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January 10th, 2025 RECAP (The day Benji and Reggie tension comes to a head, Benji explores his celibacy and challenges, an adventure from the highest peak to a submarine charge on cargo, WSV vibes, Hades command discussions, and Benji gets a new theme song)
• Benji wakes up and twats his usual YA BOI BACK. Immediately he received a call from Nino asking Benji to retwat his puppeteer message. Benji does and then twats “Thank you for all of the guns over the years, Nino!” to which Nino loves and laughs. Benji doesn’t have much time before Mumbles calls Benji asking if he will endorse him for Blaine County Mayor as he is endorsing Nino for Los Santos. Benji and Mumbles discuss how Tony Leung will now be in Mumbles cabinet and is running for assistant mayor under Mumbles party. Benji asks if it is ok if he shoots Chatterbox still as he has been antagonizing him. Mumbles agrees; and says he is ok to attack Mumbles brother “Dumbles” as well. He would like his mouth washed out with soap.

• While still on his way to Vespucci, Benji sees Reggie with old man Willy and doesn’t stop or entertain Reggie’s goofiness. Benji is annoyed that Reggie is not doing work and playing around.
• Benji sees three of the Hades properties mid-redecorating. He thinks the shooting range in the armory is a waste of space and reckless because someone will shoot and also notices the old armory that is now a Buttcoin farm will not fit all of the racks from the north. Benji drives to the north HQ to look at what is still up there and sees all the racks are still there. He calls Perez to make sure all the racks will fit in the south buttcoin farm and Perez assures him they will. Benji has no faith in that. He received a rundown of what has happened from the day including completed jobs and an issue they had with JT comms and radio channel being burnt. Perez also mentions that Reggie is not helping with any of the moving and said no when he asked for help and later lets Benji know he is feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. Benji is now more annoyed with Reggie.

• Benji has a discussion with Kit. She tells Benji she is upset that Reggie is trying to pawn off old man Willy as her dad. Benji asks what Reggie does all day. Kit mentions Reggie hangs out with her, worked on GPUs, overall though she wasn’t really quite sure. Benji is NOT happy. He sees Reggie playing fetch with Willy and starts to yell at him and insult him. Reggie yells back and says do something about it. Lt, Members and associates are around and witness it. Reggie leaves the Abyss angry
• Benji and Louis have a discussion outside the Abyss in regard to JT, his comms and the aftermath. Benji tells Louis to just not take JT on a job as he feels JT freezes during conflict. Benji also recalls the time JT rescued him once during a chase and then never checked in or called back to see how anyone was doing.

• Parts of High Command that are around talk about the associate roster and inactive people. Benji says if they are inactive they are kicked, but people who are providing for the gang, (materials, clean guy, farming) are ok to stay). Benito, Daphne, Jared. HDawg and others are discussed but no one is officially kicked as of yet. The discussion of hunting Gene is also a topic among the gang. Rico gets the go ahead to hunt Gene.

Reggie and Benji get into another yelling match that eventually leads to a lengthy talk in one of the Vespucci parking lots. Reggie tells Benji to take his Underboss title from him if Benji feels like Reggie isn’t doing a good job as all he hears from Benji are complaints about him. Reggie feels like he has an impossible tasks of meeting Benji’s expectations because he doesn’t understand what Benji wants from him. Benji lets Reggie know that his approach to other members in the gang, lack of communication, empty threats, and mentality are the problem. Benji knows Reggie does a lot for the gang but he doesn’t let anyone else know so it is hard for anyone besides HC to know what he does. Benji wants Reggie to be over communicative, (to Reggie’s disgruntlement) so everyone else can see what it takes to be a leader. Benji also tells Reggie to stop telling people he will shoot them if they hug him, instead walk away and if they truly understand that is a hard line for him and still cross it, he has the ok to shoot them, no matter what rank. The conversation ends with Reggie and Benji coming to an agreement of what is expected and what needs to change with Benji taking credit for solving all issues and walks off singing his new El Jefe song while Reggie stands in the parking lot quiet.

• Benji also spends time with the WSV. Initially Diggy was tasked to sing Benji’s new El Jefe song whenever he walks into the Billa-Barrio, but Rico Salazar nailed the audition and took the part. Benji and Marlo let Rico Barbosa know he will now have a trap house of his own for WSV. WSV helps move money out of the house so it can be transferred at the same time Diggy, Rico S. Benji and Rico B joke with each other. Eventually Marlo realizes money is missing and lets Benji know. Benji calls Rico S. and Diggy back to the BillaBarrio so Benji can check their pockets. After Benji finds the missing 179K on Rico S. comedy ensues as Diggy and Rico get into it mostly speaking in Tagalog. Benji laughs a lot and thoroughly enjoys it. (Rico S. didn’t check the bottom of his backpack and honestly made a mistake.)
• Benji also explores the boundaries of his celibacy and his relationship with his celibestie Gabby. Gabby spends time with Lane and Benji feels threatened by Lane. Billy also makes suggestive comments about his relationship with Gabby and gets put down for it, (he is still in Hades). Tessa gets called as well to make sure PR/ HR is on board with lines Benji wants to deliver.

• Benji also goes on a grand adventure hunting the cargo ship. He drives to the top of Mt. Chilliad almost sliding down his death on one occasion to seeing the Cargo heli dropping the container at the top of the mountain. Unfortunately, he is spotted and the Cargo heli takes the crate elsewhere. The rest of the six in Hades spot the heli on an island to the east of the Lighthouse up north. Benji takes the opportunity to wingsuit off of Mt. Chilliad to the island while looking very cool. Shortly after landing a mini submarine is discovered near the island where the cargo crates are being guarded by an unknown six. Benji takes the submarine with Vance, Winter, and Lance to the island while Perez and Louis are in helis circling. Benji and the submarine are spotted but land on the island and fight it out. Hades looses to move C2s but everyone had a great time.