The Tops

The Tops is a group of people who live together on a roof in Los Santos.
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==General Information==
The Tops is a group of people that live on the rooftop behind Up-n-Atom. The group acts as a friendly commune, offering anyone a place to live or a home away from home.
==Group History==
Origin
The rooftop that is located beside Up-N-Atom on Vinewood Blvd, that is now referred as "The Tops" was originally dubbed "Burner's Place" by Bennett Burner as this was where he decided to set a sleeping bag and rest his head. As time went on, some of their close friends decided to join them, setting sleeping bags of their own up on the rooftop, these people being Rosemary Walsh, Yarp (Mike Legstrong), and Yogi Swole. Others did spend some time up on the rooftop as part time residents, however eventually moving on.
The rooftop would soon become a place that the residents would use not just as a place to rest their heads, but as a hub for hanging out, meetings, and other recreational activities. 
Due to Burner being the CEO of the Pet Detective Agency he used the location to hold business meetings for the Pet Detectives. One such meeting involved them, Yarp, and Yogi Swole, talking about a case that Yarp had potentially found in the shape of Josiah Dunn, who was looking for his son Robbie. This then led to a series of events that involved Yogi pretending to be Josiah's son, Yogi then being afraid that Josiah would find out about the lie, an attempt on Josiah's life by Yarp, and Josiah loosing memories then slowly reclaiming them. All of which ended with circling back up to the rooftop to where Josiah waited for Burner to go to sleep to interrogate them at knifepoint about the fragments of memory he had regained. This altercation ended with Burner revealing to Josiah that it was in fact Yarp that went rogue and attacked him, with this revelation Josiah put his knife away and beat Burner and left them on the rooftop.
During the incidents between Burner, Yogi, Yarp and Josiah, two others began to make the rooftop more of a regular home, these being Carl Wheezer and Beavis Johnson. Carl deciding to claim the large out crop of the building as his "Hobo Mansion", and Beavis claiming his resting spot on top of one of the large HVAC units on the roof as he needs to sleep with a fan on. 
Some time later, after apologies made by Burner, and Yogi through the supervision of Burner's auntie and Yogi's mother, Wombat Stewart, Josiah began slowly speaking to the two of them and started to be around the other Burner's Place residents, although still not making amends with Yarp. Josiah even went as far as placing a sleeping bag on the rooftop next to Burner's Place, to which Burner even got him a potted plant as a roof warming gift. Not long after Josiah decided to move over to the other rooftop with the others, and becoming a permanent resident. 
With the fact that the rooftop was becoming more populated with other people Burner decided to stop referring the rooftop as "Burner's Place" and decided to make the area more of a commune, where everyone can find a place to belong, and invite others to the rooftop that either don't have a home or not wanting to live in a "concrete cage", and thus started referring to the rooftop as "The Rooftop Commune" when talking to people about it. 
When attending a Ren Faire event Josiah, Burner, Rosemary and Yogi all "rescued" a Goat and a Chicken, placed them in the back of Burner's van and took the animals back to the rooftop. Between the 4 of them they created a pulley system, and raised the goat up onto the roof and built a pen for the both of them. Josiah named the goat Donzi, as this was the name of his son's favourite monster truck driver, and Rosemary named the chicken Eggy.
After weeks of small chats, Josiah decided to speak to Burner and Yogi about the state of the commune, during this conversation they came to the decision that to prosper as a commune, and also not be turfed out by law enforcement due to legislation against trespassing, they would need to figure out some kind of way to make the rooftop legally their home. Josiah brought up the idea that the commune would need to have an actual name and some form of identity so people could look at something at a glance and know it is the rooftop commune. After a lengthy conversation, trying to make sure they didn't name the rooftop anything that sounded either too grand, or too much like a gang name, the 3 came up with the name "The Tops" for the rooftop, a name that describes the fact they are on a rooftop, they are great and its fun and easy to remember. Thus The Tops was born.
==Trivia==
* Three pets also call the rooftop their home: Donzi the goat, Eggy the chicken, and Andy the ant. Donzi and Eggy were taken from Bobby Lynn King's Renaissance Faire, and Andy was found in the haybales at the Grapeseed Courthouse.
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