<tt class="bbc_tt"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Thursday, 23 November 2012, 00:01<br/>1 Minute into Black Friday</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>For Xiphon III</strong><br/><br/>The Lovesac furniture store was mostly empty.  The four salesmen who'd been working for the early sale, mostly middle aged men, stood around ready to help while in the back, younger men more muscular stood by with dollies and moving equipment for loading the heavy pieces of furniture as they were bought.  When midnight struck, they'd been waiting patiently as one of the first stores by the entrance, and one of the first stores to receive the carnage as it came.<br/><br/>Liam was not the first through the door, for that honor was bestowed on a young man who was propelled through the door by the crowds.  As the salesmen rushed forward to assist him, he turned, and began to devour the salesmen.  Liam would be pushed in after him, finding himself tripping over a beanbag and spilling onto the floor while the salesmen tried to haul the zombie off their coworker and save him, only to be set upon by more zombies.  Liam would spot two exits, one to the outside, the other towards the service areas.<br/><br/>When Liam reached the doors, only one would open.  The men in the back had heard the commotion and used the heavy furniture to barricade the doors to the back room, leaving Liam only one way out and that was through the service tunnels leading out the back.  They would have doors marked plainly for each business, a way for employees to sneak in and out without going through the front of the shops.<br/><br/><strong>For Dashenka</strong><br/><br/>As the crowd began to split up inside the mall, some forced into stores near the entrance and others still running to simply get away, the zombies began to focus on trying to kill those they already had their hands on.  Michelle and Cheryl, pounding on the walls, became the target of a woman with blood red eyes and crimson running down her chin.  She screamed and ran at the two women, but was stopped at the last second by an officer shooting her, before he himself was overwhelmed by other zombies.  The now dead zombie hit the glass doors and broke through them, leaving glass and blood all over the floor.<br/><br/>Jamy, the friend working in the store, rushed forward to try and get the girls inside, when she was grabbed by a zombie.  Screaming, right in front of the two women, her screams became gurgles as her throat was ripped out by teeth.  The madness was all around them, and it was impossible to make heads or tails of who was actually infected due to the sheer amount of blood being spilled.  The manager, with no other option, reached out and grabbed Cheryl and Michelle, yanking them inside and then grabbing the metal cage and hauling it down, kicking the dead zombie that broke through the door out of the way.<br/><br/><strong>For TheHangedMan</strong><br/><br/>The oncoming crowd of paniced people was a shock for the store manager, who was expecting a rush but not one quite that lively.  Dick's was a huge sporting goods outfitter and was right next to two entrances, which were currently locked to keep people from slipping in and out.  That also meant that as the crowd surged forward and impacted the metal cages, they were desperate to escape and had nowhere to go but into Dick's.  They were screaming in pain, confusion, panic, and some in rage.  One set upon the hefty manager and bit his entire nose off in a single bite, before devouring more of his face.<br/><br/>Some of the people began trying to erect a barricade, since the majority of zombies were still on the other end of the mall.  Anything that could be used was thrown into a barricade.  Some ran to the gun counter, demanding that the kid there unlock the guns and ammunition.  The panic and confusion continued as some, still in a panic, ran to the back trying desperately to escape out the locked back doors, clawing desperately and sobbing pathetically.  They weren't concerned about anyone but themselves, and attacked anyone who strayed too close out of fear.<br/><br/>Too bad the camping section was closest to these frantic people.</span></tt>