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, Janette 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."