Maddy grew up in the Coal Region of northeast Pennsylvania, the only daughter of a coal miner and a housewife. She grew to love the wild spaces because of the beauty of the mountains where she lived, and to hate the way the modern world ground people under the heel of its boot because of the loss of her father to a mining accident when she was young. After a life of watching her mother waste away physically and spiritually trying to make ends meet, Maddy lost her too, not a year after she left for Philadelphia to go to college.
That loss was what pushed her further toward a rejection of the modern world's uncaring exploitation, both of the people that filled it and the resources that made it up. That struggle was what lead to her Awakening, and ultimately is what lead her to the Walkers in Mists, though unlike many of her Legacy she doesn't reject the modern world completely. Instead, she works to find ways to mesh the stone and steel of humanity's new world with the sustainable coexistence of ages past.
Nomad - Maddy has been a lot of places over the years and travels widely even still, now that she's "settled down" in Philadelphia. If you want to say that she passed through whatever part of the world your character is from at one point or another in the last ten or so years, and that they met then even if it was brief, then perfect.
Guerilla Agriculture - With a talent for finding hidden places where things can grow in urban environments, Maddy is fond of productive gardening in places where most people wouldn't expect food to grow. Abandoned lots, derelict rooftops, and other places like that are good places to find her and/or one of her gardens. She uses her gardens as a way to provide healthy food to people who might otherwise have trouble obtaining it.
Urban Explorer - Finding places to set up community gardens means looking for them in the first place, and Maddy spends a lot of time exploring the urban landscape and getting to know what's where. For other people who like to explore the run down and forgotten, there's always a chance of running into each other.
Sustainable Living - Maddy's whole deal is looking for ways to blend the traditional and the modern, particularly when it comes to ways of living. The biggest focus for her is working on ways to make the modern world function without slowly destroying itself, as well as bringing the natural world that was here before people where and the artificial world they've created together, coexisting in the same spaces.
Wanna Bet? - Maddy is fond of games of chance, or just random wagers about things. Playing the odds with an Acanthus might not seem like the best idea, but they aren't the only ones who can meddle with the odds, and some people are also gluttons for punishment.
Mist Delver - As a part of her Legacy, Maddy is far better in tune with the Mists, one of the nearest Emanations to the Fallen World, and she takes a great interest in the visions and prophecies that can be gleaned from the half-substantial potential within it.
Maddy's Waffle House - Where better for a bunch of supernatural creatures from every group under the sun to get together than a diner? With the possible exception of vampires just about everyone likes food. Maddy's is a neutral ground that can only be found by people who are acceptable to the supernatural community on the whole as people that can be let in on secrets. It's essentially impossible to find the door to Maddy's unless you're allowed to enter, and entry is conditional on both agreement with the rules of the neutral ground, and with having followed them.
A 24-hour diner built into an old converted train car that was hauled out to a wooded and secluded plot of land outside town and hooked up to utilities, Maddy's is a peculiar diner. The most peculiar thing about it is the door, which is located in Philadelphia and only able to be found by people who know what hidden corner of the city to look in and who meet the criteria for the Keys to the Secret Door spell that hides the portal created via Co-Location.
There always seems to be a low-lying fog creeping out of the woods, no matter the weather outside.
PLEASE NOTE: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR MOST PCS TO ENTER MADDY'S BY ANY MEANS EXCEPT THE PORTAL
If a Sleepwalker, affiliated to the Consilium, Assembly of the Unnamed Nation, or other non-Sleeper organization not proscribed by the Consilium or the Assembly of the Unnamed Nation
Have not violated the current rules of Maddy's Waffle House
Not considered an enemy of the Consilium, Assembly, Children of the Tree, local Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter courts, the vampire Caucus, or a majority of the local Sin-Eater Krewes
Not attempting to enter at the request, influence, direction, control, or while otherwise guided in any way by someone who is themselves does not meet the criteria for keys other than this
If not meeting the requirements of all the other Keys than this one, granted access by Maddy
Current Quarantine/Ward Keys:
Not entering while once or currently in possession of any soul other than Maddy's
Not entering while in possession of Maddy's disembodied soul, or Maddy's soul in any body other than her own
Not capable of thought and entering at the creation, request, influence, direction, control, or while otherwise guided in any way by someone who once or presently has a soul
Not entering while intended or intending to cause harm, nuisance, or irritation to any physical object within the area of this spell
Not entering while intended or intending to cause harm, nuisance, or irritation to any being currently or once in possession of a soul, within the area of this spell
Not entering while having violated the current rules of Maddy's Waffle House
Rules:
These rules apply any time I am within Maddy's Waffle House or on the parcel of land where it rests, and only then. Violations of these rules elsewhere does not constitute breaking these rules, with a single exception: I have not attempted to dispel, destroy, conceal, block, or otherwise make more difficult to find or use the portal that leads to Maddy's Waffle House.
When in doubt, Maddy and the employed staff of Maddy's Waffle House are the arbiters of whether something counts as breaking the rules.
If Maddy or the staff of Maddy's Waffle House declare out loud that I'm not welcome at Maddy's Waffle House, I'm considered to be automatically in violation of these rules. If a supernatural effect prevents such a declaration from being made, other forms of clear intent such as pointing at the exit count as well.
If I'm in violation of the rules I will depart quickly and without incident.
If Maddy declares out loud, without being subject to magical or mundane coercion, that I am forgiven for a violation of these rules, I am considered to longer by in violation of them until such a time as I might commit a new violation.
I will not intentionally cause harm to others. This includes harm to the well being of mind, body, soul, or emotions, as well as to the destiny, fortune, history, pattern, Dream state, Oneiros, or any other form of deliberate harm.
I will not intentionally use powers that violate the sanctity of someone's mind, body, or soul, emotions, destiny, fortune, history, pattern, dreams, or anything else except when doing so is immediately required to safeguard their life or with their express verbal, written, or otherwise clearly communicated consent to do so.
I will not intentionally use powers that gather information on another without their express verbal, written, or otherwise clearly communicated consent to do so. Powers that detect falsehood but don't reveal the truth behind that falsehood are acceptable.
I will follow the laws of my local supernatural society.
I will treat the staff of Maddy's Waffle House with respect.
Food
The food served at Maddy's tends to go well above expectations for what looks like a greasy spoon 24 hour diner, and regulars are likely to realize that the owner, Maddy, has a passion for food that runs deep. Daily specials are often times be things more likely to be found in places with Michelin stars, but still show up at diner prices, and even the regular menu tends to be top quality.
Special Requests: Next to the cash register is a fish bowl with a sign soliciting requests for future specials. Just leave a note! There's also an email address on the sign. Maddy is willing to take on even complicated requests, and apparently has a love of providing regional specials that transplants to Philly miss being able to get. This occasionally means the specials are pretty weird. As long as it's safe, and reasonably affordable to get a hold of, feel free to pose daily specials being your request, or someone else's strange thing. REAL poutine? No problem. Crawfish etouffée, biryani, borshch, or whatever else you miss from back home? Maddy usually seems to be able to do a pretty good job with it.
Coffee: The coffee at Maddy's is cheap and hard to beat. The advantage of being a Master of Space is that she can buy her beans directly from the source, and right after harvesting, for prices that the US market just can't compete with.
Below is an example selection of things on the regular menu at Maddy's
Waffles, Pancakes, and crepes (all available however you prefer):
The Usual - ...with butter. There's nothing wrong with the usual!
Wacky - ...with oreos, bananas, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream
Smores - ...chocolate chips, marshmallow, crushed graham cracker
Pigs in Mud - ...bacon and chocolate chips
Green Tea - ...green tea and coconut in vanilla batter
Master Amity, Scion and Enchanter on the Path to Arcadia, Supernal Realm of Fate and Time, and abode of Fae, Emissary to the Great Creator for the Children of the Martyr's Tree of the Lesser Convocation of the Northeast, Master of Space, Time, and Fate, Adept of Spirit and Life, Apprentice of Forces, Matter, Mind, and Prime
Low lying fog rolls in any time it makes sense for the weather, and sometimes it seems like images and figures can be seen by not quite made out, swirling within those mists. There's also a sense of the road not yet walked, and the potential to be found at the end of it.
Immediate Nimbus:
Spacetime itself seems to become hazy and insubstantial, an overlap of all potentialities blurring together. (Tilt: 8-again Occult, +3 Composure, +2 Resolve, +1 Wits)
Signature Nimbus:
A thousand possible states overlap on each other at once, making things look as though any of them could solidify into reality at any time.
