The Waffle House at the End of the World
If you've a hankering for hash browns in the middle of a hurricane along the south-central coastline of North Carolina, there is one place guaranteed to be open. Located southwest of Broad Creek along highway 24 there is an unasssuming Waffle House which has never been closed. No one is precisely certain of when it was opened in the first place, but thorugh countless natural disasters the doors have stayed open and the power on.
The staff are friendly enough in the sort of way one might expect and the food is precisely what it is at any Waffle House, with the possible exception of the biscuits and gravy which truckers who pass through the area will tell you is particularly good.
The astonishing stamina of the simple restauraunt may however be somewhat overshadowed by the fact that it is also the most heavily traveled pathway to the afterlife on the east coast. The souls of coutless dead pass through the plate glass doors and across the linoleum floors. Many even claim to have taken a last meal on their way. Many supernatural beings, particularly those which trade in death, consider the Waffle House as a neutral meeting ground. Such is the source of the location's otherwise inexplicable fortune when it comes to escaping unscathed from even the most devastating events. Some even claim it was the warding magic placed on this Waffle House which caused Hurricane Helene to not actually make full landfall in 1958.
Some older beings will refer to a meeting place which existed on the same spot prior to the Waffle House, though there is no record of such a place having ever existed. It is generally agreed by all though that whatever had existed beforehand was far less comfortable and convenient than the Waffle House, and so it is presumed that the Waffle House will continue to keep its doors open and its lights on until the end of days. It is this assumption which provided for the someone poetic nickname of the establishment among the supernatural community, the Waffle House at the End of the World.
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