Cycle 1
strike out - dead
Before hatching from its chrysalis, a small bird watches the storm in Polaris with admiration, loving the colors and the lights. He breaks from his shell and meets a leopard that welcomes him. He immediately takes a liking to her and treats her like his mom. He's enamored by his glowing wing and the storm and asks the leopard about it.
the joy of creation [chrysalis] - dead
Alan meets Kera the wolf and the newly hatched Calliope. They chat about where they are and about the Three Kings and their hunt for stones. Alan finds a magnificent colored stone and baubles it. He gives it to Calliope as a hatch day present. Feeling bad for not getting one for Kera, he goes out and finds a quartz and makes it a rainbow for her. She makes him some glowing blue mushrooms. Calliopw asks him to bauble a mushroom so he tests it on Kera, making one of her mushrooms glow blue.
Pretty lights - COMPLETE
Alan walks around Polaris, intending on making some lights. He finds a stone quickly and baubles it, but his second one is harder to find. Once he makes it glow, he wonders what would happen if it throws it at the storm. He does so and the storm destroys it. He then realizes that he's really tired and looks for a nest. He founds a wonderful cave in the wall with lots of crystals. He baubles a couple, collects some bedding, and then goes to sleep.
Lightmaking 101 - dead
Alan meets a number of gembounds making lights together and offers to join them and help them bring light back to the caves.
Cycle 3
Sleep among lights - COMPLETE
Alan, who has fallen asleep with the chrysalis slowly forming around him, reawakens and breaks free. After testing out his light magic, he realizes that the lights have turned on again. He suddenly feels a crushing uselessness as his whole life had been centered around bringing light and love. He then decides that, since the lights are on again, he would leave Polaris and start his own journey. Leaving one last bauble, he leaves Polaris for good.
Froom Hell I emerge, Victorious - COMPLETE
Leaving Polaris, Alan sees a goose and a moose hanging around the tunnel. Worried that the goose is ill, he rushes to help, only to have the goose attack him and cut open his throat. He falls back and dies, regret and confusion filling his last moments. The goose then tears out his gem and takes it, along with a feather, as a trophy of his death.
