Murder of Mob Drop

A dramatic scene at Mob Drop's final resting place.

### Location

Unsettled land next to the Courthouse, today Jujumanjimania, Bahama-Pajama Union

### Perpetrator

One\_Eared\_Kid

In the very early morning of March 28, 2020, bnbranson's pack mule Mob Drop was fatally shot and immolated near what is now the area between the southern edge of Jujumanjimania and the backyard of Key's house. One\_Eared\_Kid was fleeing an execution by firing line at the Courthouse courtyard when attempts to subdue him resulted in Mob Drop's death. One\_Eared\_Kid was charged with Mob Drop's murder, however it was police officer MadHatter8472 who delivered the fatal shot. Because the individual responsible for Mob Drop's death was at the time a member of the local law enforcement, the charge was added onto One\_Eared\_Kid's existing charges of crimes against the Communist Party.

## Murder

### Trial of One\_Eared\_Kid

On the evening of March 27, 2020, after a brief period of absence, One\_Eared\_Kid returned to Augeria with charges against him citing crimes against the Communist Party and the state as a whole.

### Sentence

One\_Eared\_Kid was sentenced to death and was to be executed by a firing line in the Courthouse courtyard.

### Pursuit and accidental death

After several attempts at One\_Eared\_Kid's execution, he slipped past other players and began to flee toward refuge. All individuals present during his trial took up arms in order to subdue and pacify him. However, one officer, MadHatter8472, accidentally missed and the arrow instead struck Mob Drop, who happened to be in the field grazing while One\_Eared\_Kid ran past and guided the chase to him. The flaming arrow killed Mob Drop after sustaining the initial strike and subsequent burn wounds. After the initial shock of Mob Drop's death, One\_Eared\_Kid escaped briefly and dove into the Great Sea before being apprehended and killed.

## Aftermath

After One\_Eared\_Kid was killed, he would not respawn and was then exiled from Augeria. After his exile, MadHatter8472 resigned from his post, and the police force was disbanded.

Several weeks later, bnbranson founded a settlement on a plot of land east of New Drybone and named it New Mobdropium, after the late pack mule.

## Conspiracy theories

Several donkeys have appeared in Augeria bearing striking resemblances to Mob Drop. For a time, DrybonesJake believed that Mob Drop was still alive, pointing to a donkey which currently resides at bnbranson's villa in Carmaulgargantuania who also bears the name Mob Drop.

During the second season of Key's SMP, another conspiracy was circulating which claimed that Mob Drop had never died in the first place, and can actually be found in a shed at TrackPad's Bee Sanctuary.

### Grevious Bodily-Harm and the "Mob" Connection

Perhaps the most pertinent controversy regarding the murder of Mob Drop is a screenshot of what appears to be Grevious Bodily Harm conversing with Mob Drop mere days before his eventual death. The screenshot was leaked well after the murder, and spawned much heated controversy, from claims of fabrication to various theories ranging from an inside-job to leftist plot. Though Grevious Bodily Harm would later be arrested on claimed unrelated charges in Tuolong, he still holds claim that the resulting hysteria spawned from the whole ordeal was the main reason he ended up behind bars, despite him claiming "no relation" to the screenshot or murder there of.

In his memoir, bnbranson mentions the screenshot controversy and admits having seen the two conversing days before Mob Drop's murder. He recalls that Mob Drop would often reside in the fields surrounding the Court House, and would almost always converse with the locals, but admits that seeing Mob Drop's encounter with Grevious Bodily Harm seemed strange to him.

> "When I saw them that day it looked as if he (Mob Drop) had run into an old long lost friend. The warm smiles and gentle demeanor. The kind of catching up you do after the paths of life have pulled you both apart, ripped you up, and brought you back at the perfect time. He seemed more content than he ever was, even after a lifetime of accomplishment. The look on his face told me he knew. He knew what was to come. And with what Grevious of all people being there, I knew it was all too big for me to ever understand. Beyond my control."
>
> bnbranson

Many claim the mentioning of the screenshot in the bnbranson memoir as "grief-stricken bargaining" while many others cite it as definitive proof. Nonetheless, the main and most widely agreeable theory was that Grevious Bodily Harm *was* in fact there that day, but the reasoning is still widely disputed. Many argue that Grevious was there to warn Mob Drop of his eventual demise, while others claim it must of been some kind of argument, which would lead to a planned killing. The latter argument spawned a new fork of conspiracy that touts a "Mob Connection", which utilizes Grevious Bodily Harm's career as a frequent criminal as a baseline of reasoning.