I hate that I forgot to do that. LOL Turns out that, yep, a lot of events simply weren’t firing for whatever reason. I also found out that my issue with connecting a Character pin to a Pawn pin was that I was actually trying to plug in Actors, so I had to use my spawned actors to cast to the appropriate Character BPs and then possess them. It’s some pretty spaghetti-looking stuff, but it’ll do for now.
Thanks so much for your help!