The Nomad Chronicles

NOTES

Jojo is on my shoulder, about four inches high.

We are flying through space in a large space battle.

She is helping me blast the enemies with red fire energy. She is wearing a red dress and hat.

I turn into a shadow.

I silently move across the yard to the farmhouse.

I slip into the kitchen. There is a man sloppily eating bacon and eggs, yelling at his wife that she cooked the eggs wrong. She apologizes.

He gets angrier, and throws the food at her. She turns to him, humiliated. He laughs at her. She cries.

He yells at her to quit crying. He stands up.

I stand up from the floor, a standing shadow. I stand between him and his wife. I growl at him. They are both terrified. He falls backward into the chair. I morph into a 2D shadow snake, and wrap around him. The edge of my body slices into his skin. I become a fully fleshed cobra, then step out of my cobra body, now a shadow again, but there is now a giant 20 foot cobra snaking over the man. The cobra's head stops in front of the man's face, and stares at into his eyes. The man wets his pants.

The wife giggles a little bit.

I walk to the basement door, and open it. The smell of rotten flesh fills my nostrils. I run down the stairs. There is a little girl tied to a chair, holding a teddy bear, petrified with fear, staring at the body of a dead mouse which has begun to decay.

I untie her. She is unafraid of me. I pick her up.

"Daddy put me down here with the dead mouse!" she says, and starts crying. The wife is standing at the top of the stairs, crying.

"He said he would kill her if I didn't let him tie her up. He said he was going to teach her a lesson, because she wouldn't pick up the dead mouse to get rid of it."

I take the girl and the lady to a big Buick. We get in, and I drive them to a motel. I give them 10,000 dollars, and drive away. I tell the little girl that she can always call me, if she just says "Nomad" into her teddy bear.

***

I go back to the farmhouse, and speak to the farmer.

Listen, Judge, the police are going to be here in two minutes. After they found out what you did, no one is going to have mercy on you. You are going to be Big Mac's bitch. Everyone is going to want to cut you. Even your own mother.

Now, because I am merciful, you have a choice. I hand him a detonator, and walk away.

He presses the button while I am still in the house. Nothing happens. I laugh.

He presses it again. His shoes catch on fire, then his pants. He presses it again. Nothing.

KILL ME YOU ASSHOLE! he screams at me.

My cobra constricts him slowly.

The police show up, as I walk away and open up a rip portal.

BOOM!

Back on the Moon.

don Juan applauds, then vanishes from site.

The Templars are trying to find the location of Castle Anthrax. I laugh at them from my fortress.

I morph into a Castle on Mars.

They come to attack me. I open 3000 eyes.

They panic. I suck them into 3000 portals.

HAHAHAHA. idiots.

One of them grabs a piece of my dream body and slices it off, taking it to another dimension with him.

I insert my sentience into it, and turn into a virus and infect him. He gets sick and falls asleep in the dream, then wakes up in waking life. I return back.

I am in the middle of an immense battle on Mars.

There are armies flying through space from the Moon and Urth to aid us against the Templars of Urth.

Time freezes. I hear Morpheus and Chronos discussing something, but I can't understand, being frozen in time.

don Juan appears and says I am perceiving the fifth dimension, being outside of time, as if time is a blanket which I can walk upon.

He grabs my hand, and i feel like a 2D person becoming 3D.

Now perceive time as two physical dimensions. There is linear time, and perpendicular time. This is because parallel universes sit on top of each other, and interact with each other in that way.

Now, look at this battle. Now see the gods looking down out of time.

Ah, so are they one of us? Is he one of us? Are they all one of us? What is the nature of existence? Why are you here? Why am I here?

"Why are the gods asking those questions?"

Gods always ask those questions. That's not important. Now look.

don Juan steps on to the time blanket, and walks around on it. He makes himself 2D, and falls back into the blanket. I copy him. We are in the same battle with the same people, but the place is different, and so is the armor. What the hell.
This is actually a physical plane, but you don't perceive that. You can believe that you can become corporeal in a dream. But the funny thing is, in those dreams, you are not dreaming, you are physically in that other plane of that universe. Think about you waking life right now.

What's that? Oh, Wakeworld.

Doesn't it seem like a dream. Write in your Wakeworld journal.

I pull out a spiral notebook.

ENTRY 10-10-10
I have come to the conclusion that all is real, and all is dream. Some to do with the mind.... AHA... So today was very dream. Much music making magic and such, visual magic, fire breathing, licking the flames off the stars, the dogstar doubling delight in the moonlight...
don Juan keeps bothering me, but I ignore him, because I just don't want to believe what he says right now. I feel my subconscious mind is not ready for it. And by that I mean my Wakeworld mind. How silly he is. Going through his dream life on autopilot.

I try so hard to become lucid in Wakeworld, it's almost impossible, because it has to do with altering perception, not Reality Checks. Reality. Everything is real. I don't know if anyone is every going to read this, but if you are, I probably love you a lot.

peace in tha Middle East
N8

So, now you see how the physical plane, when thought about from a dream feels like a dream. But, now we are here, physically. You have more than one physical body. Here, eat this apple.

I eat a sour green granny smith apple. It's the one I recently smoked out of. It has a worm in the holes which I eat.

The worm asks me from my stomach why I did that. I say I was curious.

I vomit the worm out with black vomit.

The worm becomes my symbiote, and absorbs the vomit.

I am supposed to go on you, not in you.

don Juan grins at me.

There is a child being held captive in the basement of that house. Go rescue her. And remember, here you are a god.

I look around. Everything is so vivid. I am in a wheat field near the edge of a forest. I see a lone farmhouse.

(cont'd)

I pick Jojo up in a taxi. She tells me she wants to go to the Moon.

Of course we are going to the Moon.

I turn around. I have a monstrous demon cat face.

OMIGOD. Nate?

HAHAHA!

The taxi turns into a spaceship, and we blast off to the Moon.

We land on the Moon. There is a party going on in the Biodome. We step out into the Biodome.

Jojo runs around touching all the plants, smelling the flowers, and petting the animals.

OMIGOD!

Are we really on the Moon, Nate?

yes!

HAHA.

I introduce her to Raven, MoSh, Tigress, Silverwolf, and Pablo. She bows to each of them, except Pablo, because he's a fox. She sits down and pets him, then he transforms into a man. OMIGOD!

I give her a tour of BanyanLand, and introduce her to DJ Sabertooth.

Raven and I ring the bell for Dream School.

A bunch of students appear in the class. Jojo is wearing a giant red witch hat which is crowding the room. Sorry! she says, embarrassed.

Raven and I make the room bigger.

Mosh flies out of the chalkboard in his Naga form, and gives a lecture on the nature of dreams. The students are terrified. He shoots astral tentacles from his third eye, and touches theirs.

NOTES

Dream Battle Tournament

I battle Walms.

We go to the Dream Warrior Planet.

Thunderdome.

Past few nights

NOTES

giving K a tour of the Biodome and Tower. She is interested especially in the telescope and how the AI works, and its sentience.

we go through a wormhole in Hanauma Bay to and underwater kingdom of sentient sea people

we go to Club Nexus.

We means MoSh, Tigress, Raven, Angel (other people pop in and out.)

I am in a zoo in a room that prepares food for the animals.

Six legged mammals break out, and I see them run past the window.

I fly through the sky, and land in the town of Denn. There are little imps running about. Angel and I hunt them down with spears, and catch them all in energy nets. We chuck them into random portals.

You little bastards. I am am the only demon in this town.

I float around and make sure everything is in place.

AndresLD comes up to me. Dude am I lucid?

Probably not, because you are asking me.

Oh shit... right! Should I do a reality check?

Yes.

Nah... Nevermind. I am not going to remember this dream.

I slowly morph into some plant beast monster like Swamp Thing. How about now?

He looks terrified. I open my mouth to eat him. Oh shit. He woke up.

Nomad! Why were you scaring him? Lucidity and recall.

Oh. Well, I am not going to remember this dream either.

Why not.

Cake. Lots and lots of chocolate cake.

Raven smiles and walks away.

I then realize it's the other Raven, the ninja one.

I follow her into a store. She orders some chocolate cake ice cream.

Raven?

Don't call me that. I am the Snowbird.

Okay... Snowbird. Why are you here?

For you, for Raven for all our friends. Yaay! So we can kick ass and take names together, Nate.

Raven walks by outside. She stops and sees us, then walks in.

It's you! Who are you?

You.

No, I am me. But, you are me from another dimension.

Same thing. Whatever.

They suddenly battle, and we are on some giant planet... but they are giants. There are thousands of people watching the dream battle. Raven Knight wins.

Snowbird shoots a white astral tentacle around Raven's leg, and sucks them both into a portal. I follow them.

We are before some great white star, full of smaller colored orbs of light.

This is Great Mother, says Snowbird. The Mother of All Stars, the Heart of the Universe.

We float there, in awed stillness for what feels like years.

Swirling orbs of light float out, and become galaxies. Black holes get absorbed back into the Mother.

I wake up.

FA

I go downstairs to pee. I pee in the kitchen sink. WTF. My pee disappears. I am floating three feet off the ground. I feel nauseous. I float upstairs, and lie down in bed. I am floating a few inches above the bed. I spin like the hands of a clock. I am just dreaming. Do and RC. Nope... SP set in.

HH grows out of my closed eyes like sentient vines. The vines wrap themselves around me, and I am pulled into the bed which becomes earth.

I become soil and decompose. Ants and worms crawl in me. It feels strange. I become part of the soil. A tree puts down roots in my remains. I feel less and less corporeal, and more and more like a part of everything. I feel my consciousness spreading like water through soil. The borders of my existence blur.

I rise up out of the earth, an earth elemental. I draw steel into my body for bones. I bound off the earth, and land on a mountain.

I rise up out of my bed.

I am a dark energy demon with a rage parasite in my brain. I leap off the balcony, and into my spaceship. I open a portal to the Moon. In the wormhole my ship becomes silvery armor, and I blast the fuck out of parasites trying to stick to me. I land on the Moon. Raven walks up holding a fox kit.

Hey Nomad. Nomad? Uh... What's wrong.

NOTHING. I am going to kick Gawn's ass. Want to come?

Yoda? You can't defeat him.

I know. But, I can get better. And my rage will help me defeat him.

Nomad. That doesn't make sense. Let me just....

She scans me.

STOP scanning me!

Nomad! You're sick.

NO! I push her away with wind energy. She looks sad. I pretend not to notice.

I form my spaceship around me, and take off to the Dream Warrior Planet. Raven sticks a grappling hook on the ship.

I land on the ship. I have the feeling that Raven has made herself very tiny, and is sitting on my shoulder or something... I get distracted by my surroundings.

GAWN? GAWN! I shout.

He appears before me. I lunge at him, and he changes into a matador. I get confused and tumble into a portal.

We battle through worlds. He constantly mocks me. He is toying with me.

I grab the VR helmet, and rip it off.

***

I am in a VR Danger Room created by Professor X. What the hell is the point of this, Xavier?

Put the helmet back on. DAMN YOU. FINE.

***

I put the VR helmet back on. I see myself wandering through a South American jungle... the jungle of Nod... tracking down a prey... I am a black werepanther. The dream explodes.

Raven pulls the parasite out of my brain. Aha! I can think clearly. Gawn starts laughing at me. Raven burns up the parasite with orange flame.

WTF?

I don't feel like fighting.

***

I am screaming hysterically, insanely on a mountain... I am in Hell... a battlefield... a bombed out city... The dream whips in and out of me, and I lose control.

I focus on a tiny dot of white energy, and go into myself.

I wake up in Silverwolf's cottage...

Ah, his fever broke, says Tigress.

Angel and Raven walk in the room. Angel kisses me on the forehead, and gives me a glass of water. Raven makes a tiny cloud in the room to keep the room cool. I close my eyes, and sense Sarnox and Joseph near me. MoSh is standing in the doorway, lighting a cigarette. He says something about PureLeaf found only in dreams.

I fall asleep.

***

I am falling down a rabbit hole. I land in a garden with giant flowers. I am wearing a blue and white dress.

An ugly little girl!

I am not a girl!

Then, why are you wearing that dress?

I don't know.

I see a naked blond woman, half hiding in the shadows. She motions to me. She gestures for me to give her the dress. I take it off, and give her the dress.

***

I draw pictures of my dreams on a paper...

The pictures crawl off and on to me, burrowing themselves into my skin, becoming tattoos.

My allies all become tattoos, my tattoos become allies.

I am a bald tattooed man in hemp pants running through the jungle in the land of Nod.

My tattoos swirl around me.

I sprint faster and faster. I stop on the edge of a cliff, and watch a nuclear bomb go off. I reverse time, and surround the bomb in an energy net. I toss it into a black hole portal.

As I run through the forest, little clouds of dirt pop up like mushroom clouds.

We go to Silverwolf's cottage
she enchants small magical devices
as a way to protect our familiars
jo
Shadow
the dogs
the emblems become a kind of armor

I float around the town of Denn....
checking on things
I pat demon boy on the head
i go into him, and look through his eyes
i look through the eyes of others
i hunt down the creep, and kick him out
ripping his dream body in half
before sending him through two different portal
I crawl into the cave
and morph into a giant tentacled monster
embedding myself
in the rock
i work on the detail of my body
to make myself look very realistic
and creepy

June 16, 2010

Hunter S. Thompson is sitting across from me in a hotel lobby. "This is some good shit, this DMT stuff, boy. Hell yeah. I am going to do this shit this entire afterlife, kid. Mahalo." He is cutting a powder on the table.

"Uh, Hunter, is that cocaine?"

"No! And even if it was, who gives a shit? This is our dream, and we are going to do whatever the hell we want."

He yells his head off.

"ISN'T THAT RIGHT? YOU FUCKING STUCK UP CONCIERGE PRICK! I AM DREAMING, BITCH! FUCK YOU! I SNORT DMT IN DREAMS. HAHAHHAHA!"

Hunter turns into a giant albatross with a can of tuna with two mice in it on his back. They turn into Ralph Steadman, and Ralph the Motorcycle Mouse, and then, Hunter flies off.

Now I am in The Rescuers. I feel confused. I get dizzy and puke.

I wake up in a hotel bathroom. Johnny Depp is slapping my face. I cough. Smelling salts.

"Holy shit, kid," he says, turning into Hunter. "That was some crazy shit you just snorted pal. Why don't you take it easy, and just go kill some lubricant aliens. They keep trying to infect my fucking wormholes. See, I got water on the brain, from being in the desert. My skull's bloated man. Don't you get it, you asshole? I thought you were my lawyer, you worthless Samoan. HELP!"

Hunter has a heart attack, and explodes. There is blood everywhere. I freak out and scream.

I am in Hunter's den. He's writing a suicide note. He burns it and chuckles.

He loads a revolver.

He looks at me. I realize I am looking at him through a mirror.

He points at his reflection. "FUCK YOU."

He lifts the gun to his head. I leap through the mirror as he blows his head off.

I freak out and beat the crap out of his body. 'YOU ASSHOLE! WHAT THE HELL.'

His ghost taps me on the shoulder.

"It's all green gravy, kid. No use crying over spilled blood. HAHAHA. Hey, I was planning on it for years. I didn't want to go through any of that old age bullshit. Can you blame me? Now I am free. I am going to be an angel or demon or something write? Get it? Write. See I am speaking to you telepathically, so you can see what I am saying. Anyway, aren't you supposed to give me a pair of wings, kid?"

"No, I am just a human, you idiot!"

"Dammit! Don't lie to me!"

He throttles me.

"Fugg yew! Here!" I cough. I summon a pair of cheesy red costume bird wings. He puts them on and flies up. He strums a harp, then shoots red arrows.

"I am going to play Cupid for awhile, Nate."

"That doesn't make any fucking sense!"

"Hey, fuck you kid. I will now proceed to wander through Heaven and Hell as I so choose."

I am a demon in Hell being tortured by angels.

Raven and Angel comes as archangels and rescue me.

There is a huge battle with demons and angels on both sides. I absorb the demons.

Raven and Angel absorb the angels.

There are three orbs fighting.

It's the three of us.