Editing Walmart Apocalypse (section)

==LEXICON==

Cult/Temple/Path of the Smiling Face/One - cults that worship Wal-Mart, and Management. The smiley is seen as their holy icon; messing with stockers/greeters/etc is a grave sin to their faiths. They're effectively all the same, but claim dogmatic differences that divide them.

The Great Sam - Sam Walton, though none know him by this name. The Cult of The Smiling One revere and worship him vehemently, and most others at least recognize The Great Sam as a creator figure from the before time. A common phrase in the Wal is, 'Great Sam!' or 'By Sam and the Smile...' typically denoting awe, wonder, surprise, or fear. 

Sport - War. The original word has been forgotten, and since "sporting goods" are designed to kill things...

Sporting good - Gun. Occasionally used to refer to blades or armor, but rarely.

Department - Loosely refers to the actual departments; for practical purposes refers to the group of people that live in said department.

Unstocked - A "blind spot" for stockers. These are few and far between, and used for housing.

Shrine of Commerce - One of the old registers in the Auto, Pharmacy, Elec, and Garden zones. Useless (since no one has any money), but kept by the CoSF/SO/whatever.

Stockers - 15-foot tall giant machines of death and restocking.

Greeters - Lobotomized cyborgs that do menial work for the stockers. Ostensibly they greet customers.

Shelf - a village or small township built into an unstocked shelf, high above the floor of the Wal, but equally beneath the realm of the Topdwellers. Incredibly safe due to the difficult climb and the distance from sweepers, raiders, stockers, and greeters, and their locations are often kept a secret only revealed to dear friends. However, due to their location, and the lack of merchants, they are very strained for supplies at any time, and struggle to keep rations and working technology at appropriate levels with intrepid scouts scrounging and retrieving. 

Sekyuritee - 25 foot tall bulletproof robot, more agile and strong than any stocker, complete with the iconic smiley face. Armed with a high caliber machine gun and a tear gas grenade launcher, this mechanical monster no longer takes prisoners. Smilers worship it as the manifestation of The Great Sam, punishing those that blaspheme and violate the store, most others revere Sekyruitee as the god of death, patrolling the aisles, reaping those unfit to truly survive. Even the most dimwitted child knows that if you see red and blue flashing lights, you should run or hide. 

Customers - No one. No one has money, so there are no customers. The Stockers/etc do not realize this, and never will.

Nevergrow - Munchkins who run the toy department. Vicious, but playful... in the same way that Jigsaw is playful.

Greenthumbs - Denizens of the Gardening department that worship plants and want them to reclaim the Wal. Grind up outsiders for fertilizer. 

Topdwellers - Ninja-monkey folk who live in the rafters. Some have made working gliders for transit. Most stick to grappling hook travel.

The Stockroom - Where the stuff comes from. It's known that the stockroom is supplied by mechanized trains that carry goods from distant farms and factories, but any attempt at boarding them has been disastrous. The Stockroom is truly Employees Only.

The Lounge - Home to Greeters when they aren't "on duty" (read: sleeping). A cramped, disease-infested barracks.