Jack Goose

### Aliases

Jackson Guusinski, Richard Guusinyu, Jack Guus, Ivan Tustrowkov, Ian Andout, "Mother Goose", "Trash King"

### Relatives

Alexander McCoy (father), Yena Guusinski (mother), Cade McCoy (half-brother), Willow Lindberg (half-niece)

## Role-player Information

### Played By

HaggardClint

**Jack Goose** was a reporter for LSBN, specializing in paranormal investigation, and is the owner of Tortgua Trading Co. & the Trash Kings of Los Santos, a legitimate material logistics & sanitation business within Los Santos. He has a love of tropical shirts, facial hair, beer, and has a tendency to spew forth conspiracy-filled rants at the drop of a hat. He is a character role-played by HaggardClint.

## History

Born in Logan City, Australia on January 17th, 1974, Jackson “Goose” Guusinski is supposedly the only son of a professional race car driver/bar owner father, Richard "Dick" Guusinki, and homemaker/artist mother, Yena Guusinki.
In his early years, Jack loved to draw like his mother, but largely took after his race car driving father. Sketching away with all his free time and spending the rest of it having his parents chase after him, Jack showed himself to be a dreamer and a burgeoning class clown with a very outgoing personality.

Through primary school, he was considered "funny weird" and oversensitive. His teachers considered him "a distraction with high potential", and that his penchant for talking too much and keeping his head in the clouds would keep him from ever truly succeeding. Something both Jack and his parents refused to believe, but has more often than not proven itself to be entirely true.

### Teenage Fraudster

By high school, Jack was growing into an artistic young man with strong ambitions to one day run his own business just like his father. Unfortunately, his father was a little bit of a “corner cutter”, both on the track and in business. Known to race dirty and deal dirtier, Jack’s father had gotten rich doing whatever he could to spread a buck, be it watering down his liquor at his bar or stealing parts from other race drivers.

By the time he was near graduating, Jack had accompanied his dad on a number of “boosts” and built for himself a respectable side hustle of forging hall passes and cafeteria meal vouchers for his school. This side hustle soon graduated to outright forgery with report cards, sick notes, and just about any other form of student documentation required. By high school, Jack was creating fake IDs not only in the physical sense but online also. With the popularization of the internet, Jack had access to more identities and information than ever before.

However, much like Icarus flying too close to the sun, in 2001, Jack would be expelled from his school and convicted of fraud for the recreation and distribution of over 6,000 credit card numbers and cloned telephone numbers. He was sentenced to 2 years to a youth correctional facility with the possibility for parole after 6 months. While inside, Jack developed a reputation as a worker, someone willing to go the distance to get what you needed. Born more of survival than altruism, however, Jack knew that to survive inside, you got to go along to get along. Though he was never officially considered a member of any gang, he kept himself ingratiated with anyone he believed could protect him. Sadly, his naïve spirit and open demeanor often found him on the end of a shiv or with empty pockets.

### Rock Bottom

Upon his release in the Christmas of ‘03, Jack was remanded back to the custody of his father, now divorced from his mother following the strain of his imprisonment (who subsequently moved back to her homeland of Russia). Over the next 10 years, Jack’s guilt over the pain he caused them pushed him into a life of heavy drinking and escapism. Days were spent working at his father’s bar, and nights were spent drinking it dry. He learned to run the place over his time and attempted to remake himself but sadly fell back into his old habits of selling burner phones and providing fake IDs.

On one fateful night, his father discovered the secret stash of confiscated items and criminal paraphernalia Jack kept within the bar. Furious at the risk his son was once again taking and his bringing it into his business, a fight ensued. Attempting to call the police on him to clear himself of any wrong doings, Jack managed to successfully wrangle his phone away, only for his father to flee to tell the police in person. Jack gave chase, leading to both men hurtling through the city streets in a race that would end in his father's attempt to ram him off the road. Braking at the last second, Jack accidentally pitted his father into a fire hydrant, causing it to flip and crash into a Burgershot parking lot. With sirens in the distance, and bystanders gathering, Jack stopped for a moment but knew the longer he stayed to know his father’s fate, the closer he was to going back to jail. His father’s car crashed in smoking wreckage, Jack floored it and never stopped driving.

### Conspiracy Theorist

Over the next few years, Jack would go under many different aliases in many different cities, holding down various jobs and getting both married and divorced three times. He experienced further time in jail for fraud, possession, and assault charges, and on more than a few occasions found more than enough need to change his name and skip town. Unfortunately, no matter how far he travelled or what alias he undertook, his past was never quite behind him. To cope with his guilt, Jack graduated from alcohol abuse to more illicit substances such as weed and oxycodone. As his use progressed, his mental health declined, eventuating in a minor psychotic break complete with random bouts of paranoia and acts of kleptomania.

Believing that he was being watched, that Burgershot employees were government agents, and that the great Emu War was only lost because Australia is in actuality a nuclear silo providing all the world's power, his mind had become a bit of a mess. It wasn’t long before Jack was homeless and attempting to break into police stations, news studios and radio shows to tell anyone his latest theory.

The worst came when Jack became convinced that every car was driving the person behind the wheel, not the other way around, and he would attempt to save them by yanking them free of “the robot’s clutches.” When by chance one day he pulled a cop-out of their own cruiser, Jack would be convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping, and spend the next year in intensive psychotherapy where he learned to control his paranoia through meditation and medication. Upon his release, Jack would assume himself one final last new identity, "Jack Goose", before relocating to the infamous city of Los Santos in the hopes of starting fresh for the last time.

### Tortuga Trading Co.

After several months in Los Santos, Jack had established himself as a pillar in the community and a trusted source in news. Standing on a platform of openness and total transparency, Jack was hired by LSBN as an Investigative Journalist before later being promoted to Columnist. Though deciding to keep his grievances with the apparent "promotion" to himself, he began reducing his duties with LSBN in favor of exploring his own entrepreneurial endeavors. After reconnecting with Lilly Harman, a former cab client come good friend, Jack began to recruit others to form the basis of a regular crew that might aid him in running Sanitation. With Lilly's help, the crew would quickly grow to include Johnny Burgenheim and Aaron Austin, a pair of charismatic and ambitious young men that would complete the inner circle of Jack's life and form the foundations of the "Trash Kings of Los Santos".

For the next month, the Trash Kings would execute plans for acquiring as much material as possible, setting up regular buyers and contracts with various vendors in the city while searching for a base of operations for a central corporate headquarters. Ever the business-minded individual, Jack took a page out of his dad's old playbook and created a shell company under the name of Tortuga Trading Company. With the Trash Kings operating under Tortuga Trading Co. the company could be isolated from any nefarious dealings or mistakes that might take place during their operations. After several weeks, the Trash Kings of Los Santos became a known entity in the city and depended upon source for materials for all its citizens.

With their ship smooth sailing, "Captain Jack", as he had come to be known, would now focus solely on the acquisition of an office or home for the Trash King crew. Naming this fabled space "Tortuga", the crew would eventually decide on the Vaspucci Canals for it's ease of entry and exit and the affordability and neutrality of it's location. Once established, Jack intends to use the canals as an easy entry and exit point for the eventual free-state he intends to build outside of the governments influence and control.

### Trash, Refined

With his crew expanding to include the likes of Gary Taitor, Harry Collins, Johnny "JJ" Johansson, Valentino Genna, Gala Luna, Em Dukes, and more, new "Captains" were appointed to handle the growing workload. Under Lilly and Jonny's leadership, and with Gary heading Sales, the business ran itself, allowing Jack to focus on as he put it, "the macro". This macro thinking would allow the company new opportunities and goals in the form of a Head Office in the Cerberus Business Centre, a BDSM Nightclub near Mission Row, and a partnership deal with Sionis Industries, a foundry and metal refinement business in Cypress Flats.

At a meeting with Sky Turner of Sweet Sky, Eli Carter, and Atom Walker of the BCSO (among a number of others), discussions regarding Tortuga's involvement led to a solidification of their partnership. Tortuga's "Trash Kings" would now be the chief supplier and workers for the much needed materials the Sionis Industries refinery would require.

With this new partnership, Jack's "means to an ends" mentality in regards to crime became laser focused. In a meeting with his crew, he demanded that all "extreme criminal activity" be reigned in and a focus on the collection of trash and the sales of materials become paramount to everyone's goals. With Gary Taitor exceeding in sales, a demand of the team would force it to grow even further with the addition of Dee Stroyer, Reggie Gates, Zak Xiphos, and Riley Stone.

Though the distrust of working with the government and two Blaine County Sheriffs may have kept him on edge, the success of the business would do its best to hold his focus. Believing himself to be a master of patience, Jack's plans for his island off the coast of Los Santos would remain "on the backburner" until the time was right. Thankfully, through his connections with the Assembly of Dread & Destruction, "The Free-state of Tortuga" may still be an option yet.

### Mayhem MC, Green County

Following a three day hostage situation involving torture and branding at the hands of the Red Hand, Jack Goose was eventually found stabbed and left for dead in the Burn Island Crypt. Upon his recovery, Jack, delirious from the events and scared out of his mind, decided that he was sick of the Tortuga family being the targets of psychos and killers. To fortify their ranks, Jack would temporarily move Tortuga out of the Vespucci Canals to the northern shores of Paleto Bay, where the HOA had recently vacated to move back to their home of Mirror Park.

Taking the name, Mayhem from "Project Mayhem" in the movie Fight Club, Jack would found the club under the guise of being a collection of misfit lunatics ready to do anything. This was a ruse, in truth, Jack was only founding the club as a means of reaching across the aisle and reigniting his contacts with the criminal underworld. With the help of James "Fallguy" Laughton, Colt Texington, Perce of the Neon Tigers & the mysterious "Mr. Grimm", Jack Goose and the Mayhem MC would move into Paleto Bay and call it their own.

For the next two months, Mayhem MC would continue to grow with Jack as President and Sasha as Vice-President. Sadly, despite the growing success of the club, the events of the Red Hand still troubled Jack privately, causing him to turn towards an old form of cover he once used in his youth, the Church of the Ocean King. Seemingly disturbed by the events of the Red Hand, Jack's tentative grasp on reality began to shift his thoughts to that of an impending apocalypse. He began to have dreams and claimed of disturbing visions and flashbacks of his harrowing ordeal. With each storm that rolled through, Jack would begin to claim of it's source coming from a great leviathan off the coast of Los Santos, buried deep within the Pacific Ocean.

Along with Mayhem MC, Jack would found the Ocean King Church and begin preaching of the impending end of all existence. His grasp on reality was officially slipping, causing others to suggest he get checked at Viceroy Hospital. There, strangely, the results of a blood test would reveal a shocking truth to Jack's life. Due to the Director and the Red Hand's previous targeting of Willow Lindberg, she too had her blood results on file and were used to cross reference the effects of a drug Jack was injected with while kidnapped. Shockingly, it would reveal more than just toxin, Jack Goose and Willow Lindberg were related by blood. In fact, they shared the same DNA as one other individual within Los Santos, Willow's father, Cade McCoy. Jack Goose was by blood, Willow Lindberg's uncle.

### The McCoy-Lindberg Connection

Sure that the results must have been a scam, Jack began to question his origins in every way imaginable only to come to that same conclusion, Willow was telling the truth, the results were not faked, and Jack was indeed her uncle. Looking back, this caused a snap in Jack's psyche, driving him to become more protective of Willow and accepting of her eccentricities. He began indulging her like only an uncle would and seemed to adapt to his role as a pseudo-parental figure for Willow in the city. The truth, however, was never far from his mind.

Jack began a quiet crusade to find out the truth about his father but with only records from Australia to follow there was very little evidence to suggest anything untoward. That was, of course, until the trail ran into a dead end while looking into his father's history, and the discovery of an unsent letter signed by a man named "Alexander".

Unable to find out anything about his father past his move to Australia in 1973, Jack did the unthinkable, he flew home. Taking on the alias of Bruce Luusunit, Jack spent several months investigating his home town and the old house they used to live in within Logan City, Australia. Though they had long since moved on, Jack was able to discover two things from the nice old couple that now lived in their home. His father was alive, his parents had divorced, and there was a letter returned with no forwarding address.

In the letter Jack learned of his father's subterfuge, that he had a second family he had left, that he gotten clean and changed his ways in Australia and he was sorry for everything that had happened. He wanted to come home and hope that should she, a woman named Satura Zagorski, forgive him, they could set things right for her and Cade. As the letter was returned from sender it was clear, Satura never got that letter. Without any idea where his father or mother had gone, Jack would spend the rest of the month chasing cold leads until finally deciding to return to Lilly, the Tortuga family, and his new family, Willow Lindberg and her twin-sister Til Lux.

On the plane flight back, Jack decided he would not tell Willow of what he had found, ashamed of how much like his father he really was.

### Gone Fishing

Traumatised from his kidnapping and torture and the revelations about his father, Jack would throw all his efforts into the successful functioning of the Church, and leave Mayhem MC Vice-President Sasha forced to pick up the reigns. Doing an excellent job, Sasha grew its club numbers and accounts dramatically. Relationships between other gangs kept improving and the fearful events which spawned it's creation were being forgotten, but not by Jack. Still sure of a horrible scourge returning to wipe them all clean, Jack began looking for answers towards the ocean. He took up fishing again, began sailing more, and eventually started to conduct ceremonies involving the speaking of Latin and the dumping of what he would call "necessary sacrifice". He believed the appeasement of a "Great Old One" would be necessary in the coming days and was working towards exploring a safe place for the Tortuga Trading Co. family to call home.

On September 1st, 2022, Jack Goose, under the guise of going on a Fishing Trip, retrieved his tug boat and set out on a voyage to find another island off the coast where they could be safe and secure from the Great Old One's wrath. Seeing Lily one time before he left, he vowed he'd be back and all would be right again. He was not going to leave them to die.

To date, Jack is still believed at sea, seeking answers and safe harbor.

## Personality

Jack Goose is a volatile, suspicious, and at times, wildly inappropriate personality with extreme distrust of the government and a tendency for conspiracy-filled rants and dropping random insightful philosophy. He dreams big and goes big when the moment strikes, but often exhibits a moral code that can only be described as "chaotic" and at best "very grey".

### List of Conspiracy Theories

* **#BigBrother** - The government is watching at all times.
* **#BirdsArentReal** - The government uses drones disguised as birds. Birds aren't real.
* **#COPLizard** - The Chief of Police, Frank Williams, is a lizard person. There are many lizard people in powerful positions within the city.
* **#FinaleProtocol** - The gods of all religions are real. They speak to the government who must satiate their whims to stem the apocalypse.
* **#BigMilk** - The owners of Burgershot are in cahoots with local farms and the government to act as a front for mind control testing using genetically modified dairy products on the lactose intolerant.
* **#RealmGate** - There is a portal hidden in Humane Labs connecting our world with a parallel reality near identical to our own.
* **#GangGate** - The government wants the gangs fighting among themselves as a means of population control, and keep the police underfunded to prevent their plans from failing.
* **#PsychedelicHousing** - The government pumps LSD into the air-conditioning of its government housing to keep the populace afraid and confused. This is why you see "scuff and other stuff".
* **#BigBanks** - The government sends your welfare check through the bank, who take their cut before giving you the rest. That's why your final paycheck is always so low.
* **#GovBodyCount** - The government is out to kill Jack Goose. Many people who have dared to speak out before have died by their hand.

## Employment History

Jack Goose considers himself a worker and preaches the value of a good work ethic over the "degenerate criminals" Los Santos is more known for. While he jokes about criminal activity, he follows a strict code of only committing what he calls victimless crimes, such as drug trafficking, grand theft auto, and "lamb chopping".

### List of Employment

* **Loose Goose Logistics** - *Part-Time* - Taxi & Delivery Service
* **Los Santos Broadcast Network** - *Part-Time* - Infotainment (The Gospel According to Goose)
* **Tortuga Trading Company** - *Full-Time* - Owner
* **Trash Kings of Los Santos** - *Full-Time* - Sanitation & Material Sales
* **Ocean King Church** - *Full-Time* - Leader

## Notable Injuries

Jack has sustained many injuries so far during his time in Los Santos.

### List of Injuries

* 3 bullet wounds from a man calling himself "Old Man Balls" of the Ballas.
* 2 bullet wounds from a crackhead degenerate while fishing.
* 3 feet of burn scarring on left side from an explosion while fishing.
* 1 surgical scar across the lower belly from an egg extraction performed by Scara D. Kat and Galadriel "Gala" Luna.
* 1 hatchet wound in the back from Lilly Harman.
* 3 stab wounds from a crackhead while dressing in a change room in Rockford Hills.
* 6 bullet wounds from a crackhead while dressing in a change room in South Los Santos.
* 2 bullet wounds from Richard Edward Dudley over LSBN coverage attempting to free his friends from prison.

### Supposed Superpowers

Jack has shown incredible tolerance for pain and alcohol. Additionally, Jack believes that due to an impregnation of alien eggs following an abduction, there's a high chance he's developed psychic resistances and maybe even psychic powers. According to him, this makes his mind unreadable and unable to be influenced by the government and their mass media propagandizing.

## Important Events

**November 11th, 2021** - Goose awakens in his apartment with no idea how he got there. Last memory was fishing with friends. He complains of stomach and "ass" pain and proceeds to visit Galadriel "Gala" Luna at Pillbox where with the aid of staff, he takes an MRI scan to learn there are three foreign masses inside his lower intestine. Suspecting abduction by aliens, Goose immediately blames the government's failure to protect the city and seeks to investigate the alien eggs removal. Citing, "I'm in no place to be a mother to alien brats!" much to his chagrin he earns himself the nickname, Mother Goose.

**November 16th, 2021** - Goose speaks with Taku Mie about his depression following a mistake he made with the woman he cares for. Goose does his best but nothing appears to snap his friend out of his current spiral. In the end, after some fishing therapy, Jack leaves Taku to his business as Dean's World and travels off with Lilly Harman to run some errands. This interaction was significant to Jack, as it taught him something about himself he thought was lost. At sunset, while driving Lilly Harman back to her car, Jack reveals to Lilly his plan to get a boat and start a free state just off the coast of the city. He names his hypothetical state, "Tortuga", signifying an official beginning to his self-proclaimed "Tortuga Arc".

**November 17th, 2021** - Goose speaks with Peri Winkle & Louis David of LSBN to go through the Intern process. Much to his disappointment, he's told not to touch the helicopter and to be sure to conduct himself in a manner fitting of any professional. During the meeting Jack conveys his theory that the Chief of Police (whose name he doesn't even know) is in fact a Lizard Person. Lizard People are also revealed to be Jack's current line of investigation as he claims that anyone under a mask in Los Santos should be treated as a potential shapeshifter out for blood.

**November 18th, 2021** - Goose encounters a pandemic which sweeps the city and launches a day long investigation into the disappearance of Los Santos' citizens voices. Aliens are universally decided to be the route cause but Jack has his suspicions. Undertaking interviews via notepad and travelling to various locations in the city, Jack concludes the the government, in cahoots with alien overlords, has attempted to silence the people as a means of control. When Jack attempted to rally the people via Twatter, for a brief moment voices returned but it did not last. Jack was then run down by a mysterious woman and taken to Pillbox Hospital by bystanders to undergo surgery for 3 cracked ribs and a broken leg. In recovery, he drafts his first landmark piece for LSBN, The Gospel According to Goose - The Great Gagging of 2021.

**November 22nd, 2021** - Goose forms the Trash Kings of Los Santos along with Lilly Harman, Johnny Burgenheim & Aaron Austin. Together they begin cleaning up the streets of Los Santos in the field of sanitation. With Goose's guidance, the team learns how lucrative trash can be and with a good work ethic, how RICH they'll all become. A steady grind begins and roles are assigned with "Captain Jack" at the helm. Within weeks, the city learns of "The New Scallywags of Sanitation" and the T.K.L.S. territory that is the Sanitation and Recycling area. During this time the team celebrates with a casino night and many laughs, assured in this new found good fortune. On December 1st, Goose finalises documents for registering the Tortuga Trading Company, a shell company to isolate business interests from Trash Kings of Los Santos activities.

**December 7th, 2021** - Goose, with the aid of the Trash Kings, purchases "Big Blue", the first house in his quest to form "Tortuga". The following 24-hours are spent wiring the house for video and sound, allowing him to remotely and directly record all activity that takes place within its walls. The addition of a gas-masked mannequin and several other questionable tools (along with a vat of fertilizer) brings concern to the team. Lilly does her best to clear up the other areas of the house, but Jack's addition remains an obvious, and concerning, eye-sore.

**January 5th, 2022** - Goose speaks with Fallguy of Gulag Gang to discuss a long awaited opportunity. The meeting is considered for "no eyes only" and a plan is put in place for the future that could make Jack Goose and the rest of the Trash Kings a lot of money. Determined not to blow this opportunity, Jack begins to work "outside" of the crew with the intent of potentially bringing them in later.

**January 6th, 2022** - After months in waiting and several days of discussion with city clerks, the Tortuga Trading Co. is officially declared a business. The crew celebrates by assigning job titles and deciding to overlook the current state of the material game to prove their business works to the powers that be. The planned next week includes a heavy focus on collecting materials and selling them for literally whatever people will take them for.

**January 11th, 2022** - Goose's deal with Fallguy of Gulag Gang comes to fruition with his first sales day. Jack builds his own street team through new Tortuga Trading Co. hire, Gary Taitor, and John "JJ" Johanson. Within 6 hours, over $50,000 worth of cocaine is sold. Cocaine hits the streets of Los Santos for the first time. A partnership with Dick Dudley, Rammy Rager and James "Fallguy" Laughton is proven fruitful, but soon begins to fall apart as Fallguy and Rammy leave Gulag Gang due to respect issues. Additionally, the cocaine game is proven "too hard", as bricks of the stuff are given to every gang, flooding the market.

**January 22nd, 2022** - Goose is dumped and left for dead in the ocean by Dick Dudley over coverage regarding his gangs recent incarceration. In an attempt to prove that the cops were corrupt and started the incident which led to their imprisonment, Dick stole equipment from the LSBN News van. When confronted and upon learning of his own cars damage, along with another gang affiliate, they shot and killed all three members of the LSBN team, completely stripping them of everything they held also. Sonny Sunshine, LSBN CEO, was found shoreside after investigations led the crew back to Sandy Shores where the incident took place. Upon piecing together the evidence, Jack Goose has been on a blatant attack against Dudley and Gulag Gang in the press ever since.