The Stable/3.0

The Stable was a shadow crime organization from May 2021 to December 2021 formed by Mick Flair, Richard Chiclets, Nancy Drew, and Thomas Dwayne (the four original "Stable Heads"). The name was themed after equine nomenclature with a double entendre referring to professional wrestling. The group was characterized by criminals who excelled at improv and were more lighthearted than some criminal gangs, but still boasted competence in networking, intelligence, and job execution.
The Stable specialized in bank heists, meth trafficking, confidence games, and puzzle solving. They utilized violence in Los Santos only when necessary for defensive, protective, or justice-seeking purposes. The group managed to operate in the shadows for several months until the police eventually became aware of their existence through various breadcrumbs and investigations. Sexton Hardcastle, in particular, had investigated the group from June 2021 to November 2021. When the police finally closed in on the group in November 2021, The Stable attempted to run the last of their meth out of the country with Hardcastle in hot pursuit.
The Stable operated differently from other organizations. Its leadership was tiered (Stable Leader, Stable Heads, Stable Hands, and Crimterns) akin to other organizations, but instead of the Stable Hands only funneling resources up to the leaders, the leaders also served information, materials, and opportunities down to the Stable Hands to help them grow individually, as well as within the group. The Stable was also supported by a variety of associates and informants throughout the city.
Mick Flair led the overall criminal direction, made large scale final decisions, and set basic rules and structure with input from the other Stable Heads. When Mick left the city, Dick Chiclets took over the primary day to day leadership. When Nancy Drew left The Stable and Dick stepped down, Thomas Dwayne took over the leadership position.
Although The Stable thrived when they were united toward a common purpose such as big heists, the logistics of four leaders often led to identity issues, communication failures, and meetings that went on for too long. Some dissenters found The Stable too secretive and wanted their name and membership to be more public. Other dissenters wanted to wage war and make impulsive decisions regardless of the backlash on the entire group. Ultimately, the internal conflicts became irreconcilable and the group parted ways to pursue their own personal ambitions.
==Origin==
On April 17, 2021, Deputy Mayor Thomas Dwayne met with members of The Syndicate: Dick Chiclets, Nancy Drew, Mick Flair, and Virgil Simpson at Vinewood Racetrack after they had finished running a wildly successful racing event there for the first time. Thomas informed them that Mayor Andi Jones had approved their company, 4EQ, as a business that could now own the deed to Vinewood Racetrack. 4EQ is shortened from "The Four Equestrians", a name inspired by one of the most famous professional wrestling stables in history: "The Four Horsemen".
On May 27, 2021, Mick Flair conceived the idea to create a new criminal organization called "The Stable" to complement 4EQ's legal activities. Mick, Dick Chiclets, Nancy Drew, and Thomas Dwayne led the group as its four "Stable Heads". On June 1, 2021 in exchange for a human leg bone, Robert Locksley introduced Nancy and Mick to a public meth lab--sparking the beginning of The Stable's meth empire. On June 7, 2021, The Stable bought a warehouse (nicknamed "The Barn") under the name of Thomas' CEO and friend, Bunny, who stayed clean while the group ran illegal activities to pay it off. The Stable Heads managed various "Stable Hands" to help fund the organization, including Xavier Valentine, Kirk Jerkems, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Byrne, and Rocky Topps. The Stable granted them and Nancy access to storage units nicknamed "The Stalls".
In the early days of The Stable, Mick led The Stable's bank heists as the group's primary hacker, while Dick continued to practice as the group's primary getaway driver. Nancy focused on networking, and Thomas focused on meth distribution. Kirk cooked The Stable's secondary meth strain, rhinoceros, while Mick cooked The Stable's primary meth strain, jay. Rocky supervised Xavier and Lizzie, both of whom received practice laptop access from The Stable and gradually blossomed into talented hackers.
The Stable were also long-time allies with the Bondi Boys MC due to Mick's friendship with his half-brother Barry Benson, Nancy's friendship with Collin McKinley and Pez Speedwagon, Kirk's friendship with Wolfe McCreedy, and Dick's friendship with Jordan Lee.
In contrast to the BBMC, The Stable did not believe in shooting at police. Instead, The Stable actively befriended police officers, and liked to charm their arresting officers with laughable tall tales about their "innocence" and "reform" to reduce their charges. The Stable also avoided HUT crimes that could jail them for the 9's. Both of these principles had to evolve once The Stable ramped up their meth drug trafficking, a HUT offense at the time.
Sexton Hardcastle and Jeffrey Bundy were the two main antagonists of The Stable, having both responded in person to 4EQ's first Vault Tec heist. Hardcastle was the first police officer that The Stable ever sanctioned a mag dump on, to warn him against investigating their meth dealings. Bundy was the first police officer that Mick ever shot at, during The Stable's first heist of Bobcat Security. Bundy was also the first police officer that Dick, Thomas, and Kirk ever shot, when they gunned him down during The Stable's first armored car meth run. Hardcastle, Bundy, and the SCU later worked together to take down The Stable's meth trafficking empire.
==Membership History==
Mick's Stable Roster
Primary Stable Leader: Mick Flair
Stable Heads: Mick Flair, Richard Chiclets, Thomas Dwayne, Nancy Drew
Senior Stable Hand: Rocky Topps
Stable Hands: Xavier Valentine, Elizabeth Byrne, Jaxxon Jones, Anastasia Romanov, Kirk Jerkems, Smooth Williams, Abner Vaca, Thom Yung
Clean Face: Sabith Cohen
Crimtern: Marie Ortiz
Honorary Branded Member: Pez Speedwagon
Dick's Stable Roster
Primary Stable Leader: Richard Chiclets
Stable Heads: Richard Chiclets, Thomas Dwayne, Nancy Drew
Senior Stable Hands: Kirk Jerkems, Rocky Topps
Stable Hands: Smooth Williams, Xavier Valentine, Abner Vaca, Thom Yung, Marie Ortiz
Clean Face: Sabith Cohen
Crimtern: Felix Volk
Honorary Branded Member: Pez Speedwagon
Thomas' Stable Roster
Primary Stable Leader: Thomas Dwayne
Second-in-commands: Richard Chiclets (Street Underboss), Sabith Cohen (Business Underboss)
Stable Heads: Kirk Jerkems, Xavier Valentine, Marie Ortiz, Rocky Topps
Enforcer: Abner Vaca
Crimtern: Felix Volk (chose not to join the group)
Honorary Branded Member: Pez Speedwagon
Current Stable Roster
Stable Head: Mick Flair
Hangarounds and Potential Stable Hands
* Astrid Sylmare - Permanent "Hangaround/Stable Hand status" due to not being in city often enough to fully pursue a serious position.
* Sarah Ableton - Long term friend of Thomas Dwayne
* Leah Winthers - Long term friend of Thomas Dwayne
* Alex "Lil Cap" Söderberg - Business partner of Richard Chiclets and a friend of some Stable Hands
Former Stable Members
* Elizabeth Byrne - Her chaotic and self-destructive nature was too much for the group. Thomas let her know that someday the door might be open for her to return in the future, but for the time being she needed to go do what made her happy without having the anchor of a group. Members of the group were discouraged from socializing with her because of all of the police heat she attracted. Eight months after her departure from The Stable and four months after the group had disbanded, Lizzie took part in The Stable's big reunion.
* Jaxxon Jones - Kept making unilateral decisions, and cooked meth outside of the group. Finally kicked out when he had Abner corner meth in Mirror Park, angering the HOA and the Stable Heads.
* Anastasia Romanov - Was kicked out of the group, there was no notice or conversation made as to reasoning for why this happened
* Smooth Williams - Quit the organization due to values that did not align between Smooth and the leaders.
* Thom Yung - Stepped away on good terms from The Stable due to not wanting to do crime as much anymore and being awake in different time zones. Eventually joined the HOA.
* Nancy Drew - Resigned due to feeling undervalued and underappreciated. Left on good terms and still wanted to work with the group, just not as a part of the group anymore.
* Kirk Jerkems - Left on good terms to prevent his personal actions from causing any further backlash to the group.
==Assets==
The Stable owned a few buildings and properties around the city.
===The Barn===
The Stable's headquarters was called The Barn, a warehouse owned by their clean face Bunny and decorated inside by Pixie Plum. Stable members periodically gave cuts of their jobs to The Barn, stashing their contributions as cash (stored in briefcases) or dirty money inside the warehouse. The Stable Heads spent this Barn money on shared group costs such as properties, storage units, bank jobs, and paint thinner. Given that The Barn was right next to the HOA's warehouse, The Stable and HOA had a friendly neighborly relationship. The Barn got burnt by police in November 2021, and bought out by the legal business Plan Bee.
===The Stalls===
Starting in July 5th, 2021, the Stable Hands had access to their own storage unit rental, which was codenamed The Stalls. The Stable Heads eventually grew concerned that the The Stalls were located at an oxy spot. As a precaution against the storage unit being burnt by police investigations, Mick rented a new storage unit for The Stalls at Vespucci Beach.
===The Office===
Starting in the week of July 26th, 2021, The Stable owned the Maison Ricard office building on Legion Square. The building was used for Stable Head meetings, Dick's Down Bad Records business, and a fine dining restaurant named Maison Ricard. Dick sold this office property on February 16, 2022, and immediately purchased a foreclosed mansion as the new home for Down Bad Records.
===Vinewood Racetrack===
The Stable owned Vinewood Racetrack, and originally treated it as home turf for their meetings. During the summer of 2021, a stationary construction worker named Oscar began standing there asking for $100,000. Oscar would go on to ruin Nancy Drew's life and pit The Stable against Cerberus.
Legitimate and/or Shell Companies
The Stable formed at least two shell companies in the past. The first was 4EQ, which owns the Vinewood Racetrack behind the Diamond Casino and Resort. Although most of 4EQ's operations are legally legitimate, it was used on a few occasions to hide funds contained via criminal escapades.
Mick, Dick, Nancy, and Virgil Simpson were also behind a scheme based around an "out of state" company called Vault Tec, who sent contract worker to the banks of Los Santos for "penetration testing and security upgrades" which acted as a cover for bank heists. The crew put significant effort into falsifying records, even going so far as to build a company website and prepare testimonial videos from out of state "executives" that they could present to the PD, allowing them to walk away freely with the contents of bank vaults without police incident. At the height of their scheme they successfully arranged a police escort who accompanied them to the bank and remained there as guards during the heist until finally escorting them away to a nearby airfield for their escape. The scheme was abandoned after an unsuccessful investigation by LSPD Officer Sexton Hardcastle, Officer Jeffrey Bundy, and the Major Crimes Division.
In the week of July 26th, 2021, The Stable bought the "Maison Ricard" office building on Legion Square. Dick started two new businesses inside the office: the Down Bad Records label and an upscale restaurant called Maison Ricard (French for "House of Richard"), each with varying degrees of legitimacy and criminal benefits. Maison Ricard in particular offers Los Santos' elite an upscale restaurant experience, featuring master chef prepared courses, wine and dessert options, and live music, all in a cozy and exclusive private dining area. Stable members often rallied together to make each Maison Ricard dinner experience as fine as possible. During each dinner, a local artist would play background music and a private concert, and the Stable employees would obsessively read the room (often over two-way radios) to ensure the best possible ambiance and waiter decorum for their high-paying customers. One time when the Block Gang dared to ruin Mayor Abdul AlRahim's dinner at the restaurant, The Stable responded by blowing them up with C4. Exasperated by the lack of soundproofing from the constant noise of sirens, Dick finally sold the Maison Ricard office property for $208,000 on February 16, 2022, and immediately purchased a foreclosed mansion as the new home for Down Bad Records.
The Stable also ran a mobile taco truck business (Charros de Caballeros) which served tacos and burritos to all Los Santos residents and visitors. The stand was a legitimate business, having operated in various locations across town and receiving an invitation to cater at a National Paintball Association competition, but it was also a front for the organization's meth distribution activities.
==Special Assignments==
Each member was given a special set of duties and responsibilities by the leadership, as named below.
Name 	Primary Duty 	Secondary Duty
Thomas	Stable Leader and Primary Organizer	Thermite Hacker
Dick 	Getaway Driver 	
Mick 	Hacker 	Meth Cook
Nancy 	Networker 	Safecracker
Bunny 	Business 	
Xavier	Boosting, Meth & Weed Sales 	Hacker
Marie 	Escape Plan Playbook 	Weed
Kirk 	Meth Cook 	Meth Sales
Abner 	Enforcer 	
Rocky 	Emotional Janitor 	
==Colors==
The Stable originally adopted red and black as its organization colors. However, on August 25th, 2021, the group decided to de-emphasize having group colors so as not to be mistaken for Brouge Street Kingz. The group decided instead on a "vibe" rather than a color scheme, best described as "I do cocaine" or "Miami Vice." In general, members were allowed to wear whatever they wish, and could generally be found in any attire.
==Initiation==
After passing a trial period and proving themselves worthy, a crimtern could either be branded with The Stable logo on a body part of their choice, or receive a tattoo.
==The Crimes of The Stable==
The Stable primarily specialized in bank heists. The group robbed bank trucks, 24/7 convenience stores, the jewelry store, Fleeca banks, the Paleto bank, the City Vault, and Bobcat Security. The group also regularly ran oxy and weed, boosted cars, and sometimes chopped cars. Eventually, The Stable built a meth empire and got into armored car heists to run wholesale meth pillows.
Standard Operating Procedures
On August 2nd, 2021, Mick, Dick, Thomas, Rocky, Xavier, Smooth Williams, and Kirk met at the office for the purpose of finalizing standard operating procedures (SOPs). The following resulting general rules that were decided:
* If it's a big job (defined as banks, meth, or weed), then if the job is successful, one equal cut of the profit goes to each Stable member and one equal cut goes to the Barn. Profit is defined as money left after all expenses for the job, including fines. If a big job is unsuccessful, nobody's fine is paid. If a Stable member does a big job with another crew, it is strongly encouraged to contribute a percentage of any personal profits back to the Barn, and such external contributions will be observed and appreciated by the Stable leaders.
* If it's a small job, the Stable does not ask for any percentages for the Barn.
* The Stable will not sell merchandise originating from other crews.
* Everybody is responsible for cleaning the Stable's funds, not just their own. Money cleaning accounting will be kept for each operation. The Stalls must be organized.
Other SOPs were job-dependent due to the complexities of each market.
On September 22nd, 2021, the four Stable Heads (Mick, Dick, Nancy, and Thomas) met at Maison Ricard to discuss recent happenings and make a few general decisions for The Stable. Smooth also attended the meeting for a while to give some job updates.
* Mick announced that due to legal issues, he changed his name and will now be known as Mick Jhonson, the People's Champion.
* A drug ledger will be created to track the generation and distribution of product in much higher detail.
* It was recognized that improvements in The Stable's muscle must be made so that it will never again be assumed that the crew will simply roll over for anyone.
* The Stable will continue to focus on running and elevating legal businesses to better utilize its real estate and other properties.
* Moving forward, Dick will take The Stable's primary leadership position (having final say in decisions), and Mick will be second-in-command.
On November 27th, 2021, a major restructuring of The Stable began as a result of Nancy Drew amicably leaving the group and Dick Chiclets stepping down as leader. This restructuring placed Thomas Dwayne as the single leader of the organization with Dick as the Street Underboss and Bunny as the Business Underboss. More structured rules were implemented, while other past rules were reinforced. Some of these included organization dues, a weekly Stable robbery (likely a Paleto) performed pro bono by all members to bring in funds to the Barn, special assignments for each member, and a weekly social event.
===Bank Heists===
Mick Flair led The Stable's bank heists as the group's primary vault and thermite hacker, with Dick Chiclets as the getaway driver and Stable Hands Xavier Valentine and Elizabeth Byrne as the secondary hackers. When Mick left the city, his son Xavier took over as the primary vault hacker and Thomas Dwayne took over as the primary thermite hacker.
The Stable had a running meme where their bank heists kept going laughably awry. In their first City Vault heist, the hostage takers got in a wild police chase before the job even started. In the second City Vault heist, their getaway car stalled after a couple of turns and the police immediately boxed them in. The Stable also lost all of their gold dongles and laptop access due to a change in the bank system. In the third City Vault heist, a rival bank crew gunned down their getaway driver Dick (forcing them to lock pick their own getaway car) and shot out their tire during the police chase. Accomplice Marie rammed a police car off the dock and picked up Kirk with a handcuffed police officer still standing on her windshield. In the fourth City Vault heist, the police chased The Stable to the bank after a motorcycle exploded their only hostage (forcing their lookout Rocky to grab a new hostage by the ATM). After the police almost breached them, they all escaped capture when Dick accidentally ocean dumped their getaway car by the docks.
===Meth Empire===
The Stable's primary source of income was meth trafficking, particularly during a long stretch of months in 2021 when The Stable laid off banks because the Fleeca Banks were protected by a power grid that required a lot of thermite to science.
Meth Operation - Cuts and Math
Meth Sales - 96 Baggies - 0 Rep - 100% Meth
32baggies@$350 = 11200 
32baggies@$450 = 14400 
32baggies@$550 = 17600 
= 43200 Total
22611 Expenses
52.34% Cut to barn.
This example assumes you start at 0 rep and get to ~550 at the end of 96 bags/3 pillows.
Meth Sales - 96 Baggies - Max Rep - 100% Meth
96baggies@$650 = 62400 
= 62400 Total 
22611 Expenses
36.23% Cut to barn.
This example assumes you start at max rep in an area. 
These 2 simple examples show as rep grows the % cut to barn for expenses falls as rep grows meaning slingers get more money the more consistently they both sell and help cook to keep supplies up. 
22611 Expenses Explained
4611 Thinner
8000 To cooks 2000 each
10000 For barn profit
Barn Profit is to be used to keep a minimum amount of cash on hand which is 100k to start with.
Barn profit is to be used to pay for Asset fees for the Warehouse and weekly payment for the Storage locker. (**Numbers might be off** 16k Warehouse Asset fees every two weeks and 11k each week for locker.)
Barn profit is to be used to pay for DBR Office/Maison Ricard/Smooths' Cigar Lounge if there has been no reservations for the week. (**Numbers might be off** 12k A week loan repayment on the Office/Restaurant/Lounge.)
Barn profit is to be used to keep weapons and ammo on and for hands and heads. A rough order of 5 Class 1s and 2-3 Class 2s each week is to be purchased (**Numbers might be off** ~16k@2k per gun)
Barn profit is to be used to payout each hand(and head?) a small percentage of the earnings each week. 2% Per Hand. As an example if the Barn has made 100k after expenses in a week each Hand has earned 2k passive income.
Authors Note: Some numbers might be slightly off due to human error. Please correct if needed. Will update when the new flat price of ~8k per pillow before going to sell is implemented and working.
As the group's primary meth cook, Mick perfected a 100% meth recipe for 21-jay that both The Stable and the BBMC initially cornered in the same territory. Occasionally, The Stable and the BBMC violently feuded with the Marabunta Grande over meth sales on their turf. Also, due to an armed warning from Lost MC member Wade Wilson against cornering meth in Sandy Shores, Kirk Jerkems hilariously texted: "MASS TEXT FOR THE STABLE HEADS ROCKY AND SMOOTH...STAY OUT OF SANDY WITH METH!!!...i have a good spot to sling down south in the industrial districts by bobcat security it seemed uncontested...". Upon hearing that police could subpoena text messages, Kirk texted the following correction: "I meant seth don't take seth to sandy".
At one point during a dispute with Mando Thompson over a public meth lab and the Cerberus Arena territory, the Ballas vandalized Nancy's corvette resulting in her reluctantly admitting her crew's meth dealings to Lang Buddha and Harry Brown. Some time later, Harry called Nancy asking to pay any price for four of their meth pillows, saying that the strain and quality did not matter. Nancy correctly suspected that this was for the wholesale meth export that The Stable was trying to figure out.
The Stable's meth drug trafficking finally escalated to the point where they began shooting police for the first time. Once Sexton Hardcastle began investigating them for drug trafficking (a HUT offense at the time)--arresting their meth distributors like Smooth Williams and a BBMC cornerer--Thomas Dwayne had Abner Vaca send Hardcastle a message by mag dumping him in his undercover car at a meth dealing spot. The Stable also gunned down Jeffrey Bundy when he responded to their first armored car meth run. Hardcastle, Bundy, and the Street Crimes Unit finally closed in on The Stable's meth empire in November of 2021--uncovering "The Stable" name, suspecting LSPD Sgt. Dante Wolf (Nancy's boyfriend) of being a mole for them, and watching the warehouse that The Stable was secretly stockpiling meth in (Det. Hardcastle and sometimes Lily Pond secretly camped outside of The Barn for eight hours and one whole morning). Bundy was unable to decipher Kirk Jerkems' "9 more firecrackers" text to Nancy Drew and the Stable Heads--the text was actually a meth pillow countdown to The Stable's final meth run.
The police's final chance to take down The Stable concluded with a thrilling armored car chase on November 12, 2021. With Bundy busy investigating whether Nancy and/or The Stable had tried to ocean dump Dante to keep him quiet, The Stable was busy guarding an armored Landstalker in a three-car convoy to run the last of their meth out of the country. Hardcastle, Air-1, and a tidal wave of police cars intercepted the convoy on Los Santos freeway at Grapeseed--but in the resulting chaos of comm confusion, bumper cars, and gunfighting, The Stable's armored car escaped and the group never faced justice for their meth crimes (except for meth cook Kirk and Abner Vaca).
==Relationships with Other Factions==
🇦🇺 Bondi Boys MC
The Stable and the BBMC grew up in the city together, and were close allies for several months. Stable founder Mick Flair often hacked for the BBMC after his half-brother Barry Benson lent Mick his first practice laptop. Nancy Drew had long-time friendships with Collin McKinley and Pez Speedwagon (an honorary branded member of The Stable); Kirk Jerkems was one of Wolfe McCreedy's oldest friends in the city, and Dick Chiclets was friends with Jordan Lee. The Stable supplied meth to the BBMC, and the two groups exchanged notes over their common enemy in the meth game Marabunta Grande.
The Stable's meth partnership with the BBMC waned once Jordan began cooking his own meth strain under new mentor Reggie Might. The Stable grew excited about a joint heist with the BBMC when Nancy Drew negotiated a 50/50 deal with Irwin Dundee to science the big meth run together. However to The Stable's disappointment, Dundee pulled out because of Reggie's warning that the wholesale payout for such a dangerous heist wasn't worth risking the 9's and the huge fines. Jordan conveyed Reggie's information and Dundee's decision to Stable leader Dick. Despite Jordan getting some very crucial details about the armored car meth heist wrong, The Stable managed to complete the big meth run successfully.
Reggie later told the BBMC that he and the Vagos had caught a crew named The Stable (Abner Vaca and Xavier Valentine) with bystander Alex "Lil Cap" Söderberg in a public meth lab, and that Abner had name-dropped the BBMC as an ally of The Stable who could vouch for them. Despite the two groups' long history together, Dundee shrugged that it was time to hunt The Stable. The rest of the BBMC became uncomfortable, with Pez Speedwagon giving a heads-up to Nancy Drew and Wolfe McCreedy giving a heads-up to Kirk Jerkems. However, when Nancy phoned Pez and Dick Chiclets met with Jordan Lee probing into the situation, the BBMC misinterpreted their concern to mean that Wolfe had likely "snitched" to Kirk that Dundee wanted to hunt them. Dick finally placated the BBMC by gunning down Abner in front of their high command, but he and Nancy concluded that they couldn't trust the BBMC anymore--especially once they figured out that the BBMC had indeed discussed hunting The Stable (because of how Collin McKinley and Jordan kept slipping up during their inquiries about who the leak was). Once The Stable found out from Kirk that the BBMC blooded Wolfe out of the club (because he had refused to lure in and torture Kirk), that marked when The Stable began referring to the BBMC as a "cult". In a patch meeting when Jordan reported Dick's intel on big meth runs, Dundee sharply rebuked Jordan to never talk to The Stable again.
💀 Marabunta Grande
Over the course of several months, The Stable periodically warred with Marabunta Grande over The Stable's meth sales on their turf, Fudge Lane. Both sides found the feud frustrating because of how little they knew about each others' members. The Stable closely guarded their membership and were hard to identify, MG leader Sergio Lopez kept forgetting everyone except for Dick Chiclets, and the MG often lurked out of plain sight in rented or stolen cars. Also due to their opposite time zones, The Stable often joked about how the MG would hibernate in their Fudge Lane house for weeks at a time, and that they'd "see them again in another month".
The feud first began when Sergio held up Dick during his meth cornering on Fudge Lane. He caged Dick in his house and made him smoke his own meth. Sergio then dumped Dick's car, and waited for him to reclaim it so he could ambush The Stable again. The trap failed and Dick, Xavier Valentine, and Kirk Jerkems kidnapped Sergio. After several unsuccessful attempts to blow up Sergio at a gas station, Dick finally rammed his car into the pump to successfully blow Sergio up.
To deter The Stable from continuously cornering their meth on Fudge Lane, the Marabunta Grande kidnapped Thomas Dwayne and shot out his eye, robbed Thomas, Xavier, and Dick of their meth and cash, and gunned down both Mick Flair and Dick. Smooth Williams and Mick reached out to broker a deal for MG to buy and sell The Stable's meth on Fudge Lane, but Sergio distrusted The Stable and was not interested in allying with any other gangs.
Some time after The Stable successfully robbed guns and C4 from Bobcat Security, Thomas spotted the Marabunta Grande on Fudge Lane. The Stable fiendishly decided to test one of their sticky bombs on them. As Dick's C4 throw overshot the car that MG was shooting from, Smooth managed to gun down Sergio before getting shot down. The MG fled as Thomas and Xavier provided cover fire for Dick and Smooth. Later, Dick casually admitted to MG's ambassador Chuey Salamanca over the phone that The Stable had indeed tossed the C4 at them. Incredulous that Dick had downplayed the sticky bomb as if he had "thrown an egg at their house" and shocked that Smooth had been a part of it, Chuey theorized to Sergio that The Stable must be rich and bored.
The Marabunta Grande finally got revenge during their war with the Bondi Boys MC. Mistaking Dick for a BBMC motorcyclist, they gunned him down and kidnapped him. Sergio looked at Dick's incoming call to get his "fianca" Marie Ortiz's phone number, and used Dick to bait Marie to the airport. After several unsuccessful attempts to light Marie on fire in front of Dick, the MG finally started a gas-fueled inferno that burned half of her face. The Stable sent a kill squad that included Thomas, Xavier, and Jaxxon Jones to Fudge Lane, but eventually gave up trying to find MG.
Mick and Dick finally negotiated a truce with Sergio and Azul on the property outside of The Barn. Since then, Dick's various negotiations with Sergio for a meth deal never got off the ground.
🐗 HOA
The Stable had a friendly neighborly relationship with Siz Fulker and the HOA because of how the two groups' warehouses were right next to each other (sometimes even scuffing into each other's warehouse by accident). Unbeknownst to The Stable, Jesus Antonio Lopez Contreras was the one who outed "The Stable" name to the police when he risked an inept false flag scheme to save the HOA warehouse from a police raid. Pretending to be Stable, Jesus kidnapped Jeffrey Bundy, asked why the police had locked up The Stable's warehouse, and gunned him down. To Bundy's delight, Judge Alan Crane subsequently approved a raid of the locked up HOA warehouse. Bundy seized over 40 meth pillows from the it, and the HOA subsequently lost their warehouse.
Generally, the HOA liked everyone in The Stable except for serial mugger Abner Vaca. When the HOA caught Abner cornering meth in Mirror Park, The Stable kicked out Jaxxon Jones for sanctioning it. When the HOA caught Abner and Kirk Jerkems for impersonating police officers and robbing an HOB member with Chatterbox, Siz threatened war with The Stable unless they paid the HOA 15,000 recycled materials. High Command Andi Jones created a spreadsheet of Stable members in preparation of the coming war. However--to the pleasant surprise of her and Siz--The Stable actually paid them before the deadline (Kirk had guilted his Stable friends into grinding the mats).
☀️ Vagos
One of The Stable's biggest regrets was teaching the Vagos how to cook meth. Although Mick Flair and Carlos Loco looked out for each during their public meth lab cooks, the Vagos began monopolizing the public labs (even after their Jefe Speedy had obtained a private lab for them). Also to The Stable's chagrin on a couple of occasions, the Vagos still robbed their members at oxy spots and the fence. The final indignation was when Reggie Might confronted Abner Vaca, Xavier Valentine, and Alex "Lil Cap" Söderberg inside of a public meth lab, didn't recognize The Stable name, claimed they had no right to use it, robbed their science cook, downed them, and poisoned the long-time alliance between The Stable and the BBMC.
Pablo Loco was The Stable's best customer at their fine dining establishment, Maison Ricard. They began using Pablo as a thermite and weapons connect after The Stable was betrayed by Flippy and Claire Seducer.
🇬🇧 The Mandem
The Stable and Mandem have never actually met. The Stable once thought (mistakenly) that The Mandem had tried to steal a City Vault from them on December 14, 2021. A rival heist crew of Ivan, Dwayne "Wiked" Flores, and Yair had failed to breach The Stable's bank, with Ivan gunning down Dick Chiclets and Kirk Jerkems gunning down Wiked. Although Thomas Dwayne found a MandeM chain on Wiked, he eventually figured out several days later that it wasn't actually a Mandem crew who had breached. Sabith Cohen and Jeffy Coldiron did discuss the incident with NBC.
🐉 Chang Gang
Chang Gang arguably embodied everything that The Stable hated most about gangs in Los Santos. Their earliest memory was losing a Paleto Bank to them. Afterward, the groups didn't cross paths for several months until Chang Gang and Francis J Francer stole their Fleeca Bank from them on November 20, 2021. The gunfire led the police to breach and down all of Chang Gang, and The Stable lost a fortune in wasted electrical box thermite. Afterward, Flippy goaded some of them into a firefight and they lost him as their thermite connect. The day led to a deep rift between and Stable leader Dick Chiclets and Senior Stable Hand Kirk Jerkems, who felt that the group should always be armed for war even during bank heists.
Diamond Casino Hotel employees Kirk and Abner Vaca also regretted letting Randy Bullet off with a warning (instead of ocean dumping him) when they caught him cooking meth against hotel room rules. His complaint to Dean Watson got both of them and bystander Marie Ortiz fired from the hotel, and led to Lang Buddha evicting Stable leader Thomas Dwayne from his hotel room. Randy also turned the Angels against The Stable, costing The Stable their gun connect Claire Seducer (even though Dick Chiclets never held it against her that she had set him up) and Kirk's meth table. Tired of the entire group being held responsible for the mistakes of singular members, The Stable eventually disbanded to pursue their own personal ambitions. Abner never forgot his casino hotel firing and the break-up of The Stable. After losing another meth table to a Street Team robbery, he went on to steal hotel room passcodes without permission--landing himself in Afbanistan permanently.
Months later, The Stable finally claimed one historic victory over Chang Gang--when Bunny defeated Ramee El-Rahman in his only run for Mayor of Los Santos.
💼 Cerberus
Pride and disinterest in working with Cerberus was arguably The Stable's most fatal flaw, with the owners of Vinewood Racetrack, Bahama Mamas, Down Bad Records, Maison Ricard, and Apex Security Services losing morale from several months of zero construction. It wasn't until Nancy Drew and Sabith "Bunny" Cohen earned Cerberus' respect that Bahama Mamas and Down Bad Records got construction.
Stable leader Mick Flair got fed up dealing with toxic competitors in the National Paintball Association, and felt snubbed when Cerberus awarded his co-COO Nancy Drew a $150,000 bonus. Mick also wanted The Stable to solve heists without any spoilers, and was stubbornly against using Nancy's connections such as her NPA boss Lang Buddha (to the point where Mick's refusal to "call Lang" became a meme). On September 17, 2021 while experimenting with the construction man on 4EQ's Vinewood Racetrack property, all four Stable Heads unknowingly scuffed Lang's first-ever cocaine run in the city. Nancy had to choose between reimbursing Lang for his $100,000 loss against Mick's explicit wishes, or helping Mick attempt a partnership with Lang on whatever the construction man did. When Nancy defied Mick's request to wait and unilaterally paid Lang $100,000 of her own money, Mick resolved to quit The Stable as a result. Although Mick apologized to Nancy after he found out that Lang had returned the money (the reimbursement had been a loyalty test), Mick moved out of Los Santos shortly after--later citing this incident as an example of the city's systemic problem with bullying.
Diamond Casino Hotel CEO Sabith "Bunny" Cohen's allegiance to Cerberus was tested next when hotel guest Randy Bullet complained to her boss Dean Watson about Stable employees. Bunny immediately fired all of the Stable employees and evicted Stable leader Thomas Dwayne from his hotel room to placate Cerberus, eventually demotivating The Stable into breaking up and pursuing their own individual ambitions.
Over time, Cerberus rewarded their loyal CEOs Nancy and Bunny handsomely with wealth, power, responsibility, and purpose while the other Stable Heads became more and more disaffected with the city. Cerberus backed Bunny in her successful campaign for Mayor of Los Santos against Ramee El-Rahman, and gave her and Nancy Queen Manor, The Richman Hotel, and their storefronts. Lang also entrusted Nancy with Orpheus Entertainment, ownership of the Cerberus Arena, Cerberus Industries, and a "fun bench".
==Notable Events==
First City Vault Heist
On June 26, 2021, The Stable successfully completed its first City Vault heist. As the two getaway drivers Richard Chiclets and Kirk Jerkems held hostages at the two entrances, Nancy Drew cheered Mick Flair's successful first-time hacks into the upper vault. Responding officers to the robbery were Jeffrey Bundy, Sexton Hardcastle, Dwayne Carter, Anthony Copleone, and Sam Baas. During the getaway, the group swapped into two separate cars. Dick and Mick escaped clean with all of the dirty money, but Baas and Carter caught Kirk and Nancy. Officer Bundy and Officer Hardcastle interrogated Nancy about Vault Tec, and began an investigation of the company. But after a week of investigation, the case was closed without any arrests on July 7, 2021.
On July 7, 2021, The Stable's second City Vault heist went badly awry. As Dick was driving Mick, Thomas Dwayne, and Xavier Valentine from the vault, their getaway car stalled after a couple of turns and the police immediately boxed them in. Afterward, Dick temporarily suffered from a mental phobia of driving.
Lizzie's Punishment
In response to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Byrne becoming more reckless and loose-lipped with information, the Stable Heads (Thomas Dwayne, Richard Chiclets, Mick Flair, and Nancy Drew) warned Lizzie multiple times, but her behavior did not change. 
On July 12th, 2021, the Stable heads took Lizzie to Bahama Mamas West where they had a serious talk with her about being cleaner in the execution of her crimes and more cautious with the information she tells others. The talk ended with Thomas Dwayne cutting off Lizzie's pinky toe as punishment. Mick Flair fashioned her toe into a necklace and put it around her neck. The group then took her to grandpa's house to burn the wound shut.
The Farewell of Lizzie
After the "toe incident", Lizzie had a difficult time trusting the Stable Heads. She retreated in herself more and more. After a few weeks and several long conversations with Lizzie, the Stable Heads felt her actions have still not been improved enough. Lizzie kept threatening multiple police officers and endangering The Stable on multiple occasions. Then after stalking ADA Malcador Sigilite and fearing that he knew too much information about her, Lizzie executed him on August 18, 2021 and burned his body in an unsanctioned, premeditated murder. To the Stable heads' chagrin, Lizzie had telegraphed her intent to their clean face Bunny and reluctantly pinged her to the burnt body's location (Bunny then called 911 using her own name). Unsatisfied that her chaotic actions continued even through the probationary period that Mick had set for her, the Stable Heads finally decided to cut her loose on August 24th, 2021. Nancy managed to talk them out of blooding Lizzie out. Thomas and Lizzie exchanged an emotional farewell at the stables on Vinewood Racetrack.
First Bobcat Security Heist
On September 4, 2021, The Stable finally hit Bobcat Security after months of talking about it. Mick hacked the thermite, and paced around sniping at the security guards while Thomas rolled around the hallways firing an uzi at them. After the weapons room explosion nearly downed Thomas, The Stable crew split the loot between Mick and the hostage holder Dick; then impatiently waited for the police to get themselves ready. Finally, Dick drove them away, ocean dumped their getaway car, and swam away with the C4 and half the loot. After the police mag dumped Mick's floatplane as he attempted to take off, Kirk picked up Mick in a jet ski. They fled from a police boat as Thomas escaped pursuit from a PD scuba diver. As Kirk got caught, Mick grappled around and opened fire on police for the first time, shooting at Jeffrey Bundy and Den Shiesty before the latter gunned him down. Bundy arrested Mick with half of the loot on him, and reminisced about being the first police officer to ever arrest him (for oxy running). The Stable went on to test one C4 sticky bomb on Marabunta Grande. Thomas used the other C4 sticky bomb to blow up the Block Gang who had ruined Mayor Abdul AlRahim's dinner at Maison Ricard.
In The Stable's second Bobcat heist on September 8, 2021, Mick hacked the thermite, and shot at the security guards with Xavier and Smooth while their getaway driver Dick held the hostages. Afterward, the getaway car flipped and Mick was immediately arrested. Smooth escaped on foot with part of the loot, and Dick and Xavier got caught during their efforts to grapple away.
During The Stable's third and final Bobcat heist on October 29, 2021, Dick fumbled through four thermite puzzles trying to burn through the locks, finally clutching out the last thermite after the two hostages were nice enough to give him their last stick. Dick and Marie gunned down the security guards, and looted the weapons room while Kevin Ram held the hostages at gunpoint. During the getaway, Marie and Dick got caught and were jailed together. Kevin parachuted and boated away clean with four guns and a sticky bomb.
The Stable vs. Cerberus (and the Mystery of the Construction Man)
During the summer of 2021, The Stable noticed a man who had appeared on their Vinewood Racetrack property behind Diamond Casino and Resort. This man was dressed in construction worker attire. When approached, the man asked for $100,000 and said nothing more. Thinking that the man was there to fulfill the construction order which 4EQ had placed for improvements on their track property months prior, The Stable gave the man $100,000. However, the man did not take the money, seemingly because he did not like the appearance of the person doing the giving. The Stable continued many more times to give the man his requested $100,000 in the following weeks, trying to give the money using different people, but received the same response.
On September 17, 2021, the four Stable Heads tried again to give the man $100,000. On this particular day, the man accepted the money from Mick Flair and told him to head to a location where he would receive a list of phone numbers. The Stable Heads went to this location, and it was a pay phone. When Mick used the pay phone, four mysterious phone numbers appeared in addition to the usual "Make Call" option. Mick called the first of the four phone numbers and immediately heard a clanking or dropping noise, but nothing else occurred. The crew tried to figure out what had just happened. Minutes later, a man which appeared to be Lang Buddha arrived on the scene on motorcycle accompanied by Denzel Williams. Lang asked, "What the fuck are you guys doing here?" Mick responded, "What do you mean?" Lang replied that he's not stupid, and don't lie to him. Mick explained that he got a list of numbers and was told to come to the phone booth. Lang asked him who told them to do that, and Mick said the man at the racetrack. Lang then drove away without saying another word. Shortly afterward, Lang texted his National Paintball Association CEO Nancy Drew to rage that The Stable had just cost him a "fuckton" of money. The Stable tried the four phone numbers several more times, using the conventional dialing method since the special phone selection had disappeared, but nothing happened. A short time later, The Stable noticed an air/water helicopter had landed in an alleyway near where the pay phone was. Mick tried to pilot the helicopter, but was unable to do so, even after attempting to lock pick it.
Nancy's first phone call with Lang resulted in nothing but silence, with both of them pulling the same power move of not speaking first. In their next phone call, Nancy flat-out refused Lang's demand that she and her crew reimburse him $250,000. She contended that her crew wasn't at fault, that Lang had trespassed onto their racetrack property, and that they couldn't afford it. Nancy fully expected to be fired from the NPA. The standoff continued on a private jet ride between Nancy, Lang, Dean Watson, Harry Brown, and Tony Corleone, with Nancy again refusing to back down and Lang weighing whether to throw her out of the plane. Nancy finally figured out that The Stable had inadvertently cancelled some kind of $100,000 job which Lang's crew just happened to be working on at the same time. Despite Lang's threats to her life and everyone she loved, Nancy called his bluff and he ended up issuing her a deadline instead. To Nancy's confusion, PD officer Lily Pond and Dean's police wife Olivia Copper were waiting at the hangar and Copper specifically asked Nancy whether she was okay (Nancy had sent an "I love you" goodbye text to her cop boyfriend Dante Wolf, and Pond had called Dante asking why Nancy's car was parked at the hangar where they were investigating Mickey S' "top gun" heist). As a result, Lang, Dean, Harry, and Tony had to abandon any plans they had entertained about murdering Nancy.
Nancy told Mick and Thomas Dwayne that if The Stable did not pay Lang, then they would be ruined and all of them would be dead. Thomas said he knew Lang longer than them and wasn't afraid of him, and Mick said he didn't want to pay either. Fearing for all of their lives, Nancy was adamant that The Stable pay Lang, but Mick thought that the deal she had arranged with Lang shouldn't have been a unilateral decision by her. Nancy was clearly shaken, saying it was one of the most intense threats she had ever received. Mick stood firm to not pay Lang anything except under the condition that Lang's crew take The Stable on the job or activity they had both stumbled upon. Mick felt that The Stable was being made out to be pushovers if they simply paid what he viewed to be essentially gang protection money. Torn between her Stable friends and her blooming Cerberus career, Nancy faced the greatest decision of her life. Meanwhile--although Lang had revoked Nancy's NPA bank access and Dean wanted her fired--Lang and Leslie Lingberg were reluctant to lose such a valuable CEO. Leslie conferred with Nancy in person, and mediated an agreement where she would repay Lang $100,000 or else she and her crew would lose everything that they ever worked for.
Ultimately, Nancy decided to defy Mick's explicit wishes to wait. She drove to Clean Manor and paid Lang $100,000 in cash out of her own life savings. In a bombshell twist, Lang immediately returned her money. Realizing that it had been a loyalty test, Nancy called Dick Chiclets with the good news--but then found out that Mick had decided to quit The Stable. Nancy offered to leave The Stable instead, ending the day quietly watching the sunset. Despite Mick apologizing to her several days later, an argument sparked by a Paleto Pets incident led Mick to leave The Stable for good. The construction man remained a mystery until December 3, 2021, when Nancy invited Lang to the construction man's new hiding spot. Lang confirmed her suspicion that the $100,000 bought cocaine bricks, and he and Mickey S then recruited her into their Stratum Knights Investments cocaine empire.
Hardcastle's Meth Trafficking Investigation
When The Stable's head of meth distribution Smooth Williams got arrested for selling 21-jay, Sexton Hardcastle began an SCU investigation of the "Mickolas and Friends" gang for drug trafficking. One time during Hardcastle's surveillance of the group's meth spot, Thomas gave Abner permission to mag dump Hardcastle in his undercover car (The Stable's first sanctioned hit of a police officer). In September 2021, Hardcastle arrested Smooth a second time for selling meth. Afterward, Hardcastle was impressed by a new Stable scam where Kirk, Smooth, and Thomas cornered meth in broad daylight under the guise of a mobile taco truck business (Charros de Caballeros). They concealed their meth handoffs with "boxes full of tacos" and umbrellas. During Mick's long absence from the city, Kirk took over as the group's primary meth cook, received keys to The Barn, and was promoted to Senior Stable Hand.
First Big Meth Run
In the week of October 4th, 2021, Nancy and Irwin Dundee negotiated an agreement for the Bondi Boys MC and The Stable to attempt the wholesale 'meth export' together. They both would put in 50% of the necessary bags (20) and send 2 of each organization to run the export. Unfortunately, the BBMC dropped out after Dundee heard that the export is very dangerous and chances of getting caught and hit with 'the 9's' were very likely. The Stable continued to save up for the meth export themselves by having everybody in the group contribute to the cooking of meth. This was also a very good opportunity to see what everyone's meth strain was called because for the export, strain or quality did not matter.
Meth Strains
Mick Flair (21-jay)
Thomas Dwayne (48-otter)
Kirk Jerkems (51-rhinoceros)
Abner Vaca (58-rhinoceros)
Marie Ortiz (86-frog)
Richard Chiclets (87-dog)
Rocky Topps (87-herring)
Nancy Drew (88-raccoon)
On October 18, 2021, The Stable risked all-or-nothing on their first ever big meth run. Based upon second-hand information from the BBMC meth cook Jordan Lee, The Stable's leader Dick fully expected the 9's if he got caught by police during the run--but if The Stable's meth run succeeded, Dick promised to wed his "fianca" Marie later in the week. The Stable huddled at the Vinewood Racetrack for inspirational words from Dick. Then a four-person Stable team comprised of Dick, Thomas, Kirk, and Abner delivered 40 meth pillows (containing all of The Stable's meth strains) to the wholesale meth exporter. After a surprise ambush from half a dozen local security guards, Dick and Thomas carjacked their armored kuruma while Kirk and Abner followed behind in an intruder car. At a parking lot by the purple dinosaur where Richard had to pick up 10 spray bottles of "floor cleaner", Abner almost blew up the kuruma by refueling it while the engine was still on.
Then Lt. Jeffrey Bundy and a cadet partner rolled up on them in response to the 37A call and the flagged armored kuruma's tracker ping. During the ensuing police chase, the Stable team mag dumped Bundy and the cadet in a pincer movement; then dropped off the spray bottles at a sand location. Following a payment of $307,884 for a triumphantly successful job, The Stable formally branded their crimtern Marie Ortiz as a Stable Hand.
A Stable Wedding
A week after The Stable's first successful big meth run, Stable leader Dick Chiclets fulfilled his promise to marry Stable Hand Marie Ortiz on October 26, 2021 in an outdoor wedding ceremony at the Vinewood Racetrack.
On the morning leading up to the ceremony, Dick was low on gas with a hot gepard on him (from the big meth run) when the he fled from a felony stop for an oxy run, leading the police on a wild 17-minute car chase headed by Brittany Angel. He managed to escape the police six consecutive times before he was finally able to dump the hot gepard in a dumpster. Then after getting away from the police two more times, he retrieved the gepard.
BBMC members Collin McKinley, Wolfe McCreedy, Stevie McQueen, and Channing "Chain" Turner attended the wedding. Prior to the ceremony, Wolfe confided in Kirk Jerkems about trouble brewing between the BBMC and The Stable because Abner Vaca had been caught name-dropping them in a public meth lab. Kirk informed him of Abner's "7-day vacation" for an unrelated looting issue. After openly joking at the wedding reception about BBMC hunting Stable, Wolfe relayed this "vacation" to Collin (who had been keeping an eye out for Abner). Pez Speedwagon and Collin would later note Wolfe's talk with Kirk in a future BBMC investigation as to why The Stable seemed to be on "high alert" after the wedding.
Just before the wedding ceremony started, Mick Jhonson showed up as a surprise guest to support his friend Dick. The groom Dick and best man Kirk parachuted onto the racetrack, and joined the wedding party with Mick. First Nancy Drew and Sabith "Bunny" Cohen walked the aisle. Then Sam Baas (in a checkered flag suit) exited a pink corvette with the bride Marie, and walked her down the aisle. Rocky Topps officiated the ceremony wearing a horse head; Nancy, Mick, and Kirk gave speeches; and Dick and Marie exchanged vows that they wrote themselves. The ceremony ended with everybody shooting bullets up in the air.
The reception was held at the Vinewood Racetrack stables, and was catered by the same kind of taco truck that The Stable used as a front for their meth sales. Mick was last seen at this wedding with his fiancé Jessie Jugg before he was declared missing by Hardcastle in the MDW.
The End of the BBMC Alliance
On one of a string of meth cooks, Abner Vaca, Xavier Valentine, and Lil Cap (after previously cooking with Pez Speedwagon's wife Cindy Tipton) were interrupted by Reggie Might and other Vagos members who were carrying AK-47s. Upset that the composite crew was unwelcome to use the particular meth lab in question, Abner attempted to pacify the situation to save his science batches. The Vagos did not seem to know who The Stable was, even though Mick Flair had taught several of them including Carlos Loco months prior how to cook meth in the first place. Reggie asked if The Stable had allies to which Abner answered, BBMC. Reggie searched Abner and found a strain of meth, which Abner confirmed was BBMC's.
Later, Pez Speedwagon phoned Nancy Drew that the BBMC were unhappy about Abner's name dropping. Under the suspicion that Wolfe McCreedy had alerted The Stable about Dundee's inclination to "hunt" them, BBMC enforcer Collin McKinley questioned several of the attendees from Dick's Stable wedding including Kirk Jerkems. Eventually, The Stable and the BBMC met for a long discussion on neutral territory at Legion Square to discuss the issue. Collin, Pez, and Jordan Lee heard Abner's side of the story (Barry Benson left the meeting early to pick up a practice laptop), but Collin and Pez still wanted Abner to be punished, and also wanted proof of such punishment. The two Stable Heads present, Richard Chiclets and Nancy Drew, both realized that the "alliance" the Stable had with the BBMC was weaker than either of them had previously taken it for, and that the BBMC was making it clear that their relationship with the Stable was really more of a friendship or acquaintance. Dick unloaded nine rounds into Abner in front of Collin and Pez just to be done with it, and then said to clean up this mess as he walked away. Unbeknownst to the BBMC, Abner had put on several layers of body armor prior to the meeting, a fact of which Dick claimed to be aware of.
Later when Jordan complained to Dick that The Stable should have taken the name-dropping more seriously, Dick revealed The Stable's disappointment in the BBMC for refusing to vouch for them as their long-time allies--and just like Santa Claus, said that The Stable no longer believed in the BBMC. Some time after that, the BBMC uncovered Wolfe's deleted text messages to Kirk. When Wolfe refused to lure and torture Kirk for them as punishment, the BBMC blooded Wolfe out. Subsequently, Dundee forbade BBMC members from ever speaking to The Stable again.
The Barn Burned and Second Big Meth Run
On the night of November 9, 2021 after The Stable's marathon day of meth cooking, Kirk accidentally interrupted a police raid of his own apartment. Lt. Jeffrey Bundy had come to search the apartment for illegal guns, but instead found three pillows of Kirk's meth strain 51-rhinoceros. The Street Crimes Unit charged Kirk, Abner, Xavier, and Felix with felony obstruction for driving up to the apartment building, subpoenaed their phone records and text messages, uncovered "The Stable" name (Bundy had first heard the name when the HOA tried to save their own warehouse by false flagging The Barn), and suspected LSPD Sgt. Dante Wolf (Nancy's boyfriend) of being a mole for them. Also because Thomas' car had interrupted the raid, the police correctly suspected that The Stable was stockpiling meth in the warehouse of Thomas' Bahama Mamas West CEO Bunny. As Det. Sexton Hardcastle secretly camped outside of The Barn for eight hours, Nancy narrowly stopped The Stable from raiding it thanks to Dante's passing comment that Hardcastle was too busy staking out a warehouse to go treasure hunting with her.
On November 12, 2021, The Stable risked a big meth run to empty out The Barn despite the threat of police surveillance of the property. Dick, Thomas, and Xavier stormed into the warehouse while Kirk, Abner, and Marie scouted out the area for police. The six of them then smuggled all of The Barn's meth pillows to the wholesale meth exporter, carjacked the local security guards' armored Landstalker SUV, and transported the liquid meth in a three-car convoy.
Suddenly near Grapeseed on the Los Santos freeway, Hardcastle (who had bolted down Mount Chiliad in his first ever 37A response) led Air-1 and a swarm of police cars after them. Hardcastle caught eyes on the armored SUV, but then immediately collided with Abner's interference car. Then as Hardcastle sped after the armored SUV, he traded wild pits with Abner while Crocodile Steve followed behind in an interceptor. Kirk created another diversion that provoked all of the surrounding police to violently pit his car until he flew out of the windshield. In the ensuing chaos, the police shot down Xavier and Marie. Kirk and Abner took a last Bandito Boys stand, shouting over the radio at Dick and Thomas--who were hurriedly dropping off the last of The Stable's meth--to leave them behind. Kirk and Abner then exchanged fire with Hardcastle until all three of them went down. Guilt-ridden that the four Stable Hands had sacrificed themselves to save the two Stable Heads, Dick and Thomas dumped their armored SUV and drove away to pick up their final meth export payout (they had saved Bunny from incrimination, but would go on to swear off meth forever). Meanwhile, Nancy endured a police interrogation from Bundy, Shane Jones, and Sam Baas on the incorrect theory that she and The Stable had attempted to ocean dump her boyfriend Dante. Ironically, Lang Buddha was the one who had done it (after mistaking Dante's treasure hunting as cocaine run surveillance), and both he and Mickey S were the reasons why Hardcastle was originally called to Mount Chiliad before his 37A.
As a consequence of the three seized 51-rhinoceros meth pillows, Kirk and Abner accepted Bundy's plea deal and turned themselves into Hardcastle and Hayes on November 21, 2021. Kirk served three days in prison for drug trafficking; Abner served two days in prison for accomplice to drug trafficking. Bunny and Nancy began using The Barn to store honey and bee's wax for their legal business Plan Bee, renamed The Barn to "The Hive", and eventually paid out The Stable for full ownership of the warehouse. Ironically, Hardcastle later saved Bunny from her first felony arrest when she provided falsified documentation for the delivery truck that she had stolen to transport Plan Bee's goods. On January 18, 2022, Nancy invited Corporals Hardcastle and Lily Pond into the warehouse, and gave them a guided tour.
Back to Bank Heists
Starting in November 2021, The Stable left the meth game and returned to robbing banks. Thomas became the group's primary thermite hacker, clutching out the electrical box patterns so that The Stable could finally rob a Fleeca Bank successfully. Xavier inherited his father Mick's hacking role in The Stable, successfully hacking the Fleeca power grid, Paleto Bank, and the City Vault (while being shot at by another bank crew) for the very first time.
The Stable encountered a new paradigm in the bank scene when Chang Gang and Francis J Francer stole their Fleeca Bank from them on November 20, 2021. When Dick shot out Chang Gang's tires in retaliation, the resulting firefight led to the police breaching the Fleeca Bank and wiping Chang Gang out. A couple of weeks later on December 3, 2021, The Stable stole a Fleeca Bank from Ivan Samarsky, but felt divided over the unseemliness of it.
As redemption for a failed months-old upper vault heist with Mick where The Stable's getaway car got boxed in after only a couple of turns, Dick, Thomas, and Xavier recruited Kirk on December 14, 2021 for The Stable's first City Vault heist in ages. Another bank crew of Ivan, Wiked, and Yair attempted to breach the same bank, gunned down Dick, shot at Xavier as he hacked, and shot out a tire on their getaway car during a police chase led by A.J. Hunter. Thomas dropped Xavier off at the swap car, plodded along on three wheels, and then crash-landed a jump. Kirk flipped the car back over while the pursuing police car took cover waiting for backup. Then Thomas and Kirk made it to the water and dove in. Marie Ortiz rammed the police car off the dock, picked up Kirk, and drove off with a handcuffed police officer riding along with them on their windshield. Kirk jumped into a swap car and picked up Xavier from his disabled car. A.J. flipped their car over and caught both Xavier and Marie. The police chased Kirk into the tunnels, finally shooting him down through a wall. Thomas managed to swim away with half of the loot.
During The Stable's next City Vault heist (the first time for Rocky Topps and Marie Ortiz) on December 17, 2021, the police chased them in Thomas' car to the vault after a motorcycle exploded their only hostage and Tony Andrews spotted an uzi on Xavier's back. The crew's only bargaining chip was a single bank customer whom their lookout Rocky had taken hostage by the ATM, causing Andrews and Kyle Pred to consider breaching. Andrews allowed them four minutes, enough time for the crew to leave the bank with half of the loot. In the ensuing police chase, the entire crew escaped when Dick accidentally ocean dumped their getaway car by the docks.
The End of The Stable
No longer a shadow organization in November 2021 due to Det. Sexton Hardcastle and the Street Crimes Unit uncovering The Stable name, membership, and warehouse location, The Stable returned to bank robbing. But just like previous Stable leader Mick Flair, Dick Chiclets had grown burnt out trying to make everyone in the group happy--particularly Kirk Jerkems, who kept complaining about his $5000 meth run cut and the group's lack of guns (because they kept losing the ones that Dick had purchased). Tensions boiled over on November 20, 2021 when Chang Gang and Francis J Francer breached The Stable's Fleeca Bank and got wiped out by the police, costing The Stable a fortune in electrical box thermite. Kirk could not contain his rage that Dick had been the only Stable member armed with a gun, and both Dick and Nancy Drew began to seriously consider leaving The Stable.
By the end of November 2021, the cleaner, more cautious contributors in The Stable like Nancy and Felix felt hopelessly marginalized by the more impulsive criminal ones. Nancy felt excluded from important Stable Head decisions such as who could use The Barn funds for bank science. After a symbolic gesture where Dick reimbursed Nancy the $50,000 she had lost to the racetrack's construction man and temporarily fired her from the company they co-owned 4EQ, Nancy amicably resigned from The Stable on November 26, 2021. Dick stepped down as the group's leader, but agreed to stay in The Stable as a stipulation of Thomas' assumption of leadership. Thomas made Dick and Bunny The Stable's new underbosses, and Felix quit his crimternship.
Also by the end of 2021, a wide variety of factions (in addition to the BBMC) had begun to hold The Stable responsible for the Bandito Boys' actions. When Kirk, Abner, and Chatterbox impersonated police officers and unknowingly robbed an HOB member on November 28, 2021, The Stable agreed to take accountability by paying the HOA 15,000 recycled materials. When Kirk, Abner, and Marie (blacked out with guns instead of wearing their casino hotel employee uniforms) barged into the Angels' Diamond Casino Hotel room on December 6, 2021 to warn Randy Bullet against cooking meth there, The Stable took accountability by giving Kirk's meth table to the Angels and letting both them and Randy beat Marie unconscious. Randy's complaints about The Stable to Dean Watson and Diamond Casino Hotel CEO Tommy T led Lang Buddha to believe that the Angels were trying to manipulate Cerberus into pushing the other Diamond Casino Hotel CEO Bunny and her Stable friends out. Irregardless, Lang distrusted The Stable (and hated Kirk in particular for advertising metamorphine at Rooster's Rest). He convinced Cerberus that all of Bunny's Stable friends should be fired from the Diamond Casino Hotel (meanwhile, Bunny had already done so). Bunny also had to evict Thomas and give his hotel room to Lang.
Kirk left The Stable on December 7, 2021 to protect the group from any future backlash. Later, he and Abner started their own "Bandito Bunker" with Xavier. Other Stable members like Thomas became convinced that The Stable name had become more of a liability than a proud association. The group stopped having Stable meetings and paying dues, started to just individually buy into each bank job as friends without giving The Barn a cut, and began admitting that The Stable had effectively disbanded. Nancy went on to start the Clean Queens; Dick blooded in to GSF; Marie went on to join Mortelle; and Thomas went on to walk the earth. Kirk took over payments of The Stalls from Thomas. Ironically, it wasn't until the end of The Stable's run that the police finally listed "The Stable" as an official gang in the police MDW.
...After the Horses Have Bolted
Following the break-up of The Stable, the members stayed friends. They braved new paths in life, and befriended new people. Nancy climbed the corporate ladder at Cerberus; Dick pursued his love of weed as a South Sider for The Families; Kirk sated his appetite for meth, guns, and tomfoolery with the Clown Cartel; Marie found her voice in the all-female gang Mortelle and divorced Dick; Bunny and Thomas finally got construction on Bahama Mamas West; Xavier became a proficient S+ boost hacker; and Bunny was elected Mayor of Los Santos in a hard-fought campaign. Unfortunately, Abner's love of banditing landed him in Afbanistan.
The police finally raided The Stable months too late, long after they had broken up. Ironically, it was over Dick's weed--not the meth trafficking that the group had built their empire on. On February 11, 2022, the police held and raided Rocky Topps for cornering Gods Green Crack. Then on February 12, 2022 as a result of driving without a license and circumstantial evidence of weed sales, Randy Wrangler put Dick on an investigative hold and started a chain reaction of subpoenas and raids looking for Gods Green Crack associates and Dick's warehouse. The Street Crimes Unit raided Dick's apartment, Maison Ricard, Bunny's warehouse (because as Rocky's housemate, SCU suspected she was stashing Dick's weed for them), Marie Ortiz, and Cindy Tipton's cleaned-out warehouse. After the police found bee's wax, honey, and Kirk's bag of baby turtles, Nancy joked that The Stable was going down.
==Notable Reunions==
Many months after the statute of limitations for The Stable's crimes had expired, its most secretive ex-members finally felt comfortable enough to let down their guard. Having built friendships with their investigating officers Sexton Hardcastle (Mayor Bunny's eventual husband), Jeffrey Bundy, and Lily Pond, the Stable alumni began to freely reminisce about what they had gotten away with, and even spoke openly about criminal activities. Some of the most prominent members like Nancy Drew, Bunny, and Xavier Valentine roamed free without being tethered to a gang. However, certain historic events compelled The Stable to re-assemble.
The Stable vs. The Highwayman (and the Return of the Mick)
Starting on March 22, 2022, Mick Jhonson began calling out for help with cryptic texts. Following several phone calls for help from Mick and Nancy's twat of "STABLE ASSEMBLE", all of the original Stable OGs including Lizzie reunited on April 27, 2022 to search for Mick with his long-time fiance Jessie Jugg, Nancy's BBMC friend Collin McKinley, and Ursula Leichenberg. After they sleuthed that Melbert Rickenbacker had left Mick for dead at the Kortz Center and Ursula's alternate personality Gracie had nursed him back to health there, The Stable played a game of cat-and-mouse with Mick's captor: a gunman blacked-out with a cowboy hat named "The Highwayman". The Stable and Collin converged on The Highwayman at the Los Santos International Airport, exchanged gunfire with him, and managed to rescue a starving Mick from one of the hallways. The police chased Collin, Dick, and Nancy from the airport, recovered a comatose Mick from their trunk, and admitted him into the ICU. Capt. Jeffrey Bundy ended up interrogating Nancy again, and the Unified Police Department/3.0 subpoenaed six hours of phone records from Dick, Collin, Xavier, Nancy, Lizzie, Ursula, and Jessie.
The next day on April 28, 2022, Sgt. Sexton Hardcastle escorted a comatose Mick out of the ICU so he could marry Jessie Jugg in a "MatriMania" wedding. Rocky ring announced/officiated the ceremony at the Vespucci Beach wrestling ring. Best man Dick wheeled a drooling Mick down the aisle, and Pez Speedwagon held his body up inside the ring. Maid of honor Nancy walked Jessie down the aisle. Dick recited vows on Mick's behalf in his voice. After Mick woke up and proclaimed "I WOOOOO!", a yeti crashed the wedding and triggered a battle royal. Afterward, Mick was shocked to learn what Hardcastle knew about The Stable, and discovered that the group had disbanded.
Thomas' Dying Wish
Over 40 minutes after ex-Stable leader Thomas Dwayne gathered Bunny, Dick Chiclets, Nancy Drew, Rocky Topps, Kirk Jerkems, Lizzie, Marie Ortiz, Felix Volk, Pixie Plum, Jeffy Coldiron, Thomas' daughter Izzy Carrington, her boyfriend Wade Wilson, Sgt. Sexton Hardcastle, and a suspended Lily Pond into one room on June 21, 2022, Thomas finally broke the news about his deteriorating lung condition and that he would only receive treatment if The Stable successfully robbed both the upper and lower vault in two separate femly heists (without masks). During the meeting, Hardcastle created a Stable gang tag and openly assigned it to Thomas, Nancy, Mick Jhonson, and Dick in the police MDW.
Instability ensued when the clowns' enemy Sai Carter stole Jeffy's dog, threatened Bunny's life over a beef with Hardcastle, and coerced Happy D'Klown into pouring his weed on the floor. On June 24, 2022, Kirk, Chatterbox, and Bobby Beldrum held Sai's adoptive mother Lizzie (and a stranger named Anita Handi) captive at Humane Labs and Research to draw Sai in. However, when Sai called in her BBMC leader Irwin Dundee, the clowns called it off to avoid ill will from him and Chatterbox's good friend Barry Benson. Lizzie taunted Kirk for not finishing what he started, and the clowns narrowly escaped as both the BBMC and Lost MC converged on her location. Afterward, Sai told Dundee, Barry, Junior Meats, and TJ Walker that Pez Speedwagon once called PD officer Lily Pond to help his downed girlfriend Cleo Shaw. The BBMC accused Pez of snitching, and eventually blooded him out.
Thomas concluded that Kirk shouldn't be included on the same vault heist crew as Lizzie. Thomas also foresaw a scheduling challenge when he learned that the crew wouldn't be guaranteed bank codes for the day they wanted. On the plus side, The Stable could go back to plotting an elaborate heist plan without the threat of a competing crew speedrunning or breaching their bank. However, Thomas' plan hit a major roadblock when the City Vault security architecture got completely remodeled on July 19, 2022. Thomas eventually acquiesced to medical treatments, and stayed alive long enough for Yokai and Procyon Medical to help him cheat death on February 2, 2023.
==Gallery==
S4.png|Group photo minus Xavier
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S2.png|The Lizzie Punishment
S1.png|The Branding
S5.png|Small group photo
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File:Stable heads-construction man-2021-09-17.png|The four Stable Heads with Thom Yung paying $100,000 to the construction man on their Vinewood Racetrack
Stable huddle-2021-10-18.png|Huddle before the first big meth run
Stable-first big meth run-bundy shootout-2021-10-18.png|Lt. Jeffrey Bundy vs. The Stable during their first big meth run
Hardcastle-barn stakeout.png|Det. Sexton Hardcastle staking out The Barn
Xavier and Kirk fishing.png|Xavier and Kirk Fishing, Masked
Mick-femly.jpg|Return of the Mick
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