IHOP

## The Interoceanic House of Pancakes

The Interoceanic House of Pancakes (IHOP), localized in the lesser dimensions as Inter**national** House of Pancakes, is a Great Political Power in the Crabosphere. Anyone who orders pancakes here is a member, and there are billions of members, millions of families, thousands of clans, with hundreds of noble houses, dozens of magic users, all lead by the King of the House, The Pancake King Honkules Hill, a terrible tyrant who slayed his own sons for power. While their current ruler is awful, the people of IHOP are hardy, honest, good-hearted people, despite their distate for magic and the occult, which alienates them from the Ranch Davidians, with whom they share a feud that has spanned millenia.

## Background: The Pancake Revolution

Long before Mario Salarmo invented Mountain Doo, he was an apprentice to an ancient Wizard named Flapjack the Hungry. Long ago, when foods were slowly being invented, Flapjack begged Lorby for inspiration for the ideal food for the tummy. Lorby, feeling for to the pathetic mortal, granted him an idea so genius, so powerful, so excellent, that it would change the face of breakfast forever: The pancake.

Flapjack loved cake, and he always adored his enchanted +2 Frying Pan, and with it, constructed the first pancake, which he coupled with some eggs, toast, butter, and syrup. He garnished it with five and thirty berries, red and blue and black and glistening with dark juice. The meal was Halal, Kosher, and an all around good time. The pancake was served to Lorby, who shared half with Flapjack. They both agreed it was delicious, and thus, the House of Pancakes was hammered into the the earth across the lands.

At this time, the House of Pancakes is a different entity than the current IHOP, as You were a HOPpite if you loved pancakes. At this time, there were trillions of Hoppites across the Universe alone, and estimates in the known Lorbyverse could have been in the quad- or quintillions.

Lorby did not mind the Hoppite craze, seeing it as a healthy method of keeping the humans from tearing one another limb-from-limb. However, out of sight of the Deep Ones, hidden away in the Cheeseburger Dimension (seldomly traveled by Lorbyists as seafood and burgers don't go together usually), the Burger King plotted to kill King Flapjack.

## The Burger Heresy

When the Burger King raised his cheeseburger armies, he also sent nine onion rings to the Nine Houses of the Eastern Pancakes. He enchanted those nine onion rings to connect to his Burger Crown, and would seduce the Nine Pancake Princes into becoming the Nine Burghers.

These Nine Burghers were some of the most powerful, and when the Cheeseburger army rained down on their foes, the traitor legions slew billions of warriors in cold blood. The Burger King lead a brutal war against the Hoppites, and slew King Flapjack using his "secret sauce". Very few know the meaning of this.

This gave birth to the House of the Burger, which reigned for a year or so.

## The Burgerian Jihad / The Crystal Pepsi Crusade

The two names refer to the same event, though "Burgerian Jihad" is the term used historically by Ranch Davidians, while the "Crystal Pepsi Crusade" is the term used by IHOPic historians.

The House of the Burger, overturning the balance of the Burgersphere, caused a Rift in Time so bad, that for a year in the far future on earth IHOP was called IHOB.

This rift in the caloric realm disturbed Lorby heavily, who distrusted the greed and wrath of the Burger King, Wizard slayer. So, Lorby took Flapjack's soul, reshaped it, and sent down DNY, a slug of Pancake wrath.

DNY was a very large slug, but not all-encompassing. During the Great Battle of the House, the fighters who witnessed DNY would become "DNY Followers", or Denny's Followers, who would become the Ranch Davidians. The rest of the forces against the Burger King would, after his defeat, created the Interoceanic House of Pancakes, now knowns a Ihopics. While the Followers of the DNY believed in Denny's leaving, said that "one day, the son of the slug will unite the Pancakes, and bring burgers to peace".

## The Modern IHOP

IHOP has been in business in the world for decades in some people'sminds, due to the ultratrauma of the Pancake Event. While in the shadows, IHOP and Denny's still wage a shadow war across the face of America, the Oceans, Parts of every Moon, and of course, The Great Fields of the Elysium. In the Capital of IHOP, the current ruler, Honkules Hill, rules with an iron fist, and has slain his eldest son and youngest with poison.

The IHOB event is considered by most sheeple to be a simple advertisement quirk in the early 21st century, but that is yet another thin veil on the deep ocean of the Outer.