Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry

Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry is a magazine-style book by Dozerfleet Literature, offering behind-the-scenes input to readers regarding the making of both the Blood Over Water miniseries and its machinomic adaptation. It also offers ads for The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff and Ciem: Inferno, and a glimpse at the different locations in Big Rapids that a tourist who enjoys Blood Over Water lore might find to be interesting landmarks. While not a complete tell-all, the work glosses over some of the most interesting highlights of note, using information preened from the Dozerfleet Database as a content guide.

Content synopsis
Dirty Laundry opens with a brief legal notice, and then proceeds to an ad for The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff that mentions the Sherpa and Relisted patches. From there, a table of contents page introduces readers with the following message:

Welcome to Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry! This book offers to be your little tour behind the scenes. Why was the miniseries adapted to machinomic? What changes were made, and why? What sort of baggage did each character bring with them to the adaptation? How will the story’s events affect them moving forward? Are you planning to visit the Big Rapids area? What sites related to the story are worth seeing? In a college town where everyone has secrets, some of them are now aired for you to read all about.

The next section, "Origins of a Concept" explains how the TVPR 389 class of Wednesday evenings in the fall of 2009 at Ferris State came up with the idea for Blood Over Water. Detailed is how the class progressed in pitch for a series from Mackley's Wardrobe to The Widower and the Conspiracy to The Widow and the Conspiracy to Kozerlen to Mountain of Cabal to Bogged to the current title. The subsections then discuss how each character either in or implied to exist in the miniseries evolved into the forms that they have in the machinomic. Which changes were made to their characterizations, and why, are a story unto itself.

"Meet the Alumni" is a page dedicated to those characters in the machinomic that are attending Ferris during the story's run, a list of their majors, and a listing of Aaron and Monica's typical schedules (when not disrupted by story events.)

"A Right to Remain Silent? Not Anymore!" chronicles both the political corruption that the Kirby Act enabled for SCALLOP, and the criminal records assigned to each character that has had issues with the law. It discusses arrests, jail times, and witness protection status for each character as fallout of the story.

"Sex Degrees of Separation" notes the romantic and sexual exploits of each character in the story, and the complicated interlinks of the more promiscuous characters. Dates, love triangles, serial monogamy, and anything similar which complicates a character's life later on is made note of. There are two subsections: "The Many Women of Chris Kennal" and "The Many Men of Ashley Phillips," going into more detail about these two characters' seedy histories, and whose lives they affected via their indiscretions.

Of second-greatest plot relevance is the swing-string of Monica with Vance Lingolin and Hank Froli, given Hank also having been involved with Karla Wimberton, who also has been involved with Brendon Stihn. The most important plot-driving scandal, however, is the love triangle of Ashley Phillips to Mark Stefflin and Chris Kennal, dividing best friends over the same woman.

"Now, It's Time to Die!" details some of the more grisly deaths of several characters. Disease and old age deaths have been omitted from the list, though it's noteworthy that several characters did contract HIV. Namely, those would be Brent Yorming, Harry Campelli, Janelle Campelli, and Tobey Moffin. Rev. Steve Barnel, who dies of old age, is not listed in the deaths section. The section is divided into two subsections, dubbed "The Shooting Gallery" for characters that died via bullet or missile or other projectile, and "Off With Their Heads!," detailing characters who were either decapitated or else subjected to significant fatal head trauma.

Of note, the only women mentioned in the decapitation section to have survived being beheaded are Candi McArthur and Dolly Malestrom, both due to having possession of Remotach in their bloodstreams, and being rescued by the Navyrope Society in time. "The Tangled Web" details how each character directly involved in the Sleet Mountain "Cleanupgate" scandal is involved...from conspirators to murder victims to amateur detectives. It demonstrates a board late in the game of what would happen if detectives in Big Rapids had all the information on what was happening, without Yorming's interference. Vance and Mark are both listed as "missing," because detectives haven't yet recovered bodies to confirm homicide. While Bob Lusital's body is eventually found, and Hank was discovered right away, there are an untold number of victims that police know nothing about. In spite Monica being in jail, and trying her best to cooperate with authorities, they fail to rescue Betsy from unlawful imprisonment in Kent County Jail.

They also show a disturbing lack of interest in going after the women and children that Gleeful-N'-Young made off with in the night. Worse: Karla's rants about seeing "antlered men making off with a small girl" only lead to police dismissing Karla as a conspiracy theorist. And even more insultingly, they blame it on her medical marijuana! This leads to Karla and Monica having to go to the dark web for answers, which only leads them to the Straggele. Some months later, Perchta visits Monica, in order to persuade Monica to put off her investigation into Annabelle's disappearance. She argues that to return Annabelle that soon would be to put her in danger of Clyde taking her again, and that Monica and Betsy needed to be more concerned with how to save themselves from the legal persecution they were about to face - due to the officials Monica embarrassed with her own private investigation.

Partially, Perchta was doing this to genuinely protect Annabelle. However, she also had the ulterior motive of wanting Nordreichdun to keep Annabelle for itself, as Krampus had already approved of grooming Annabelle to become "Luftmädchen."

"SCALLOP Database: Where Are They Now?" shows a set of tables from 2019, of SCALLOP desperately trying to track the known movements and locations of characters that feature in the story. Not all their information is up-to-date; but they try as best they can to document everything. Given that the database showing is from January of 2019, and the main events of Sodality: Instigation happen from August through December of 2019, many characters are still listed as "alive" that are deceased by the end of December. Candi and Dolly's being beheaded in the Denison Camp, for example, have yet to be documented. Likewise, Kylie Drimmon and Karla Wimberton died the same day from beheading, given they too were among the women captured during the Hebbleskins' raid on the Exodus Agenda near the Texan border. Deaths earlier in that year, such as Monica's at the South Bend Concentration Camp, are not yet documented.

An ad was then inserted to promote Ciem: Inferno, the same ad that featured in Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil.

The final section, "Know Your Big Rapids Geography," contains information on all the locations for which artwork could be found that are story-relevant. A few locations required Sims 4 approximate re-creations, due to lack of photos in Dozerfleet stock. This includes Nordreichdun Castle (which doesn't actually exist yet), the Glotine family's home in Cincinnati, Betsy's home in Howard City, the Meceola Dispatch Center, the Roben-Hood Airport, and a render of what the Carmike Big Rapids Cinema looked like before it became AMC Classic 4 of Big Rapids. Stock of the old Carmike theater simply hadn't been appropriately shot in the nick of time, neither had stock of the Roben-Hood Airport (before Dozerfleet moved to Florida), nor any stock of Howard City. The only stock of the Meceola Dispatch Center, would be extrapolated from a Ferris in Focus episode. To save on copyright issues, a Sims render was made instead.

This final section is divided into subsections, based on whether locations are on the campus of Ferris State or not. On-campus noteworthy locations are mentioned first, followed by residences that are in-town but off-campus. Shops in town are mentioned next, followed by restaurants and miscellaneous locations. Locations just outside of Big Rapids that are noteworthy are mentioned next, followed by noteworthy locations that are well outside of the greater Big Rapids area.

Contents by section

 * 1) Origins of the Concept...1
 * 2) Early Titles...2
 * 3) Character Evolution...3
 * 4) Meet the Alunni!...5
 * 5) A Right to Remain Silent?  Not Anymore!...6
 * 6) Driven to a Dark Place (Betsy Shelly)…7
 * 7) The Real Criminals Ruled over Her (Monica Shelly)…8
 * 8) Witness Well-Protected (Ashley Phillips)…9
 * 9) Witness (Not)-Well-Protected (Aaron Stefflin)…10
 * 10) Just Plain Crazy (George Lawence)…11
 * 11) Justice Found a Backdoor (Kyle Tugrass)…12
 * 12) Dirty Cop!  (Brent Yorming)…13
 * 13) What Was Her Crime, Again? (Kylie Drimmon)…14
 * 14) Not Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Anisha Kennal)…15
 * 15) Hero, or Terrorist? (Navyrope)…16
 * 16) Railroaded Over a School Backpack (Candi Flippo)…17
 * 17) Nigh-Unscrupulous Heroine (Miriam Flippo)…18
 * 18) Snake in Sheep’s Clothing (Rev. Harry Campelli)…19
 * 19) Injustice Abounds (Karla Wimberton)…20
 * 20) Guilt By Association (Michelle Winston)…21
 * 21) Begone, THOT! / North Pole P.O.W. (Vanessa Fogsdorn / Ivalu Molgaard)…22
 * 22) She Fought the Crooked Rainbow, and She Won / He Just Couldn’t Let It Go (Meredith Celestine / Tobey Moffin)…23
 * 23) The Man the Law Could Never Catch (Chris Kennal)…24
 * 24) The Wife Who Knew too Much / Ill-Fated Man in the Chair (Lisa Glotine / Don Glotine)…25
 * 25) Sex Degrees of Separation...26
 * 26) The Many Women of Chris Kennal…30
 * 27) The Many Men of Ashley Phillips…34
 * 28) Now, It’s Time to Die!...35
 * 29) The Shooting Gallery…36
 * 30) Off With Their Heads!...40
 * 31) The Tangled Web...46
 * 32) SCALLOP Database: Where Are They Now?...47
 * 33) Know Your Big Rapids Geography...49
 * 34) Notable Locations on the Ferris Campus…50
 * 35) Notable Residences in Town…52
 * 36) Notable Shops in Town…54
 * 37) Notable Restaurants in Town…55
 * 38) Notable Miscellaneous Locations in Town…56
 * 39) Notable Locations Just Outside of Town…57
 * 40) Notable Locations Outside of Greater Area…58

Protagonists

 * Zach Foster as Aaron Stefflin (Earth-G5) and Mark Stefflin (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Aaron Stefflin (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Mark Stefflin (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Vance Lingolin (Earth-G7)
 * Cassie Tyler as Monica Shelly (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Monica Shelly (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Betsy Shelly (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Annabelle Shelly / Luftmädchen (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Meredith Celestine (Earth-G7)

Antagonists

 * Zach Foster as Clyde Spendelworth (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Clyde Spendelworth (Earth-G7)
 * Angelica McClary as Ashley Phillips (Earth-G5)
 * Kyle Mayer as Kyle Tugrass (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Kyle Tugrass (Earth-G7)
 * Chris Wilson as Chris Kennal (Earth-G5) and Vance Lingolin (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Chris Kennal / Purge-Flare (Earth-G7)
 * Unaccredited officer as Brent Yorming (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Officer Brent Yorming Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Tobey Moffin (Earth-G7)
 * Various Sims as Gleeful-N'-Young operatives (Earth-G7)
 * Society of the Icy Finger
 * Project: Ijiraq scientists
 * Sim as Eric Korsicht (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Jim Oisdaat (Earth-G7)
 * The Dark Reindeer
 * Sim as Slasher (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Mancer (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Trancer (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Succubus (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Dinokiller (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Niulang (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Kernwapen (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Lichtvorführung (Earth-G7)
 * Hebbleskin Gang
 * Sim as Duke Arfaas (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Antonio Frenze / Lava Tigre (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Lonny Factor / Drop-In
 * Sim as Frank Morvel (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Fred "the Bloodsucker" Rebber (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Brent Valpaughn / Epicti (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Don "the Psycho" Mendoza (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Mike "the Pencil" Javelin (Earth-G7)
 * Pyro Panthers
 * Sim as Rico Rodriguez / Lobe (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Simon Ardvin / Captain Aardwulf (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Lionfish (Earth-G7)
 * David Stiefel as George Lawence (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as George Lawence (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Julie Saffins (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Rev. Harry Campelli (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Darius Philippine (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as corrupt female RA at Ferris State (Earth-G7)
 * Chrome Kite
 * Hasam Arbini (Earth-G7)

Supporting cast

 * Sim as Ashley Phillips (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Karla Wimberton (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Hank Froli (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Candi Levens / Ciem (Earth-G5)
 * Sim as Candi Flippo-McArthur / Ciem (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Miriam Flippo / Sniperbadger (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Marina Flippo-Baret (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Erin Flippo (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Stan Flippo (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Shalia Flippo (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Akiak Sundue / Anarteq (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Rebecca Volstika / Becky Ryba (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Toklo Sundue / Anarteq (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Tulimak Sundue (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Isitoq Sundue / Anarteq (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Jissika Sundue / Nemara (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Kylie Drimmon (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Ophelia Drimmon (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Kate Junning (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Vanessa Fogsdorn (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Marsha Kennal (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Eric Phillips (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Trista Phillips (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Wally Fobel (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Anisha Kennal (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Jamal Kennal (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Grandpa Terrence "Roji" Kennal (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Leonard Kennal (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Breonna Kennal (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Curtis Morenz (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Vince Finton / Navyrope (Earth-G7)
 * Critter Resistance Network
 * Sim as Janelle Campelli (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Mike Solatz (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Ralph Stevens (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Wendy Worzell (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Brendon Stihn (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Hadley Mint (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Michelle Winston / Feruga (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Angelo Abrami / Cocklebur (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Patrick "Santa" Omandis (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Jordan Reddlewick / Sapphire King (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Donte McArthur / Emeraldon (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Celia Winehart / Taterbug (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Wanda Celestine (Earth-G7)
 * Padua Network
 * Sim as Don Glotine / Module (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Lisa Glotine (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Amelie Glotine (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Amanda Mackensale (Earth-G7)
 * Nordreichdun Royal Guard
 * Horrorday Gang
 * Sim as Adolphus Kraus / Krampus (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Polly Ann Wilson / Perchta (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Luca "the Snowmobster" Ricci (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Gerald Smack / Jerry the Psycho Reindeer (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Tom Omtemen / Tomte (Earth-G7)
 * Straggele
 * Salik Skifte / Hosenzünder (Earth-G7)
 * Ivalu Molgaard / Scharfekatze (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Amita Fischer (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Danny Loffin (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Marge Ramirez / Mapacha del Feugo (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Maurice the Ferryman
 * Sim as John Domeck / Gray Champion (Earth-G7)
 * Sim as Hea Pang (Earth-G7)
 * Twirlflame Trio
 * Tabitha Pang (Earth-G7)
 * Sarah Ruben (Earth-G7)
 * Tobias Reno (Earth-G7)
 * Dolly Malestrom (Earth-G7)

Locations

 * -|Real locations=
 * Earth
 * Greenland
 * North America
 * Canada
 * United States
 * Michigan
 * Big Rapids
 * Roben-Hood Airport
 * Redeemer Lutheran Church of Big Rapids
 * Hillcrest Oakwood Apartments
 * 201H
 * Goodwill
 * JC Penney
 * Meijer
 * Wal-Mart
 * Wesco
 * Biggby
 * Pizza Hut
 * Mancino's
 * Szot's
 * Rapids Suds-n'-Dry
 * Big Rapids Cinema
 * 430 Spring St.
 * 516 N. Michigan Ave.
 * 417 S. Michigan Ave.
 * 246 S. Bronson Ave.
 * 514 Marion Ave.
 * Ferris State University
 * Brophy Hall
 * McNerney Hall
 * Glenn C. Bond Hall
 * North Bond
 * South Bond
 * FLITE Library
 * IRC
 * Starr Building
 * Lot 47
 * Science Building
 * Ewigleben Sports Complex
 * Stanwood
 * Ice Mountain
 * Howard City
 * 820 Ebony St.
 * Paris
 * Meceola Dispatch Center 911
 * Grand Rapids
 * Ohio
 * Cincinnati
 * 502 Hoge St.
 * Indiana
 * Madison
 * Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility
 * Boonville
 * 1205 N. 1st St.
 * Evansville
 * Texas
 * Houston
 * Waco
 * Denison
 * Europe
 * Italy
 * Florence
 * Africa
 * Mozambique
 * Venus
 * -|Locations special to Classic Gerosha=
 * Metheel
 * Gerosha
 * Erin Flippo house
 * -|Locations special to Cataclysmic Gerosha=
 * Metheel
 * Netheel
 * Nordreichdun
 * Nordreichdun Castle
 * Nordreichdun Airfields
 * Denison Camp
 * South Bend Concentration Camp
 * SCALLOP Juvenile Containment Center
 * SCALLOP Women's Containment Center
 * SCALLOP Men's Containment Center
 * Gerosha, IN
 * Erin Flippo house

Development
Ideas for development of this work began around January 12th of 2022, as articles on the Dozerfleet Database were being written for Ashley's parents, Eric and Trista Phillips. Inspired by online charts of mapping romantic complications of different characters in the Marvel 616 universe, an idea hit to map the romantic entanglements of the cast of Blood Over Water using a similar chart system, made in Microsoft Publisher. The Flippo triplets, due to being in the story briefly and having their romantic histories be of no plot relevance in 2009, had their entanglements omitted. The complexity of mapping who has been in bed with whom, however, led to a desire to explore other details of characters' lives: career paths, academic majors, who dies when and how, etc.

Sections for discussing each topic were developed a little each day, from January until late March of 2022. Car accidents, the Omicron variant of Covid, work schedules, and the co-development of the main machinomic's long linear timeline all played a role in delaying the release of Dirty Laundry by two months from the initial planned release. From that long linear timeline, the Plottr file for Cataclysmic Gerosha gained new timeline entry possibilities that were to affect many stories, not just Blood Over Water. The long linear timeline was furthermore used to create a condensed "short" linear timeline, which then was used to create the "Events Relevance Assessor." This document allowed for the assignment of narrative logic to what order events could be told in, which was used as a frame of reference to construct chapter outlines. Chapter outlines, furthermore, would be used to develop shot lists for each chapter, to capitalize on both the PC and PS4 to make the machinomic come to form.

Visual resources for the magazine-style work came from mostly concept art for the machinomic; but a few also came from screenshots from the old miniseries. Some photos utilized resources from both the 2019 and 2020 tours of Big Rapids, the latter of which was conducted for purposes of making The Merre Edition to The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff. Any critical visual resources not in the existing library after the relocation of Dozerfleet Productions to Florida, was made using The Sims 4 to reconstruct sets that resembled whatever information on buildings could be garnered from Google Maps.

Distribution
Dirty Laundry, upon completion and some conversion issues, was saved in Microsoft Publisher format and then converted into Adobe PDF format. The files were uploaded to MediaFire, and the compressed version was furthermore linked to on the Dozerfleet Literature section of Dozerfleet's official site on Blogger.