New Clown Order/History

== Formation ==
Following the five-year war with the mimes, a war lost by the clowns, many battle-weary clowns found themselves back in Los Santos once again. Torn apart by the events of the war, many clowns were in conflict with other fellow clowns, sometimes violently so, and relations between fellow clowns were generally poor. Over the course of several weeks, many clowns voiced their disappointments in other clowns as well as their desire for a new structure and law to apply to all clowns. Chatterbox and a few allies held careful conversations with many clowns in the city to see where each one stood. The foundational ideas of the Order manifested slowly during this time period.
On December 28th, 2023, Chatterbox, Bozo, Bon Bon, and Stumbles met to lay the groundwork for the New Clown Order. Scruffy was also invited to this meeting and into the New Clown Order, and he quickly accepted membership. A week earlier, Chatterbox had also met with Bozo and Checkers to discuss the new group, and Ursula had been extended membership at that time as a "clean" member, or "shadow" clown.
At this meeting, the name of the group was chosen as was the name of the leadership (the Elders). The Order was intended to be run in a different manner than other clown organizations of the past, such as the Clowncil. Namely, each clown in Los Santos, should they choose to wear a mask or makeup, would be free to pursue whatever groups or interests that they wished in the city. Should they also decide to sign on to the NCO, they would further be constrained to first and foremost follow each and every rule of the Order's code. At first, the Order demanded obedience to the Order's rules without exception, but over time it was decided that the Code of the Order would be adopted peace-meal by each clown voluntarily.
Although at the meeting the new Order discussed a few tenets of the specific content of the new code, the group decided to postpone implementation of any rule until a later meeting to allow time for each Elder to rigorously flesh out the new clown law.
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===Code of the Order===
The code of the New Clown Order was diligently discussed and planned for several weeks. Elders worked tirelessly day and night to produce this document.
The new Clown Code was presented to a lawyer, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, who helped to finalize it as an official document in the form of a legal contract. All persons presenting as clowns were encouraged to sign the document, with a handful of exceptions due to prior trust issues. Clowns who do not sign do not receive any of the protections offered by the NCO, and they may be shunned by the clown community. Despite this, changes are always expected for the document on an ongoing basis.
File:Discussing new rules2.png|Chatterbox, Bon Bon, and Bozo discussing new clown code
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== Clown Halls ==
On a periodic basis, roughly monthly or bimonthly, Clown Hall gatherings will occur. At these meetings, the Elders will make announcements, solicit possible suggestions for Code changes from the Members, and perform other administrative activities.
=== January 16, 2024 ===
* Signers attending: Chatterbox, Scruffy, BoomBoom, Ursula, Stumbles, Twinkles, Ember
* Non-signing clowns attending: Kirk, Pico, Damien, Keith
* Relevant guest: Ripley
Ripley had recently re-emerged in Los Santos. Having yucked with the clowns on many occasions in the years past, Ripley stood accused of many things. However, that particular day Ripley had partnered with a few clowns to help him try to regain his status as a police officer in exchange for some favors. He used the opportunity to yell at his former officers, which the clowns respected. At the meeting, Ripley suggested that he may want to be a clown himself, even wearing Bon Bon's mask as a symbol of solidarity. Kirk and Chatterbox suggested that everyone should be skeptical, but Ursula and BoomBoom spoke on his behalf. Chatterbox reminded all clowns of the many actions Ripley had transgressed in the past, but BoomBoom continued to speak about Ripley's positive contributions to the clown community, including Clown Risk and a strong joking-like character which would fit in well with the clowns.
The NCO signers conferred, voted, and it was decided that Ripley would could become a clown under certain conditions. First, Ripley would have to kidnap two cops and take them to play Clown Risk -- but the clowns would help him do it. Second, when the clowns were satisfied, Professor Bubbles (Ripley's clown alias) would have to read, understand, and sign the NCO Clown Code.
=== February 20th, 2024 ===
*Signers attending: Chatterbox, Moose Knuckles, Janky, Stumbles Fumbles, BoomBoom, Ember, Twinkles, Cleo Cloak, Scruffy, Pockets, Party Hardy, Bozo, Bubblegum 
*Non-signing clowns attending: Pico 
*Guests: Samantha, Jester
Everyone was asked to give their thoughts on the NCO as a whole. Chatterbox explained the past issues with Bon Bon. He also re-explained the purpose of the NCO and the Clown Code. The signers attending voted to reduce the number of Elders from five to two. With all Elders stepping down except for Scruffy, one new Elder was elected, which was Janky (Kirk Jerkems). Finally, each rule of the Clown Code was reviewed aloud by Scruffy. Three of the rules of the Code (9, 10, 14) were removed.
== Clown Court ==
When the Elders deem that a clown decision needs to be made that is larger than usual, they call a Clown Court. At a Clown Court, all signers hear the court case against an accused. Guilt or innocence is decided by both the Members and the Elders. Suggestions for punishments are offered by the Members to the Elders. Finally, if the accused is guilty, then the Elders select a punishment.
Stumbles Fumbles v. Moose Knuckles & Scruffy Doodle (January 10, 2024)
* Signers attending: Chatterbox, Bozo, Bon Bon, Scruffy, Stumbles, BoomBoom, Twinkles, Ember
* Non-signing clowns attending: Damien, Pico, Kirk
At the inaugural Clown Court, Stumbles Fumbles stood accused of committing clown-on-clown violence by stabbing Moose Knuckles and Scruffy Doodle -- an unfortunate mistake, but clown-on-clown violence nonetheless, and a clear violation of Clown Code. Stumbles claimed that he was told to "Suge Knight" Moose Knuckles, but misunderstood which Suge Knight controversy the other clowns were referring to. Stumbles was found guilty and sentenced to choose two of three punishments. 
# Be removed as an elder for one week,
# Remove his tiny hat for one week, or
# Chauffeur Scruffy Doodle around whenever Scruffy asks.
A bitter Stumbles yelled at the court. He felt that Bozo only ruled guilty because Stumbles fired his lawyer mid-trial and that didn't seem relevant to the charges to Stumbles. Further, Bon Bon had agreed not to vote as he was the prosecution, but then he had proceeded to cast a vote. Stumbles cursed the NCO and then ran out of the courtroom. After a phone call with Chatterbox, Stumbles agreed to remove his tiny hat for one week and to chauffeur Scruffy for one week. Stumbles remained on the board of Elders.
Gigi v. Chatterbox (January 25, 2024)
* Signers attending: Chatterbox, Bon Bon (defense attorney), Scruffy (panel member), Stumbles, BoomBoom, Twinkles, Ursula, Janky
* Non-signing clowns attending: Pico
* Relevant guests: Gigi, Tessa (Presiding Judge/neutral party), Tiny Tony (prosecuting attorney), Vito (panel member), Adam (assistant Judge)
Gigi vs. Chatterbox - Chatterbox stood accused of being involved in an incident with Gigi in which she was kidnapped and stabbed. Chatterbox claimed he was jumped by a group of five after a prank phone call to Gigi, and that later he had another encounter with Gigi in which she attacked him. Hence, Chatterbox counter-sued Gigi. Mr. K. acted as a (bad) character witness against Chatterbox, as did Carmella in song. Chatterbox testified that he did not use a knife nor engage in any kidnapping, but rather was participating in a date with Ray Mond auctioned off previously. Twinkles testified that Chatterbox did no bidding at the auction, but he did, and that he was also stabbed. Janky's testimony implied that Chatterbox couldn't have stabbed Gigi. Gigi testified that she did not like Chatterbox and that she was stabbed immediately despite possessing defensive weapons. Tessa also made a statement that the violence after the auction started with some individuals who were not clowns. In the verdict, both parties were found to be partially guilty. As punishment, Gigi and Chatterbox both had to apologize to one another face-to-face in front of everyone, and they also have to dress up as one another to go on a threesome date with Ray Mond, producing photographic evidence of the date afterward.
Carmella v. The Clowns (January 31, 2024)
* Signers attendance: Chatterbox, Bon Bon, BoomBoom, Ursula, Twinkles, Scruffy, Miniphone, 
* Non-signing clown attendance: Cupcake, Damien Tinkerman
* Relevant Guests: Carmella, Gigi, Ray Mond
Carmella vs. The Clowns - Chatterbox and fellow clowns stood accused of messing with Carmella. Gigi accused clowns of being mean at first, but then admitted that they actually ended up being pretty cool, which shocked the prosecution. Carmella claimed the clowns especially Chatterbox had kidnapped her, tortured her, and tried to murder her. Carmella was asked specifically about incidents with Twinkles. She elaborated, but Twinkles denied her version of events. Ray Mond mentioned a "burn book" of Carmella's which supposedly contained juicy gossip against April and Mr. K. Carmella denied writing the book entirely. Ray testified that she saw the book and backed up Twinkles version of events. Carmella threw a fit and called the clowns "circus folk" and accused Ray of being a low traitor in her closing statement. She then sentenced herself to cleaning bathrooms of any clown who requested it because she is good at cooking and cleaning. Chatterbox accused Carmella of many heinous crimes spanning years prior. At the conclusion of this befuddling case, the judges decided that both Bon Bon and Twinkles had to hang out for a short time with Carmella, and she had to dress them both up as she saw fit.
Ember Quinn v. Chatterbox (March 11, 2024)
*Signers attendance: Chatterbox (defendant), Party Hardy (stenographer), Stumbles Fumbles (bailiff), Janky (presiding Elder), Ember Quinn (plaintiff), Bozo (second defense attorney), Moose Knuckles (backup prosecuting attorney), BoomBoom, Bubblegum, Twinkles, Scruffy (second Elder), Pockets, Keith 
* Relevant Guests: Wendy Thomas (first prosecuting attorney, then defense attorney)
Chatterbox allegedly stabbed Ember twice, and Ember brought him to Clown Court. On the stand, Chatterbox denied actually stabbing Ember, though he did admit that he had been upset at losing a Clown Risk game to Ramee. Stumbles requested that it go on the Court record that Bozo peed his bed before coming to Court, and it was so admitted. Bozo cross examined Chatterbox (who was actually his client), and Chatterbox recounted the events of the day in question. Scruffy interrupted proceedings to ask who was winning. Chatterbox claimed to Bozo that Ember had jumped at her, and she might have walked into his knife because Chatterbox was scared. Chatterbox was re-cross-examined by Wendy, who asked for clarification on what made Chatterbox scared (bright lights). Janky cross-examined Chatterbox as well. Ember switched lawyers to Mooseknuckles. Chatterbox complimented Mooseknuckles' suit, and Mooseknucles said thanks. Then Mooseknuckles asked Chatterbox if he enjoyed guns and shooting at people. He didn't answer, so Mooseknuckles asked if he would intentionally stab a Clown, and Chatterbox said he would if the Clown was trying to kill him. Mooseknuckles taunted Chatterbox by using Chatterbox's fake alias which he hates, and Chatterbox threatened to stab Mooseknuckles.
Ember took the stand. Wendy asked about Ember's typical injury routine and hospital visits. Bozo cross examined by asking Ember if she could recognize the knife which stabbed her. Bozo demanded that she pick out the particular knife in a knife lineup. Using the Johnnie Cochran defense, Bozo also demanded that the knife must be checked to see if it "fit" Ember. Mooseknuckles pointed out that Chatterbox was presently in possession of a knife, contradicting a prior statement Chatterbox made that his hands were too teeny to hold a knife.
Deliberation began. Wendy made a final statement claiming that the accusations against Chatterbox had hurt Chatterbox's feelings. Mooseknuckles made a final statement appealing to the Second Amendment because it wasn't the knife's fault that Chatterbox stabbed Ember. During deliberation, Chatterbox disappeared. Janky said he didn't process 90% of anything that just happened during the case, so he decided that both parties are guilty because neither prosecution nor defense was funny enough. BoomBoom spoke on behalf of the jury which sentenced both Chatterbox and Ember to go on a date together. The date was required to include potty mouth treatments for both clowns.
== Other Notable Events ==
The Clowns and Ray Mond vs. BonBon
On January 2, 2024, Benji Ramos stabbed Chatterbox for taking and exploiting Ray Mond's expired ID that she had discarded in Snr. Buns. In retaliation, clowns like Chatterbox, Bozo, Scruffy Doodle, and Twinkles kept prank-calling, messaging, and hunting Ray around Los Santos, publicly accusing her of being a "clownist". Ray disguised herself as her brother Yuno Sykk to avoid being spotted, and attempted to negotiate peace with "good" clown BonBon. Mickey Sinclaire and Chatterbox agreed to a 4v4 game of Clown Risk to squash the beef with Ray. On January 12, 2024, Ray and Gigi Costello (the final survivors on Ray's team after Benji and Mickey fell off the bridge) won the game of Clown Risk against Chatterbox, BonBon, Checkers, and BoomBoom. The clowns honored their agreement and bowed down to Ray.
thumb|left|Clown Auction Date with Hiccups, Twinkles, Chatterbox, BonBon, and JankyJanuary 22, 2024
On January 16, 2024, Ray asked Chatterbox to bid on her in a date auction hosted by April Fooze and Fanny. Consequently, Twinkles bid $23,000 and won the date with Ray. Ray schemed to act like a "crazy girlfriend" to make Chatterbox, Twinkles, and other clowns believe she was in love with them and infiltrate the clowns. After several rounds of Clown Games where Ray was the sole survivor of another game of Clown Risk, she and The Gworls saved Chatterbox and Twinkles from getting arrested. On January 22, 2024, Ray went on the Clown Date as her new "clownsona" Hiccups--which went chaotically with a game of Clown Bingo, and was cut short with Louie's help and a Clown Games event for The Company's interns. Ray admitted she had a great time with the clowns, and agreed with Chatterbox to spend two more "clown days" together to make up for the date being cut short.
Hiccups first began to shun BonBon when she saw him drop Ember Quinn into the Banning smelter cauldron at the Grand Banks Steel Foundry on January 29, 2024, and didn't believe his claim that it was an "accident". Then during a triple date between Hiccups, Chatterbox, and Squeekz on February 2, 2024, Ember dropped BonBon into the smelter also claiming it was an "accident". BonBon eventually accused Chatterbox of breaking the New Clown Order Code by siding with Ray Mond against BonBon's desire to prank her, asked for his signature to be removed, walked away from the clowns, and joined the new Bondi Boys MC.
On March 18, 2024 with the encouragement of Twinkles and Chatterbox, Ray signed the Clown Code as Hiccup (writing "HICCP") and became a member of the New Clown Order. Ray settled her beef with Ember by winning a 1v1 game of Clown Risk against her in a "fight for Chatterbox's heart".
BonBon, feeling betrayed that Ray leaked his hit list to Janky, Chatterbox, and Twinkles (and also shot BonBon down with Ramee El-Rahman and Taco Prince), stabbed Ray on March, 26, 2024 in the mechanic class of Irwin Dundee (Prime Minister of the new BBMC). Ray subsequently asked Janky, Twinkles, and Checkers to guard her at the "My Career Academia" prom on March 29, 2024 from BonBon. Ray's prom date Dundee set her up by swapping places with BonBon, who was disguised as Dundee. BonBon stabbed Ray again. Janky (armed with a PD gun from Taco Prince), Twinkles, and Checkers accompanied Ray to a Company meeting (attended by chairmen Raymond Romanov and Mickey Sinclaire) in the underground Legion–Memorial pedestrian tunnel, where Benji tried to mediate peace between Ray, BonBon, and Dundee. Ray gunned down Dundee and BonBon instead (with a gun Twinkles gave her).
On April 4, 2024, Chatterbox ended the Elder elections and took over the New Clown Order as its "clown-tator". When BonBon crashed the meeting to taunt them, Chatterbox used him as a cautionary tale. The next day, Chatterbox announced to the clowns that they call him "King" going forward, made Hiccups the "Funhouse Queen", made Janky the "Clownforcer", and allowed Party Hardy to be a second king.
On April 9, 2024, BonBon betrayed his ex-wife BoomBoom (whom Janky had lost trust in for still speaking to BonBon), and coerced her at knifepoint to set up Twinkles at the funhouse. BonBon kidnapped Twinkles, and pinged Hiccups and Chatterbox (the "Queen" and "King") to Stab City. BonBon hosted a game where either Chatterbox or Hiccups could take a zip-tied Twinkles' place. When Chatterbox volunteered, BonBon zip-tied him and then stabbed both Twinkles and Chatterbox. In the resulting knife fight between BonBon and Hiccups, they both took each other out. BoomBoom arrived to find them all bleeding out, and urgently phoned Janky to Stab City. Given that the paramedic only had room in her ambulance to transport three of them, Janky volunteered to drive BonBon to the hospital--but instead dropped him off in the dirt, stole his notebook, called Dundee from BonBon's mobile phone with a bad BonBon impersonation, and pinged Dundee to BonBon's location. As Dundee and Tommy Puff confronted Janky near BonBon's hospital bed, Hiccups told Dundee what happened. But once Janky's taunt to Tommy provoked Dundee into hitting Janky with a wrench, the violence escalated within the hospital until the police gunned down and arrested the Bondi Boys MC. Afterward, the New Clown Order discussed war on just BonBon and then took a group photo by The Lighthouse.
Tensions were high with the BBMC following Bobby Beldrum's attacks on multiple clowns and the subsequent violent escalation between the clowns and the BBMC at the hospital. Despite this, Dundee agreed to de-escalate in a conversation with Chatterbox with each side cutting losses. On April 14, 2024, Chatterbox, Hiccups, and BoomBoom while in Vespucci were involved in the water dumping of a few of the royal blue cars which are a signature of the BBMC. The BBMC suspected Ember Quinn knew about it because of the timing of her prank call to BonBon where she simply laughed at him. After the BBMC staked out eight of the clowns while they were playing a friendly football game, Party Hardy's girlfriend was stabbed. Following this, the clowns were requested to meet six BBMC members at the Funhouse for a cordial chat at which the melee-armed BBMC demanded answers from Ember and the other clowns about who ocean dumped the Vespucci cars. Janky lied that he would look into it (he already knew full well that his clown King Chatterbox and clown Queen Hiccups did it). The BBMC left, and ultimately no war started over it.
During Chatterbox's surprise date for Hiccups at Vespucci Beach on April 17, 2024, he asked her to officially become his girlfriend--to which she said yes. After Chang Gang held up Chatterbox for provoking Mr. K over the phone, Mr. K robbed his notebooks. When Mr. K and Ramee El-Rahman discovered Chatterbox's close relationship with Ray Mond from one of the notebooks, Taco Prince revealed that Chatterbox and Ray Mond were a couple--referring to them as "King and Queen". Mr. K removed her house keys, calling the clowns their mortal enemies. Ray eventually conversed with Mr. K about it, and was allowed to remain a member of CG.
Forever Conflict with the Mimes
Although the Mime War was over and the NCO had gradually been formed, conflicts with the mimes continued in Los Santos. In early 2024, mimes proved stealthy, cunning, and violent as clowns were periodically attacked in the city.
As a consequence of battles during the war, BoomBoom had developed mime-itis, a disease which slowly turns a normal person or a clown into a mime. As BoomBoom's voice waned, she fought desperately to collect the blood of as many clowns as possible in hopes of developing a cure for the disease at Humane Labs. Through a series of agreements and deals, she eventually collected the blood of almost every clown which had ever been active in Los Santos, and it proved to be enough blood diversity to create the cure that rid her of the disease.
On March 25, 2024, the New Clown Order placed a bad-smelling cardboard box on the stairwell inside of Davis City Hall as an art installation. With onlookers watching from behind a police barridcade in the lobby, Mayor Maximilian Thoroughbred opened the box to find a dead mime inside with his bowels voided. Police Captain Leonardo Slacks immediately took charge of the crime scene. Ember Quinn openly took credit for the mime's murder, and got arrested for it. In a City Council legislative meeting on April 6, 2024, Mayor Thoroughbred introduced a new bill to strip away the rights of mimes and end their wars with the clowns, noting that Chief Justice Alan Crane used to hunt mimes for some time. A mime hunting season was proposed, with Head of BAR Association Lance Malton also wanting to rescind the rights of clowns. The City Council decided that felonious clowns in debt must convert their fines into extra prison time. Malton and Law Enforcement Liaison Malcolm Nekoda, however, objected over the definition of a mime--viewing it as too vague. Healthcare Liaison Philippa Canter, Treasurer Etta Hawthorne, and Malton abstained; Nekoda voted nay; and Crane, Chief of Staff Siobhan Thoroughbred, Mayor Thoroughbred, and Deputy Mayor Michael Simone vote yea. The bill passed.
Later, mime activity seemed to crescendo as random attacks against the clowns occurred. On April 21st, 2024, the Chatterbox, Bozo, Janky, Pockets, and Twinkles encountered the General, a mime from the war with whom Chatterbox made a deal to save Stumbles. They tracked him down to the Fun Factory where Bozo and Chatterbox cornered and stabbed him. During a search of his phone, the clowns learned that Lily had long been involved in conversations and deals with the General, and that she was his "sister". This seemed to validate suspicions which some clowns had had of half-clown, half-mime Lily in the past. The clowns scorched the General's body in the smelter and left.
The following day, notorious mimes Yuri Popov and Eva Popov appeared in the city. Chatterbox managed to obtain possession of a diary of sorts which Yuri had in his possession. The dairy outlined, in high levels of detail, the actions of all of the clowns since they had returned to Los Santos after the war. It had been authored by a mime, presumably Eva. The diary was a periodic log of events from months past involving formation of the NCO, conflicts between clowns, interactions with mimes, and more. Since there was no way any one mime could have been present at all of these events, Chatterbox immediately suspected a mole or several moles within the NCO. Shortly afterward, Lily Night-Sky went missing, presumably under duress from one of the Popov's. Clowns scattered the city, searching for Lily high and low. She was finally located at the large Court complex high up on the hill, found unconscious with blood surrounding her. Oddly, EMS found no obvious wounds on Lily's body. A trip to the hospital resulted in an overnight ICU stay for Lily, fate unknown.
On April 24th, 2024, Chatterbox met with Lily Night-Sky and Twinkles about the mime situation privately in the long car tunnel by the Paleto Woods mill. Lily described multiple incidences where the mimes had tried to recruit her in the past, but she had not acquiesced. Instead, the mimes had kidnapped her several times, threatening her and people close to her. Lily did admit to agreeing to one deal with the mimes in which she would be given critical information in exchange for some of her blood. At a prior meeting, Yuri Popov had asked Lily to be a mole for the mimes, but she claimed to have refused, after which Eva Popov had stabbed Lily. Chatterbox demanded that Lily cut off all ties with the mimes or become an enemy of the clowns. A dejected Lily agreed.
Chatterbox asked Lily about Dr. Andy Fischer as a suspected mime cohort, and Lily said she knew him and didn't trust him. Chatterbox phoned Fischer and under false pretenses convinced him to meet with the clowns who were all in disguises. Twinkles, Happy (disguised as the Cleaner), Chatterbox, Janky, and Lily kidnapped Fischer at gunpoint and took him back to the tunnel. Microphones were found on his person. Andy claimed he had not helped the mimes in any way when pressured, despite information Chatterbox had which had him helping people enter Humane Labs and also exposing the storage location of clown blood at the hospital. However, Andy did admit knowledge of both mime-itis and the prior search for a cure. A quick phone call to BoomBoom confirmed that Fischer was previously talking to Eva about mimi-itis. Lily further confirmed that Andy had left a door unlocked so that Eva could access clown blood. With Fischer presumably continuing to lie, Chatterbox shot him multiple times, with Janky finishing him off with a headshot for stalling and not being straight.