Editing Diners of Amber (section)

==='''Englewood Diner'''===

[[File:Englewood.jpg]]

This is a moving place, so don't depend on it being anywhere near where it was the last time you visited.

The Jeweled Road is a vast construct that can not be measured in miles, nor in days, nor I gather in eons. I doubt it can be measured in anything but metaphysics and poetry.

It casts  its own shadows of course and sometimes they link together in a way the [[Shade Realms]] of Amber do not.   The road has a vast number of Way Stations, Forts, Military Bases, Tribal Rings, Caravansary, and yes, diners. The Englewood is one of the latter.

Imagine a stretch of road about 20 miles long and a quarter mile of open field on either side of it.  This plot of land will move between shadows at random.  Luckily the twenty mile long and half mile wide plot has fields, gardens, a few farms, livestock, wooded land, and even streams sometimes. The employees of the diner live variously on the farms and shacks on this region of land.  The waitress is often Ruby or Emerald, or Alice.  The cook is usually Carl; a heavyset older white-man.  Sometimes Zebadiah; an extremely spry elderly black man. Occasionally Enrique; an elderly Hispanic man.  or Dashel; a nephew of mine, and an Amberite of whom the less said the better. On rare occasions the cook is Gulliver, traveling east, and an Amberite, I think, of a Shade of Amber he won't talk about. I've asked.    

They serve a wide variety of mostly utilitarian fare of a lower strata, inexpensive. While it has the usual eggs & Bacon, burgers, steaks or soup & salad & dishes on would expect, ordering the Blue Plate Special saves time.  Its meatloaf as often as not and asking whats in the meat is just rude. They will wrap anything they make up to-go, for the traveler on the road.  

This card has a bit of pull to it, like the Jeweled Road at Diago does.  Not as urgent or reliable, but its there. 

This is an actual diner.  Its lodged thematically in the earth 30's and 40s and the people can of show it. While the clientèle can be anything from anywhere, as a joint on the Jeweled Road might expect to have, it seems to find its self in more human regions of traffic.  There are no hotels near by, but there are fields and a chunk of forest.  If you ask, they will loan you a tent.
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