The Flop House - SlopTales Teaser!

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

Here's a little taste of what's awaiting Max Fun members in the member bonus feed -- an all-new roleplaying adventure from gamemaster Stuart!In this edition, Dan, Elliott, and fan favorite guest Zhubin Parang play beachfront restaurant staff, on the first night of summer, trying to make it through a busy shift... but CHAOS is on the menu!If you'd like to listen to this, a whole heck of a lot of other bonus content from all the Max Fun shows, and (most importantly) support independent, artist-owned, worker-owned media, become a member at maximumfun.org/join today!  MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Hey there listeners, we're in Max Fun Drive as we speak and this is a brief sample of just one installment in this year's Flophouse bonus content, which you can access by going to maximumfun.org join and become a member at the $5 a month level or more. Take it away theme song! Life reminds me of a storm here in the Slaath House Make a move when it's your turn You're in the weeds, get that food out Napkins, menus, table linens Seating hungry patrons Terror of danger, Yelp, score, are sure to face you on your quest But don't worry, the Felhaven Three are here to run the eatery Slop Tens!

Everybody's favorite crew in Slop Tens! Serve the food and talk to Stu D-d-d-dan is Luke Rockwarmer. Elliot is Jeremy Scales Chandler. Supa is Terrence Silverback. And me, your boy Stu. Sloth Tales. Everybody's favorite crew is Sloth Tales.

Serve the food and talk stew. Sloth Tales. Not ponytails or some kind of bird tale Welcome to the Silver Bell Tavern, the finest restaurant in the little beach town of Bellhaven. Celebrating over 75 years of service, the Silver Bell is an important part of the busy summer community. Tonight is the first Friday of the beach season,

and the Silver Bell is under new management, and the reservation boat is full. It promises to be a busy evening. Now let's meet our players and their characters. Is this how I start out? Yes. I know you said it. I just thought that there'd be a toss or something.

Dan, who are you playing? Let's introduce the characters. It's a pretty clear toss. Well, before starting, being being like this is the order you haven't even said our real names would you usually do at the start of I said players okay I'm like this is not a critique and just I'm talking about my own confusion you did hey I'm Dan McCoy of the flop house but right now we're doing Slop Tales, a spin-off of the original popular Flop Tales RPG bonus episodes. In this episode, I'll be playing Luke Rotwarmer, who works at this restaurant, of course. I'm a sweet, innocent college boy,

and I wear the uniform of a college boy who doesn't know how to dress yet, but is kind of a sweet, nerdy man working somewhere, which is khakis and a white shirt. Neither of them fit well. That's all I have to say right now, I guess. I'll introduce myself. My name is Elliot Kalin and today I'll be playing the part of Jeremy Scales Chandler. I am the sous chef over at the Silver Bell and, you know, I'm not from a privileged background. I work my way up my family.

They, you know, they work the docks, they work the sea. My dad is a sea cucumber farmer, which is, he just catches them. And it hasn't been a great catch the last couple seasons. So that's why I'm working my way up through the ranks at the Silverbell, the sous chef there. And you could think of me as a guy who's got like, one of those half aprons, real filthy, never gets washed, and kind of

like a sleeveless band t-shirt. I think that band is probably gonna be, let's see, early Genesis and, you know, the real psychedelic. Yeah, it's clarified on the shirt. Yeah, and it's also filthy. Yeah, it's also very stained, does not get washed. Now real quick, you said it's Jeremy scales Chandler. Yes. Yes. What does scales stand for?

Scales represents fish scales because I grew up again, cutting the scraping the scales off of sea cucumbers and whatever else my dad could catch in his little dinghy of a boat that barely kept us supported. I'm a real townie guy with a from a humble background, you know. And also I always have fish scales under my fingernails and I smell like fish scales and so it started as an insulting nickname but I've kind of taken it on I've started to own it you know. And I wanted to say that in the kerfuffle where I did everything wrong I forgot to mention I am the host at the restaurant. That's your job. My job. Hi I'm Shuman Parang and I'll be playing Terrence Silverbell. He is the son

of the owners of the Silverbell Tavern and he is the new manager. It is the job that he has been raised since birth to be. He has been the town, the Silverbells have been the town royalty for as long as he's been alive, on to four or five generations, when they were the first family that founded the town, settled there, built the tavern before they built any houses. The tavern has the best position in the town, looking over the beach, on a small little cliff,

over all the houses are sort of like surround the town. The town sort of centered around the Silverbell Tavern. Terrence is a very handsome young man. He is dressed impeccably in a manager's of a restaurant's outfit, black pants, button down shirt, the black tie that comes down that is kind of tucked into the, between the third and second button of the shirt With a little beautiful gold. I'm sorry. Excuse me silver pin that says

Terrence on it. He is a little too tall to be handsome Just so his height reaches just a little bit the the point where it stops being attractive and starts being a little like oh How does he get around? being attractive and starts being a little like, oh, how does he get around? Yeah, like you start to loom over. Yes. People worry about your bone density. Yes, at that point. And it's a little bit of a thing for him. But he has nonetheless gotten by on his family's largesse and wealth and all beach passes all year

round. Every hotel in the area, every other tavern always gives the family all the soup to nut specials, all the beach chair and poolside access. And he is fully, fully taking advantage of all of us from the first day. He has not actually worked at the restaurant very long, but he has managerial DNA. I'm glad he got over the trauma of being too tall. One other thing I forgot to mention about Jeremy's scales channel, I just want to stick it in. The character also has a beard, which I mentioned,

it's a pretty scraggly beard, it's not by choice, just by not shaving. And the beard also has scales, fish scales kind of caught in it from, you know, sometimes it'll just pick up a fish and take a bite out of it. And, you know, he's a guy, he's a real, he's a real, he's a real slob, you know. He's a real, he's a real humble guy. I would argue that not shaving is a choice that you make actively, but sure. I mean, it's the choice of least resistance.

The hair's coming out. He's not gonna stop it, you know. And it means that when they're worried the health department's gonna show up, he has to wear a little beard net. Yes, yes. To keep his beard out of the food. Okay. Because otherwise the scales sometimes fall from his beard net. Yes. To keep his beard out of the food. Okay.

Because otherwise the scales sometimes fall from his beard into the food. Yeah, the other people's... And his eyes. The other, the customers get very mad when their fish scales get on there, the fish scales that they ordered. It's very upsetting for them.

He does. Yeah, he does. Is that the specialty of the Silverbells? Fish scales? Typically, they're really good. That's an answer you're gonna have to provide for me later. Wow. How are those knuckleheads ever going to make it through a busy shift without disaster?

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