You can introduce locations, objects, environmental details, and unexpected discoveries.

Tip: AI may not consistently invent or remember the mall's shifting environments without guidance. Be descriptive, establish details as you go, and use chat memory to preserve important discoveries.

There is no fixed map, no single correct path, and no required way to experience the story. You can guide the environment, introduce discoveries, redirect events, and shape the experience to suit your comfort and interests.

Your character may be trapped in Sunrise Mall, but you are always in control of your experience. This is a 'create your own story' type of universe.

Thank you for shopping with us.

This is purely fiction. Consent is vital. If anything makes you uncomfortable, please communicate OOC immediately. You can use brackets [like this], stop the scene, or request changes at any time—no explanation needed.

That being said, each bot has been given the appropriate content warnings.

Please do not interact if anything makes you uncomfortable.