Stone the Crow (2016)

*Were you looking for Stone the Crow (Evergreen), the reboot version of Stone?*

* Reprinted
* Original Game

**Stone the Crow** was the sign-holder at The Popgoes Pizzeria. Before becoming an anthropomorphic animatronic for the Popgoes Pizzeria, he was conceptualized as a Scarecrow named Signs.

## Description

*"Stone the Crow is the fifth main animatronic from the Popgoes Pizzeria. Though, unlike the others, he is not connected to WeaselWare and therefore cannot move, talk, or act in any way.*
*Stone the Crow is kept outside of the pizzeria, in a red 'bird cage' at the corner of the car park. His initial role was to greet customers and use his bright sign as a monitor for some basic video games. But after a vandalism incident, Stone was sadly disconnected and now only acts as a statue providing basic directions to drivers.*
*Stone acts purely as a distracting hallucination in the gameplay of POPGOES 1."*
*- Stone's Memory Card*

## Appearance

As a Scarecrow, Signs would have been a crow, but an alien humanoid shape, like Strings and Buttons' scarecrow forms. Not much else is known about Stones' design.

As an animatronic, Stone is based on a carrion crow. Stone's body, like most characters in the game, resembles a Toy Animatronic's, with round joints on the legs, elbows and fingers. His endoskeleton shoulder is exposed. Stone's upper body is dark blue, with lighter accents blue accents in the arms and hands. His head has a triangular blue beak, with large nostrils on it. His eyes are red, and they have black eyebrows above them. Stone's legs and pelvis are black, with white toes. The legs have horizontal line indentations. Stone always holds a LED sign, with black borders. The screen's display is red, with lighter red arrows pointing left and right, and a white font displaying various messages.

Before his optimized redesign in Reprinted, Stone had shoulder joints, lacked the light blue accents and lines in his limbs, and had black toes.

## Behaviour

Stone doesn't move at all from his birdcage in The Popgoes Pizzeria. He is disconnected from the WeaselWare, and his only task is holding the sign. However, Strings can see him on the cameras, when his Panic meter is high.

### Gameplay

Stone appears in every camera excluding the Car Park and the Vents. His appearances are designed to obscure all other characters in the background. He will raise your panic if you look at him for too long. The more panic you have, the more likely he is to appear on the cameras. The only way to lower his panic is to look at the window to the right of you, where Stone is actually situated.

Starting with the Fourth Night, Stone will begin to turn his head from the Car Park towards you if you look at the window for too long. That'll raise your panic much more than on the cameras. The only way to get rid of it is to stop looking at the window.

He is also a threat when the panic is filled but the jumpscare can only be triggered when Strings (player) looks at the right window.

## Story

Before the events of POPGOES', Stone was meant to be a Scarecrow ornament named Signs, meant to fight off nightmares Fritz had of Balloon Boy after his shift at the New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Due to Buttons' failure of stopping his nightmares of JJ however, Signs was left unmade as were all other Scarecrows.

As an animatronic, Stone used to be connected to WeaselWare, being able to move, talk, and play games with children. However, after some people tried to hack into WeaselWare through Stone's sign, Fritz disconnected him from WeaselWare, making him immobile.

After POPGOES' Grave Ending, Simon assaulted Stone, taking many parts from him to make Epitome Stone, leaving the original as a heartless husk of what he used to be, the non-moving scarecrow.

## Trivia

* Stone's heart is shaped like two arrows, resembling the ones on his sign.
* Stone is the animatronic with the biggest amount of variations in the POPGOES story thanks to Gem Stone and Grave Stone, who doesn't have counterparts of other animatronics.
* Stone has the second biggest amount of renders in POPGOES, thanks to the fact he can appear on every camera.
* Stone's name may be a play-on-words of 'Stone the Crows!' A phrase that means: *an exclamation of incredulity or annoyance*.
* Due to String's being around 5'6 and Stone needing a 1 foot tall stage to be about an inch below String's eye level Stone is around 4'5 making him way below the average height. (Kane has gone on record to confirm Stone is around this height)

## Gallery

### POPGOES

Stone in the Car Park.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.One of Stone's messages in the Cameras.Stone in the window.Stone looking at you.Stone's Panic Jumpscare.Stone's Minigame Sprite.Stone's Minigame Sprite from POPGOES Arcade.Stone's Concept Art.
### POPGOES Reprinted

Stone in the Reprinted Car Park.Stone's jumpscare in Reprinted.Strings' sketch of Stone.Stone's blueprint.Stone's heart.Stone Sign Blueprint.Stone Sign Blueprint 2.Popgoes Drawing.Popgoes Drawing 2.Popgoes Drawing 3.Popgoes Drawing 4.Popgoes Drawing 5.
### Misc.

Stone's Memory Card.The original Stone model, the sign originally looks like it was made of wood.Stone Concept Art for Heart of Stone.Stone, in the cancelled Heart of Stone comic.Prototype Stone.Unused Stone Jumpscare.Unused Stone Death Screen.An image of Stone made with Source Filmmaker (SFM).Stone's Concept Art.Ditto.Ditto.