Flarg’s Arsenal is a series that will cover the notorious objects the Bathshebas use in distinct detail. These posts are meant to be RP heavy and pose as an insight to the Bathshebas cracked-up mindset. Sit back and relax to read an in-depth post about our lore and some daily relics the Bathshebas use day-to-day.
The communicator is a crucial tool in the Bathsheba family as it is the host to many opportunities to communicate to Flarg. It is very important to understand that the communicator has no “super powers” and in actuality is the slowest possible vehicle that the drug-addicted family could have possibly built themselves. The communicator has terrible handling and often has malfunctions since it mostly runs off a small car battery and an old air compressor - but for the Bathsheba family, the communicator is a comfort item and a novelty to its members.
For history's sake, let's hit on the backstory of how Scoobie and Shag learned how to build quite wonders like the communicator vehicle. After Shag quit his job with NASA being an aerospace engineer, his car got repossessed by the car dealership due to many outstanding payments - thus would put Shag out of a car. Shag was always a hands-on type of man so he figured why not learn to build a car himself. It took some time, but after Scoobie and Shag befriended a local mechanic, they would soon be students under Joseph BedTender. Joseph BedTender was a master mechanic at one of the local repair shops and made a deal with the future leaders of the Bathsheba Family. Their deal was that Scoobie and Shag would pay in grams of heroin for lessons to repair and build cars. This “internship” would last only a few weeks due to Joseph abruptly dying after ingesting the payment from teaching Scoobie and Shag due to a massive heart attack. Anyways, Scoobie and Shag now build their communicators off of 3 lessons worth of teaching.
What you are about to read is the experience of building the infamous communicator.
One of the Bathshebas' newest family members, Thimble Bathsheba, was in need for a newly built communicator. This is the process from start to finish of how the totally efficient homemade chunk of stolen materials is crafted into a functioning masterpiece.
It is crucial to approach the Bathshebas and their actions with caution and intensive logic. The Bathshebas always, always put their interests above others. This means they will do violent things against someone to reach their goals. With this being said, the Bathshebas tend to steal all their materials to supply their building phase from miscellaneous sources. You will notice while reading and viewing, the Bathshebas are not phased of trespassing to receive their most crucial parts such as stealing from Bayview, LSC, and the docks. While they may be bad in intentions, they will not forget to return the excess items they do not use. LSC got their tools back, Bayview got their damn air compressor cables and wheels back, and the docks got their unused scrap metal back. This part of the building phase is called The Pilgrimage.
The crucial parts are recycled rubber tires that allow the communicator to steer and provide energy to move forward. The only difference between the power and steering spheres is that one is thick with layers of rubber and one is not.
The aerodynamic blades can be thanked for supporting the insane top speed of the communicator, 145 km/h. These side attachments don't only make the vehicle look like a luxurious modern invention, but it can also cut people on the sidewalks if they are close enough.
Attempt #1 - Thimble and Scoobie tried grabbing an old out-of-commission radio from the PD station but was suddenly ran into an evil elite pig, Edward Johnston. He denied their request and threatened to lock them up. This is why we will one day kill all pigs.
Attempt #2 - This time Thimble and Scoobie made their way to the docks where they would find a working CB radio that they could use. They of course stole it.
This piece of equipment helps the family communicate to Flarg when they're without their communication hat - which is never. To be honest, this piece of equipment just adds value while providing no benefits. Ronnie Bathsheba likes using the radio as a toy to talk to the other truckers.
The speed tubes are a crucial part of the build. This part helps build up energy and speed by amplifying the battery power inside the engine bay. This attachment adds an additional 5 horsepower and looks super cool.
Taking the tools fr... I mean borrowing the tools from LSC:
And returning them:
This instance was a close encounter. The employees of Bayview know the Bathshebas by name communicator hat design due to their frequent visits, however, this visit was not so nice. One of the employees, Ricky Mathers pulled a gun when we took the air compressor. This was not only very stressful for Scoobie and Thimble, but was also sad for Scoobie because he didn't want to IA report one of his favorite mechanics.
Borrowing the air compressor from Bayview:
Borrowing caught on camera
Returning the wheels from the scavenged air compressor:
After collecting all the parts necessary for building the communicator, the pair began thinking of places to build the communicator. Eventually, after literal minutes of stuttering, Thimble said he remembered an abandoned Los Santos Customs branch they could build in. Upon their arrival, they realized that the tools, engine parts, tires, and the air compressor they needed were all already in this garage.
Thimble unloaded all the parts they borrowed while Scoobie got to work on building the communicator.
Turning the communicator on for the first time (attempt #1)
Fixing the battery:
Turning it on after fixing the Battery Flux Capacting Module-anator:
Typically after every build, the engineers who helped build will pray their thanks to Flarg for providing the parts for the mission. That night's prayer went as so, “Thank you Flarg for giving us the opportunity to build Thimble a brand new homemade communicator. We thank you for providing the culprits LSC and Bayview so that we can be able to travel point a to point b, dealer to dealer, pig to pig. We say this in your holy name, Flarg.”
That night changed us. We are the Bathsheba Family and we are humble entities that believe that everyone should take on the skill of building their own transportation devices.