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.
| Episode List |
|---|
| Bluff City 16: Messy Business (Pt 1) |
| Bluff City 17: Messy Business (Pt 2) |
| Bluff City 18: Messy Business (Pt 3) |
| Bluff City 19: Messy Business (Pt 4) |
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 of items recovered from the scene after the events of the arc.
Gallery
Maggie Darcy, Christine Andrews, Agent Heard, and Florence Slowly by @SeamonsterArt on twitter.
Poster for the arc by @Ootron on twitter.
Florence Slowly, Hector Hu, Christine Andrews, and Maggie Darcy meeting Agent Heard by @vlasdygoth on twitter.
Agent Seals by @dancynrew on twitter.
