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Cory Curtis

**Cory Curtis**, or "CC" to her friends, is a 12 year old wannabe punk rocker from Bluffington Beach. She currently attends Bluffington Beach Middle School.

She and Frankie have been neighbours for many years. Recently she has been told that her parents plan to move, although it’s unclear if they will be using the tunnels to travel to Bluff or Blough City or to somewhere else within the same world as she is currently in. The furthest that she has currently ever been from Bluffington Beach is to the next state over, when the entire family accompanied her older brother to a convention he wanted to go to. As she doesn't want to leave, she is putting off packing until the absolute last minute and has not yet started.

Her bedroom is cluttered, with a big chunky CD player that she got a couple of Christmases ago which has a couple dents in it.

Rather than biking, CC uses a scooter.

When playing Smash 0 with Frank, Nolan and Ronny, she mains Sora from Kingdom Hearts.

## Tales From the Loop Mechanics

### Kid type: The Rocker

It was a worn cassette tape that changed your life, when that song had finished playing you had found a home. You are an insane hard rocker, who’s high on life and plays music so loud the windows crack. In any case, you wish it would be like that but, you just learned to play ‘C’ on the electric guitar, and soon you will form a band down at the recreation centre.

Skills: Move (2), Charm (3), Empathise (2), Contact (1), Lead (1), Investigate (1)

* Luck: 3
* Body: 3
* Tech: 2
* Heart: 4
* Mind: 3

Song: ‘All The Small Things’ by Blink182

Iconic Item: A second hand electric stratocaster squire guitar with an electric sunburst design on it and duct tape on the head of it (bought from a yard sale).

Drive: “I want my big brother to think I’m cool.”

Pride: “I can play guitar.”

Problem: Her family is about to move away.

## Relationships

Nolan Pearson: Nolan’s annoying but he makes me laugh.

Ronny Lee Highsmith Jr: I’m worried that Ronny is going to replace me.

Frankie Already: CC and Frankie’s families are friends with each, they have known each other since childhood.

### NPC Relationships

James Garret: Mr Garret keeps calling my music “noise”.

Theodore Curtis: Theo has been sneaking out of the house at night ever since mom told us we were going to move.

### Anchor

The cool lady at the music store who lets me hang out there after school.
Hard Luck

### Cast

Austin Walker, Ali Acampora, Keith J Carberry, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Jack de Quidt

## Arc Navigation

### Next Arc

Messy Business
The Moving Pictures

## Overview

Hard Luck is the first arc of Season Two of Bluff City. It was played in the Fiasco system by Jason Morningstar, using a hack of two Fiasco playsets - Bad Habits by Nick Wedig and Double Down from ukroleplayers.com. This is the same system and playset mashup used for the first arc of Season One, A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A Bird. The first episode was released on October 29th, 2019, and the last on November 20th, 2019.

At the beginning of Part One, Austin comments that the return to the same playset was inspired part by the fact that the group playing is almost entirely different from that in *Bowling Alley* (only Jack returns), and that the playset "tells Bluff City stories". He also comments that the playset used is a hack of two playsets, plus some changes as some of the jokes in the playsets are "not good" (although he does not mention the original jokes, he says that they were "a lot different, to the degree that I will not say what it was").

## Episode Introductions

Julian H Bluff gives a Ted Talk about his production company, Bluff City Studios, and his upcoming new movie, ‘Grand Opening’.

## Other Episode Information

Nash Nebraska, Carly Nebraska, Ercole Verandanza, Judy Waters, and Jacob Sound by @dancynrew on twitter [1]

The game board for this game can be seen on patreon (requires patreon login to view).

## Notes

1. ↑ ukroleplayers.com shut down in late 2018, and so this playset is no longer accessible.
Snoopy Do

**Snoopy Do** is and unhinged Sun Bear thief who currently resides in the marshes of Bluff City.

He is Glasses' "honey man", and has used his ability to sense honey to run many honey-stealing jobs for him. During his heists, he wears sunglasses along with his customary flat cap.

After the events of Honey Heist, Snoopy Do doesn’t return to the zoo, instead heading into the marshes to become a beekeeper, as he left Yolk Harbour with a queen bee trapped in the foam on his fur.
Simeon Shaw

**Simeon Shaw** **the fourth** is the son of the Shaw hotel dynasty and entertainment/music/wrestling promoter for Promenade Wrestling. He is yet to truly succeed in anything he does, but despite this he is his father's favourite child.

He is described as a "sleazy mix of Shane McMaheon and the kid you knew who was supposed to be a big deal and who flunked out". When seen in The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena, he is wearing a cheap suit with a windbreaker over the top of it, with sunglasses on the top of his head. He looks similar to a 30-year-old Michael Emperioloni from The Sopranos (tall hair, bad suit, bushy eyebrows) who "looks like he is related to someone who is in charge of things".
A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A Bird

## Overview

A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A Bird is the first of seven arcs in Season One of Bluff City. It was played in the Fiasco system by Jason Morningstar, using a hack of two Fiasco playsets - Bad Habits by Nick Wedig and Double Down by ukroleplayers.com. The first episode was released on July 26th 2017, and the second on 28th August 2017.

Although Bluff City is usually only available to Patreon subscribers at the $5, the first episode of this arc was also placed on the main feed as a free "preview" episode, releasing after Twilight Mirage 21: One's Own Right.

\*ukroleplayers.com shut down in late 2018, and so this playset is no longer accessible.

## Music

A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A Bird, by Jack de Quidt

## Episode Introductions

Millennium Alexander Black sets up the episodes, giving an overview of the events.

## Other Episode Information

The game board for this game can be seen on patreon (requires patreon login to view).
Jamian Raine

**Jamian Raine** is a fictional character seen in the movie version of The Eighty Six. He describes everyone as “fine as hell” (his taste is very broad).

After he was involved in crimes involving an elephant at the Bluff City Zoo, he became a informant for the BCPD. After trying to expose Chief Grimes' sale of Cove land to casinos, he was killed by the BCPD.

He lived in a studio-style basement apartment in the Cove. He had a kitchenette with a hot plate and fridge (containing: expired milk, eggs, orange juice, flat soda), and a tower PC in the corner of the room on a cut-in-half card table. The other half of the table is in front of the tv, next to his fold-out bed-couch.

Due to his enthusiasm about animals and his work at the zoo, he also had a large amount of homemade merchandise for the hippo baby, a large amount of hippo/elephant/rhino-themed stuff, and zoobooks.

In the movie of The Eighty Six, he is played by Daman Waynes.
Finnegan Hands

Finnegan Hands by @vlasdygoth on twitter [1]

While in Bluff City, **Finnegan Hands** owned “The” Scuba Shop, which he inherited from his mother despite not being particularly good at diving. He is good with engines, better with boats.

He hired Doyle MacKaye and was a mentor figure to Sonny Veranda. It was this relationship that would be his downfall, as Sonny asked Finnegan to steal Rupert the bird from his family’s vault.

After’s Sonny’s arrest, Finnegan was forced into one of his own submarines by Sonny’s uncle, Vinny Veranda, as retribution for stealing from the Veranda family. Unable to return to shore for fear of the Verandas, Finnegan drove the submarine until it ran out of fuel, deep underwater and far from Bluff City.

Some time later he arrived in Blough City, where Achilles Apollo helped him gain work as a charity santa.

At the time of his first appearance, he was 55 years old. When seen in Messy Business, he is 62 years old and is described as "scarred, battered, broken by one too many good ideas" and "miserable here [in Blough City] a world where “good faith” is worth nothing but a target on your back".

While in Blough City, Finnegan lived in a tiny ranch house out near the Thicket. It was “fine” inside, messy with "the mess that accumulated through effort being spent elsewhere rather than negligence", with evidence of cooking, takeout containers, a record player, 16 records (some of which are duplicates), a desk, and a santa costume in a plastic bag on a floor. It is described as a “sit down anywhere” kind of place.

Finnegan Hands at the end of A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A Bird (Pt 2) by @plant\_father on twitter [2]

Finnegan drives an old beater car which is dented, although this car was left behind in Bluff City.
Olivia McGowen

**Olivia “Ollie” McGowen** is a woman in her 40s with dark hair. At age fifteen, ten years prior to the events of To Be Young Near the Shore, she and her friend El went into the Tunnel and she was lost in it, stuck between the three cities and appearing to age at an accelerated rate.

She was described as being reserved and bookish, but someone who loved being surrounded by more boisterous friends (like El).

She was seen wearing a name badge for Atlantic City Airfield where she presumably works and appeared as a "television ghost", affected by the heat warping Frank and the other kids saw in the sky during To Be Young Near the Shore Pt. 1.
Harry Houdini

**Harry** **Houdini** aka **Horseface** is an associate of the Nebraska Family, although he has close enough ties to Hollis Whitaker that Hollis offered to hide him after an altercation involving the Blough City PD.

Harry was born in Blough City, and grew up in the outer, more rural area to the north of the city.

He is someone who "gets things done", working on the pumping location of The Tunnel Project.

He has been arrested multiple times, possibly as a result of his association with the Nebraska Family, although it is possible he has superpowers as one of his aliases is **Quickster** (he can "get places fast").

He is described as a small, thin man with “kind of a small face” that “gets longer”. When seen in Extracurricular: Out Of Time, he is bedraggled from his time hiding in a shipping container and is unshaven with messy brown hair that looks like he cut it himself without the use of a mirror, and is wearing overalls with a work shirt underneath and a coat that’s too big to fit him.
Bluffington Beach

**Bluffington Beach** is an entirely non-magical world, which is being disturbed by the introduction of new matter from Bluff and Blough City via the Tunnel Project. It is located near Atlantic City.

When seen in To Be Young Near the Shore, Bluffington Beach is described as "desolate", with many empty or near-empty apartment buildings and unfinished construction.

## Bluffington Beach Locations

* Bluff City Studios (flooded, currently marshland/nature reserve)
* Boathouse
* The Upper Crust
* The Shops At The Cove
* Wawa, in Margate
* Atlantic City Airfield

## Shunt Points

* A 45 minute drive through the waterway shunt point from Blough City.
Ronny Lee Highsmith Sr

**Ronny Lee Highsmith Sr** is the father of Ronny Lee Highsmith Jr. He worked for a number of years at the car factory that produced vehicles related to the Tunnel Project.

Recently, Ronny Sr became ill, and the family moved from Kentucky to Bluffington Beach to be closer to his medical treatment. Despite his close relationship with his son, Ronny Sr continues to pretend that they are in town to visit Josie.

He and his family were originally supposed to go to Bluff City, but due to the Expansion Protocol experiments, they were redirected Bluffington Beach. This change meant that Ronny did not receive the level of medical care that he had hoped, causing a downturn in his condition.

When he was in school, he played trombone. Although he wasn’t any good at it, he had "a great time".
Keith Carberry

**Keith Carberry** is the shortstop for the Bluff City Blackjacks. He is not very good at baseball but is keen to improve. His frustration to playing poorly often makes him closed off.

Although he is one of the aliens who has come to Earth to prove that it is worth saving, he does not have a human alias, as his alien name sounds like a human name (a happy coincidence).

His alien form is very small ("gingerbread man sized"), and he wears a suit to stretch him out to average human height. He is too unused to his new large body to play well, and also speaks very loudly as he is used to having to speak up from a small body.

As his alien form is very small, he is good at antiquing and finding hidden things as he can get into small places and can "small antiques".

He is close to Sal Bianchi, and easily makes friends wherever the team travels. Because of this, he has become a favourite with Blackjacks fans.

The back of the baseball jersey says “Carberry”.
Heritage Hall

**Heritage Hall** is located on the smaller amusement pier in Dune City.It is described as a tan Spanish colonial-style building. The pier circles the Hall.

It can be rented out for events, but is mostly used it to do corny musical performances (local high school quartet plays the hits of the 70s, photos for the local football team if they win regionals).

It was destroyed during the fight between Grouse, Paternoster, The Champ, Mr Good and Mr E Masque in When Justice Is Done.
Angie Flores

**Angie Flores** is a reporter from the Atlantic City Press.

While investigating the strikes at Bluff City Studios, her determination to discover the truth led to her discovery of the existence of The Tunnel Project. Although she could not find anyone to believe her story, she did connect with Hector Hu via a messageboard and the two were collaborators for a time though her allegiances have since changed.

Hector's belief in her story unfortunately did not help her career, and she was shuffled through various departments, eventually landing as the lone reporter in the ‘Curiosities and Investigations’ section the Atlantic Press' basement level. She is described as someone who believed and then fell into resignation.

She went to high school with Deshaun Williams.

She is described as Latina, with frizzy brown hair. When seen in The Moving Pictures, she is wearing a long trenchcoat and baseball cap. When seen next in To Be Young Near the Shore, she is older, and is described as a middle aged woman, with salt and pepper hair and a big nose, wearing a 70s-style brown corduroy suit jacket with a red cherry blossom pin on the label, a yellow dress shirt, and glasses with the chain (she also has another pair of glasses in her pocket).
The Gilded Menagerie

**The Gilded Menagerie** casino is owned by the Veranda family.

It is themed like an open-air zoo, with jungle murals and golden gates that are supposed to be cages but are built into the walls. All of the wings of the casino are named after places animals are from (The Serengeti, The Sahara Terrace, The Polynesian Level).

A combination of animal sounds, vaguely colonial music, “tribal” drums, and “what safari people would listen to” playing over the speakers.

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

It’s $15 to park for the day on a holiday weekend, normally it’s $12.
Selkie

In the past, the **selkie** was a witch who was killed by her village by being thrown into the ocean. After that, she traveled the ocean, taking treasure from every shipwreck, until the workers of the Veranda's casinos called to her.

After the events of The Cost of Greed, she bought a jewellery business on the Bluff City Boardwalk, which she now runs.

When the selkie is In her human form she looks like if Beyonce was Poison Ivy (with seaweed instead of plants).
Aliens in the Outfield (TV Show)

**Aliens in the Outfield** is the most popular show in Bluff City, despite the delay in the pilot being completed. It was created by Bluff City Studios, with the pilot's delay being due to the writer's strike.

It airs on the local tv guide channel at 9pm, and is a hour-long dramedy/mockumentary, with production elements similar to Sports Night or The Office.

The show is set during the 2008 recession, with concern about the future within the tone of the show and the aliens shown as not understanding why we "put up with" large corporations and foreclosures.

The premise of the show is that aliens land in America, meet Frankie Bianchi, a minor league player/manager, who protects them by recruiting them into his baseball team, the Bluff City Blackjacks (as well as the travel documentary the baseball team must film as part of a funding deal). This serves the aliens well, as this enables them to travel across America to gather footage for their real mission: proving that the Earth should not be destroyed.

Although the way, the aliens must avoid being discovered by a major league scout who is also a former UFO expert as well as competing with their rivals in baseball and their alien mission the Bloomington Blooms.

Both groups of aliens report up to The Station Manager, a shadowy figure who speaks in low rumbles.

The show has a running gag of "alien swears":

* Chez = fuck
* Fuck = shit

==

Opening Credits ==
A baseball bat hitting a ball, followed by a montage of the aliens antiquing interspersed with shots of them playing baseball as the theme song plays.

## Sets

* Frankie Bianchi's house
	+ Frankie's office (in his unfinished basement, which he stopped working on when his career in the major leagues stopped, and features a pool table and easy chair, no carpet, concrete)
	+ The video editing desk in the half-finished basement
* The Blackjacks' traveling documentary production van
* The Blackjacks team bus
* The baseball stadium
	+ The concession stand
	+ The pitcher’s mound/field
	+ The dugout
	+ The alien's hidden spaceship (in bottom level of parking garage of the stadium, covered by tarp)
	+ The locker room
		- The small room set up for Keith Carberry inside of his locker
* The Chez Chez Motel Apartments
	+ The alien's hotel room
	+ Chez's front desk
King Charles

**King Charles** is an incompetent black bear who wears a crown.

He once got a hot hand at Glasses’ dice table, winning the money from “the wrong people” (he won it from Glasses). He has already spent the money on buying his crown and his car (a 1965 Cadilac el Dorado red convertible) and so Glasses arranged for his to assist with the HoneyCon heist to pay back what he owed.
Agent Sleeves

**Agent Sleeves** was an agent of the Concern investigating Blake Blossum. He was born in Standard Town in Blough City and has worked his way up into the Countinghouse district.

He doesn’t like films, as he prefers reading the paper or listening to music.

He had been tasked to follow Blake and had captured the moment of Blake's death on film. While at the crime scene, he attempted to attack Florence Slowly and was shot and killed by Agent Heard. Due to some supernatural weirdness, no one was able to remember his name afterwards.

He is described as a lanky man in a peacoat, a black suit with a green shirt, red tie, and black gloves, and as looking similar to Michael Pitt in 'Funny Games'. He had a disguise preventing him from appearing as a horseshoe crab.
Alexandra Hughes

**Alexandra Hughes** is the heiress of the Blowfelden fortune and famous horror author.

Her father was an unsuccessful newspaperman, who spent much of Alexandra's childhood attempting to separate himself from his wealthy family. Each summer, he would return to Bluffington to work on properties that his father owned, bringing Alexandra with him and locking her in his father's mansion while he worked.

Alexandra was 10 years old when she discovered old film reels with footage of Bluff City and became fascinated by it. When she was 20 years old she set off to find a way to Bluff City (although in Bluffington the story was spread that she had died in a shipwreck to cover her disappearance). It is unknown at this time when she was in Bluff City, but it is assumed it was well before the modern era as she has no knowledge of cellphones or email.

Some time after arriving in Bluff City, she discovered a way to Blough City and spent the next 15 years or so traveling between each of the cities (by both land and sea) as a way to see the world and escape from her "heiress locked inside of a mansion" life that waited for her back in Bluffington, and thinks of herself as being a citizen of all three cities.

Although she is not of the same social class as the Whitaker’s, she has a close association with Hollis Whitaker and often spends time with him while in Blough City.

After she returned from Blough City, she began writing existential and cosmic horror stories based on her experiences which are described as "what if Lovecraft was less racist". Despite her skill as a storyteller, Alexandra is not good at talking about herself, as her personal anecdotes make is seen like she is "trying to be above it all".

She finds the concept of The Tunnel Project to be disturbing, as she dislikes the idea of Bluff and Blough City infecting the world of Bluffington.

When seen in Extracurricular: Out Of Time, she is in her late 20s and is wearing a black dress with a white fringe and a dozen thin gold arm bangles. She has a bob with tight, gelled-down finger waves. She carries cigarettes with her.

She is described as looking like Nancy Cunard, with very pale skin and dark features (dark hair, dark lips, dark eyes). She is also described as having “very strange eyes”.

She has a mid-atlantic accent.
Ross Rossy

**Ross Rossy** is a local radio host and commentator for Promenade Wrestling. He was born and raised in Bluff City.

On Promenade Wrestling, he plays the straight man to Jeff Moran's more colourful commentary. He also co-hosts Ross and the Boss In The Morning on WBRK.

He is a 56-year-old white man, and is described as looking similar to Skip Bayless.
Jacob Sound

Jackie Sound by @smallpolar\_bear on twitter [1]

**Jackie Sound** is a grifter, cheat, blackjack dealer and sports bookie.

His vaguely friendly and non-threatening vibe helped him to run various gifts on many individuals in Bluff City, including Nash Nebraska. When his series of increasing cons on Nash went awry, he needed to get out of the city and so took Nash’s boat to Blough City. During the voyage, the boat began to sink and he lost all his possessions.

After arriving in Blough City, he attempted to run similar scams as he had in Bluff City, but none of them worked. Currently, he works as a dealer in a small Blough City casino and is trying to find his way back to Bluff City.

Currently, After a long while of trying to get various scams going and it not working, Jackie unsuccessfully tries to find his way back to Bluff City.

Jackie is described as someone who is not a dad but “looks like [he] will be a dad”, specifically like a young John Cusack. He is 6’1”, and is 23-26 years old (he is “not sure”).
Ollie Fraser

**Ollie Fraser** (1968-20XX) was the mayor of Bluff City until his death (as depicted in There Is No Greater Love).

Although people from Bluff City didn't like him, they did "respect his hustle". During his time as mayor, he began the mayoral internship program for high school students.

He played golf (or at least enjoyed it enough to practise it in his office), and was a big fan of the galas that were occuring in Bluff City in that time.

He is described as a Steve Harvey type.
Ollerenshaw Office of Requisitions

**Ollerenshaw Office of Requisitions** is a third party agency with Concern approval to transport information, material, and people between the cities, with appropriate approval and paperwork.

They had a copy of the interrogation of Hector Hu regarding Blough City, which Hector discovered which led to his death.
The Double Tilt Arcade

**The Double Tilt Arcade** is an old arcade located on Saltwater Pier in Bluff City. You must pay an entry fee, but then you can play as many games as you like.

Herc Verandanza did business here while working as a sports bookie.

## Arcade Machines

* salmon rOH-NO: a caviar game
* horse chase 5 stack ‘em tall, pile ‘em high, let ‘em loose
* our farm in the valley
* yesterday’s gunslingers, today!
* drink up the oceans
* armageddon 4: they’re back
* asteroid
* timber! a lumberjack game
* horse chase 3
* lighthouse keeper: rivals (competitive)
* drift ’n’ crash drum, drum, drum
* cage of death
* you’re the king now
* chicken coop!
* the end of the world
* lighthouse keeper: rivals (cooperative)
* the reset
* calliope
* calliope 2
* calliope 3

### Previous Games

Prior to The Double Tilt's closure, it's games included:

* Pinball and carnival games
* A little clockwork horseracing game
* Skeeball
* Basketball hoops
* A penny smashing machine
* One video game, which looked out of place

## Secret Base

Waxwing operates a secret base below the arcade. This base is also used by Grouse, Mr Good, Paternoster, The Champ.
Season Two

**Season Two** of Bluff City began on 29 October 2019.

## Arcs of Season Two

* Hard Luck
* The Moving Pictures
* Extracurricular: Out of Time
* To Be Young Near the Shore
* America's Playground (current/ongoing)

## Games Played During Season Two

* Fiasco
* Catch the Devil
* Capers
* Tales From The Loop
* Mall Kids

## Cast of Season Two

* Ali Acampora
* Andrew Lee Swan
* Art Martinez-Tebbel
* Austin Walker
* Jack de Quidt
* Janine Hawkins
* Keith J Carberry
* Sylvia Clare

## Music of Season Two

Music Bluff City is composed by Jack de Quidt and is available on bandcamp.

The theme music of The Moving Pictures samples Laurens Goedhart’s recording of Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune, used under a CC BY 3.0 license. Changes made included tempo, key, and melody adjustments.
Royce’s Roll Carts

> *“If you’re “rollin’” it’s “gotta be” Royce!”*
>
>

**Royce’s Roll Carts** (Phone: 5-5-5-R-O-Y-K-E) operates along the Bluff City Boardwalk, with the warehouse and dispatch centre located three blocks off of the Boardwalk.

It is a Boardwalk push-cart business, with three-person carts you can hire to be pushed along the Boardwalk. After your ride is completed, the cart-pusher will give you a $2 off hard cardboard coupons (around the size of a business card).

The breakroom at the warehouse and dispatch centre contains three vending machines - a soda vending machine, a coffee vending machine, and a candy vending machine. There is also a bowl with wrapped saltwater taffy in it and a fridge.

Due to the hard work and bad pay, they experience high employee turnover.

## Staff

* Rayburn Royce, owner/manager
* Tyler, cart-pusher
* Alandra Alvarez, cart pusher
Agent Bailey

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

Her favourite Scorsese movie is Casino.

When seen in To Be Young Near the Shore, she is described as a young Vietnamese woman in a black suit with a white shirt.
Julian H Bluff

**Julian H Bluff** is a local Atlantic City boy turned child star turned auteur film director.

As a child, he rose to fame on a sitcom where his catchphrase was “It wasn’t me!”,

After finding fame, Julian returned to Bluffington Beach in his mid-20s (25 or 26) to bring investment back to the town by starting a production company, Bluff City Studios. Although he outwardly had good intentions, the land Bluff City Studios was built on had previously been government housing.

When seen in The Moving Pictures he is wearing a scarf and reading glasses.
Christian Wallcot

> *“A lot of things are very easy for me.”*
>
>

**Christian Wallcot** is a 17-year-old mayoral intern. He comes from an old, rich Bluff City family.

When confronted by Florence Slowly during her investigation of Hector Hu's death, he is unable to stop her from getting through to the mayor's office as he is distracted by the spilled wax on his sweater.

In his free time, he plays rugby.
Senior Agent Baxter

**Senior Agent Baxter** is an amiable member the Concern with years of experience under her belt.

She was the senior agent in charge of the mission that Hector Hu was on when he disappeared. She was investigated by the director of the Concern and found not guilty of misconduct. Despite her exoneration the director revoke her Deep Blue clearance, a fact that has slanted her views on company policy.

Baxter is noted for her innovative training techniques that have only just been adopted by the Concern at large.
Союз пяти огней

Союз пяти огней, - несёт в себя смысл под огнями племена ящеров, т. е. 5 объединённых племён. У ящеров вообще под племенем имеется целое государство. Ящеры дружный и сплочённый народ. Самая слаборазвитая раса ящеров не смогла обеспечить себя достойными технологиями. Помимо этого они сами по себе достаточно глуповатый народ, из-за чего они остаются самым слабо защищёнными в глобальной войне. Очень сильно выделяются такие черты союза как обеспечение армии сильным вооружением и поддержкой божественной магии.
Federati Bigneighbour

### Relatives

William Bigneighbour (father), Honey Bear Bigneighbour (mother), Muscles Bigneighbour (brother)

## Meta Information

### Appears In

America's Playground

**Federati Bigneighbour** is the daughter of the Bigneighbour family. She is part of the balloon owner society with Loose, and is considered to be very intelligent.

Her family all have a signet ring that, when all four rings are fit together, form the words “have balloon will travel”.

When seen in America's Playground, she is dressed in a costume for their family portrait: a vicious grizzly bear, mid-kill.
The Augur, Providence

**The Augur, Providence** is a cyborg from a reclaimed robotic clown from the Saltwater Pier and miscellaneous other parts, who’s eyes flicker like the warming and cooling of light bulbs. It is not clear if she was made by a pessimistic queer theorist or is she was a person who blended herself with machinery.

She has a old reel-to-reel that was used to run the Pier’s advertising (“Be sure the try to dinner special down at Borchelli’s/advertising new rides), and her creator used the reel-to-reel to record personal notes about her family, relationships and life, but also about her hobbies, who she was, and academic studies.

She is able to provide guidance and information, although her perspective sometimes makes her feel separate from the others in Bluffington Beach. She believes that a looming threat faces Bluffington Beach ("Hope and mischief are fires that we must keep ever burning, or we will face eternal darkness").

Prior to the start of Dream Askew, she and Samantha were dating.

She wears clothing with striking colours and sigils on her clothes, and marking on her face. He clothes are tattered, having been cut from the robotic clown costume, with the arms of her clothing baggy enough that they hang down so that the sigils on her flesh/machinery arms are visible (factory seal (made in Palto Alto, made in China, barcodes, etc). She is biracial and looks like Rebecca Walker.

## The Torch

* Close reading of the holy texts (technical expertise).
* Tripping the circuit (keeping electricity on).
* Whenever someone participates in one of your rituals for the first time, they get a token.
Dune City

**Dune City** is a neighboring city, around a 20-30 minute drive from Bluff City. A large section of Dune City is residential, with many people commuting to work in Bluff City casinos.

It is a more touristy location than Bluff City, with the atmosphere described as “like a carnival all summer” with lots of laser tag and carnival games out on the boardwalk.It has one amusement pier which stays open until midnight, while the other amusement pier stays open until 11pm. Another amusement pier is shorter than the others, not going out into the ocean, and leads to Heritage Hall.

It is a dry city (no alcohol).

## Locations in Dune City

* 11/23 Ocean Drive
* Heritage Hall
Лейреды

**Лейреды** - основные отличия народа Лейреда: Более тёмно-зелёная кожа, чёрные или карие глаза и редкие бороды. Самые утонченные в ремёслах народ, мудрый и спокойны. Так называют их эльфы, на фоне других своих собратьев. Выходцы Лейреды всегда узнаются по своей манере поведения, хитрой и возможно немного коварной. Искусные пивовары и сыроделы, а так же неплохие швеи. В ремеслом мастерстве у них нет почти равным, они трудолюбивы и стремительны в своих делах. Конечно на фоне своих собратьев они кажутся немного хилыми, но это они компенсируют умом. Почти каждый орк вышедший из этого народа знает как держать оружие и неплох им пользуется.

Сами Лейреды исторически лесные жители, которые поклонялись самой природе и жизни, из чего у них имеется всегда доля уважения к каждому животному и дереву. Сейчас же данное верование давно угасло и они теперь поклоняются Калиции и её дочерям в своём большинстве.

*"Хотите поиграть за умного орка, который прекрасно владеет почти любым видом оружия? Так же настоятельно рекомендуем не отыгрывать "Глупых" орков за данный народ. Так же если вы хотите стать ремесленником, который всегда сам может себе достать материалы это тоже отличный выбор" - **Рекомендации от Разработчика***
Rayburn Royce

**Rayburn Royce** is the manager/owner of Royce's Roll Carts. He bought the carts one at a time and used to push them, although he no longer does this.

He is described as a balding, very tall Italian man in a grey suit, with thin features and a thin mustache. He wears a suit even in hot weather.

Not to be confused with Royce Rayburn.
The Eighty Six

## Overview

**The** **Eighty SIx** is the fourth arc of Season One of Bluff City. It was played in the Action Movie World system by Ian Williams. There are two episodes in the arc, and it ran from 23 February 2018 to 28 February 2018.

## Episode Introductions

Opening narration by Jeff Moran, hyping up The Eighty Six for the Saturday Night Schlockfest.

## Other Episode Information

Character sheets for this game can be seen on patreon (requires patreon login to view).
Tawny Buck

Tawny Buck by @vlasdygoth on twitter [1]

**Tawny Buck** is a former pro boxer and current boxing trainer and owner of the Firebird Gym. During her time as a boxing trainer she also worked in a semi-undercover capacity for the IRS during their investigation of Sonny Veranda’s underground boxing ring, which one of her boxers, Doyle MacKaye, took part in.

After Doyle’s defeat of Achilles Apollo, Tawny’s gym became very popular with those wanting to learn her secret “firebird punch’, and this popularity would later give her a role in the movie The Eighty Six (in which she had a cameo as herself).

In addition to her work in the boxing world, she is also self-taught in graphic design.

During her first appearance she is aged in her mid/late 30s and is described as having a square jaw and square shoulders.
Mr Willaker

**Mr Willaker** is a high school french teacher in 1800s Bluff City. He eats funnel cake twice a day in the morning and after lunch (with medium powdered sugar a a coffee), which he often takes from Funnel Cake By Stand without paying.

He famously has a very regular and normal-sized face.

He distrusts technology and says that he "doesn't believe in the camera device".

He has been to France.
Randy the Cowboy

**Randy the Cowboy** aka Cowboy Randy is a muscular panda bear. He is currently the doorman of the Bluff City Zoo Bar (at least during the hours when the zoo is closed and the animals make use of it).

He is described as "slick" (not a city slicker, a slick cowboy) and is a “very eggplant shaped bear”. He wears a cowboy hat and boots with two different spurs (as he stole the spurs of zoo visitors). When running the heist at HoneyCon, Randy also wears a bandana.

Randy once broke up a fight for Glasses’ at the zoo bar (“kind of like a bouncer”), and was offered a permanent job as the bouncer there if he could successfully pull off the HoneyCon heist, which he did.
Florence Slowly

Florence Slowly by @vlasdygoth on twitter [1]

**Florence Slowly** is a former BCPD detective and private detective, and current Concern Agent. She was also previously a Concern Agent, although it is not clear where that fell in the timeline of her life.

In her days as a BCPD detective she worked with Hector Hu on two cases. The first went extremely well, and the second (a fairly big bank robbery which Hector believed the coast guard was behind) went terribly, and “as a result [she] fell out with two people: [she] fell out with Hector Hu and [she] fell out with the coast guard”.

Prone to violence and panic, Florence meditates by closing her eyes and letting out a deep breath “as though she was very frustrated by everything around her”.

Florence believes that she has a duty for her city and respects that instinct in herself and others (most notably in Gale Green's decision to return to Blough City).

After her retirement from the BCPD, Florence became a private detective, with retirement having made her “sharper, more bird-like”. She is a member of the PI forum ‘Elementary’, which she does not go on much but always leaves via a temporary ban.

After the events of Hector’s murder investigation, Florence makes it safely back to her home, reuniting with her daughter. She continues her work as a detective, remaining unaware of her past as a Concern Agent until Hector begins to contact her. Although she only remembered Hector as a radio man, she had actually known him and worked with him as an agent of the Concern. Hector slowly brought her memories of the Concern back.

After rejoining the Concern, she was a level green agent mentored by Senior Agent Baxter. She was surprised to see Chris Andrews as part of the Concern, particularly after their interactions with Agent Ward during their investigation into Hector's death.

Florence has a daughter, Rebecca, who she raised on her own. Further details about her daughter are unknown at this time.

She doesn’t drink alcohol.

She is described as a tall white woman, and having the appearance of someone who “arrives in a scene quickly but immaculately prepared”.

During her investigation into the death of Hector Hu, she was described as being in her mid-to-early 60s and looking like "Tilda Swinton in every Cohen brothers movie she has ever been in" and “Tilda Swinton playing an actor playing a policeman”.

During Messy Business, she wears a light coat and nondescript grey dress with a white collar with a puce casual mesh veil as a disguise. She later takes Agent Sleeves' peacoat, as it is warmer.

## Moves (During Messy Business)

### Asset

Cover: Documents: The Agent carries official-looking identification.

### Talent

Force: Aggression (kill, destroy, damage).

### Technique

Meditation: The Agent may spend a Commendation Point to subtract 1d6 from their Heart Rate.
Monster House

**Monster House** is a wrestling group in Promenade Wrestling.

Their entrance is an EDM cover of Monster Mash, with purple lighting.

Each member of the team wears a letterman jacket with the "MH" logo in the old Nickelodeon slime font on them.

## Members

### Mr. Sasquatch

The leader, seen as a man in a white suit with a bigfoot luce mask.

### Illa Zilla

A Kane-style monster in green body and face paint. His moves involve lighting pyro.

### King Kong

An actual ape, licensed promotion for the King Kong movie who comes out with a handler.

### Goblin

A little shitty goblin with really bad facial hair who interferes a lot.

### Ghoul

Looks like if Billy Kidman was a zombie type wrestler. He dressed in a grungy-punk style and wears a jacket around his wait, with a white tank top. He is a high flyer type wrestler.

### Aqua Illusion (former member)

Aqua Illusion was a member of Monster House prior to her face turn.
Millennium Alexander Black

**Millennium Alexander Black** arrived in Bluff City sometime during 1970s, becoming something of a folk/blaxploitation hero, throwing the bad guys in jail and talking back to the mayor. He was seen as a real force for good in the community.

At some point after this rise to fame he became reclusive, buying out three casinos and retrofitting them into his image: The Black Star, The Black Colossus, and The Black Millennium. At the time of The Cost of Greed, no one had seen him in person for thirty years. Despite this, he is the owner and financier of Graysand Paranormal.

Millennium is described as being like "if Blade retired" and looking like a cross between Wesley Snipes and Keith David. When seen in The Cost of Greed, he wears a black turtleneck, a white jacket under a long black coat, a gold tie and glasses with round frames.

During The Cost of Greed, Alexa gave him a turquoise “to help with his business”, which Millennium directed one of his assistants, Montgomery, to take.
Britney Namour

**Britney Namour** attended school in Bluffington Beach where she played lead saxophone. She was friends with Cory Curtis, as her older sister Jessica and Cory's older brother Theo were dating, and she and Cory would sometimes tag along on their dates.

When seen in To Be Young Near the Shore, she appeared wearing her band uniform as a black and white "television ghost".
Ислонд

**Ислонд**, - главный торговый город Сноурдара, а так же второй город по величине после столицы. Рядом с городом находится большой порт, который принимает новоприбывших, или наоборот, даёт дорогу на старые земли. В своей истории был первым организованным поселением по прибытию дворфов, после вырос и превратился в большой город. Находится на Ледокрылом полуострове.
Senior Instructor Snyder

**Senior Instructor Snyder** is known throughout the Concern as the toughest trainer. He is also the oldest trainer in the Concern and is described as "grizzled". He does not currently work in the field.

Snyder was a legend within the Concern when he was a field agent due to his non-nonsense attitude.

He previously retired at the age of 65, and is currently 63 years old.
Chip Directly

Chip Directly by @milkybootscomix on twitter [1]

**Chip "Chip Directly" DiReclio** owns the extremely legitimate clothing business Cash4Coats. Although he owns all three Cash4Coats locations, he most often works from the "Original" location (not to be confused with the actual original location).

He is somewhat of a local celebrity due to his local commercials for Cash4Coats.

Chip claims that he invented the concept of wrestlers wearing coats in the ring, and also that he sold Bruce Springsteen's first coat (his communion coat).

He looks like Russel Oliver of Oliver Jewelry.
Sylvia Clare

## Sylvia Clare

### Episodes

A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A BirdThe Cost of Greed

The Eighty Six

The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena

The Moving Pictures

Aliens in the Outfield

Honey Heist

Anomaly

To Be Young Near the Shore

### Characters

Doyle MacKayeSyd Ruiz

Detective Max Lam

Eddy Changkul

Chuck Buckly

Eve Whitaker

Lou-Ellen Llewellyn

Slushie

Cory Curtis

### Pronouns

she/her/hers
they/them/theirs

### Twitter

@sylvisurfer

**Sylvia Clare** is a cast member on *Friends at the Table.*

## Appearances

* A Bowling Alley, A Boxer, and A Bird (Doyle MacKaye)
* The Cost of Greed (Syd Ruiz)
* The Eighty Six (Detective Max Lam, Eddy Changkul)
* The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena (Charlie Cupid/Chuck Buckly)
* The Moving Pictures (Eve Whitaker)
* Aliens in the Outfield (Lou-Ellen Llewellyn)
* Honey Heist (Slushie)
* Anomaly
* To Be Young Near the Shore (Cory Curtis)
Ali Acampora

The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena

Messy Business

Hard Luck

Extracurricular: Out Of Time

Dream Askew

Bluff City Zoo Fiasco

Honey Heist

Erica Rizzo

Judy Waters

Caitlin Key

Samantha

Darren Cruiser

Randy the Cowboy

**Ali Acampora** is a cast member and current producer of *Friends at the Table.*

## Appearances

* The Cost of Greed (Alexa Baker)
* There Is No Greater Love (Christine Andrews)
* The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena (Aqua Illusion/Erica Rizzo, Alexa Baker)
* Messy Business (Christine Andrews)
* Hard Luck (Judy Waters)
* Extracurricular: Out Of Time (Caitlin Key)
* Dream Askew (Samantha)
* Bluff City Zoo Fiasco (Darren Cruiser)
* Honey Heist (Randy the Cowboy)
Mr Lee L Bee

Extracurricular: Out Of Time

**Mr Lee L Bee** is a middle-man, deal broker, and black marketeer. He can be a useful, non-Concern source for information and assets, but only trades in dreams, ideas, and wistful thoughts

Like Mike Truck, he is from neither Bluff nor Blough City, and is implied to be from literal Hell.

He has a connection to the wrestling group Monster House. He says that he has a background in Old Dominion Wrestling.

When seen in Extracurricular: Out Of Time, he has been working as a bootlegger in Blough City. An associate of Caitlin Key, he brought Grouse and The Champ to Caitlin after they washed up in Blough City.

He drives a 1926 packard twin-six roadster (red, big lights on the front, “so dangerous to drive in”).

He is described as looking like Cedric the Entertainer. When seen in The Grapplers Down at Promenade Arena, he is seen in a white suit, with a little orange flower, an orange tie, and a white bowler hat.
Левиафан

**Левиафан** - змей раздора и коварства, отец обмана, ткач полотна судеб и покровитель демонов зависти. Среди владык он является самим воплощением коварства, извечной зависти и кукловодом душ. Обитает у великого вулкана, именуемого «Горнилом», обвивая его и наблюдая магическим взором за миром смертных и своими слугами, развлекаясь и играя их судьбами.
Chez Bianchi

**Chaz Bianchi** is the alien’s landlord in Aliens in the Outfield.

He was asked to rent an apartment to the aliens by Frankie Bianchi, although he does not know that they are aliens and believes them to be new human players on Frankie's baseball team, The Bluff City Blackjacks.

He is described as a "squirrely little scumbag", with "hair slicked back by his own bedhead grease". He is played by the uncle from Grounded for Life (Kevin Corrigan) and sounds like "scumbag Woody Allen".
Aliens in the Outfield Pt. 0

### Episode Description

> It's time to figure out Bluff City's favorite TV show, live with Andi, Art, Austin, and Keith as they do world building and character creation for Primetime Adventures!
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## Cast

* Producer (Austin Walker)
* Frankie 'Beanball' Bianchi (Art Martinez-Tebbel)
* Lou-Ellen Llewellyn (Sylvia Clare)
* Keith Carberry (Keith J Carberry)

## Plot

This episode is purely character creation and show set-up.
Arthur Arvo

**Arthur Arvo** is one of the owners of Arvo And Stacks Photography Studio, located on the Kingfish Pier in Bluff City. He is a loud and enthusiastic man who delights in editing photographs for comedy purposes and has published a book of photographs on this subject, *Arvo's Antics*. He is planning on a second book, *Photography Philosophy by Arthur Arvo, Antics Genius*.
The Bluff City Blackjacks

**The Bluff City Blackjacks** are a fictional baseball team depicted in the tv show Aliens in the Outfield.

The are a minor league team, who's rival team is the Bloomington Blooms.

Their team bus is a converted jitney, the outside has a picture of their mascot Jack, Frankie and Keith drwn in caricature style with the words “You can always bet on Backjacks!”.

Their mascot is a human man with a cowboy look (a big cowboy hat and mustache wearing the team uniform), and is called "Jackie".

## Players and Staff

* Paulie Patio, owner
* Frankie Bianchi, player/manager
* Lou-Ellen Llewellyn, mascot
* Jack T Hall
* Jackie Johansson
* Keith Carberry, shortstop
Jodie Garret

**Jodie Garret** is 10 year old student at Bluffington Beach Middle School. She is described as having big, round glasses.

She is nice, but is described as being the teacher's pet for her age group (being the first to raise her hand, helping to clean up science experiments, etc). This level of involved is probably due to her high amount of anxiety over her university prospects and not having enough of the kind of extra curricular activities universities might find appealing. Her father, James Garret, also told her that “helpfulness is next to godliness”, which also contributes to her "over-involved" nature in class.

Although she does have friends and people generally like her, she chooses to sit by herself at lunch as it is “they 30-40 minutes she gets to be by herself and be quiet”. During this time she will read (during To Be Young Near the Shore, she is seen reading a Nancy Drew book).