John arrives, is overwhelmed by all the death in the desert, and has a breakdown about it.

• He gives Ariane Annabel Lee and she teaches him the poem from The King in Yellow.
  
• Emerald leads him back to town.
  
• Aizawa is patient with him.

John gets his ass kicked by a mechanical bull.

• Yuri buys him a drink about it.
  
• Palamedes is amused.
  
• Flynn is very kind.
  
• Cam shows him up.

John stands around in the graveyard being weird about the skeletons.

• Palamedes is fascinated.
  
• Aizawa is sensible about it.
  
• Martin is unnerved.
  
• John goes to the diner to bond with locals.
  
• He watches Alec trip an NPC.

John stumbles into a John 20:8 memshare with Cam and Pal. Pal nearly dies; John heals him.

John hears the story of the Infinite Man with a young Qrow.

John attends the desert cactus party.

• He fails to heal a dying Dax when Cam and Pal call him over.
  
• Aizawa hits on him as a catboy. They make out, then pass out.