Okay, so, a campaign i've just started running is set in a weird, dnd-ified version of the modern day, during a zombie apocalypse. In session zero, it was decided that the party's home base would be a Waffle House (because of the Waffle House disaster index (look it up)). A few players will have to miss our first official session, so i asked what they wanted their characters to be doing in the meantime, and one, whose character worked in the waffle house when the apocalypse started, said he was going to a "Waffle House Secret Society meeting" i asked him to elaborate and he said no lol.
The basis he gave me is that there are multiple branches of the Waffle House Secret Society (which may or may not have existed pre-zombie apocalypse), and that he and his coworker, Luscious Locks Lexius, an NPC who has lived with the party but likes staying at home base, have been working to build power in their branch of the secret society.
If you couldn't tell, this is a very ridiculous campaign with a not very serious vibe (yet...). I do want to play with what absurd groups would end up forming in an apocalypse in a world that has magic but doesn't rely on it. The current setting is a suburb (but definitely more sub than urb) outside of Houston, TX. So, since the campaign hasn't even officially started yet and everything is pretty free-reign, what should i do with the secretive surviving Waffle Houses?
So the Waffle House could be cover like being a librarian was for Giles in the Buffy verse. You have them as a society of monster hunters but who all are trying to out do each other in how chilled out they are about the apocalypse. So instead of giving help they just keep giving the party reassurance that everything is cool, and telling them not to stress about what’s happening.
So the Waffle House could be cover like being a librarian was for Giles in the Buffy verse. You have them as a society of monster hunters but who all are trying to out do each other in how chilled out they are about the apocalypse. So instead of giving help they just keep giving the party reassurance that everything is cool, and telling them not to stress about what’s happening.
lmao that's actually hilarious. I love the idea that Waffle Houses have always been safe havens because they're literally full of undercover monster hunters, and it's Literally Just This One with the player character and Luscious Locks Lexius that's struggling at the onset of the campaign. It didn't even occur to me to make the secret society benevolent, but to have it be so for the sole purpose of humiliating this branch with how weak they are sounds like so much fun lol.
The Waffle House Secret Society could be a pre apocalypse doomsday cult fixated on ensuring Waffle House is able to continue serving food whenever the worst happens. They are why Waffle House got an index and now they are.
Evil: Waffle house is the only thing that matters, now is the time to horde everything so waffle house will be the only place able to provide food. "No food other than Waffles"
Neutral: They work to ensure supplies are sent to the Waffle houses still alive but aren't sure/willing to send supplies to other places. "We got it for us"
Good: They we're called mad, now they work to protect what remains. "Good thing we were ready"
The Waffle House Secret Society could be a pre apocalypse doomsday cult fixated on ensuring Waffle House is able to continue serving food whenever the worst happens. They are why Waffle House got an index and now they are.
Evil: Waffle house is the only thing that matters, now is the time to horde everything so waffle house will be the only place able to provide food. "No food other than Waffles"
Neutral: They work to ensure supplies are sent to the Waffle houses still alive but aren't sure/willing to send supplies to other places. "We got it for us"
Good: They we're called mad, now they work to protect what remains. "Good thing we were ready"
Oh this is LOVELY. The different perspectives give me so much to work with. I can already imagine that some branches lean more towards one side than others, which actually works perfectly with some recent worldbuilding I’ve done. Thank you very much for this, it’s gotten me thinking….
The Waffle House Secret Society is an ancient cult that begs power from Wa'fel'eh, Wa'fel for short, an eldritch being who gives Waffle House Secret Societer's increased endurance and resilience to damage both physical and psychic so long as they remain in their sanctums (the waffle house). This was useful for working in food service, and vital in the zombie apocalypse. Wa'fel also fortifies the structure itself so long as it never closes. Now, the members of the society, called Housers, seek to entreat Wa'fel to grant them their powers outside the bounds of the Waffle House.
They're a secretive group of doomsday preppers, the founder, Jonathan "Waffles" Maplehaus IV had a small doomsday shelter built under every branch and invited his workers biannualy to survival camp weekends, escape rooms and self defense courses as "teambuilding events". J. Maplehaus had a soft spot for employing weirdos. Promising employees were invited to join the Waffle House cult society and sworn in to protect the branches and rebuild humanity from there, after everything went south. Shortly before the apocalypse began, he even financed shooting a Sattelite, called "Waffle Link" into space, that connected all branches (that still had power from their generators) via Sattelite dish and acted as a cloud storage device. Its even rumored there is a large secret private base somewhere to the west, but no one knows if J. Maplehaus made it there before the outbreak as there hasn't been contact via "Waffle Link".
Okay, so, a campaign i've just started running is set in a weird, dnd-ified version of the modern day, during a zombie apocalypse. In session zero, it was decided that the party's home base would be a Waffle House (because of the Waffle House disaster index (look it up)). A few players will have to miss our first official session, so i asked what they wanted their characters to be doing in the meantime, and one, whose character worked in the waffle house when the apocalypse started, said he was going to a "Waffle House Secret Society meeting" i asked him to elaborate and he said no lol.
The basis he gave me is that there are multiple branches of the Waffle House Secret Society (which may or may not have existed pre-zombie apocalypse), and that he and his coworker, Luscious Locks Lexius, an NPC who has lived with the party but likes staying at home base, have been working to build power in their branch of the secret society.
If you couldn't tell, this is a very ridiculous campaign with a not very serious vibe (yet...). I do want to play with what absurd groups would end up forming in an apocalypse in a world that has magic but doesn't rely on it. The current setting is a suburb (but definitely more sub than urb) outside of Houston, TX. So, since the campaign hasn't even officially started yet and everything is pretty free-reign, what should i do with the secretive surviving Waffle Houses?
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So the Waffle House could be cover like being a librarian was for Giles in the Buffy verse. You have them as a society of monster hunters but who all are trying to out do each other in how chilled out they are about the apocalypse. So instead of giving help they just keep giving the party reassurance that everything is cool, and telling them not to stress about what’s happening.
lmao that's actually hilarious. I love the idea that Waffle Houses have always been safe havens because they're literally full of undercover monster hunters, and it's Literally Just This One with the player character and Luscious Locks Lexius that's struggling at the onset of the campaign. It didn't even occur to me to make the secret society benevolent, but to have it be so for the sole purpose of humiliating this branch with how weak they are sounds like so much fun lol.
:)
The Waffle House Secret Society could be a pre apocalypse doomsday cult fixated on ensuring Waffle House is able to continue serving food whenever the worst happens. They are why Waffle House got an index and now they are.
Evil: Waffle house is the only thing that matters, now is the time to horde everything so waffle house will be the only place able to provide food. "No food other than Waffles"
Neutral: They work to ensure supplies are sent to the Waffle houses still alive but aren't sure/willing to send supplies to other places. "We got it for us"
Good: They we're called mad, now they work to protect what remains. "Good thing we were ready"
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Oh this is LOVELY. The different perspectives give me so much to work with. I can already imagine that some branches lean more towards one side than others, which actually works perfectly with some recent worldbuilding I’ve done. Thank you very much for this, it’s gotten me thinking….
:)
The Waffle House Secret Society is an ancient cult that begs power from Wa'fel'eh, Wa'fel for short, an eldritch being who gives Waffle House Secret Societer's increased endurance and resilience to damage both physical and psychic so long as they remain in their sanctums (the waffle house). This was useful for working in food service, and vital in the zombie apocalypse. Wa'fel also fortifies the structure itself so long as it never closes. Now, the members of the society, called Housers, seek to entreat Wa'fel to grant them their powers outside the bounds of the Waffle House.
They're a secretive group of doomsday preppers, the founder, Jonathan "Waffles" Maplehaus IV had a small doomsday shelter built under every branch and invited his workers biannualy to survival camp weekends, escape rooms and self defense courses as "teambuilding events". J. Maplehaus had a soft spot for employing weirdos. Promising employees were invited to join the Waffle House
cultsociety and sworn in to protect the branches and rebuild humanity from there, after everything went south. Shortly before the apocalypse began, he even financed shooting a Sattelite, called "Waffle Link" into space, that connected all branches (that still had power from their generators) via Sattelite dish and acted as a cloud storage device. Its even rumored there is a large secret private base somewhere to the west, but no one knows if J. Maplehaus made it there before the outbreak as there hasn't been contact via "Waffle Link".