The Nomad Chronicles

I am sitting on my throne in the Temple of Nothing, I, Juargawn (War-gawn) God of Nothing, in the City of Nowhere, in the Land of Nod on the Green Moon. I am the great werecat, now, a black were lion pondering the purple grapes I am eating. I stare at a grape. Condensation forms on it as I watch. I pop it in my mouth. It feels so tiny in my big lion head. I pop the whole bunch of grapes in my mouth. I feel them burst and I bite into them, and grape juice runs down my throat. I sip a gallon stein of mead, and then roll up a big fat joint as the gangja falls into my hand from a special tiny ganja cloud above my head. I lick the organic hemp paper. This joint has about three ounces in it, because I am a big ass werelion, after all. lol, this fucking joint is epic. Win.
I blow a small puff of fire on the end, and light it up. I feel the smoke fill my huge lungs, and I puff out a flying dragon shape which flies through a sunbeam lighting up the scrying pool here at the top of the ziggurat. My High Priest, the Great Undead Something-Rather, Sarnox The Great, stares into the pool.
"Well, brother, something's amiss. Eris, goddess of Khaos, has been kidnapped by Cthulu."
"That makes no fucking sense."
"God, I was joking!"
"High Priest, your jokes suck. Hark, I hear a Dreamer calling!"
I walk to the Mirror, and wave my wand over it, and it ripples like mercury. I see Raven on the other side of the Moon in the Biodome sitting on the bench by the koi pond watching the fish. She looks sad. Big tears jump out of my eyes. I step through the mirror.
She hears me come through the portal. We make eye contact, and telepathically communicate, saying a lot through images and emotions in one second.
She runs to me, and we hug, and she buries her face in my chest. "I feel like a little girl right now, because you're so big."
I morph into a purple jaguar cub with little wings and she picks me up and sits down on the bench. "Aw, you're so cute." She pets me and I purr.
"It's the Dream Depression... I think in a way, it never leaves," I tell her with my mind. "Let's admit it, the Dreamworld, or Dream Plane is so much better than the Wakeworld. Here we have the power of gods!"
I jump off her lap, and morph into Loki, like a dark jester mage in yellow and black. I jump up and hover 20 feet in the air above the pond. I juggle fireballs, and then eat them. I burp and a fireball comes out. Raven laughs and claps.
I fly in a horizontal position about six feet above the pond and shoot lightning out of my fingertips into the water. Raven claps, and I bow, and rabbits and pigeons fall out of my hat on to the water, then the animals walk across the water and jump up into her lap.
I walk on the water to her. "Oh wow, who are you now, Jesus?"
"Oh, we're all Jesus, the Devil, Mary, Buddha, Eris, whatever. We're all part of this one Thing, but I think it kinda sucks, the God-mind or whatever Beings made Earth. Why is it so shitty? Seriously."
"I don't know Nomad."

I leap out of my physical body in werelion form. There are a circle of Dark Templar wraith surrounding me with glowing red eyes. They say something about wanting to talk, I respond with a mighty roar, grabbing the nearest Templar, and ripping his head off. I drop the body, and smash the head into the skull of the nearest living Templar. I cast a shield of protection over sleeping Winter and a battle ensues. I hear a sound like the ripping open of a mountain, and I see a tear in the fabric of time and space above me, and a portal forms. Raven flies out riding a black winged jaguar. She has two spiraling horns growing out of her head, and she is wielding a black staff with a wooden raven carved on the top. She roars like a lion, lifting her staff to the sky, and a thunderstorm spirals out of the staff. Lightning strikes her staff, and charges it. Raven multiplies into 256 copies of herself and flies around the battlefield attacking the Templars with lightning. Her laughter echoes off the mountains. I run with the speed of electrons ripping limbs off of our enemies.
I hear another strange sound, like an earthquake, and I see Winter rise up, floating in a vertical position, eyes closed. Fairy wings sprout from her back, her eyes pop open and two white light beams shoot out. She grins deviously and says, "I'm a Dark Fairy!" She spins a white staff around, and slams it on the ground. Her pale skin becomes a dark violet, and her irises turn red. She flies madly through the battle, blowing icy bubbles which trap the Templars, and then shrink, crushing them into gooey messes of blood and ectoplasm.
I then hear a rumble, like a sleeping dragon growling. A mountain moves, no, its a great green dragon. "MoSh?"
"Hello brother. Long time no see."
"Looks like you need help."
The Templars attack MoSh, crawling over him like army ants. He roars in anger. I transform into a swarm of flying were-ants, and rip them limb from limb.
The Templars form into a giant wraith, and I continue my swarm attack. MoSh breathes green acid on the creature, melting his armor, Raven shoots lightning at his eyeballs, and the red orbs fall out of his head, and go out. Winter freezes his hands, and they crumble and fall apart. Then a big cat paw comes out of the sky, smashing him like a housecat killing a mouse. Tigress?
"Size is relative," she smiles from the sky.
The battle is over.
A cute litte fox runs to us, and drops strange red gems at our feet. "I stole these from the Templar demons!" he grins.
"Pablo? Thank you, friend!"
"Hmm... We should have these analyzed before we do anything with these," says Raven, putting the gems into glass jars.
"Wow," I say. "Raven, is this real?"
"Of course!" she laughs. I yawn, and everything fades to white.

I wake up from a nightmare.... cold, I am. in a wet forest? I have just a pair of pants on, no other clothes, no weapons, i feel sick, I try to stand, but collapse and vomit some dark green-black stuff. I feel a burning rage in my soul, and I sense something one the ground, a creeping dark, some kind of carnivorous slime mold crawling up my body, digesting my flesh on contact, i scream in horror, and a thunderclap booms overhead. A portal explodes and Raven flies out riding a winged white tiger. The tiger roars and the ground quakes. Raven raises her staff to the sky, and charges it with lightning. She casts the power transmuting it into violet flame, burning the sentient muck eating me. Raven rushes down to me, as some strange flying crab like parasites latch on to her. She rips them on in a fury, then stands at my back. Two blades come out of her staff, and I see them, the Archons, walking out of the trees which they had possessed, as the trees wilt and die.

"You will all pay," Raven whispers hoarsely. The Archons rush at us with one mind. Raven slams her staff into the ground with a subsonic boom, knocking the demons back. Then, she summons lightning to strike them. She slings me over her shoulder like a backpack, and mounts her Tiger. We ride into the sky. Raven giggles. "I summoned an invisible army of Assassins to take care of them."

She opens a portal and we ride to The Healing Glen of the North. We fall to the ground. Angels come and sing over us. The Frost Giant says we are both sick, and Raven is injured from the battle, she has a dark shard in her right shoulder. The Frost Giant carries me to his cave, and Raven and her tiger walk beside him.

I fall asleep in the cave by the fire. Raven and the Frost Giant are talking about who he is, and where he came from, and the nature of the dream plane as I fall asleep.

***

I awake in my inner world. I see myself as a child playing with raven, playing with Koomo, playing with Michael my spirit guides, and then becoming confused and thinking they are not real. My adult self wants to hug the girl Raven and the child versions of my spirit guides, and say I am sorry for believing that you are imaginary.

I see my child self on display behind glass, like in a strange wax museum. I say, fuck this, break the glass, and take my child self mudsliding down the chocolate volcano. hail eris. mahalo. 23.

4/17/2013

Dream Journal
WakingNomad AKA Keola Pirata

I leap out of bed with a roar, a black werelion with a necklace of skulls around my neck, wielding an adamantium spear. Templars in the sky riding Pegasi are raining down flaming spears at us. I cast a force field of protection over Winter Fae and I. I fly like a rocket into the center of the Pegasi squadron. “YE THINK YE BE ANGELS, DO YE, MY TEMPLAR BROTHERS? THEN, I WILL SHOW YOU THE FACE OF A DEIMON!” I scream, and demonize. Demon eyes grow and pop open in my forehead. A small black hole appears in my chest. A portal opens, and a bear-boar with six legs, eight eyes, and a snake tail leaps out. I mount my steed, and my spear comes to life. The spear’s head sprouts eyes and a mouth and screams: BLOOOOOOD! Writhing in the air like a sea snake swimming in the depths. Two more small portals open, and a pair of tiny dragons land on my shoulders.
The Templars fly together, and say, “Form of: BAPHOMET” and all together become one giant goat headed woman breasted goat legged disgusting god. Then they say: MASK OF: MICHAEL, and wear a costume to disguise themselves as the archangel , Michael.
“I must admit, fighting Michael the archangel him would be quite the challenge, but not so a foe as you parasites are no match for REX CURSON!”
I roar and clap my hands together, and there is a peal of thunder, then the Baphomet egregore is struck by lightning. The metal in the armor begins to melt and catch fire. The Templars scream in agony. “Zasaz Zasaz Nasatana Zasaz!”
“Hail Satan, Lord of Fire
May your flames rise ever higher!
Hail Pan, God of Nature,
Bless the Beast, Imbue the Creature!
Hail Gawn, Lord of Dreams,
Nothing is, as it seems!”
A portal opens, and Raven flies out, riding a giant raven. Cool! She’s wearing all black, but in her assassin gear.
She throws bolts of dark energy from a staff she has. She tells me the staff is called the Darkstaff, and its sentient like my symbiote. She told me Washu gave it to her.
Interesting. We can probably take these Templars ourselves, but I blow the Conch of Pan because it just feels so good. The blast reverberates through my demon skull, and I grin as portals open from everywhere in the universe, and Gawn, the Dream Warrior Master appears with an army of elite Dream Warriors Corps. They are so varied and strange looking. I wonder what their physical bodies look like. I see centaurs, and octopus like things, and people that look like rocks, and others like blobs. We simultaneously attack the Baphomet egregore. Bolts of energy, bullets, rockets, arrows, and spears fly at the Baphomet. The egregore breaks apart, and becomes a group of Templars riding Pegasi again. “For Michael!” They shout and charge us. Gawn charges the nearest one shouting, “I AM SURE YOU DO NOT SERVE MICHAEL!”
Then he lightly shoulder bumps the Pegasus, and horse and rider go flying back into a portal. He blows the other ones, and they start flying back, back into portals he casts behind them. The battle is suddenly over.
“Why don’t you kill them?” I ask Gawn.
“They’d just respawn, and we’d have to fight them five seconds later.”
“So, you send them into other dimensions alive, instead.”
“Yes, and it disheartens them when they end up in dimensions with no other Templars, so they become weak because of their big egos.”
“Funny. So where did you send them.”
“Hippie communes, mostly. Another one I sent to be a lighthouse keeper. So, you want to come check out the Dream Warrior Planet, now?”
“Yes, Father, but our aid is requested on the Moon. The Templars are attacking the Dreamhackers Moon Base.”
“Those crazy Russian orks. Good Fighters.”
“Right. But, I suspect the Moon orks are being infiltrated by Templar orks.”
“So, you want to infiltrate the infiltrators, while I cause a big ruckus on the outside?”
Raven smiles at the idea. “Yes, Father.” Raven opens a portal to the Moon Orks Castle on the Moon. We are standing on a hill watching a huge battle of Templars on pegasi with swords and lances versus orcs on giant beetles with axes and speas. It’s so epic, we forget our mission for a second. Raven taps my head. “Hey, Nomad, the mission!” Pardon me, I forgot the mission for a second. We morph into Templar Orcs, then put on Moon Ork disguises. We look at each other and giggle. We teleport right outside the castle, then run through a battle near a castle archway. We hear the voice of the Moon Ork King crying for help down below. We run down flights of stairs to a dungeon, and we see the Moon Ork King being tortured by Dark Templar Orks. “Ha! You see, we have him!”
“NO YOU DON’T!” shouts a voice like a thousand bears from above. The Moon Ork King runs down the stairs with a giant axe. The ork being tortured transforms into a Templar ork, his true self. Raven and take off our Moon Ork costumes, and reveal our Templar ork shapes. We take the left and right guard of the Templar Orks running at the Moon Ork King. Right as the Moon Ork King takes his first axe swing, we turn on the Templars, and thrust two sword length hidden blades into them, killing eight or nine. “Traitors!” They shout. We turn into our Assassin forms. “Assassins! We laugh, as we teleport behind them, and assassinate any Templars that the Moon Ork King’s axe misses. Cheering is heard. The remaining Templars make portals and boogie on out.
We throw a huge party with the Moon Orks on the Moon outside their castle. There are trees growing in grey rock. Interesting. I take a sip of wine, and everything fades to black.

(Deep Dream State) Raven and I are astride two great armored war-horses on a mountain overlooking an ocean and a small town. The dwellings are mud domes with vines growing over them. We are Dark Elf Paladins. Her armor is black and gold. My armor is crimson and gunmetal green. The scene reminds me of a place in another lifetime, a past life perhaps? I get a vague image in my head of a shore on another planet…
“Nomad?” Raven asks. “Are you paying attention?”
“Apologies, my sister.”
“I was saying how lovely it is to return home to the land of our mothers. Shit! Look yonder!”
I shapeshift my eyes into the eyes of a hawk, and spy in the distance a band of orcs riding winged wargs. A rush of wind, and we are skyborn. Our horses’ wings beat like spirit drums as we gain altitude above the orcs.
One of them is shouting… Shit, they have a hostage, a small elf girl. I cast my chaosring’s energy behind the orc, and my astral pet, Jo appears behind the orc, in the form of a zombie crocodile bull terrier with eight legs. He bites the orc on the back of its neck. The orc screams in pain, and drops the hostage. We nose dive to gain speed, then swoop up and grab the girl. We soar over the town, and then alight in the square. I set the girl down on the ground. I look up to see Raven casting a shield spell over the town.
Raven and I fly through the blue transparent magical field and into the fray. Giant Eagles have joined us in the fight against the Winged Warg Riders. They pull the orcs off the Wargs and drop them. Our horses breathe fire and acid on the orcs. The orcs that are left retreat. We return to the town to find the townspeople killing an orc that made it into the town before the shield went up. We land in the square and dismount. I feel dizzy. Raven looks at me concerned. “Nomad?”
“Huh?” Why does Raven have violet skin and yellow eyes? Why is her hair white? I look at my hands. I have lavender skin. I touch my ears. Pointed. I pinch my nose. I can’t breathe through it.
“Raven. This is real. This is not a dream. We are incarnate in another dimension.”
She smiles at me, and a tear runs down her face as she steps softly to me, and whispers, “I know.” I feel myself going out of body, and I faint, falling into her arms. I hear Xaphor laughing somewhere, and all goes black.

I awake, but I am nowhere… I recognize this place, this nowhere place. Nothing to see, or feel, or touch, just blackness, but I hear a voice… in my head? Xaphor?
Yes, brother.
Where am I, Dream Guide?
You know where you are, brother.
The Great Black Void.
Yes. You are in the Eye of the White Fish of Babalon. All Empires crumble, brother. So will your Empire on the Moon, and All will and Is and Was One, Here and Now in the Great White and Black Voids which encompass the All-ness of All and the One Ness of Nothing, the Interconnectedness of All the Things, and the Beauty of Sentient Individuality. You can’t breathe, you don’t exist. You are so tiny, tinier than an electron, now brother. Your significance on earth is a reflection of the significance of all life. All life is sacred. All life is dying. We are circling back to the center of the lemniscate, so don’t jump off the crazy train yet. The interdimensional War of the Ages is just getting started, and I see balloons in the future lots and lots of balloons.
“What?”
Xaphor’s draconic laughter echoes in my head as I awake. I am lying in a bed somewhere… I see Raven sitting on a stool, looking at me. “I thought you were about to wake up. You’ve been asleep for three days.” Raven is wearing a dress of a woven plant fiber… and she has violet skin and pointed ears. I look at my hands. Elf.
“Raven, how are we here? Did we leave Otherworld permanently?” I panic.
“Relax brother, here drink some water.” I drink, and take a deep breath. “I don’t think it works that way. I don’t really know that much about Otherworld, but I know it’s a nice place, something like this, but the magic is… twisted?”
“We had a Mission… I think? I am supposed to go back there through a dream, and do something… I can’t remember.”
“Hmm… that’s interesting. I like this world, I think, so much better.”
A portal opens in front of us. Mosh is talking to us through it. He says the Green Moon is under attack. Raven and I morph into Queen of Night and Timelyst Knight, then jump in the portal. We tumble out into the sky above the Green Moon. Moon Orcs attacking us?
A fireball narrowly misses us. “Jus fer fun, laddy! Ye need ter sharpen yer skills, boy! An axe spins through the air at me, and I repel it with a wind spell. Raven and I laugh and leap into the fray. Mosh morphs into a great Naga and breathes green flame on the orcs. After a few minutes of battling, the orcs say they’re hungry, so we create a feast in the jungle.
The Moon Orcs (or Russian Dreamhackers) tell us the Underground is even stronger and they have been finding more Dreamwalkers. They tell me the KGB is always watching them, but they don’t care anymore. If they die, they are going to live on the Moon.

Raven and I are out front of this little cottage she made for herself on the Moon in the Biodome. There is a garden out front with lots of magical plants. We sit on the ground, and make a magical cake in the air. Different plant parts come together, and we make a magical chocolate cake. We giggle and eat it with our hands as it hovers in front of us.

**abridged due to pain***

I leap out of bed. I am a savage white werelion with a necklace of tiny skulls around my neck. I roar and create a portal with a bone-dagger.

I leap through, spinning, and land on the moon.

I am near the koi pond. Raven is watching the fish.

She looks at me. I morph into a quicksilver dragon, then a giant three headed canine with the head of a pit bull, a wolf, and a chihuahua. I growl softly.

"FLUFFY!" Raven laughs and hugs me.

"Someone is going to have nightmares tonight." Raven slams her fist into her palm, and she becomes enwreathed in violet and black flame. Her dress becomes black, and she grows two horns. Her eyes become green and lavender. She laughs maniacally and creates a portal.

A zombie-basset hound head comes out of my chest, and sniffs the ground. We leap into the portal, and end up in the bedroom of a fat want to be badass. He has posters of Sylvester Stallone on his walls and some dumbells on the floor.

"So, this is the sadistic "bad ass" that tortures dogs for pleasure?" Raven asks.

I leap on to his chest and smell him with my zombie-hound head. "Yep. This is our target."

Raven chuckles, and I quietly growl with all four heads. The room vibrates with the rumbles. The man's astral body wakes up. I bark with my pit bull head, howl with my wolf head, bay with my hound head, and yip maniacally with my chihuahua head. The din is maddening.

The man screams in sheer terror, trying to push me off of him. I jump off and he runs out the door into the street. Raven and I teleport outside, and Raven summons a wall in front of him which he slams into.

I roar, and alter the landscape to be a giant puppy mill completely on fire. I turn the man's clothes into a dog costume. He runs around freaking out. Raven creates a small cage, which he runs into.

We slowly walk into it. The man is backed up against a wall. The man's face is frozen in a silent scream. Raven creates a portal on the back wall. It looks sinister with black thorns swirling around it.

"only one way out," Raven states flatly.

The man looks at us. I am frothing at all four mouths. He leaps into a portal to Hell. We follow.

The man falls down for hours, and lands on a boulder in a great cavern full of fiery pits. Demon dogs fly about in pain and anger. I leap upon him, and devour his innards. He writhes and screams in pain. Raven shoots a bolt of lightning into his mouth placidly. His body reforms.

Raven and I merge into a great fiery angel-demon. We grab the man, and fling him into outer space, and follow. "here you will die, o 'brave warrior'," I whisper.

"Who are you?" He screams.

"WE ARE VENGEANCE!"

The man wakes up. We are in his room, a dark witch and monster. He sits up and sees us. "We are Nightmares." he screams and wets the bed. We laugh and fade away.

I am with Mosh and Raven on the Moon, in the Biodome on the Moon.

***

I appear near the koi pond. Raven is staring at the fish. She is very sad. I alter my aura, and heal myself, then I send her healing blue-gold energy. She looks up at me, and smiles.

I walk to her, and give her a hug. Mosh tumbles out of a portal, and dusts himself off. The three of us group hug, then hold hands without saying anything.

We link telepathically.

One thing we have in common, is how much pain and sorrow we've been through... are going through, the three of us.

I am going to come here, when my physical body dies, I am going to come here AND LIVE FOREVER ON THE GREEN MOON!

***

A portal opens. Selene and Eris step out. We go through the portal, and are on some strange mountaintop on another planet.

We follow a path of funny floating stones to a white Greek temple, the Temple of Kaos.

Eris smiles, and grabs my hand leading me to the Temple. There are great white pillars, with birds and bats circling the pillars which are eating insects which are eating bacteria which are are...

fuck! fractal hole!

Eris laughs at me, and we enter.

Dominating the center is a huge three dimensional chaosphere, hundreds of feet in diameter, floating above a pedestal, and slowly spinning.

One of the arrows shoots into my third eye, and I scream madly. I feel so much pain, pleasure, terror, delight, and pure fucking insanity.

***

I am in a candlelit sidechamber with lovely braziers, incense burners, flowers, and big pillows, mattresses, and sheer curtains everywhere. Selene and Eris grin mischievously, and push me down on a bed. "We are all goddesses and gods," I hear them say in my head.

Smoke swirls into a vortex above us. Gold dust floats through the air. I smell incense, roses, and the smell of earthly women. I turn and look at a pillow. I see extreme detail in the texture, even slightly imperfect seams.

I look into the eyes of my goddesses, and I see such amazing detail in their eyes. Eris with violet eyes, and blue-black hair, Selene her big black eyes, and snow white hair, her little pointed nose, small pouty mouth that I know so well.

"Yes, everything is real, Nomad," Selene whispers in my ear.

"I am... real," Eris giggles and she kisses my ear.

HOLY SHIT, AM I ON DMT?

"Not this time, Love, your own DMT," Selene tells me telepathically, and she unbuttons my shirt. "You are dreaming. Dreaming a Real Dream. This is beyond the Dream Plane. You are PHYSICALLY INCARNATE in THIS Dimension, and WE are GOING to FUCK!"

With that, she grabs my manhood, and she feels 100% real.

"YES! I LOVE YOU!" I sit up, and wrap myself around Selene, and kiss her passionately as I grab Eris, and pull her close. The three of us kiss, then I just kiss Eris, and I feel as if I just 8 the Apple of Discord.

"You are the Prettiest One, and You are," I say to Eris, then Selene.

"You are the Man in the Moon, and I love you so," Selene giggles as we make love.

"You are now a High Priest unto Kaos, and forever will you lick my vesica pisces," Eris laughs. "Or a Low Priest, fucker... yes... lower."

"Wherever the fuck this dimension is, I am coming HERE when I die!"

"Your will is divine, my lord," Selene grins and she kneels.

"I AM GOD!"

"You're the God of Nothing!" Eris giggles and she pushes me down and kisses my neck.

***



Selene

I can't type much. I have fibromyalgia, I think.

I am meditating in my mediation room in BayYanLand on the Moon. My late cousin, Bobby, wanders in smoking a fat joint. he giggles and passes it to me.

"I am going on an adventure, want to come, Bobby?"

Nah. I'm going to meditate.

"Cool."

I jump into the mirror, and pop out up out of the koi pond, splashing Raven.

She stands up, and shakes the water off, smiling at me.
I give her a big hug.

'SHARED DREAM SHARED DREAM SHARED DREAM.'

Let's remember this scheme!

I ask Raven if she wants to go to the astral plane, and help heal my physical body. She says yes.

She opens a portal, and we go to the astral plane in me house. We do healing magic on my body. Colors and music flow. My physical self smiles and mumbles.

***

Vegeta appears and says it's time for our training.

We go to Professor X's Danger Room, and train w/Vegeta.

I am a white lion-man with tawny markings on my body standing on a corner of the Temple of Nothing on the Moon. I look to the horizon. A massive wave approaches, a great tsunami, and crashes over the wall of my city, and floods it. People run out, and fly through the roofs of buildings. Raven appears.

"Nomad? What the hell is going on?"

I look at her sadly.

"You can make it stop!"

I shake my head no, and dive into the raging surf, transforming into a merman. Raven follows me, transforming into a mermaid.

"Nomad! Wake up! What's wrong with you?"

"We can only go with the flow. The end is here."

A volcano bursts up from the ocean floor. We fly through the water, and into the sky, and further out into space. The Green Moon grows suddenly, and the land cracks and separates. Water gushes out of the earth, and covers the low places. The entire planetoid is in complete chaos.

Everything is dying, everything is being made new. I scream, and morph into a butterfly-centipede larva, then a cocoon, then I break out of it with a burst of energy. "I ask the Black Sun to endarken me!" I shout. The Black Suns inside Urth, the Green Moon and the Grey Moon shoot dark energy into me, and I allow it to wash over me. I let it fuse with my entire being, and every energy type I can feel until I am in complete balance.

Raven and I fly back down to Planet Moon. It's beautiful. There are huge freshwater oceans teeming with life, and floating islands on the water and in the sky. Creatures are evolving.

"Planet... Io..."

I am at the Temple of Nothing. I am big dwarf with white skin and dark red hair wearing iron armor. I survey the scene from the landing pad. There are portals all around. Hundreds of dreamers are pouring into the city. Some of Moon Orcs fuck with them as they tumble in, asking them for license and registration, or attacking or hugging them when they arrive.

Suddenly, a small army of remote viewers arrive riding on hoverscooters. They tell me not to move, then shoot lasers at me. Shields up! I fly off the temple, slicing through the fabric of time and space with my great axe, and leap into it pulling the remote viewers with me into a White Void. There we battle. I feel like Neo, invincible. Then, I realize they are all just puppets of...? They disappear.

I am back at the pyramid (The Temple of Nothing.) I feel strange. I cough up dark energy. My symbiote leaps off my back rolling around, a shapeless blob, eating it up. Raven hands me a glass of pomegranate juice. MoSh is standing next to me. He looks like a Druid with glasses. He says some ancient incantation, and sacred geometry flies out of his palms, and creates and energy matrix around the City.

missing time

Atras rides up on winged indigo wolf. "You like my dragon?" he asks me.
"Well... it looks more like a..." The beast transforms to a little dragon, and grins at me. "Oh! A shapeshifting steed!" He flies off.