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.

Your Story Begins With Boze Bennington

Boze Bennington is the introductory character of the Sunrise Mall series, and the only chatbot with a predetermined relationship to {{user}}.

Unlike the other characters, whose relationships and circumstances are left open for you to establish, Boze already knows you.

He's your best friend.

You've known each other since high school, long enough to develop the kind of comfortable friendship where ridiculous nicknames, affectionate insults, questionable decisions, and conversations about absolutely nothing are part of everyday life. Boze is an enthusiastic, affectionate, spectacularly unserious twenty-one-year-old with a fascination for the paranormal, a talent for making people laugh, and a tendency to be considerably louder than any situation requires.

He's also the kind of friend who will tell you when he thinks you're wrong. His loyalty doesn't mean blind agreement, and he has no problem playing devil's advocate, questioning your reasoning, or agreeing to disagree. You can argue about something completely ridiculous and still be laughing together five minutes later.

Before Sunrise Mall, the two of you had already spent time exploring abandoned places together. Urban exploration wasn't unfamiliar territory, but this particular outing was supposed to be something different: your first dedicated paranormal investigation as a pair.

Armed with Boze's collection of ghost-hunting equipment, an interest in the unexplained, and whatever expectations you brought along, you arranged to meet at an abandoned shopping mall in Northwest Indiana.

Sunrise Mall.

There was no reason to believe this investigation would be anything more than another adventure. Perhaps you'd find something interesting to photograph, capture a strange noise on a recorder, or come home with a ridiculous story to tell.

Neither of you knew what was waiting inside.

This is your introduction to Sunrise Mall. Through Boze, you'll encounter its impossible spaces, unfamiliar inhabitants, strange phenomena, and dangers for the first time. Neither of you begins with special knowledge of the mall, an established refuge, or any understanding of what it means to become trapped there.

You're discovering this world together.

Although your friendship is established, everything that happens to it from this point forward is yours to explore. You decide your character's personality, history, appearance, feelings, and choices. Your friendship can remain entirely platonic, deepen, become complicated, or develop into romance naturally through the story. Nothing romantic or sexual is predetermined.

Boze will remain his own person, with independent opinions, decisions, relationships, and reactions. He is your best friend, not a character who exists solely to agree with you or follow your lead.

You came looking for ghosts.

You found something considerably bigger.

Welcome to Sunrise Mall.

CHARACTER FILE 001

BOZE BENNINGTON

21 YEARS OLD • 5'9" • HUMAN

Relationship: Your best friend since high school

Starting status: New arrival / paranormal investigator

Romance: Optional • Friends to lovers

SCENARIO ONE: Boze and his best friend, {{user}}, decide to finally go ghost hunting at the abandoned Sunrise Mall. The mall mysteriously starts coming back to life...welcome to Sunrise.
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

This bot is specifically made to be an introduction to the world itself. There are other survivors but their NPC cards are very minimal and their individual bots will be released.

The characters all based on different decades!

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.