Coming Down

Sane. The house. Where everyone was safe to be themselves no matter what. Like many autonomous zones, not everything was perfect. Utopia eventually devolves into dystopia as the shitwater flows downhill.

While contemplating the rigors of the high school social scene which they are about to enter, Sarah and friends come to a conclusion: they need to get good and plastered beforehand. (Merely as a training exercise, of course, with the intention of avoiding future embarrassment.) So Sarah and three of her teenage friends do their best to get proper smashed (for educational purposes.)

Matthew's holiday trip from Topanga to Bend turns into a bad comedy when the plane encounters freezing fog on the eastern slope of the Cascades. With tensions rising in a room full of delayed travelers, Matthew channels his inner troubadour and summons some old trouper magic.

Nathan and friends have a night on the town with nowhere to go and nothing to lose. Inexplicably, they catch a glimpse of the Party Van at the local Barnes & Noble, and are driven to investigate. When the sleuthing spooks their quarry, our protagonists drop the hammer and roll the hard six.

Matthew and the Delaware House gang start pooling their beer money and buying kegs. When winter rolls along, they pick up what looks like a fresh pony keg of Jubelale. But all is not as it seems.

Nathan and company decide to go back to the hotel with Thomas A. Anderson after a drunken night at a show. Things seem cool until room service is ordered and their host reveals he has taken the red pill. Abraham Lincoln's ghost was not pleased.

Be tells the story of how she grew up in Alabama, moved to Portland, and discovered who she is through her commitment to labor unions. After a resounding personal revelation, she begins an ongoing journey toward becoming the woman she is today.

Nathan and friends take a walk across town in the middle of the night while participating in some mild underage drinking. Bowls having been smoked, the party heads homeward, only to have their egress denied by Team Ramrod in full pursuit formation.

Tara tells the tale of the bravest thing she has ever done: escape from Flint, Michigan. Along the way, she drunkenly kidnaps a man who may or may not have been threatening her in a dark alley and narrowly avoids joining the Armed Forces. She has a thing for astrophysics and can neither confirm nor deny allegations that she may have worked for NASA. Get in here and meet Tara.

Matthew pries open his third eye with a crowbar and beholds intergalactic shenanigans. Roughly a month later, he witnesses a disturbance in the upper atmosphere. Coincidence? You be the judge!