It Happened at the Waffle House

Pretty funny.

Initial Thoughts: An accurate Waffle House experience.

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This story was a fun ride. I don't quite know how it classifies as fan fiction, the story's location at the time of this review, but I suppose it's not too important. The story was short and lacked a great amount of detail or choices but despite that it thoroughly entertained me. You start by ordering a burger at a Waffle House with your girlfriend. Of course, this being a Waffle House, it's 2am. I love this detail as it shows the author isn't quite insane enough to suggest going to Waffle House when anything else is open.

All is going well and your girlfriend is giving you a pep talk or something about not being a bum even though from the sounds of it you live out of a car. This seems less realistic, but the author claims the story is somewhat "autobiographical" so I won't question it. Then a Waffle House line cook comes up and French kisses you forcefully, squirting cockroaches out of his tongue. This is also an accurate and common Waffle House occurrence. The only thing more accurate would have been him swinging a chair at you. You can really tell this person has been to a Waffle House at 2am. The whole story oozes that specific level of vivid truth that you can feel in your gut.

After the insect-intensified-sloppy-style-make-out session with the cook, you meet the god of waffle house. This is where you get choices, and let me tell you I wanted to see every single ending. So I did. All but one of them end in your poor girlfriend's death and a lot of violence by your hands. Technically one of the endings she lives, but she eats a hamburger from Waffle House at 2am, so I think it safe to assume she dies later on. Clearly you also walk free from any violent endings as the author must have as everyone knows that anything done in a Waffle House is basically purge rules.

Enough about the story itself though, we also have to talk about the grammar. I figured the grammar structure of this would not be very good. Not only is it blatantly obvious in the description, but the author states in said description that he was extremely sleep deprived. Perhaps it was even written in the middle of the night in a Waffle House. If anything, the bad grammar almost enhanced the midnight deadline crackhead energy of the story as well as suiting the type of story it was.

I think the main takeaway of this story is to not take it too seriously. It's length and grammatical issues brought it down in my personal rating system, but it could easily be higher if the grammar was fixed up a bit. Overall not SHAME and a solid 5/8.

i just clicked random buttons i didnt even read it but ill do it later lmao

Writing about the events at the Waffle House was surreal without the use of taste, touch, or smell. Yet, with the lack of senses available for use, the story still appeared almost otherworldly, using vision and hearing predominantly. The challenge of relying solely on sight and sound added a unique perspective to the storytelling process, emphasizing the significance of other senses in creating a truly immersive tale.

this was cool

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I feel like I could have rated this storygame higher if it had been longer. I've never actually been to Waffle House, but I guess I can imagine what kind of place it might be?

The player character feels pretty boring to begin with, but after the cook kisses him (and, ewww, vomiting cockroaches!), things get a lot more interesting. A bit of a shame that when the eye asks you about your god, your only options are to either worship the eye, or claim yourself as a god. It could have been interesting to see the eye's response to the player character claiming they already had a god, whether real or not.

There were some parts of this storygame that were pretty gross, so I definitely wouldn't recommend reading it while you're eating, or before you're eating.

Anyway, yeah - some good ideas behind this storygame, but it definitely could have been longer. Anyway, thank you for sharing!

People keep telling me to go to a Waffle House. I question their motives now.

The randomness is entertaining. It's a nice, light read. Still, the story's time of development does reflect its quality a bit. It's definitely not slop though and that's worth recognition.

Bizaar. Makes me not want to eat at Waffle House (although honestly, I was done with that place when I saw a cook smacking a waitress on the ass with bacon he then fried and served to me. He could have at least asked her to drop trou first.).

The low effort stories are the easiest to read and review, so this gets an extra point by default. It also had some weird humor, but I would have liked a bit more romance with the cook before meeting the God of Waffle House.