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Eel King/Eel Cult

After a meteor crashed into the ocean of Bluff City, it attracted eels towards it in great numbers until they had knotted together to form an "eel king".

This eel king was raised from the ocean by an eel cult, who had taken over the abandoned Saltwater Pier. Although they had been active in Bluff City for many years, this was their first large action as a collective.

The eel king caused chaos along the Boardwalk and endangered Hector Hu. The Champ punched the ferris wheel on the Pier into the eel king, splitting it apart. The eels then shot into the air, and the meteor that they had gathered around scattered over Bluff City, creating a bunch of new superpowered people.

During this fight, the members of the cult escaped, although it was noted that they had horseshoe crab faces.
Bloomington Blooms

The **Bloomington Blooms** are a fictional baseball team depicted in the tv show Aliens in the Outfield.

They are the rival baseball team to the Bluff City Blackjacks as well as the rival alien team to the aliens on the Bluff City team. Their job is to prove that the Earth should be destroyed.

Their mascot is a bouquet of flowers.

## Players and Staff

* An alien who has the appearance of the Bloomington mascot
Jennifer Jetta

## Meta Information

### Appears In

There Is No Greater Love (mentioned but not seen)Messy Business (mentioned but not seen)

**Jennifer Jetta** is an investigative journalist for both the Bluff City Current and the The Sentinel. She was "a little too first" with information about the death of Hector Hu's peel and so is thought to be involved somehow, although it is unknown how and to what extent.

She "maybe went to Princeton" and is "maybe is from Michigan". She is yet to be seen on-screen.

She is 36 years old.
Chuck Buckly

> *“I’m going to show everybody in Bluff City who their new favourite wrestler is: it’s me!”*
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**Chuck Buckly** was previously a midcard wrestler for Old Dominion Wrestling before moving to Promenade Wrestling. He debuted at the same time as Erica Rizzo as the tag team partner of Lenny Reed. He and Lenny's partnership split, as Chuck felt that Lenny was holding him back and that Lenny was jealous of his skills as a wrestler.

Although Chuck is a highly skilled wrestler and genuinely wants to be liked, he lacks the charisma to gain wide popularity.

Before each match, Chuck stretches extensively.

## Charlie Cupid Persona

> *FROM YOUR WILDEST DREAMS:*
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> *CHARLIE CUPID! HE’LL WIN YOUR HEART AND THEN HE’LL BREAK IT! EFFICIENTLY! OVER A SERIES OF WELL-PLANNED SPOTS!*
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Hailing from "your wildest dreams", Charlie Cupid is a heel wrestler that is convinced that he is everybody’s favourite wrestler (“of course you love me I’m Charlie Cupid”). His finishing move is called The Bloody Valentine (a shining wizard but instead of a knee it’s an axe kick).

His wrestling outfit is based on heart aesthetics (heart shaped sunglasses, etc).

Charlie has a loud and overblow entrance, with music that is a tone-shifted ‘Call Me’ by Blondie.

## Moves (The Technician)

### Finishing Move

When you’re booked to win a match, roll 2d6: On a 10+, you hit your Finisher clean. You gain +1 Audience. On a 7-9, they make you work for it. Choose: they counter and you have to slap a real submission hold on them, gain +2 Momentum; they no-sell your finish and you have to hit them with it again, gain +1 Heat with them. On a Botch, pick one: it’s sloppy, lose -1 Audience and win the match; or you go overboard and really crank in a hold, you injure your opponent, and end the match in a no contest.
The City Silhouette

**The City Silhouette** is a newspaper, presumably in either Bluffington, Bluff City, or Blough City.

## Known Headlines

### Tuesday Edition, Pages 4-6

* Egg Disaster On Monkfish Ave. As Egg Truck Overturns
* Copper Thieves Take A Tumble
* Fire Department Expands East, Bonfire Regulations Remain
* Mysterious Phenomena Division Seizes Twelve Tons of Paper
* Boardwalk Resurfacing Efforts Stalled Once More
* Fog Bank Inbound, Weather Advisory
* Wreck of The Catafalque Memorial Well Attended
* Mayor’s Office On Pale Lights, Glimpsed: “No Comment”
* Hot Weather To Continue, Fishmarket Hours Curtailed
* Bavette’s Champagne Fountain Demonstrated, On Sale Soon
* Skell School For Mathematics and Grammar To Open On Oarfish Plaza

### Wednesday Edition, Pages 1-3

* The Different Salts That The Water Brings
* Glass Breaks
* Radios Across The City Tune To Singing, High Clear Voice
* When Will The Weather Clear. Wake In The Night Drenched In Sweat
* Boardwalk Resurfacing Efforts Halted By Direct Order From Mayor
* Burn All The Wood In The Woodshed! High Summer!
* Di Traglia Martini! The Ocean In A Glass, At The Catafalque Memorial!
* Archaeologists Puzzled As No Bodies Found In Lanternfish Square
* Grass Grows In Office Of City Museum Curator In Chief
* In Future May The Touch Of Our Friends Bring Comfort Again

### Wednesday Edition, Pages 3-5

* Meteorologists Insist Horizon Lights Grow Closer, Are Rebuffed
* Four Harmed As Red Shipping Container Falls From “Magnetic Crane”
* At Last! Empress Egret Eggs Spotted; Birdwatchers Strictly Prohibited
* Shock As Exhumers Find Straw And Clay Fills Catafalque Memorial
* Tarmac Melts. Temperature Impossibly Warm
* Boardwalk Resurfacing Efforts Frustrated By Equipment Malfunction
* Two White Feathers Found In All Mailboxes West Of Stoplight
* Drainage Systems Fail Throughout The City. Union Efforts Blamed
* Bavette’s! All The Lightness You Need!
* City Museum Of Natural History Closes Grasslands Exhibition Early

### Thursday Edition, Pages 3-5

* City Museum of Natural History To Open Grasslands Exhibition
* Six Perfect Sailfish, Bone White
* City Pound To Close, Relocate To Smaller Venue on Bristlefish Street
* Digging Re-Commences In Lanternfish Square After New Discoveries
* Water Pressure In Eastern Palisades Expected To Return To Normal
* City Sanitation Workers Strike Brought To A Bitter End
* Rooftop Lounge To Open, Exclusive Supplier: Bavette’s
* Boardwalk Resurfacing Efforts Halted Following Accident
* Late Night, Stoplight Street: Shrill Cry Of Seabird Wakes Residents
* “Never Underestimate Gundersen”, Sales Soar
Atlantic City Airfield

**Atlantic City Airfield** is located in Bluffington Beach, off the Black Horse Pike. It is a small location, without many of the facilities that a larger airport would include.

In the main area that are a handful of reception desks, although many are only open during the day due to lack of flights. The entry security includes a single TSA agent and a single metal detector.

The upper floor of the Airfield is mostly made up of office space for rent. Many of these offices are empty. The space itself is described as “stylistically out of touch”, with wooden paneling and frosted glass doors to each office.

## Offices Operating Out of Atlantic City Airfield

* Cranberry Airways administration office
* Atlantic City Airfield administration office
* Blossum Investigations

## Known Employees

* Josie Highsmith

* TSA agent (1)
Keith J Carberry

**Keith J Carberry** is a cast member of *Friends at the Table.*

## Keith J Carberry

### Episodes

There Is No Greater LoveWhen Justice Is Done

Messy Business

Hard Luck

Aliens in the Outfield

Bluff City Zoo Fiasco

Anomaly

To Be Young Near the Shore

### Characters

Patty FinkMr Good

Agent Heard

Jacob Sound

Keith Carberry

Dax Leopard

Nolan Pearson

## Appearances

* There Is No Greater Love (Patty Fink)
* When Justice Is Done (Franklin Bano aka Mr Good)
* Messy Business (Agent Heard)
* Hard Luck (Jacob Sound)
* Aliens in the Outfield (Keith Carberry)
* Bluff City Zoo Fiasco (Dax Leopard)
* Anomaly
* To Be Young Near the Shore (Nolan Pearson)
* America's Playground (Sank Getlef)
Messy Business

## Overview

Messy Business is the seventh and final arc of Season One of Bluff City. It was played in the Lacuna system by Jared Sorensen, with additional mechanics regarding character connections and plot development taken from TechNoir by Jeremy Keller.

It used characters previously seen in Bluff City, from the A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and a Bird (Maggie Darcy, Finnegan Hands, and Achilles Apollo), There Is No Greater Love (Florence Slowly, Christine Andrews, Leslie Strata, Hector Hu), and When Justice Is Done (Gale Green) arcs.

Unlike previous arcs, where episodes were released once per month, Messy Business was released weekly in four parts from Feburary 16th 2019 to March 11th 2019, and concluded the first season of Bluff City.

## Music

This episode's main theme samples the second movement of Franz Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat Major, from a public domain mark 1.0 recording sourced from the European Archive via museopen. The dial tone heard in the opening and closing is from a recording by giddster, via freesound, licensed under a creative commons 0 license.

The final track samples Del Carnaval, by Juanitos, licensed under a creative commons 2 France license.

## Episode Introductions

The introductions for this arc are Specialist Corson recording their examinations

## Other Episode Information

Maggie Darcy, Christine Andrews, Agent Heard, and Florence Slowly by @SeamonsterArt on twitter [1]

The game board for this game can be seen on patreon and the Drawing Maps stream for the finale prep is also available on patreon (both require patreon login to view).

### Case File

CASE FILE: C#37833: THE BLOSSOM TAPE

Film star BLAKE BLOSSOM is dead. This is, on its own, is not surprising: famous actors die at least as often as everyone else. But it is where he died that makes this an issue for ███████████ (The Concern). Blossom was last seen walking down the beach one week after the filming of “The Eighty Six,” at approximate 0200, far from any SHUNT POINTS. Yet within the month, Green Level agents reported that he had emerged in BLOUGH CITY, where he quickly began a new career as an avant-garde filmmaker--something no transplant could do without connections and support. 8 months later, he disappeared without a trace. Two days ago his body was found in THE THICKET by a construction crew while draining a pond at a new housing development. Witness reports indicate that he was found with portable film camera, its reel empty. Due to the strange nature of his arrival, his rapid ascent in the metropolis’ social scene, and the secrecy around his cause of death, it is possible that he was in contact with ████████████ (Agent Squire aka Hector Hu) or another hostile personality. OPERATE WITH CAUTION.
Hollis Whitaker’s Mansion

Located near the Whitaker Family estate, **Hollis Whitaker’s mansion** is a big, two story house with a round-about driveway and a garage off to the side.

The inside is a little garish, with “too much gold on things”, “books you’ve never read” lining the shelves, and important statues from all around the world. The rooms themselves are not themed in any way, giving it the effect of looking fancy but “poorly put-together”.

A huge staircase in the entry hall leads upstairs to the smoking room.
The Grand Canary Hotel

**The Grand Canary Hotel** is located in Blough City during the period of time depicted in Extracurricular: Out Of Time. It is what is thought of as a "Class B" location in the city in that although it has a unique name, it has the same layout as any other Class B hotel.

## Basement Speakeasy

Caitlin Key runs a speakeasy in the basement of this Hotel under the protection of the Whitaker Family (who received a cut of the profits of the speakeasy but are otherwise relatively hands-off). To gain access, you go into the elevator and tell the elevator operator a specific room number. The elevator will go up, and you will get off at the floor you requested. Then, you walk from the elevator to the service elevator, and then take the service elevator to the secret basement/former laundry space where the speakeasy is.

After you exit the elevator into the speakeasy, the bar is directly across from the elevator doors. Behind the bar is a small backroom, containing a small office and some key storage. The large open space in front of the bar has a few tables and chairs in front of the stage. On either side of the large open space are two back rooms, a conference-style room and a smoking room with plush red chairs. There are also bathrooms off to the side of the room. The speakeasy itself has no windows.

### Speakeasy Staff

* Bouncer/elevator attendant
* Lounge singer
* Piano player
Crispy Boone

**Crispy Boon** is a “teeny tiny” boy around 5 or 6 years old.

When seen in America’s Playground, he is dressed in suspenders, button up shirt, and a jacket over his shoulder “like an adult”, with pomade-styled hair, styled very nicely by something else to make him seem more presentable. Despite this, he seems like “a little baby crime boy”.
Loose (character)

**Loose** is the owner/operator of a hot air balloon in 1800s Bluff City. She is 6ft tall.

It is a family business, and has been catching things falling off balloons since she was six. Her father owned a hot air balloon, and her mother was a balloon walker (walking between two hot air balloons). Despite this legacy, she has a very relaxed attitude about ballooning.

Her hot air balloon is spherical in shape, with classic red white and blue stripes and the words "loose is goose" on the side with a chariot and a cherub cloud.
Old Ben

**Old Ben** is the owner of a pawn shop in Bluffington Beach.

He knows Nolan Pearson's mom well enough that he will call her if he believes something has come into the shop that Nolan might be interested in for him to play with (provided the item is not fragile). He will sometimes charge Nolan one dollar in order to play with the item.
Barry

**Barry** is a young man who works as both security and as a doorman for Gale Green's parties.

When seen in Extracurricular: Out Of Time, he is wearing a black jacket with pants that are not the same suit cut as the jacket, a vest, and a tie.

He briefly attempts to flirt with Alexandra Hughes but is immediately shot down by her.
Dream Askew

## Overview

Although when this game was originally aired it was set in Bluff City, Austin has since said that it actually shows and is set in the future of Bluffington Beach.

### Episode Links

* Episode video
* Episode audio

### Episode Description

> Ali, Andrew, Austin, and Jack join together to play the playtest version of Avery Alder's Dream Askew. From the game's about page:
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> Dream Askew gives us ruined buildings, haunted faces, strange new psychic powers, fierce queer love, and turbulent skies, asking “What do you do next?”
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> Imagine that the collapse of civilization didn’t happen everywhere at the same time. Instead, it’s happening in waves. Every day, more people fall out of the society intact. We queers were always living in the margins of that society, finding solidarity, love, and meaning in the strangest of places. Apocalypse didn’t come for us first, but it did come for us.
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> Gangs roam the apocalyptic wasteland, and scarcity is becoming the norm. The world is getting scarier, and just beyond our everyday perception, howling and hungry, there exists a psychic maelstrom.
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> We banded together to form a queer enclave – a place to live, sleep, and hopefully heal. More than ever before, each of us is responsible for the survival and fate of our community. What lies in the rubble? For this queer enclave, could it be utopia?
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### Other Episode Information

The character sheets and map for this game can be seen on patreon (requires patreon login to view).

## Cast

* The Augur, Providence (Austin Walker)
* Robyn (Andrew Lee Swan)
* Already (Jack de Quidt)
* Samantha (Ali Acampora)

## Plot

Samantha and The Augur, Providence meet in the pantry of Samantha’s Bar. The Augur is late to meet with her and The Augur is outside taking a call and speaking with her students. The briefly make small talk about what’s happening in their lives (“more usuals than usual”) and the community generally (“I want us to thrive, I don’t feel like we’re thriving here”). They both agree more can be done in the community, but Samantha believes they should use their connections to the society intact, and The Augur believes they need to isolate themselves from those still untouched by the apocalypse, ending with The Augur breaking up with Samantha (“We each have so much to give to everyone out there. Perhaps we have already given enough to each other”). Samantha says that she wishes The Augur had started the conversation with that (“I know, I think I just wanted [a debate] with you before I left the pantry”).

The power goes out. The Augur says the power outage has come earlier than she thought.
Slushie

SRB (blog sign-off)

Srrrrjie/Shirley (HoneyCon ID)

**Slushie** is a polar bear and new addition to the Bluff City Zoo. The previous polar bear, Snow Cone, was traded to the Trenton Zoo, and Slushie is sometimes confused for him.

She was raised in captivity and originally named Sorbet, but was given the name of Slushie by Dax and Darren upon her arrival to the Bluff City Zoo.

Glasses, thinking her to be the master thief Snow Cone, recruits her to the HoneyCon heist. Despite having never run a heist before, Slushie goes along with this.

During the heist, she wears sunglasses on the top of her head to go along with her fez.

After the successful heist, Slushie, having gotten really “good” at using the internet, starts a blog which is “mostly incomprehensible” but shows the tarp being used for decoration in her enclosure. The Zoo loves it and uses her, “the blogging bear, as a marketing campaign to boost attendance.
Agent Ward

Agent **Ward** is a Senior Agent on Deep Blue deployment in Blough City. She was once an agent for the Blough City-aligned faction of The Concern as a double agent but betrayed them to work for the Bluff City-aligned faction as a triple agent.

She is known to some in Bluff City as Leslie Strada of the coastguard, though this is thought to be another pseudonym.

She is described as looking similar to Katherine Hepburn. When seen in There Is No Greater Love, she wears a coast guard uniform and a long peacoat with her hair up.
Mrs Pearson

**Mrs Pearson** is the mother of Nolan Pearson.

Her parenting style is described as "lax to a point", and she and Nolan seem to have a positive relationship (despite her grounding him indefinitely). She and Nolan say "spaghetti's ready" when dinner is ready (no matter what food they're actually having), as an inside joke/reference to a show they watched together when Nolan was younger.

She has a great memory which she refers to as "the Pearson vault", although it is easier for her to get caught up remembering small details rather than the larger picture of a situation.

When seen in To Be Young Near the Shore, she is described as having big curly hair, big glasses, and wearing a pink denim shirt tucked into jeans.
Shaw Family

The **Shaw** family are an old Bluff City family who have operated in Bluff City since colonial days (they are white).

Although they used to have more casinos in Bluff City, they have since moved most of their operation to Vegas. The Promenade is now the only casino they own in Bluff City, although they do still own hotels in the city.

They are also the owners of Promenade Wrestling, although this particular line of business does not draw in much money.

## Members

* Simeon Shaw
* Saraphina Shaw
Blake Blossum

**Blake Blossum** was an actor-turned-director, who worked in both Bluff and Blough City.

He starred in the pilot of Aliens in the Outfield as Frankie Bianchi.

After starring in The Eighty Six (as Chief Grimes), he was brought to Blough City by Hector Hu and became an avant garde film director.

Working with Gale Green, he began showing his films in public places and private places (bars, coffee houses, projected onto the side of buildings) without approval of the Cultural Trust. The Cultural Trust believed his work was dangerous, and began to track his movements. He was also followed by the Concern during this time.

Eight months after returning to Blough City, Blake was killed by The Curator while shooting footage for his most recent film (The Tunnel).

He looks similar to James Gandolfini.

## The Blossum Tape ("The Tunnel")

The Tunnel is a short film shown at the Citywide Film Festival in Blough City. It is a recording of unknown length, filmed with a portable, 8 mm camera. It is a documentary film of traveling through a tunnel to Bluffington, followed by a tour of Bluffington Beach by Hector Hu. When it premiered at the Film Festival, the footage caused a small riot to break out, adding to chaos of the city at that time.

When holding it, the reel of film feels like it have a jumping bean or a small larval bug inside it when you hold it in your hands. There is only one copy of this film.
The Gloam

The **Gloam** is a supernatural entity which was first seen residing in The Park Zoo in Blough City, and is connected to the City and The Tunnel Project. It affected the minds of the animals within the zoo, making them want to stay within the zoo despite the depressing conditions.

After Chanti visited The Park Zoo, she was affected by the Gloam. Rupert was also affected by the Gloam after Chanti carried him through the Tunnel to return to Bluff City.
Already

**Already** used to drive an armored grocery truck through each week. They no longer have this truck but they know where it is (although they do not know if it still works). They are unwilling to talk about what happened to lead them to abandon their truck and run to Bluffington Beach.

Prior to their arrival in Bluffington Beach, they found their dog Duke (originally named Rocky), a small, angry, muscular french bulldog.

They had spent some time in the Remnants and got into delivery work that way. When making deliveries, Duke sat up front with them. Through this work, they were able to acquire a cell phone that still gets service.

They are described as having a tired frame, with sagging shoulders as though their body is constantly looking fro something to lean on or lean against.

They have short, closely-cropped hair, and a heavy and textured craggy face.

When seen in Dream Askew, they wear gloves and their old work crew overall from their time working in the metro tunnels of Bluffington Beach over the top of shoplifted club clothes (sheer or sequined).

## The Arrival

Whenever someone gives you an opportunity to prove yourself to the community, they gain a token.
Alexa Baker

Alexa Baker by @vlasdygoth on twitter [1]

**Alexa Baker** is the CSO (Chief Spiritual Officer) at Graysand Paranormal, and is the face of the business. She is described as being in her early 30s and having a “kind of mousey” appearance and dressing in a clearance-at-old-navy business casual style.

Formerly an over-the-phone customer service agent, Alexa left that behind to become a paranormal investigator. Her friendly and personable attitude means that she makes connections with people easily, even going so far as to be facebook friends with members of Trenton Terror-Normal Investigators, their closest competitor. She sends out a company newsletter once a week to staff, and organising social functions for those in the office.

During cases, she often makes notes on a small notepad that she keeps with her.

In her spare time, she sells crystals on both eBay and etsy (although she fiend eBay to be more profitable), and spends a lot of time on wikipedia. She also carries crystals on her, both for her own use and to give to people in need.

She has a tattoo of a seaweed pinkie ring from her promise to the selkie.
City Hall

**City Hall** is a large, traditional-looking building with a nice big green front lawn with pedestals for ornaments and statues that never went up (with plaques saying ‘this was donated by so and so’ but the money was spent on galas instead).

Inside, the building has marble floors, dome ceiling, columns.

During the era of Bluff City shown in There Is No Greater Love, to make a meeting with someone you have to fill out a piece of paper in the reception room where you must specify various things, including:

* Are you here to see [official’s name]?
* Write down your name.
* Who you are?
* Which person you want to talk to?
* How long you want to speak to them for?
The Bash

**The Bash** is a bar on the Cove that was depicted in the movie The Eighty Six.

It was a neighbourhood club that became a “cool spot” as the casinos took over the area and is now more of a tourist spot, although local do still go there. The owners have been offered to franchise it out to one of the casinos and they have refused this offer. It is run and owned by someone from the Cove,

Their main clientele is out of town entertainment/musicians, business people and professional gamblers, who go to The Bash to go to drink and party.

Inside, The Bash is split into “two floors” but really is a lower dance floor/stage area, with wings either side with stairs that go up to the seating.
Hollis Whitaker

> *“A rude mouth and a penchant for very loud parties.”*
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**Hollis Jewels Whitaker** is the 20-something son and heir to the Whitaker Family.

Prior to the start of Extracurricular: Out Of Time, Hollis was caught in a roadside encounter with the police and some mobsters. In the aftermath of this, three cops were dead and Hollis was placed under house arrest, only saved from immediate jail time by the massive influence of his family. He is relatively unworried by the arrest, continuing to hold wild parties at his mansion since he cannot leave.

He has a deep fascination with things outside of Blough City (“all my favourite things are imported, all my favourite people are imported”), and has styled his house with many items from “out of town”. He also seeks out associations with people from out of town, such as Alexandra Hughes.

After his arrest for the murder of several Myst officers, Hollis decided to lean into his criminal identity despite being innocent of the crime and began to plan his revenge on those who framed him.

Hollis is a skilled engineer, and assists in his family’s bootlegging business. He told Horseface that he was taught his skills with plumping equipment by "a friend of the family".

He believes that talking to animals would be a waste of time, and that hamster would be a boring animal to own.

He is white, and is described as a “pretty boy”. When seen in Extracurricular: Out Of Time, he is dishevelled and hungover, with hair that is normally oiled and gelled back but is currently grown out a little bit too much and stubble (creating an effect that “in the movie version [...] would be hot” but is gross to see in reality), and wearing a bathrobe.
Art Martinez-Tebbel

The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena

When Justice Is Done

Hard Luck

Extracurricular: Out Of Time

Aliens in the Outfield

Honey Heist

America's Playground

The Champ

Ercole Verandanza

Frankie Bianchi

King Charles

**Art Martinez-Tebbel** (né **Tebbel**) is a cast member of *Friends at the Table.*

## Appearances

* The Cost of Greed (Jake the Jackal)
* There Is No Greater Love (Tyler Taylor Pierce)
* The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena (Jake the Jackal)
* When Justice Is Done (Elana Flores aka The Champ)
* Hard Luck (Ercole "Herc" Verandanza)
* Extracurricular: Out Of Time (Elana Flores aka The Champ)
* Aliens in the Outfield (Frankie 'Beanball' Bianchi)
* Honey Heist (King Charles)
* America's Playground (Sank Getlef)
Doyle MacKaye

Doyle MacKaye by @vlasdygoth on twitter [1]

**Doyle MacKaye** was a boxer in the underground boxing scene of Bluff City.

He had been involved in boxing since he was a child, although it remained a side gig to his actual income. Doyle had initially wanted to work at a garage as a mechanic but after work as a mechanic proved too difficult to find, he took a job at “The” Scuba Shop with Finnegan Hands.

Despite not being able to swim, he did enjoy this work and especially enjoyed working with Finnegan, whom he considered to be his mentor. He also continued in boxing during this time, where his entrance music was ‘Only The Good Die Young’ by Billy Joel. His trainer during this time was Tawny Buck.

It was this connection to Finnegan that led to him being pulled into the orbit of Sonny Veranda, and agreeing to fight Achilles Apollo as part of Sonny’s plan to trick both the Whitaker and Veranda families out of their money. Although Doyle did assist with this plan, he was not charged for his role in the crime.

After this and Finnegan’s subsequent disappearance, he became the owner of “The” Scuba Shop. He would go on to have two kids, Lily and Finn, and three dogs, Daisy-Bird, Grover, and another unnamed dog.

At the time of his first appearance, he was 31 or 32 years old and is described as being built like "a younger Vincent D'onofrio". He is 6 feet, 6 inches tall.
Countinghouse

**Countinghouse** is the financial district, deep in the heart of Blough City.

Tall office buildings wrap around city blocks arranged in concentric circles. At the center, a rotunda, hiding a statue.

It was the focus of the Holiday Parade that briefly took over Blough City during Messy Business. Giant balloons of strange geometric figures floated down Countinghouse's avenues as festive music plays. Hundreds of Blough City citizens sipped warm drinks and watched in awed merriment.

## Known Locations Within Countinghouse

* Southern Carpark Floor 7
* Lounge
Lenny Reed

As the second cousin of someone in a big wrestling dynasty family, **Lenny Reed** fell into a career in wrestling for Promenade Wrestling more out of habit than any particular enthusiasm for the work.

Within Promenade, there are a mix of people who think Lenny is fine and people who are frustrated with him due to his lack of passion, as he is a skilled wrestler who sees wrestling as a 9-to-5 job. Jake the Jackal is an odd mixture of both, as he believes Lenny should have more respect or him but also does not remember Lenny's name (“that weird guy should respect me!”).

He doesn't have any particular love for the spotlight, although he is a competent professional, seeking out those who he has matches with before the show starts to talk through the beats of the match and the signals for each move.

Previously, he was tag team partners with Chuck Buckly, who split with him as he believed Lenny was holding him back.

Erica Rizzo is close to him, believing that management should give him better matches because of his work level.

Lenny chose a vampire aesthetic, despite "not even being goth".

## Count Faustolfe the Third Persona

> *COUNT FAUSTOFLE THE THIRD!*
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> *HE’LL SUCK YOUR BLOOD! WE THINK? WE DOUBT JAKE WILL LIKE THAT! WE DOUBT IT A LOT!*
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Hailing from "parts unknown", Count Faustolfe the Third is a centuries-old vampire gimmick like "if Gangrel was less subtle", with a "rich north-eastern elitist" personality.

His wrestling attire is a 10x11 stovepipe hat, velvet coat, jabot necktie, red contacts, and a comically large cross necklace. When he enters the ring, he takes the coat, hat, and necklace off but leaves the necktie on.

For his entrance, the lights of the arena are switched off, with an organ music cover of 'Hall of the Mountain King'. As he always loses, the audience chants “start the count” as he walks to the ring.

Count Faustolfe is the master of the Dracula Pin, and also uses the move known as the Garlic Clutch.

## Move (The Jobber)

### Do the Job

You are always booked to lose your matches. When your opponent pins you for the win, roll 2d6. 10+, you make them look great and they gain +1 audience. On 7-9, gain +1 Momentum or +1 Heat with them, your choice. On a botch, you bnoth lose -1 Audience. If your opponent is another player’s wrestler, roll for this when they make their finishing move.

### Career Wrestler

If you end an Episode with Audience +3 or higher, you can change to any other Gimmick. If you end an episode with Audience 0, you aren’t fired - instead your Audience is reset to +1

### Sympathetic

Roll WORK instead of AUDIENCE when you make the work the audience move.
Nash Nebraska

Nash Nebraska by @smallpolar\_bear on twitter [1]

Father (estranged)

**Nash Nebraska** was the VP of Operations at The Albatross casino. The golden child of the Nebraska family, he had a close relationship with his mother, a more distant one with his father, and a complicated relationship with his younger sister, Carly.

He played basketball in high school and college (his position was centre). During and after college he earned a number of diplomas - a business degree (MBA), a degree in religion, a degree in theology, and a degree in agricultural technology. He displayed these, along with his high school and college basketball trophies, and photos of family fishing trips in his office in The Albatross.

In The Albatross, Nash’s cluttered office was of a light walnut wood and gold design, with lots of books, a gold name plate with ‘Nashton Nebraska’ on it, a typewriter, a stack of papers in his outbox, nothing in his inbox, a desk phone and a cubby filled with legal pads. There is a safe behind the theology degree hanging on his wall.

As part of various gifts being run on him by Jackie Sound, Herc Verendanza and Carly, Nash was arrested for the chips that were stolen from The Albatross during its opening night. This arrest also caused him to lose the majority of his possessions, including his four houses. Currently, he is a bartender and waiter at the Nebraska Bar in The Albatross casino, a position which he seems to enjoy much more than his previous role.

His drink of choice is an Amber Moon (whiskey and tabasco sauce).

Nash looks like Magic Mike-era Kevin Nash, wearing a sky blue cowboy outfit with white leather tassels. He is a tall, 43-year-old white man with shoulder-length brown hair that is just beginning to go grey, and a big, confident stature. During the van explosion in Hard Luck, one of his eyebrows was singed.
Bluff City Police Department

The **Bluff City Police Department** is the main law enforcement authority within Bluff City.

## Staff

* Chief Grimes (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
* Detective Sebastian Young (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
* Detective Max Lam (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
* Sargent Janis Stone (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
* Officer James "Magnolia" James
* Officer Elliot Jakowsky (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
* Officer Oscar Season (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
* Officer Marty McKeen (fictionalised version seen in the movie The Eighty Six)
Helmen Sister’s Boating Shop

The **Helmen's Sisters Boating Shop** is located on Kingfish Pier in Bluff City during the 1800s. It is owned and operated by the Helmen sisters as a front to cover for their secret invention of mayonnaise. Neither sister knows much about boating, which leads many local residents to be suspicious of the Helmen sisters.

The sisters, played by Jack de Quidt and Janine Hawkins, are not named in the episode in which they appear.
CD-BAR

The **CD-BAR** is a bar in The Cove in Bluff City.

After buying up large amount of stocks of discman and CDS (either by cutting a deal with the company or “someone who made a crate fall off the back of a truck”), the CD-BAR's privacy has made is a good place in Bluff City to do unsavoury activities.

When entered, you can hire a discman for $5 and then choose your CDs to listen to (headphone splitters also available). To communicate with other patrons in the bar, an in-bar messaging system (similar to an in-flight messaging system) can be used. The cocktail cocktail waitresses will also pass notes for you.
Judy Waters

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**Judy Waters** is a sports bookie who works as a hostess/manager for the luxury penthouse in The Albatross casino. While there, she was “basically a low-level fixer” for high rollers. She is very new to being a bookie, which gets her into a great deal of trouble when entering into a partnership of sorts with Jacob Sound.

After the events of Hard Luck, Judy was fired from The Albatross, as well as another casino, and a hotel, unable to get away from the life she had entered into.

She has a tendency to take things very literally.

She is described as looking like Yui Hiami, wearing the Fay Valentine car dealer outfit combined with the Doug big suit video (magenta suit jacket with big shoulderpads and black lapels, with a green bow tie). During the opening night of The Albatross, she is wearing a white suit which has a red gradient halfway up her body from the van’s crash into the cranberry bog.
The Black Colossus

**The Black Colossus** is one of three casinos owned by Millennium Alexander Black.

It is located on the Bluff City Pier.

This casino is themed around the empire of Alexander the Great’s empire, with a Colossus statue on the pier, lots of columns inside.

Inside, it has a floor themed around north Egypt, and one themed around north India. It also contain a mall.

The Black Colossus has a sky bridge surrounded by an aquarium that connects to The Gilded Menagerie.
Bartholomew Asher

**Bartholomew “Dr Bart” Jimmy Asher** is a physical therapist turned talk show guest on ‘I’m AM, R U?’. After the events of The Moving Pictures, he left this to open his own private practise.

While in college, he briefly played for his small private liberal arts college’s football team as a quarterback. However, Bart suffered a life-threatening lower-compound fracture during football practise, an injury that would go on to shape the rest of his life. While doing the extensive physical therapy his injury required, he was inspired to become a physical therapist. Despite his injury still giving him trouble, he maintain “great cardio”.

Prior to the strikes at Bluff City Studios, his guest spot on ‘I’m AM, R U?’ was only once per week. However, as the writer’s strike dragged on and the show searched for things to fill time, he was brought on to do a daily segment for the 9:30am spot. Due in part to the need to fill time, he recently promoted a homoeopathic product that he had not researched/vetted as thoroughly as he ordinarily would have, and received mail from a viewer that informed him that their (the person sending the letter) mother had died as a result of taking the homeopathic product over medication.

He currently uses the dressing room that is normally the rotating guest’s dressing room when at the Studios. His segments on the show are described as being a similar vibe to a ‘Dr Oz’ type show.

He takes the company bus to work, preferring to relax and listen to NPR style podcasts rather than having to deal with the stress of driving.

His family background is Catholic, with one of his parents being from India.

Bart is in his mid to late 40s, and when seen in The Moving Pictures is dressed in salmon khaki pants, oxblood shoes, and a shirt rolled up at the cuffs with a different pattern on the inside of the cuffs than on the shirt.
Immortal Doll

The **immortal doll** is a puppet doll similar in appearance to a little boy. After being broken by the Bigneighbour family, the doll was repaired by Marlin Guppy, who was somehow able to give it additional sentience (as all objects have partial consciousness). It has been speculated that “the paint makes [the doll] immortal because the paint never dries”.

Although the immortal doll cannot speak, while covered in magnets in Part Five of America's Playground it can make an affirmative and negative sound.

When seen in America’s Playground, he is dressed in a little suit with a magnetic suit underneath. The immortal doll is described as long long-limbed and gregarious, leaving a dripping trail behind it. He moves as though he’s falling in a very specific way, as though his limbs are connected by rubber bands, similar to the spider man in Spirited Away.

## Known Abilities

* Transporting to a different location
* Movement
* Getting longer (may be dependent on how many people are looking at it)
* "Speaking" (when covered in magnets)
Standard Town

**Standard Town** is “the city’s nightlife district offers drinking, dancing, and your favorite jazz tunes. And that’s just in the clubs you know about.”.

It is suburban, at once more spread apart than most cities, with regular road that turn to dirt. People have big backyards, with their backyards turning into football fields. Many of the houses are on stilts, with big outdoor stairwells attached to the new additions to buildings

This was the epicenter of the Standard Town Riots which took place during Messy Business. Sparked by police violence, the Black Jacks led a group of Standard Town regulars into the streets to make their voices heard.
Mary Merisi

**Mary Merisi** is a superpowered individual from Blough City who previously worked for the Mysterious Phenomenon Department, where she was a lieutenant.

Although she was originally in the same social circles as Caitlin Key, she was hit hard by the changes to the city after the parade and took a job with the police as she heard that it was an opportunity to "get out of town". She quickly rose through the ranks from beat cop to lieutenant and was known as someone who wasn't “one of the trouble cops” and as someone who kept her nose clean.

She was assigned to the Tunnel Project, where she was tasked with checking on the Project at least once a week, and being on call for any issues that arose involving the Whitaker family. During Extracurricular: Out Of Time it is discovered that she was the one who killed the group of cops, a crime that was then pinned on Hollis Whitaker and Harry (aka Horseface).

After traveling to Bluff City with Elana, the two of them opened a private investigation company called Guns and Smoke.

She is described as having dark features, with close cropped dark hair and stiylised curls along her hairline similar in appearance to FKA Twigs.

## Abilities

The specifics of her powers are unknown at this time but are described as giving her the appearance or abilities of a spider.

She also has the ability to transform into smoke.
The Black Millennium

**The Black Millennium** is one of three casinos owned by Millennium Alexander Black.

This casino is themed around the year 2000. Everything inside it looks like Windows 98, with late 90s/early 2000 music playing constantly.

The penthouse contains lots of LCD screens which can be programmed to show sunsets, bookshelves, or landscapes. Millennium Alexander Black meets the Graysand Paranormal team in this penthouse at the start of The Cost of Greed.
Alandra Alvarez

**Alandra Alvarez** aka **Thresher** is a 22-year-old Bluff City supervillain. She also works as a cart-pusher at Royce's Roll Carts.

As Thresher, she mainly hits casinos, banks, and other people with money/celebrities while they visited Bluff City (she once robbed the prize to a prize fight on fight night). The truck robbery she participated in at the beginning of When Justice Is Done is a more public job than she would normally do.

She is described as a Latina shark-woman with dyed silvery-blue hair, with grey skin with white features, fins on her arms, big sharp teeth, and a sharp shark tail.

## Abilities

Alandra is a recently empowered individual, most likely the result of the meteor that exploded after Grouse, Mr Good, Paternoster, and The Champ fought the Eel King/Eel Cult.

She has the appearance of a shark, and her tail can cut people. She also has illusionist powers, which helps her disguise her identity (even from more experience superheros like Waxwing).

Thresher also has lackeys who assist her in crime. They wear shark masks. The only named lackey so far is Jeremy.
Christine Andrews

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**Christine Andrews** was a frequent listener of and caller to Hector Hu’s late-night radio show, due both to her insomnia and her belief in Hector’s ideas and theories.

After helping the solve Hector Hu’s murder, Chris was blackmailed/inducted into The Concern by Captain Strada. After joining, she was surprised to see that Florence Slowly was part of the Concern. While in training, her mentor agent was Agent Duke.

At the time of There Is No Greater Love, she drove a green station wagon with wood paneling along the outside. This station wagon had a coffee machine inside the car.

Her coffee drink of choice is a chai latte.

She is described as being an “an everyday people type of person”. She is tall and lanky, with short cropped hair that is always in her eyes. She favours wearing black pants or dark washed jeans because of her habit of wiping off her hands on her pants.

When we see her in Messy Business, she has been to Blough City a few times on Concern business. During the Messy Business mission, she is a Level Green agent and wears a green turtleneck over a grey dress, with a black neckwarmer as a disguise.

## Moves (During Messy Business)

### Talent

Intuition: Sensing an ambush or general “wrongness”; following hunches.

### Technique

Endurance: The Agent may extend his Target Heart Rate by 5 bpm in either direction.

### Asset

Caller: The Agent can communicate with distant Agents and with Control without an Access roll. This does not require that the Agent spend Commendation Points.

Her caller device looks like an apple watch but "if it was a McDonalds toy", which is twisted to scroll through a contact list or switch between modes, along with a caboodle thin/long makeup case style with a stenography-style keyboard and screen.
Sonny Veranda

Sonny Veranda by @vlasdygoth on twitter [1]

**Sonny Veranda** is a member of the Veranda crime family. Although he was born into the Veranda Family, Sonny had a hard time fitting with them and eventually broke off in an attempt to create his own business: running underground fights as the proprietor of The Splits, a bowling alley with an attached bar and grill in Bluff City.

Sonny planned a heist with his mentor and father figure, Finnegan Hands, to scam both the Whitaker and Veranda crime families by encouraging them to place bets on a boxing match between amateur Bluff City boxer, Doyle MacKaye, and the Whittaker prize fighter, Achilles Apollo, and also using his family's bird, Rupert, as collateral.

After his arrest, he reconciled with his family and was brought back into the fold, working through the ranks to become a hitman for the family. When seen in this role during When Justice Is Done, he is described as schubbly, with big hair and a nice suit.

At the time of his first appearance in the show he is around 25 - 27 years old and looks similar to Nice Guy Eddie (Reservoir Dogs).
Agent Clark

**Agent Clark** is an agent with the Concern. He is currently paired with Agent Bailey. and has been assigned to surveil the Atlantic City Airfield.

His favourite Scorsese movie is Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. He prefers the novel of Casino to the film.

When seen in To Be Young Near the Shore, he is described as a middle-aged white man in a black suit with a white shirt.
Jeromy “Romy” Gride

**Jeromy “Romy” Gride** is the morning bartender at Lounge in Blough City who briefly assists Florence Slowly and Maggie Darcy with their investigation.

He is described as a thin black man with a five o’clock shadow. When seen in Messy Business, he is wearing a white dress shirt that "has seen better days".
Extracurricular (comic)

**Extracurricular** is a comic series published in Bluffington Beach and based on the exploits of superheroes and villains in Bluff and Blough City. It is implied that the author/s stole the storylines from the real Bluff and Blough City event by making use of The Tunnel Project although specifics are unknown at this time.

It ran for eighty issues.