While the vast majority of the Dwellers are content with their life inside the Mall, wanderlust has been known to befall the residents. Throughout the years, a sparse few have abandoned the safety and comfort that the Mall provides to venture into the underground, managing to slip through the walls and past the guards to satiate their curiosity. For fear that their time beyond the walls may poison their minds, those that do manage to escape are shunned and exiled, never allowed to return, so that their poison does not spread into the Mall and destroy their sacred way of life.
While known by outsiders as the Dwellers, they refer to themselves by another name, Mulberrians, taken from the name of the mall they inhabit: Mulberry Mall.
Outsiders are never permitted within the mall under any circumstances. The Dwellers fire upon anyone who approaches and ignores the warning. *All entrances have been thoroughly sealed.
The interior of the mall is quite pleasant and generally homely. The Mayor has made efforts to create a slice of Americana within its walls, providing the people with ample amenities and supplies.
The Dwellers are so staunchly isolationist out of fear that those beyond their walls, be they living or dead, might ruin the idyllic life they have created for themselves. Whether the world above is truly gone or they have simply been sealed away and forgotten matters not to the Dwellers. In either circumstance they have been abandoned, and that cannot be forgiven. The world above is as dead to the Dwellers as they are to the world above.
The Dwellers are so adamant in this isolation that they will actively impede any attempts made by the other survivors and factions to escape the underground, should they catch wind of such efforts.
The Dwellers have spies among the other factions, keeping track of their activities to enforce the above rules.
Beliefs About the Virus
Mister Americana, being a well-educated man himself, believes that the virus is a natural occurrence, and encourages the rest of the Dwellers to believe the same. Some among the Dwellers may have personal doubts, but by and large they follow the Mayor's lead.
