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[Pumpkin]

Citizen Bleys
Desmond Arsibault shares a home with Janelle.
He arrives home intoxicated, which upsets Janelle. They argue, Janelle giving him an ultimatum about his use of the drug Brilliance and also tells him he needs to get a real job as she won't support him forever.
He works as a dead-end bartending job as his music career has failed to take off.
Desmond walks out and Jerry, the bar owner, allows him to stay at the bar. Janelle doesn't respond to him in the morning. He moves his stuff out of the house hoping to get Janelle's attention, but she still doesn't respond.
A few weeks pass and Desmond begins using more drugs and drinking more. Jerry fires him.
Desmond joins in on criminal activities, including robberies.
Desmond remains clean of Brilliance for one day while hooked in to Nexus, the planet.
He asks a salt-of-Nexus co-worker, Crossbones, for a gun and more Brilliance.
Desmond goes to the Temple, each Temple on Nexus has a Table through which can sometimes be seen other worlds. On rare occasions, aliens have passed through these gates and in to their world. But it is usually several hundred years before the planets line up correctly.
He sees Janelle at the Temple, who ignores him. He plans to kill himself in front of her and the Temple.
He unhooks himself from Nexus in the Temple, which is frowned upon, he takes a lot of Brilliance and raises the gun to himself.
Just as he was planning to pull the trigger, he finds himself in a new world.
He is at first excited about this, as he thinks he can return to his world and become rich off of his discovery, but then he panics when he realizes he can't return.

Loony BoB
Jahred spots a strange furry person and nudges his fried Aziish to alert him to it.
They wonder if it is from some new Ursus tribe, although Jahred suspects it is something new and different.
He wants to know more about her so he strikes up a conversation with a guard close to the furry person and watches her closely. He then notices his friend also talking with a guard. And pointing.
Just as he is thinking his friend an idiot, the festival entertainers arrive, setting off fireworks and kicking off the celebration.
Noticing the masks on the performers, he approaches the furry strangers and compliments her on her costume, while leading her somewhere else.

Sephiroth
Serophyn arrives in Lucrecia and is overcome with other people's emotions. People stare at him, making him realize he hasn't been here before.
He is uncomfortable with a lot of the negative emotions his empathic abilities are picking up. It isn't necessary for him to feel what others are feeling, but it is his nature to seek out spiritual contact. He also needs to restore his own harmony.
He meditates while walking down the street and searching for an Inn.
He finds the Inn and is happy to feel a lot of positive energy, which allows him to stop meditating. He asks the Inn keeper for a room, and then realizes he isn't able to pay.

Formalhaut
Locke and the boy return to the village with their deer, much to the pleasure of the village, who hadn't eaten a large meal in days.
Locke cleans up in his modest, simple home, as the village of about 20 works to prepare the feats they had anticipated. Once ready, they villagers happily celebrate.
The boy Locke hunted with, Alistair, a boy of 12, thanks Locke for taking him hunting and allowing him to make his mother proud.
When Locke first arrived at the village, Alistair's family was the first to greet him. A year later, Alistair's father died, which is never fully explained or discussed in the village.
Alistair brings up the festival in Lucrecia. This makes Locke think about how it has been several years since Locke saw his mother, and that he said he would never venture there again as there were too many bad memories.
A village berates the Royal Family while one of them, Locke, sits a short distance away.