Geoff meets Jack when she's in her final year in vet school. She's working at a seedy bar, early in her transition, so she knows the worst of the worst in Achievement City. When Geoff rolls in, they immediately get along, and he respects her in a way no one has before. He starts talking about his dreams of making his own crew to clean up the city, to rule it in a way where the people are protected, from the cops, from other gangs, and she's sold.

Meanwhile, Ray and Michael meet when they're teenagers/young adults (around 18/19), both having moved to AC because it's cheap and it's somewhere that isn't home. They quickly get sucked into the life of crime to make a living for themselves. Ray's deadly woth a sniper, and Michael took to demolitions like it was second nature. They become mercs and start to get a name for themselves.

Jeremy is a retired boxer. He gets badly hurt during a fight, and he's told he's never going to box again. In need of money, he becomes muscle for hite for any crews who need him, and picks up weaponry rather quickly. He gives himself the moniker Rimmy Tim for fun, and it ends up sticking.

They all work with Geoff for a while before he decides they're the crew that he wants, they'd be perfect. They all get along with each other, they work well together, and every one is down to go along with Geoff's hairbrained schemes.

Meanwhile, Gavin is over in England with Dan. They're a two-man crew, and neither seem keen to join a larger group. Dan sticks mostly to being the muscle and weapons expert, Gavin ends up learning how to do... everything else. Stealth, negotiations, snipjng, but especially Hacking. Gavin and Dam end up in some really hot water, and Gavin is forced to leave the country.

Gavin moves to AC and gets right back into the swing of things. He needs money, why not take up jobs he knows he can do? Unfortunately, this has the side effect of messing up the Fakes' plans, and, well... they aren't happy. (I won't go too much into depth about that because... spoilers for a fic I'm working on)

Geoff is the best cook out of the main crew, and ends up the defacto chef whenever they eat together. Jack is good at cooking, but she doesn't enjoy it as much as Geoff does, sl she lets him do it most of the time. Michael can cook, he just doesn't bother because he has Geoff and Jack to.

Ray, Jeremy, and Gavin are NOT allowed to cook. They're lucky to be allowed into the kitchen at all. The three of them when not at the penthouse live off of prepackaged food, ramen, and take-out. They can't cook to save their lives. It's a travesty.

The last time the three of them tried to cook while the other three were out, well... they ended up setting a pan on fire. And then panicked like sims about it, which caught more of the kitchen on fire. When the others got home, they tried to lie about it, as if Jeremy wasn't holding a fire extinguisher, and as if there weren't scorch marks on the ceiling. Geoff was pissed.

Michael is honestly the only motherfucker to clean the penthouse. Geoff gets mad and tries to make the mess-maker clean it, which means it doesn't get cleaned, which means Michael ends up cleaning when he gets upset at the mess.

While they all tend to destroy things and make messes because they like to throw things and play stupid games like The Floor Is Lava, Gavin is by far the worst. His mess is mostly contained to his areas, but don't give him anything throwable, or breakable, or that can smash things, because he will cause trouble.

Trevor eventually gets wrangled into helping clean, mostly so he can 'beautify' things, but also because he's afraid Michael might actually kill him if he doesn't help.

Gavin likes to make stupid dares and challenges. Geoff, Michael, and Jeremy fall prey to these most often. Geoff because he can't say no to any dare, from anyone. The second someone sahs, "I bet..." or "I dare you..." he's already doing it. Michael and Jeremy just can't say no to Gav. Well, they can, but they immediately turn around and do whatever he asks.

Uno is banned from the penthouse. The last time they played it went on for three hours and Jack, Jeremy, Gavin, and Geoff wanted to kill each other or themselves. Ray and Michael just watched from the sidelines and reveled in their loss of sanity.

Gavin and Michael are neighbors! Michael's appartment is directly across the hall from Gavin's, much to his chagrin in the beginning.

Ray and Jeremy live about a 5 minute walk from each other, 10 minute drive from Michael and Gavin, and a 7-and-a-half minute drive from the Penthouse.