New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

2017, 04-17

Garden of the Moon

I am flying through space in my Fire Valkyrie. I am heading for the moon. Right now I am not really thinking about anything special, I am finding the flight through space rather relaxing. Everything seems so peaceful up here. I fly through space and I see the moon up ahead. I fly in and then I fly low over the surface of the moon, looking for any reason why I might be here. As I fly over the surface of the moon I spot a tower in the distance. I approach the tower and I see there is a landing bay near the top of the tower, so I fly into the landing bay. I get out of my ship and look around the landing bay. Nothing looks damaged, but it has a strangely abandoned feel. I head for the doors into the main part of the tower. The doors slide open and I get into the elevator. The elevator goes down quickly, though I notice a few strange noises that I’m not exactly sure if it’s supposed to be making. Soon the doors slide open and I am in the room at the bottom of the tower. I cross over and open the doors to the outside. There is no need for an airlock since the area outside is inside the biodome and is an Earth atmosphere.

I look around the area outside the tower and I am looking at a completely unfamiliar place. It looks like I am in what used to be a beautiful garden, though now it looks like it has been dead for years. At first I don’t recognize anything around the tower, but then I see a bench next to an empty pond that has fish bones on the bottom. I remember the koi pond that used to be here, with the colorful fish in the crystal clear water surrounded by the beautiful garden, flowers and trees. I remembered sitting on the bench on numerous occasions, watching the fish in the water. That gets me feeling a bit sad, thinking of friends from the past, some who said they would always be there and were as brothers and sisters to me, but now they’ve turned away for whatever reasons I do not know and I will probably never know. But then there are the ones who are still around, who have stayed through good times and bad…

So now I’ve ended up with a strange mix of feelings and I decide to just set it all out with a bit of music. I find that I have an ocarina hanging on a cord around my neck that is similar to the ocarina in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I take the ocarina out and I start playing whatever comes to mind. I’m not playing any tune in particular, I’m just letting the music flow. As I am playing I see the area filling with a golden light that’s emanating from my ocarina as I play. Everything the golden light touches is bought to life. Green things start growing again, leaves sprout on the trees, flowers bloom bright and colorful… I am not really paying much attention to what is going on around me, I have gotten caught up in the music I am playing so I just continue.

I play on for a while longer and focus on certain things I remember. The koi pond with the plants and trees around it and the bench sitting beside it, a stream cascading into the pond comes back to life and fills it, complete with fish. The healing hot springs come to life, with steaming water bubbling from openings in the rock at the bottom and the pools quickly fill with the hot water. I am remembering a special tree that was planted by a friend I no longer have contact with, but I’m not wanting the tree to disappear. It is lifeless and dead when I first find it, but then it comes back to life so quickly and bares its “fruit” which take the form of various types of fresh breads nestled in leaf wrappings to keep them fresh and warm. And there is another tree that I don’t remember as well, but it is also lifeless and dead when I find it, but as the golden energy surrounds the tree it is returned to life and sprouts many purple colored leaves that look more like flowers to me, it is very beautiful. I stop playing for now, though I know there is a lot that still has to be restored. I don’t get the chance to do that, however, as everything around me fades to black and I wake up.

12/26/12

Moon Templars
I am in my Fire Valkyrie in space, approaching the moon. I land on the moon and get out of my ship, not concerned with a space suit since it is a dream. I walk on the moon for a while, just looking around, not considering any of my dream goals right now. I spot something strange on top of a small hill not too far away. It looks like a laser of some kind, and it is pointed into the sky where I see the Earth shining like a small jewel in the vastness of space.

I wonder what it is there for, is someone going to shoot the Earth? I decide this is worth checking out and I approach the site slowly, keeping out of sight. I realize I am dressed in white Assassin's robes which look more gray in the dim light of the setting sun, which gives me good camouflage against the gray surface of the moon. When I get closer I see that there are people around the laser, they seem to be working on it. I wonder what their goal is. As I approach them I see they also have uniforms on, and I see the symbol of the Templars on the shoulders of the uniforms where an astronaut would have a flag. Templars… I figure they can be up to nothing good. Well, apparently I'm an Assassin… so it seems pretty obvious I am there to put a stop to whatever they are doing. I hear them talking amongst themselves about the ray, and I gather that it is some kind of a mind control ray that will make people more compliant and less likely to resist changes they would normally protest. I manage to sneak right over to the beam, I look at an access panel. I open it up and look at the wires and stuff inside, which makes no sense to me… but breaking it doesn't require understanding it. I pull out a bunch of the wires and sparks fly from the access panel. That gets an immediate response from the Templars. They start shooting beam weapons at me. They just hit their own laser weapon, adding to the damage I have already done. So I respond by summoning my Witchblade sword and fighting back. There are only three Templars working on the weapon, and I take them out quickly. I then use my sword to cut right through the beam weapon, leaving it as a pile of rubble on the moon. I look up at the Earth in the sky, thinking it sure is beautiful from here… then I wake.

Assassin's Creed
I am in a strange city; I do not recognize it at first. I walk for a short distance until I see something I recognize, but I don't recognize it from my waking life, I recognize it from the video game Assassin's Creed II. I am quite certain that I am standing right next to Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop in Florence.

I am just walking along when I realize someone is chasing after me. I hear them calling that they see me, kill her before she catches up with someone I didn't realize I was chasing. I turn to face my pursuers, Witchblade sword ready. There are five of them. I am outnumbered. But I find out that if I wait for one of them to make their move and then dodge the attack I am able to find an opening to get in a counter attack of my own. Using this technique I am able to take down four of them and the fifth decides he'd rather not fight, sheaths his sword, and runs for it. I see no reason to go after him, and I have the idea it is important for me to catch up with the person I have been chasing. I hurry along the street in the opposite direction that the guards came from, figuring if they were chasing me I must have been going this way. I spot the guy I am after, it seems he was actually stupid enough to stop and watch the fight when he could've been using the opportunity to escape. He has seen that the guards have lost the fight and now he is running away again. He must be the Templar I am after. I chase after him up the side of a building and into a small garden where I have him cornered. He is cowering in a corner and begging for his life. I wonder how someone that pathetic could be a threat to anyone. I tell him he isn't worth the trouble to kill and turn away, thinking if he is a main target I probably have to kill him no matter how pathetic he is. I see movement behind me and I turn just in time to catch the loser trying to stab me in the back. I stab him with my hidden blade before he can stab me and he dies. I leave the garden quickly before any more guards show up and realize I have completed my mission. I am back around Leonardo's workshop when I wake up.

Chocoholic
I am at Subway, it seems I have found a job working there. I am cleaning up some things in the back room, and I notice the ovens where the cookies are being baked. The timer goes off on one of the batches, so I open it up and look inside. The cookies smell wonderful, making me instantly hungry. I look around and confirm I am alone in the back room before taking one of the hot cookies and eating it very quickly, eating it before anyone can come in and catch me. It is delicious! I take another cookie and eat that one, as well… and a third. I decide I'd better stop before I eat the whole batch. I continue cleaning and then I find a fresh batch of fudge. I get myself a drink, the drink looks like one of the slushies sold at Eegee's, and then I drink a bit and help myself to some fudge. I am eating my third piece of fudge when I hear someone come in. I stick the fudge in my drink to hide it. The man who entered is the boss, so I am glad I hid the fudge. He is suspicious, though. He says he will taste my drink to be sure I'm honest. He tries it and then gets annoyed. He asks if no one had told me that he checks the drinks to be sure there isn't any stolen fudge in them. I say no, no one said that. I'm in trouble. He says then he will tell me how things work. I had better make sure to have my drink acceptable when he comes to test it, and that means more fudge! Put two more pieces in there, at least. I add fudge. He drinks some more, then gives the rest back to me. I finish my shift and leave. I decide to jog home, to work off those extra calories. I hate to jog…

A World Without Hope
I am in a dark place, I look around and it seems like everything is just animated, everything is just painted onto a fake background. There are people around me, but they are all just robots. They move like robots, talk like NPCs from video games, saying the same things over and over and over again. They never change their behavior based on what I do or don't do, it seems like nothing I do makes any difference at all. As I explore this place, all of the fake painted backdrops start falling down and breaking apart, leaving me in the middle of a vast empty void. Nothing exists in that void, nothing there is real. I am not real, at any moment I may completely cease to exist…

Bottomless Abyss
I am in a cold and dark place, there is only darkness in all directions. I am floating in the center of an infinite dark abyss, there is no sky, no ground, nothing at all to get my bearings from. I can't tell which way is up or down or to the sides. I move a bit and find it is like I am underwater. I figure I can find the surface pretty easily. I blow a bubble to see where it goes. It doesn't go anywhere. It floats in the endless darkness and pops, which seems weird. I start swimming in what feels like the upward direction. It feels like I am getting absolutely nowhere. I try to swim faster, but the idea of getting anywhere is seeming completely hopeless. I try to keep swimming but it seems as if I don't even have a physical body. As if I am completely dissolving into the surrounding black water, into the black abyss. I am nothing, I am the abyss.

End of Days
I am at the dinner table having dinner with several people I know have passed on. My brother and my grandmother are both there with us, we are eating what looks like a Thanksgiving dinner. We are all eating and talking in a happy way, things are like they always used to be when all of us were together. I don't notice that this is odd, but I am happy with the situation, enjoying their company. After dinner we go our own separate ways, I leave in the car to go visit Tigress. My brother is taking my grandmother somewhere, and my mother is staying home. On my way to see Tigress the entire place starts shaking, it is a massive earthquake… in Tucson?! The ground is cracking open, buildings are collapsing… everything is in chaos. I turn to head back home to check on my mother, but I am almost to Tigress' house by now and I stop by there. Her house and family are ok, though their neighbor's house has disappeared into a huge crevasse. Tigress comes with me when I head back home. Cars everywhere are in wrecks, I have to take the long way to get home. I get pulled over by cops. I am told that my brother and grandmother have been in a wreck and are dead. My house has fallen into a crevasse and been submerged in lava… my mom is dead. My kitties and puppies are dead. Everything is gone, what is the point in going on? I look up and see the moon is out during the day, it looks huge. The cop says that's what is causing the quakes and disasters everywhere, the moon is going to collide with the Earth. Is anywhere going to be safe? He says probably not.

Meteor
I am in my house, my mom and I are quickly gathering everything we can into the cars to head for a shelter. There is a giant meteor heading for Earth, and the shelter is the only chance we have to survive. We get the animals all loaded into my mom's car somehow, and mine is full of a bunch of our possessions. I am driving after my mother towards the shelter. I happen to think I need to check on my friends in the area to be sure they are getting to safety. I head towards Tigress' house, since it is closer to where I am right now. I find she has gone up to Mt. Lemmon for a hike. I head up the mountain, wondering what she is doing up the mountain when there is a meteor coming. That's the worst place to be at a time like this! I am driving up the mountain to try to find her. I see the meteor in the sky, it is getting closer. I wonder if there will be time to get to the shelter. I have to find Tigress first and also check on Alicia, do I have time to do that? I have to have time, I will make time.

Deadly Beauty
The Earth is host to visiting aliens from outer space, or maybe from another dimension. No one is entirely sure. These aliens are truly beautiful to look at, they are ethereal and floating in the air, formed up of a substance that looks simultaneously liquid and crystalline. They move with a fluidity and a grace that is practically hypnotic. They communicate mostly telepathically, but they sing in an auditory manner. Their voices are beautiful, as ethereal as their forms, as hypnotic as their forms. There is one man who is trying to communicate with them more than anyone else, he is a sort of liaison between humans and their race. Everyone looks to him to find out what the aliens are up to, what they are trying to communicate. He also seems to be totally mesmerized by the aliens. He is responding to the aliens as if he was their servant. He starts cutting the tips off of his fingers, crying out in pain as he does that. He asks the aliens verbally why they want him to cut off his fingers… they sing as a response, he keeps cutting himself. I try to make him stop doing that, he stabs himself in the gut and proceeds to disembowel himself. He lies on the ground coughing up his own blood, dying. The aliens are singing to me, telling me to cut my toes off. I figure I can block their music with my own. I use Metallica at high volume. It is effective. It also seems to disorient the aliens. I head back and tell others what I have seen, they don't seem hesitant to believe. Everyone will now use loud music as a defense, the deaf are naturally protected, and we will be able to fight back against these intruders.

I was on the beach, walking along the shore and looking for seashells. It was a beautiful day out, the sun was actually a bit on the hot side, but that was balanced out by the cool breeze blowing in off of the ocean. What a wonderful day for a walk on the beach. I was wishing I had brought my swim suit because now, as I watched the waves rolling in from the endless blue horizon, I wanted to swim out into the water and let the waves carry me back to shore.

Well, I couldn't swim but I could definitely wade. So I took off my shoes and socks, rolled up my jeans, and waded out into the ocean until the water was about up to my knees. I continued walking along the shore, enjoying the ocean breeze, the smell of the ocean, the sounds of the seagulls, the fact there weren't any other people out there… but wait… I did see another person a bit farther up the beach. Crap. Well, I could at least hope there weren't very many people, maybe even just the one. I wasn't about to change my course just because there was one person on the beach, so I continued walking and got closer to the person, who turned out to be a man, and as I got closer to him I realized I knew him!

"Nomad?" I asked, surprised to see him.

"That's me," he said, "This is a dream, and I was about to ride a dream wave all of the way to the moon! Hop on the next wave and ride with me!"

Riding waves to the moon? There's no way that could be even remotely possible, although Nomad looked like he was being completely serious about the idea. I then registered the rest of what he had said, this is a dream, and he was going to ride a dream wave. Not just a normal wave, a dream wave. So this was a dream, then? I confirmed that it was definitely a dream when I did a RC, turned to Nomad and said this really was a dream.

Before anything more could be said about riding waves all of the way to the moon, however, the calm peacefulness of the beach was shattered by harsh yelling, energy blasts firing, and swords clashing. Who the hell was making so much noise?! I looked and saw that the beach was covered by Templars now, stupid Templars have to come around and ruin everything, and they apparently had come to attack Nomad or me or both of us.

Nomad transformed into a giant shark that was sparking with electricity. When he did that he was in mid jump and he came down on top of a few of the Templars and appeared to swallow them whole while shocking the Templars that just happened to be too close to him. Of course that left this huge sparking shark on the beach, when he would have been much better off in the water, so I telekinetically tossed him into the water, and then I threw a few Templars in after him so he wouldn't be alone out there. He seemed to think the Templars looked tasty, as he started eating them whole, I wondered if the lightning around him meant they were at least cooked before he ate them, and my next thought was, "Yuck! Nomad, you'll get diseases from eathing those things!" As if acknowledging that, Nomad spat out a chewed up Templar onto the beach, which was quite disgusting, and terrifying to one of the other Templars who ran for his life down the beach. That was the only Templar with a brain, however, as the others all yelled and came to attack both Nomad and me.

It was about here that Nomad figured out that since he was a dream shark he could swim just fine in the air instead of in the water, so he jumped out of the water and chased Templars around on the beach, grabbing them in his massive jaws and literally biting them in half… other Templars came straight at me and attacked, they got greeted my my Witchblade sword for their troubles. I told one of them that seemed hesitant to attack me to go away and leave Nomad and me alone, we were just trying to have a bit of a fun dream, hadn't been looking for any trouble with the Templars, so just go away! He didn't seem to think that was as good of an idea as I did, however, he attacked me anyway and got my Witchblade sword run through him for his trouble. Well, no one could say I didn't try to get them to just go away. The fighting continued for a while longer until the few remaining Templars finally got the picture and ran away through portals that opened up a short distance down the beach, leaving Nomad and me alone once again.

Nomad turned back to his normal self and asked what that thing with the Templars had been all about. I told him I didn't have a clue, I didn't even know for sure which one of us they had been after or if they might have been after us both or maybe they hadn't really been looking for either of us but just happened to find us… Nomad said they were just being stupid like they always are, so now how about riding the dream wave all the way to the moon? He pointed out to the ocean where the moon was rising over the horizon, the reflection of the moon was very clear in the ocean water. A very beautiful sight. Nomad and I didn't end up riding the wave to the moon, but we did have a nice length of time to enjoy the beach and relax there. The water was great, and we even found ourselves to be in the company of dolphins when we transformed to merpeople and swam a bit farther out into the ocean and farther up the coast. I was thinking that if it hadn't been for the interference of those stupid Templars, this would have been a perfect vacation dream!