The Highwater Home for Unhoused Clowns, or the Unfunhouse, is a Grapeseed Main Street property used as a home and meeting place for The Funhouse Clowns. It was previously a property used for house arrest.
Description[]
The Highwater Home for Unhoused Clowns, also known as the Unfunhouse or the Clomeless Shelter, is a house located on Grapeseed Main Street that has been set aside by Helen Highwater as a temporary home for The Funhouse Clowns, following the destruction of The Funhouse. Previously, the property was known as the House Arrest House, and then Highwater Asylum.
House Arrest[]
When Bolingbroke Penitentiary was deemed insufficient or inappropriate for certain highly dangerous criminals by the Department of Justice, especially when waiting for trial, this house was used for them, monitored by a parole officer and usually other officers.
The resident was expected to remain on the property 24/7 unless exceptions are called for. They needed to contact 311 when they wake up, and when they went to sleep. If the resident was allowed visitors, they must alert police, and the visitors, the resident, and the property would be searched before and after the visit. When residents needed to leave, the Department of Corrections served as an escort.
After Helen Highwater was fired from the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, an arrangement was made where the purpose of the house changed from housing criminals to housing those in mental health care. The house was then under the purview of the Los Santos Medical Group Psychology Department with Helen as case worker continuing to own the property directly. However, this was short-lived.
A new property in Vespucci was secured for use by the DOJ for house arrest.
Clomeless Shelter[]
Helen decided to convert the property into a halfway home for the Funhouse Clowns, especially Chatterbox, who did not have their own place to stay.
History[]
Ownership[]
The house was one of several residential and commercial properties located along Grapeseed Main Street that were provided to Mayor Mumbles Fumbles at the time by the State of San Andreas for the purposes of developing a vibrant community in Grapeseed. Mumbles handed ownership off to his deputy mayor, Delver Lee who effectively served as landlord.
Edgar Del Castillo[]
On March, 17th, Edgar Del Castillo was found washed ashore at the The Lighthouse and was arrested and taken into custody for being the sole suspect of several murders including Aaliyah Court and Halen Wyld. It was soon determined in court by the bail judge Beric Johnson that the best place for Edgar to remain until trial was not at Bolingbroke Penitentiary, but supervised under house arrest with his parole officer, Vi Gray. Edgar wasn't allowed to go any further than 3 cars long of a distance, and a surveillance camera was placed in the living room.
During the week of being there Edgar has experienced very strange things at the house where supernatural or otherwise mysterious beings would visit him or attempt to communicate with him, such as The Faceless, Talon, Isaac Smith, and TJ Walker appearing at the doorstep. Besides the supernatural, Edgar had many visitors to the point where there was a queue and his parole officer jokingly thought about making a "fast pass" with a cost. Edgar had orchestrated temporary escape plans twice where his two cousins, Jay Hobbs, Benicio Delgado, and other friends would "kidnap" him and take him to The Faceless to continue unfinished plans, along with a fake assassination where Officer Orabelle Winchester was shot and nearly died in the living room of the home.
Edgar had talked to Delver very often at the home and grew a liking for Delver. During that time, construction team, Windsong would come by the home and "fix" or add new renovations to the home. Edgar realized this and seen it as a great opportunity to dig a tunnel under the AC vent to the Grapeseed Castle that Princess Elena owned across the street, since the police wouldn't suspect anything out of the ordinary and it could be disguised. Delver agreed to go along with it, but those plans had been delayed after the next week when his parole officer, Vi Gray gave him a surprise news that he'd be having a roommate under house arrest by the name of Lang Buddha.
Lang Buddha[]
April 1st, 2025: after being disillusioned by events in North Cypress while he was away during Survival, Lang Buddha turned himself in for the murders of several people around the island: Ilya Karishnikov, Tommy DeVito, and Cassie Carlisle. It was determined that he could not be placed in Bolingbroke until trial, due to the potential danger he could cause others and to himself, and so the idea emerged to put him in house arrest. Delver offered a vacant property for this, and it became the House Arrest House. Lang chose to stay in the seventh room at the end of the hall and would often be sitting in the corner curled up refusing to talk to everyone and anyone.
Ironically enough, Both Edgar and Beric secretly were agents of The Faceless, who had identified Lang as a potential issue for the terrorist organization due to Talon. Placing Lang as a "roommate" would allow Edgar to spy on and learn more about the secret Talon leader and gather as much information for The Faceless as much as possible.
One of the last day there, Edgar decided to host a sushi dinner party within the house, inviting multiple police officers and others. When the officers arrived to the dinner, they all tried their hardest to keep Lang included as he wouldn't want to speak to anyone and would watch the TV on repeat, blasting the volume. Lang continued to try to manage Cypress and Talon affairs, including visits from his mentee Charli Jones and others.
Chatterbox[]
After Lang and Edgar's trials, the house became vacant again and remained so for many weeks. In July 2025, Chatterbox was arrested for multiple charges, including terrorism and shooting over a dozen people with a sniper rifle, while being his (assumed) alternate personality Jagger Gerardy. Helen Highwater was the lead investigator and prosecutor on the case, and Beric Johnson once again was the bail judge. While Chatterbox was considered not a serious risk for Bolingbroke, Jagger made no secret of his desire to continue to try to shoot and kill people, both inside and outside of prison, or trying to get himself killed. Thus it was determined that the best option was to keep Chatterbox and Jagger at the house arrest house until trial. Delver helped accommodate, although almost immediately Jagger requested that Windsong be fired as decorator. With Helen and his parole officer Selena Frost's help, Chatterbox/Jagger ended up cleaning a lot of the mess Edgar and Lang had left and renovated much of the home.
However, there were immediate troubles with this arrangement. Junior Huntley had just been elected mayor of Blaine County, and one of his primary objectives was to secure the Grapeseed Main Street properties by any legal means necessary as he felt that they were intended to remain under the direct control of Blaine County. (Delver had remained the landlord while in Princess Elena's mayoral cabinet but after her removal, and the election of Junior, was now a private citizen.) Delver did not respond to Junior, and Junior decided to open a civil case in court to seize the properties. However, Delver had also been recruited to join New Babylon, and as a condition of becoming a member, he had to relinquish control of all properties.
Delver met with Helen as well as Lexi Law to decide what to do. Lexi had already been established as a business owner in Blaine County because of The Cauldron bar she managed in Paleto with Eve Summers. Delver decided to transfer all of his properties to her, save the house arrest house, because of Lexi's criminal record. In a rush to transfer it as soon as possible, Delver gave the property to Helen, who would be managing it on behalf of Blaine County Sheriff's Office. Junior discovered these transactions, and objected to them. He tried to recruit Lexi to his cabinet on condition of handing her Grapeseed properties to him; she refused. He also objected to Helen controlling the house arrest house due to his personal grievances with her. However, the active ongoing case for Chatterbox prevented the matter from going anywhere, and the mayor eventually dropped his civil case against Delver.
Helen, in talks with Selena Frost and others, thought that the house arrest house could have a future use for criminals mentally unfit for society, based on Chatterbox's stay so far. They joked that it could be called the Highwater Asylum. When Helen had new keys made after taking over the property, the keys were labeled as such.
Chatterbox's case eventually went to trial. Justice Nathaniel Greyson ruled, based on Helen's suggestion, that Chatterbox remain at the Asylum on a "life sentence on parole", until he could be proven to be considered fit for society, or until Parsons Rehabilitation Center was properly opened and made available to handle his care. His therapist Pixie Tarantino, who was overseeing the reopening of Parsons, would help determine when this would happen. Chatterbox's stay at the Asylum would become more flexible, as he was expected to take part in activities away from the house to aid in his rehabilitation.
Chatterbox's cat Fredrick appeared at the house soon after Chatterbox moved in. Chatterbox's mother Tessa Lamb has also spent several nights at the home, first as a primary caretaker of him and then later to recover after spinal surgeries.
Eventually, Chatterbox, Helen, Pixie, Tessa, and Siren Gray met to hash out new conditions for Chatterbox to transition from house arrest to actual lifetime parole, where while continuing to live at the house, he could be free to be anywhere in Blaine County. Despite Helen being controversially fired from the BCSO, Pixie and Siren successfully advocated for the new conditions with Captain Brian Knight and the Department of Justice. The BCSO believed that the house belonged to the department, but Pixie worked out a deal for Helen to retain ownership while working directly for the Los Santos Medical Group Psychology department in some capacity. The expectation would be that after Chatterbox no longer stayed at the home, the house could now be used for mentally unstable individuals.
Despite eventually being cleared of parole and now a free man, Chatterbox continued to squat at the house (alongside Tessa), refusing to move out. Helen, now partially their employee as part of his Chatterbox Funhouse business, allowed it, though warned him that other mental health patients would eventually live there. In November, due to lack of need for mental health housing, Helen began plans to turn the property into a halfway house for "homeless clowns." In January, she hired Siren Gray to redecorate the property, while distributing a survey to clowns to find residents.
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