The Flop House -- A FlopTales Teaser!

[0:00] Hey there, everybody. This is Stuart Wellington of the Flophouse Podcast.

[0:03] I'd like to welcome you to this little teaser of some of the special bonus content that I've been

[0:09] whipping up. Now, our regular episodes of the show, the three of us watch a bad movie and

[0:14] talk about it, but in these bonus episodes, I have managed to convince Dan Elliott and our

[0:19] friend Juben to play this role-playing game with me. Now, the setting of this game is kind of a

[0:26] weird noir where gumshoes get mixed up with aliens and ghosts. It's a real hoot, I'd say.

[0:35] Now, if this sounds interesting to you, you can go donate to the show by heading over to

[0:40] MaximumFun.org backslash donate, and if you're already a donor, thank you very much.

[0:46] But in the meantime, here is a little sample of what we've been working on.

[0:51] If I want to show an idea of what Scales has been up to, do you remember the beginning of

[0:56] Ghostbusters 2? Is it Ray and Winston are performing at a children's birthday party?

[1:01] I think so, yes.

[1:02] Yeah, yeah. So that's kind of what the level of what Scales has been able to do lately.

[1:07] So you have been hired by a local booze baron and casino owner to find a missing employee of his.

[1:17] Hubert Miller has hired the three of you based on a recommendation of his son, Denton Miller.

[1:26] Wait a minute, is this related to any other Denton from the previous adventure?

[1:32] Yes, it was Denton from the previous adventure.

[1:33] Oh, wow. Oh, good to hear from Denton again.

[1:36] Didn't we abuse him a lot?

[1:37] He abused himself mostly.

[1:41] So Hubert Miller has hired you to find an employee of his,

[1:44] a solicitor by the name of Rebecca Kretsch, who he had sent to a nearby coastal town,

[1:53] Connors Ferry. And she, after checking in with him, she disappeared

[2:00] along with a sizable portion of money that he had sent with her.

[2:06] And you've been hired to...

[2:08] He sent her to do what?

[2:09] He sent her to the town to make an offer to buy some real estate.

[2:16] And you, in addition to a sizable bonus upon finding information about the whereabouts of

[2:24] Miss Kretsch and the money, he's also offered a pretty nice daily expenses package for the three

[2:32] of you. It's a much better job than you've been hired for in the last year or so.

[2:40] Yeah, we'll take it.

[2:41] So you find yourselves...

[2:45] What would have happened if we didn't take it?

[2:48] Well, I mean, I didn't give you the option.

[2:51] There's a part of improv where you just yes and go with it.

[3:00] You find yourselves in Tanzer's automobile, I'm assuming, unless you've sold it and you're

[3:05] taking the train.

[3:06] No, no, no. I still keep that.

[3:09] So you find yourselves in Tanzer's automobile late afternoon driving up to Connor's Ferry.

[3:17] Now, have you guys done any preparation?

[3:21] Have you done any research?

[3:23] What would you have done before heading out to a new town to investigate this job?

[3:30] I mean, we probably would have, I assumed, investigated Rebecca Kretsch a little bit

[3:34] to see if she had any shady stuff going on that we would know about.

[3:38] Because my first instinct as a detective is that she took the money and ran away.

[3:44] And so like, is she in any trouble that she would need money for?

[3:48] Was there any history?

[3:49] Does she have any criminal history?

[3:50] Or does she have any relatives or friends or connections that would lead her to just

[3:55] suddenly betray her employer and that kind of stuff?

[3:57] So I've asked around about Rebecca Kretsch.

[4:00] So you start asking around in all the pot shops and back alleys.

[4:04] Outside of all the cabarets that won't let you in, just through the windows.

[4:08] So we're going to do a little roll for that.

[4:10] What you're going to do is you're going to take one basic die.

[4:13] And how are you doing?

[4:14] Do you have an appropriate trait that would fit this action, Elliot?

[4:18] I think, I mean, the trait would be detective.

[4:21] Yep, that works.

[4:22] And do you have an appropriate tag?

[4:23] A die for detective, and then I would use investigation and questioning.

[4:27] Okay, and then if you want to add any dice from your pool, you can add that as well.

[4:32] And you're going to want three successes.

[4:34] So you'll probably want to roll like six or seven dice.

[4:39] Okay, so I'm going to add, then I'll add three from my pool.

[4:42] And I'm assuming you're doing this on your own without the help of these two

[4:45] guys who are probably doing their own part of investigating, or not.

[4:48] Oh yeah, this is, I don't want to reveal my, I think my guys, as much as I enjoy,

[4:54] well, tolerate your company, I think my secretive, confidential informants would

[5:01] be a little thrown off by me walking around with a rich jerk and a drug-addicted weirdo.

[5:07] So I think I'll do this on my own.

[5:10] Which one are you?

[5:11] Which one are you, Live By Watcher?

[5:14] I'd like to do these investigations without being interrupted by a beeping dishwasher.

[5:17] So I think I'll just go on my own.

[5:21] Okay, so I'll roll then, right?

[5:22] Uh-huh, yep.

[5:25] How many four, how many four fives and sixes did you roll?

[5:28] I have two fours and one six.

[5:31] Perfect, that's going to be enough.

[5:33] So you, after asking around, you, the name, and the name sounded familiar to you.

[5:40] And when, after asking around in a couple of back alleys and

[5:44] talking to your favorite low-life, Dougie, you're reminded that...

[5:51] Ah, Dougie, you're my favorite of all the low-lifes.

[5:55] You're reminded that Rebecca Kretsch is better known as Bloody Becky,

[6:00] and that she's a mob enforcer in town.

[6:04] And that she, after coming back from the war, has been making a name for herself,

[6:11] breaking legs, most likely in the employ of one Hubert Miller.

[6:17] Oh, now my question is, so coming back from the war, was she a nurse,

[6:19] or did she pretend to be a man?

[6:21] This is before women were serving on the front lines.

[6:24] In this world, Elliot, a world with aliens, women are serving on the front lines.

[6:29] Okay, well that's great. You know what? More power to this world. I appreciate it.

[6:32] Yeah.

The Flop House -- A FlopTales Teaser!

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