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JULY 20, 2025 RECAP

• Benji wakes up and hears an idea from Mentos about starting a casino in Blaine County. After a call from Reggie, Dragon takes Benji to gamble. Benji decides he wants to bet 100k a hand in blackjack. He loses, and does the rational thing - asks to play a 200k hand. He meets a cop outside and tattles on the illegal casino.

• After chatting in front of Senior Buns, Benji goes into the food court and has a chat with Saab. They chat about what Benji wants to do with his time as mayor. He sees that Cat is awake and calls her to tell her she broke his heart and asked if she voted for him. He continues to conduct his own "exit polling" to see who people voted for.

• Benji calls Edgar for exit poll reasons, but Edgar flips it and starts talking to Benji about joining New Babylon. He goes up to Sandy and finds it, deciding to explore. He runs into Saab, Flop, and Edgar and hears what New Babylon can offer him. Edgar shows Benji around, shows him how they make everything that they have, and tries to convince Benji to join them.

• After leaving New Babylon, Benji returns to Vespucci. He goes to the washing house to put money away. Diablo and Royce are still with him. They meet up with Dragon and then start driving. Benji asks for gang updates and hears that Hades did Maze Bank, but got a bad payout.

• Flossie gets a call from Benji. She continues to be perfect and amazing (to the surprise as no one). Benji asks Flossie about New Babylon. She says that she had spoken to Lang about it and that it went well. After, the call, Benji talks about missing his trident.

• Benji starts talking about wanting to move to Miami, and if the boys would be going as well or staying in Los Santos. He says they'll need to get a Hades base.

• Dragon gives an update on the gang fund and the armory status. Everything is low. Benji: "What the fuck is happening? What is this Council fucking doing?" He wants to know why they haven't re-upped on the guns yet. Dragon says the ERP Squad has been more productive then NA.

• Benji says that the gang is 💀 . He thinks everyone is relaxing a bit too much since they aren't in war and can breathe a bit. His expression is . Benji: "Everything will be fine, and I believe in our people. 👼 " He's also sure that tomorrow will be a better day. <:PepeLa:1060091780743303168>

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JULY 27, 2025 RECAP

• Benji wakes up in prison and immediately goes down. Connor is there doing 5 years for murder charges. Benji gets in the first car he sees, calling it a taxi, and asks them to take him to Vespucci where he meets up with Vance.

• There is a cop patrolling Vespucci, and Benji politely tells him to go somewhere else. The cop eventually drives away with Benji telling him to fuck off. The cop comes back with four additional units. A tragic and unprovoked shooting against police happens. Benji Mr Vespucci is a fully innocent bystander. Benji eventually returns to casually sell food from a taco truck and chat with Ruby.

• Benji goes to check out the casino that Dragon has been working on in the Abyss. Chico calls to say that he has close to 9k butcoin to transfer over to Hades from the old Project house.

• Jon calls to finally give Benji the tea about Manor v Exodus. He says that he redeemed himself for the uncs. Benji tells Jon that Hades smoked them, so Manor should be able to smoke them as well. Exodus tried to go to Manor turf and got put down. Benji said that he saw Terry and he's not the same and didn't say hi, so they have to reassess including Terry in their back up plan. Jon tells Benji about Chem snitching. Benji shares that twatter is Exodust weakness.

• Benji and Chico go to the prison to talk to the boys about what happened with the cop shoot out. Benji passes on the message of hello from Ruby to 'Reg'. The boys enjoy it too much and start coming up with ship names.

• Benji goes to the casino and starts talking about doing a soft opening. As the city is quiet, he thinks it's a bad idea to do today. Benji goes and gets some cash from the stash so they can start testing the gambling in the casino. He invites a few people to come and test it.

• To get people to the closed, soft, opening, Benji starts calling random people in the yellow pages and inviting them to try out the casino. Brendon is the first to show up and tries out the roulette table. As more people show up, Chico and Dragon both take turns as dealers

• The rest of the time Benji is awake is spent in the casino working out the games. Mentos gambles away his kidnap, and the casino makes some money.

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