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Floptales (Podcast)
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Floptales (also Flop Tales) is an actual play podcast featuring the hosts of The Flop House (and their friend Zhubin). They play a game loosely based on Lady Blackbird.In a large unspecified American city, in the Film Noir era of a subtly alternate history, three detectives investigate high-society intrigue and paranormal crime. Our heroes: Dan McCoy as Luke Brightwatcher, a spirit medium and academic Elliott Kalan as Jeremy "Scales" Chandler, a streetwise gumshoe Zhubin Parang as Tanzer Silverview, a rich kid with alien ancestry Stuart Wellington, game master, as everyone elseThe origins of the show are a little complicated. In 2015 and again in 2016, the Maximum Fun podcast network ran 'switcheroo' events in which its shows all swapped hosts for a week. Both of these events saw the Flop House hosts (and Zhubin) take over The Adventure Zone, creating a new party and exploring unseen parts of the TAZ Balance universe.Then in 2018, the Flop House released a bonus episode exclusive to Maximum Fun members. It featured reimagined versions of the TAZ switcheroo characters, but transposed to a new setting and genre, with a new expository theme tune, elaborate sound design, and a new title: Floptales.The first adventure spanned three episodes. A second adventure began in 2019, and is currently ongoing at seven episodes and counting. All the episodes are still exclusive to paying Maximum Fun members. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: From the beginning, Scales has some noir savviness. After his experiences in the first adventure, he gains a high level of supernatural horror savviness, to the extent that other characters regard him as paranoid. From the moment he arrives in Connor’s Ferry, he frequently asserts (correctly) that the new case will involve ‘spook-em-ups’ aplenty. | |
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Glowing Eyes: When Tanzer uses his infra-red vision; see Half-Human Hybrid. | |
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Innate Night Vision: Tanzer can see infra-red; see Half-Human Hybrid. His eyes glow red when he uses this ability. | |
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Squishy Wizard | |
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Squishy Wizard | |
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Butt-Monkey: Denton Miller in the first adventure; Raleigh Stillwell in the second. | |
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Hardboiled Detective | |
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Hardboiled Detective: Scales. His surname is probably a nod to Raymond Chandler. | |
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Awesome Mccoolname | |
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In-Series Nickname | |
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In-Series Nickname: Jeremy "Scales" Chandler. "Scales" is a reference to both musical scales (because he's a singer) and the scales of justice (because he's a detective). The nickname is a hangover from the original switcheroo episodes, where Jeremy was a dragonborn bard and "Scales" was a reference to his actual scales. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: When Luke isn't high on opium (which he never is during cases), he's drunk. If he doesn't already have a drink, his first priority is to find one. | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man / Badass in a Nice Suit: Tanzer takes his wardrobe very seriously. | |
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Rich Boredom | |
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Rich Boredom: Tanzer's reason for becoming a detective. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: Tanzer isn't half alien, but he's no more than a few generations removed. To the casual observer, he looks like a tall, well-built human man. Under the hood he has some hybrid perks: super strength, infra-red vision, an affinity for alien languages, and (not so much a perk) literal blue blood. | |
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Super-Strength | |
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Super-Strength: Tanzer; see Half-Human Hybrid. Also possibly Birdie and other members of the Vox family. | |
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Expository Theme Tune | |
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Expository Theme Tune: Ripped off from DuckTales (1987) by Alexander Smith, who also does all the editing and sound design. Theme Tune Roll Call: It introduces the players and features clips of them saying their characters' names. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: When the original D&D characters were reimagined for their new setting on Earth, "Jeremy Fangbattle" became Jeremy Chandler and "Lucian Buttwatcher" became Luke Brightwatcher, while Tanzer Silverview kept his original fantasy-ish name. | |
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Alien Blood | |
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Alien Blood: Tanzer's blood is literally blue; see Half-Human Hybrid. | |
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Opium Den | |
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Opium Den: Luke's go-to downtime haunt. | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination: The reason the Silverviews have always kept their Antarian blood such a shameful secret. | |
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Power Trio | |
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Power Trio: The Hogsbottom Three avert most of the typical trio dynamics. They each think they're the smart one lumbered with two idiots, and they're all sort of right, by turns. Scales and Tanzer share or alternate the leadership role while Luke hangs back. Fighter, Mage, Thief: Tanzer, Luke and Scales respectively. Big, Thin, Short Trio: Ditto. | |
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Theme Tune Roll Call | |
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Theme Tune Roll Call: It introduces the players and features clips of them saying their characters' names. | |
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Recruited from the Gutter | |
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Recruited from the Gutter: Scales' young assistant and booker, Annie. She doesn't know she's actually his daughter. | |
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LoungeSinger | |
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Lounge Singer: Scales' part-time career between cases (though he sings a lot during cases too, much to the annoyance of his companions). | |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief | |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief: Tanzer, Luke and Scales respectively. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: Suzanne, Luke's wife, whose death he cites as the main cause of his depression. He uses his abilities to commune with her ghost. | |
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Big, Thin, Short Trio | |
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Big, Thin, Short Trio: Ditto. | |
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