to answer the origional question: at the moment i would not do it, but if i had done a good portion of everything i wanted to do in my life, then yes i would. its not so much the money that is drawing me in, it is the fact that i would have allready done everything i wanted to do, and i would be bored (but maybe too old to move around fast enough, but maybe wiser to work smarter against the lions)
if i did choose to stay for the challange i would have to assume that the mall is 1 floor, multiple wings, and all lions spawn on the floor, not being able to get killed by stupid placement. also my interpretation of what OP said about no doors, dressingrooms and related areas have doors, but lions can get through them if they suspect something. (no doors meaning a regular mall, u just cant get out).
doing the math with one of the local malls here which fit the criteria, 5-7 of the loins would spawn in stores, the rest would be in the general wide open area. if these lions have the instinct to work together then im dead automatically... gg reroll lion.. if not then i might have a chance lol.
even with a hardware store it would be hard to find something to fend off loins without p*ssing them off to charge you, basically you find anything lethal.... you might get lucky with a modded nailgun, or maybe a weed wacker... but essentially you would have to find a place to hide.... luckily in this mall they have palm trees (florida ftw, cept humidity), so i might be able to climb those, but with a bunch of lions after me cause im in a tree, they will eventuall knock it down, jump high enough to take an arm off, or knock me off...
a second choice would land me at sears again, with rope, something heavy, (or something to shoot the rope 30ft up, but i doubt i woudl be able to find something)... most malls have skylights, and all of the ones i have been to have steel beams visable near them, if you coudl throw a rope up there and hang urself up there (no grappeling hooks lol) then it would be gg lions go poof.. but then again, its that first 15 mins of getting up there which would let you live or not...
in the slim change i was able to do it... what now? i have $1m and nothing to spend it on, cept i have bragging rights...
any other partially doable plans of attack?