Mason Calaway

Mason Calaway is a character role-played by WithExtraSauce.
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== General Description ==
Mason Calaway is a Patched Member of the Raiders MC. He was previously third-in-command as the Road Captain, but concluded that he wasn't ready enough and voluntarily stepped down.
== Background ==
Mason Calaway was orphaned as a teenager when his ex-policeman stepfather was killed after he had murdered Alice "Allie" Omen's mother. Mason's older stepsister Allie is very protective of him. He became the first Road Captain for their new club with Allie's best friend Laney, the Raiders MC.
==🐍 History ==
First Road Captain of the Raiders MC
As the first Road Captain of the Raiders MC, Mason began to feel like their most problematic member. To the irritation of President Darcy Lane (and other Raiders MC members present), Mason offended her friend Sean "Irish" McQuillen (formerly of the Bondi Boys MC) with a joke that he was weird--something that Irish never forgot and never let go despite Mason's subsequent apology. Lane then rebuked Mason on January 4, 2024 for complaining about her with Enforcer Rue Day and former BBMC member Flops Rainman in the car because Lane wouldn't let Mason pick up his friend (another former BBMC member) Aubrey Synnefo right away. Lane called it Mason's final warning, said she'll find out if he complains about any of the Raiders outside of the club again, and emphasized "I'm not your friend, I'm your President."
Mason also didn't get along with Rue. On January 7, 2024, Lane finally ended the grace period for it and cracked down on interruptions and sassy attitudes during non-personal club talk. Afterward, Lane successfully purchased the Raiders MC's first house before storm hit. Due to commitments in another city, Sergeant At Arms Taylor Archer stepped down from the Raiders MC High Command to the title of "Nomad" (reserved for founders who retire)--making Mason the new third-in-command.
In the Raiders MC chapter meeting on January 20, 2024, Mason felt tempted to nominate his friend Aubrey Synnefo as a Raiders MC hangaround, but decided against it and nominated Thomas Aoki instead (who joined Maeve Gray and Wally West as the club's first hangarounds ever). 
On January 22, 2024 against the wishes of both Rue and Lane, Mason jokingly threw Rue off the pier in front of the new hangarounds Wally and Tom. Afterward in a private conversation, Lane threatened to strip Mason of his Road Captain rank; then threatened to physically hurt him if he kept disobeying her direct order to leave. For Mason's punishment on January 24, 2024, VP Wade Wilson gave him one final warning that they would strip him of his third-in-command Road Captain rank the next time he showed any kind of disrespect to a club member. Wade fined Mason $500 for the pier incident and another $5000 for overdue fees, said he was on the "thinnest of ice", and punitively beat Mason down in front of Lane.
On January 25, 2024, a local shot Rue during her weed run with Patched Member Maxx McAllister, Wally, Tom, and Mason. With Rue in surgery at the hospital, Maxx left hangarounds Wally and Tom posted outside of the operating room. As Maxx and Mason stood guard in the hospital lobby watching for police, she saw him on his phone and angrily threatened to bash his head in. Lane and Wade fined Maxx $250 in her next club dues after she admitted that she shouldn't have said it. Afterward, Lane and Wade told Mason that as third-in-command, he should have taken control of that situation and that Maxx felt let down by him. Although Lane believed his defense that he only used the phone to look inconspicuous and was just fidgeting with it out of habit, she said it didn't change Maxx's perception of him. Mason confessed that he was afraid to forcibly pull rank in that situation because of the club's perception that he had abused his rank in the past. Later in the night after Mason's talk with his sister Allie, he admitted to Lane and Wade that despite a desire to be command, Mason realized he wasn't ready for it. Mason voluntarily stepped down from Road Captain, saying that he wanted to earn it. Lane and Wade respected his decision and remained open-minded to the possibility that he could earn his club members' respect and get voted back into command.
The Departure of Mason's Sister Allie from the Raiders MC
Now a Patched Member for the Raiders MC, Mason became a problem for them yet again when he accepted a persistent invitation from Already Dead MC patched member Rue Minmi to hang out. Despite misgivings from the Raiders MC, Mason played Rue Minmi's "performative" mind game where they asked about each other's clubs. During a private Chumash Pier conversation on January 28, 2024 where Chaplain Allie ordered her brother Mason to stop prying into ADMC business with Rue Minmi, the ADMC Vice Prime Minister Sean "Irish" McQuillen led a melee-armed ADMC party onto the Raiders MC's turf. Irish called Allie to warn them to drop their phones and knives on the ground, which she and a confused Mason both did (Mason dropped his wrench). When she refused to swim away with Mason (who wanted to escape instead), he asked her whether she had set him up. Irish accused Mason of prying into ADMC business with both Rue Minmi and EMS Deputy Chief Veronica Westfield (an ADMC associate). After Irish saw multiple personal texts to former BBMC member Aubrey Synnefo in Mason's phone, Irish warned and threatened him, and left with his phone. Afterward, Allie filled in Wade Wilson, who beat up Mason for saying Allie had set him up (which if true would be punishable by death).
After Irish sent snapshots to Allie and Wade of Mason's month-old texts to Aubrey about the BBMC, Wade met him on the Yard (the ADMC's turf) to de-escalate the situation. Irish promised to return Mason's phone. Afterward, Wade put a hold on Raiders MC members socializing with the ADMC. Lane woke up and agreed with Wade to not retaliate.
In a heartbreaking conversation with Lane on January 29, 2024, Mason's sister Allie left the Raiders MC. She said she felt like she didn't fit into their group dynamic and didn't have the trust of the club (particularly from her own brother Mason, Rue Day, and to a lesser extent Wade). Allie said that she only felt loyal to Lane (her lifelong best friend of two decades) and not to the rest of the club. Afterward, a devastated and disappointed Lane announced Allie's decision to leave to the Raiders MC. As a founder of the club, Allie was allowed to walk away without being blooded out (to Rue's chagrin). However with Allie no longer under the Raiders MC's official protection and about half of the club (Rue and Maxx) angry with her, Lane (who still cared about her) began probing for who would be there for Allie if she ever needed help. She concluded from ADMC Patched Member Shang Liu's hesitant answers that he didn't know her well enough. Both Mason and Wade affirmed their loyalty to Allie, though both Lane and Wade agreed that Allie would lose her founder status if she ever came back.
In the weeks following Allie's departure, the Raiders MC members refused to forgive Mason for accusing her of setting him up. On February 17, 2024 in an impromptu Raiders MC chapter, Lane put forward Patched Member Maxx McAllister's name for a majority vote to promote her to the Road Captain position that Mason had been trying to earn back. Caught off guard, he declined to say anything when Lane went in a circle getting each club member's opinion prior to the voting. The Raiders MC voted 3-1 to promote Maxx to Road Captain with Mason being the only nay vote. As soon as Lane closed the chapter, he walked away before she had finished talking. Devastated that everything he had been working for was now taken from him, Mason told Lane that he wished she'd talked to him first given how hard he had been working to earn that Road Captain position back. Lane explained to him that it wasn't "his position", that they weren't holding it for him, that he wasn't entitled to anything, and that she still distrusted him over the Allie incident. In a denial of Lane's take that his nay vote proved he only wanted the position for himself rather than what's best for the club, Mason claimed that he had only voted nay because he had instead wanted Maxx in High Command as a Sergeant At Arms. Mason later confessed to Maxx that she deserved to be Road Captain, and that he had been petty over not getting a heads-up conversation beforehand.
First Heat Pawn Runs
On March 11, 2024, the Raiders MC turned in 1000 jewelry into the Pawnshop for their first-ever High Risk (tier 2) pawn run. After Wade Wilson lockpicked the unguarded pawn car (a Bravado) with an intermittent tracker on it, he struggled to drive it to five guarded pickup spots (Sandy Shores Airfield hangar, Grapeseed fish market, Del Perro Pier, the orange Observatory ball, and industrial area Ammu-Nation) with Lane in the passenger seat phoning orders and periodically repairing the car. A local occasionally shot at the pawn car. Mason and Thomas Aoki drove to each pickup spot ahead of time to shoot down its three local guards with hunting rifles. Wally West drove passenger Rue Day (who gave police callouts) in a stolen backup car and drew away two police cars in Del Perro. Although Officer Matt Dark-Rhodes began chasing the pawn car, Wade lost him in a sandstorm. Mason and Tom used up their rifle ammo at the orange Observatory ball, so they had to run over the local guards at the final pickup spot at the industrial area Ammu-Nation. The whole Raiders MC convoy headed to the lumber yard docks, where Wade and Lane rode a motorboat to an island and dropped off the goods for a payout of $10,000 in rolled cash.
On March 13, 2024, the Raiders MC turned in 1500 jewelry into the Pawnshop for their first-ever Hot Run (tier 3). Mason and Wally shot down the local armed guards at the pawn car. Wade lockpicked the pawn car (a Growler), activating a 15-minute tracker. He drove it with Lane as the passenger. Rue refueled the pawn car. Wade and Lane wandered the night-shrouded countryside while the crew scouted for police. Once the tracker timed out, Wade dropped off the goods for nearly $21,000 in rolled cash. No police responded. Lane commented that this hot pawn run was way easier than their medium pawn run.
First Laundromat Heist (The "Shell Game" Plan)
On April 23, 2024 for the Raiders MC's first-ever laundromat heist, six of them all dressed the same in white suits with identical bull masks for a "shell game" plan. Lane cut the generator power, alphabet-hacked the inside power box to disable the power, and broke washing machines and dryers with Wade for coins. Wade Wilson stole the USB and successfully lockpick-hacked the safe open for banded cash. Rue Day held Rod Raige hostage and negotiated with Snr. Officer Flop Dugong. During the ensuing police chase, Wade drove Lane and Rue in a red Draugur to the red garage where Mason, Dax Marshall, and Wally West were waiting with two other stolen Draugurs: one blue and one white.
All six of the Raiders MC crew shuffled around each other, and split up evenly into the three colored cars (two of the cars being decoys with no loot). Cadet Crocodile Steve (with Snr. Officer Cletus Cornwood as his passenger) and Snr. Officer Ellis Pinzon chased the blue Draugur driven by Wally West with Rue as his passenger. Officer Alexis Onfire chased the correct swap car with all of the loot, the white Draugur driven by Wade with Lane as his passenger, but broke off to help Pinzon chase the blue Draugur. No police chased Mason (with Dax as his passenger) in the red Draugur, so he drove interference for Wally. Wally eventually lost all the police in a wild chase. The Raiders MC exchanged 10,987 coins for about $2746 in banded cash.
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