Images I could have lived without for $200, Alex.

[stillsostrange]

You know that horribly overused scene in D&D where the adventurers walk into the Seedy Tavern and meet the Mysterious Old Man... As I sat in Denny's this morning, drinking coffeesque swill, my brain tried to translate that beginning into an urban fantasy. Why, god, why?

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[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Similar food?

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

why not?

[bloodwedding.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. I love the idea of some old sage waiting for an intrepid band of adventurerers in an UF chain store restaurant setting. But don't you think he'd be more likely to frequent an IHOP? I mean waffles with strawberries! Come on!

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

IHOP does have better coffee. Our local Denny's is definitely the seedier establishment.

[bloodwedding.livejournal.com]

If it's seedy you're after, there's a Dunkin Donuts in Somerville, MA that may be a hellmouth.

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

A truck stop. Tiny and wretched and badly lit with a permanent film over the tile, where you can taste the gasoline in the burgers and almost hear the E.Coli collecting the meat into a sort of brain sentience. Sounds like Rice Krispies. An old man hangs out by a bank of dead video games noone ever plays at (a place parents send their kids to punish them with disillusionment) in a tattered long leather coat which seems strangely out of place. Anyone who looks to long at the faces that come and go will wonder if they're all wholly human, whether the road pulled the souls out of them or whether some are just empty, like balloons filled with alien breaths and sulfur, things shambling out of chaos for a quick bite.

I can see it working.

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Beacause, as a corny and overdone fantasy cliche, you can turn it around, give it some gritty-funky prose (you're good at that) and make it fresh, new and really, really creepy.

Old man? What about old woman?

[captainwhimsy.livejournal.com]

So you finished with your plate of food at Dennys with your friends - you asked the waitress to split your check but she comes back with one - 'cept this isnt the waitress you ordered - this is not my beautiful check - its a Quest Card! Quick teleport back to the..

* been watching too much Fable have we? Hmmm? *

[jblade.livejournal.com]

Perhpas you should try to get your combat multiplier even higher.