The Nomad Chronicles

We are standing around a great crater. There is only ash. Then I realize we are all dead. We look like ghosts, the ghosts of gods.

Why? Why did we do it? In our lust for power, we upset the balance. Everything is gone. We must sleep for a 1000 light-years to let this planet begin to grow again.

I am in my workshop on the asteroid, Q10. I slip on an invisibility suit. I make myself as tiny as I can. I open a tiny wormhole to MoSH and Raven. I shoot two hooks out into their clothes and follow them through dreams. Some they separate, but, I just give my astral tentacle more slack. They are together in dreams almost the whole night, at least in the same dream.

There is a long dream where MoSh is a merchant in a North African town by the sea, and Raven is an assassin. There is another dream, where they are brother and sister, and battling hordes of demons on horseback. They have a training session with Q. He sends thousands of DC monsters at them.

I get bored, and turn into a sentient sword. I begin singing off key. Raven grabs me. Who are you? I am me, you know me, the Singing Sword, you see!

I guess I'll wield you.

Raven charges me with flame. She flicks me out in front of her. I shoot a blade out on the end of chain. "Aha! A Chainblade!"

There is a sad dream at the end where they are two old people in the Great Depression.

I open a portal, covered with numbers. I jump in. I am in a world covered by numbers. The numbers flow over me. They feel like wind water fire earth... bugs, fear, permission, anxiety, jubilation.

I am in a beautiful mountain valley. Suddenly a storm appears, and the sky turns violet black. A torrential rain pours down on me. Lightning strikes me, but I keep walking. My clothes are smoldering. For some reason, I feel grief. I begin crying. I am filled with rage, shame, and fury. Flame bursts forth out of me. I turn the rain into steam. I shoot lasers at individual rain drops. All of them. They explode into steam, and a sonic boom makes the fabric of time and space waver. I fly to a temple at the top of a hill. I kick the doors open.

I see the Number Man from Mega Man meditating within. WHAT THE FUCK.

He is levitating.

He turns to me, and stands up. He never stops hovering a few inches above the ground. He juggles numbers. I then notice his face is a question.

How are you a question, O god of Numbers? I thought you would be a zero, or maybe infinity.

Oh, you pugnacious fool, he laughs mockingly. Don't you know that nothing and everything is actually the same thing?

I am beyond numbers. Though everything in this universe is numbered, and everything is coded and all surfaces are coated with numbers on their souls... Even so, not some, but all have numbers running across the surface of their soles. Don't be ashamed or enraged, just take a chill pill Dr. Phil, and let me fill you in on something: Mathemagicians are just the quick seeking truth beyond the presently held view of empirical reality. Numbers don't seek, numbers are. But, I am the moving numbers. I am the interdimensional number. I am the immeasurable. I am soul, and emotion. I am what can never be codes. They point their numbers at me, and I just flow, the numbers flow over me. They can never penetrate my soul, oh, because I am the Number God. I am the Master of Infinity and Nothingness. I have transcended dimensions. I am aware of all my existences simultaneously. See, in that one, we are mother and tiger cub, mommy. Oh yeah! Life will always be especially strange in a particular dimension. That is because it is far away from you on the lemniscate, but I have found a way to exist in the zero point, the center of the lemniscate. I am the smallest particle in the universe. I am the oldest particle in the universe. I am what is left of the Big Bang. I have the power to trigger another Big Bang, should this universe ever cease to exist. I access the Infinite Nothing.

I am the Number God, I am soul and emotion. At this point, the number god changed into many forms, and the temples changed with his appearance. A great Chinese demon, a dragon, a god, a merman, a war, a plant, a solar system, a universe, a frog god...

I am infinite and eternal. You can never measure me. I am life and death.

I fell to my knees, and began weeping. I was overwhelmed with emotion. I felt like I was being born and dying in the same instant. Pain and agony ripped through my soul, yet I felt a profound peace. I screamed and stood up. The rain poured down. I was outside again. No, I burned the temple with fire. I painfully turned into a tree. It felt like being struck by lightning. The crazy Number God did this, that bastard!

I forced a root into the ground. It felt like I was dying as I pushed it through the rocky soul. I felt a magma pocked with my root, and burrowed into it. The lava flowed up my root, and burst out the side of a mountain. It felt like my arm was on fire. The volcano grew. More places erupted, and turned the rain into steam.

The Number god turned into a water elemental in the shape of a flying tiger. I turned into a giant magnet tiger. I sucked iron to me, and shot tiny bits of rock at the Number God. He reformed. Then, I charged the iron with fire, and shot it at him. He burst into steam. He roared and me, and rushed at me like a wind, but I exhaled hard, and right when he got to me, I inhaled him. I held him inside me.

He giggled, "Now you see you are a Bhudda within."

I exhaled, but only an image came out of my breath.

"I remain within, as I always have."

I have been working on being invisible.

NOTES

(previous night)

I become very tiny and follow Raven and MoSh through dreams.

I am at the front of a big strange house, it's impossibly huge. It's built like a wooden two story house, but is larger than a mansion. It seems to go on forever. I have a gift of food and flowers in my hand, and something else.

The door opens. "Oh, Nomad! Nate! Come in!" A woman says. A huge chimpanzee is standing in front of me. He has the face of MoSh. "Give Nomad a kiss! Show him how you give monkey kisses!"

MoSh pushes his mouth on my face. Uh...

"Now, Come along MoSh-y. I like your costume, Nomad. You look very invisible!" What?

A bunch of people jostle me, ask me random questions... Someone wants me to play a game with them. Someone else tells me to have a drink. Someone else tells me their dream. They ask me a dream question.

I go from room to room, trying to find some quiet. One room has a exhibit of artifacts, another old paintings, another, new paintings, another people practicing magic, another two people getting it on a bed with a fur on it... I find Angel in a hallway. I grab her, and take her into a bathroom. I shut the door, and we make out....

missing time

I want to get out of this house! Why are people following me? I told you everything I know about dreams. The rest is up to you!

There is a group of people asking me questions about dreams. I see everyone's dream guide floating, swimming, standing next to them, transparent like ghosts. I look at them. The dream guides shrug.

missing time

I go out the back of the house. It opens up to a large cavern. MoSh comes out. He has a paper cone birthday hat on. He is drunk. "Dude.. comin n party myaan..." he slurs. "HOLY SHIT WHAT'S THIS?" He sobers up.

There are giant holes in the ground. "What's down there?" I don't know, man. Let's check it out.

"No, NOMAD IT'S A TRAP."

I am too curious to listen. There is a steel ladder that goes into the darkness. I climb down down down. I fall and hit the bottom. I hear munchy crunchy noises. Rubbery hands grab me, and pull me away from the munchy crunchy creature. They shush me.

I can see in the dark. The creatures look like aye-ayes... Large lemurs with huge red eyes. I am behind some bars. The munchy crunchy thing leaps at the bars and bites them. It has long sharp teeth, and is all fur and claws. I roll into a ball, and so do the lemurs. The dream starts to fade as they show me their weird underworld home, like an ants nest.

I transform into an indigo stone giant insectoid-humanoid. I have jets on my feet. I slam a spiraling staff into the jungle of Nod.

I DECLARE MYSELF THE MOON GOD! I AM X. I AM THE LUCID GOD. I AM THE GOD OF LUCIDITY.

Raven tells me to calm down. I respond by turning into a demon-dragon and eating someone.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?

I am balancing out the energies here. I have become a True Neutral. Good and evil are only perceptions.

You fool! I will always be chaotic good, no matter what my form!

Raven turns into a large black raven, Queen of Night, a black bear, a black mamba, a giant black widow...

and you, my prey, have gone too far!

I turn into a giant blue translucent panda wearing a hat, wielding a quarterstaff. she turns into a dragon. we battle.

I breathe water at her, and put her fire out. she coughs.

She gets mad and me and chases me into the sky. I feel her claws tearing into my back. I escape into another dream.

I have a daughter that looks so much like Angel... We are in some cartoon Disney movie... It's how our child perceives her life, a kind of perfect fairyland where no one gets hurt.

"Nomad! Stop being an asshole!"

Raven is wearing a long red dress with red horns. She calls down thunder.

I turn into a rabbit, an burrow into another dream.

This is some weird rotoscoping...

I am smoking DMT with Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Winona Rider, and Robert Downey Jr. I take a hit. I feel my face implode. I feel like my soul is screaming. Raven follows me down a wormhole. I am a fox with a long long tail which she is holding on to. Why does she have a picnic basket? The wormhole becomes full of life. We sing a song, and say we are going to meet the All-One, the Mother and Father of ALL-ness.

We are hovering in space in front of a multicolored sun. It feels sentient. Its surface reminds me of human egg cells. It begins speaking to us in waves. It says it's a symbolic representation of the universe, and at the same time it is the universe, the progenitor of planets, yet as young and new as it is ancient.

I live forever, because I die for ever.

I wake up in a CIA Remote Viewer room. Raven is on the couch next to me. We take off these strange devices.

"Alright. We know you have The Gift. You are going to use it for US now, the U.S., for the good of the country. There are many things you can do with your gift, given the right training. You will be paid a healthy government salary, great benefits, see the world."

I don't need to travel to dream travel.

"Oh, but you will to get a better, ah, impression, of your, ah, targets."

"I don't really believe in spying."

"We prefer to call in psychosurveillance."

"You will go into the minds of our enemies and extract information."

"It doesn't work like that."

"You don't understand how well you will be trained. This is an offer you can't refuse. If you do, you will be detained for oh, five, ten years. 'How did these terrorists break into the CIA?'"

I shrug and sign my name. "NOMAD! NO!"

The dream shifts again.

Raven and I are battling the RV'ers, Matrix-style.

Suddenly we are in Evil Dead II.

The spooks become deadites. They say they want to swallow my soul. I turn into a burning white-hot archangel, and consume them. I form their dark energy into a sword. I absorb them into it.

I transform into Indigo, god of Lucidity, and slice and dice the deadites. I am now slicing Isz in The Outback. I am a giant white devil rabbit.

NOTES

practicing WILD

I actually see my HH vividly. I am awake.

I tell myself, "this is a dream."

I fall into myself, into a Black Void with a rush.

this was a long ass dream, but I only remember frags

NOTES

In many houses, on a river...

waiting for a boat.

Leaving my house, going to another

A strange "mother" presence is shadowing me

I put on a green parka to disguise myself
like one she used to wear

abridged
I am a dark African sitting in a grass hut on a swamp somewhere on the dream plane. I have a necklaces of animal bones around my neck, and feathers coming out of my head. I have thick dreadlocks.

There are all kinds of voodoo shit hanging about.

Raven enters with MoSh, Tigress and Loaf. MoSh is half snake, but no one seems to notice. Loaf is half vampire, half werewolf. Tigress is a werewolf. Raven is Queen of Night.

"We have come to seek the guidance of the Night Shaman," says Raven.

"What is it you desiyah??"

"We desire the Great Red Ruby of Foresight atop the Mountain of Despair."

"Oh, no. You don' wan go dere! You goin' die. You all goin' die many many deaths."

"Just tell us how to get there."

"Me not know if you be deservin'. Are you strong? Are you wise ones? Are you... in unity? If not, you will die, die like a snake writhin' in th' sun! You must accomplish de task of Fiyah firs'! Outside dere is a large swamp tree, with a hollow arch. Walk t'rough de tree. You will find you in de Hell of Hells. Bring me de One Watah Drop in all of Hells, and you will prove to me dat you have de strength it gon' take. NOW GO!"

They eye me suspiciously, but turn and leave. I cast enchantments upon them of protection, energy and power to assist them in their trial.

Q appears next to me. Do you think they'll make it, Professor X?

Well, Q, it's my Danger Room. I can turn it off if they lose lucidity or get lost in pain. I am going to give you an AI orb with a portion of my power. This orb will guide you in my will, and stay with you when I am awake.

I summon a small silver orb, and put a piece of my sentience into it. I hand it to Q. Q10 appears. Q hands the orb to him.

I wake up in some remote viewer facility.

"Good job, sir. You have successfully joined the Dream Corps of the CIA Remote Viewing Project, Dreamgate."

"NO YOU BASTARDS! LET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Code BLUE CODE BLUE WE HAVE A LIVE ONE!

I run out of the room. I am in a huge underground base in a mountain. I run down a catwalk. I don't know where I am going. I have to get the fuck out of there. I feel needle in my back. I collapse to the floor.

I wake up strapped to a table in an operating room.

"You have already betrayed your friends. Oh, yes, you fool. You signed on the dotted line when you slept, you idiot. Don't remember, do you? Too bad your recall sucks."

'NO YOU'RE A LYING FUCK."

THey show me a video of me signing a document in blood in an interrogation room.

"That's not me, you asshole, that's some CGI actor or something."

SILENCE. And now, we torture you for your insolence. Release the straps.

I try to get up. I can't move.

You have been given a paralyzing anesthetic. You can't move for the next forty-five minutes. Yet, you will feel all the pain and torment as we slice you open, and examine what makes you tick.

I see in the reflection of the crazy doctor's eye, a jaguar face. I am confused.

They slice me open, and I scream. I feel no pain. They remove my guts, and play catch with my liver. I realize it must be a dream. I feel a dark fire burning inside me.

I roar, and stand up from the table.

CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS. DREAMER IS MANIFESTING BEAST SELF.

I grab the doctor, and bite his head off, then spit it on the floor. The others back away.

WHO ELSE WANTS THEIR FUCKING DREAMS HAUNTED FOR ETERNITY?

I shoot claws at all their eyes, then fly through many floors until I get outside the mountain.

Goddamned spooks in jet packs are awaiting me.

I call out to Koomo, as the RV Templars hit me with a knock out drug. Fuck yo tranq, beeyotch! This is MY DREAM!

I begin to fall. Michael catches me. Man-bats appear out of portals, and we battle the Templars.

I soon see my friends from the first part of the dream come and join me. We kick ass.

Loaf runs through the mountain, affixing bombs to the pillars. He hands me the detonator. BOOM!

We fly back to the Moon, and rest.

I am shooting large stone blocks out of me, then retracting them back with my astral tentacles on the Moon.

Raven: What are you doing, Nomad?

I am training, baby! BOOM blocks! Leave me alone!

Raven: Uh... what? Did you just call me baby? Why are you acting so weird?

Probably because I am not lucid.

You know this is a dream?

Yes. But, I am currently unaware of physical reality.

So, you don't know you have a body on earth, on another plane?

Hmm... sounds like a fading memory. Oh well. BOOM, BEEYOTCH, BOOM!

Clouds of Moon dust fly up.

abridged

I am in a pirate radio station in a grass hut in the City of Nowhere. I am shooting out radio waves from an antenna on the top of the Temple.

YO, WHAT'S UP DREAMERS? This is Nomad, Juargawn, Nate, Indigo, whatever you want to call me, I am The God of Lucidity, broadcasting from the MOON BABY, YEAH! Tonight we have a line up of some kick ass drum'n'bass, glitch, and DUBSTEP, MU-FUKKAS! And I will play the didjeridoo with my mouth into the mic tonight. How can I do it? THIS IS A DREAM, BABY! THIS IS A FUCKING DREAM!

I fly through the roof. I sense myself in many dreams, in many dimensions. I cover myself in dream-orbs like armor. I shoot them into as many dreams as possible.

Yeah! I am the funky monkey goat god, Pan-Cannabis! Bachus Magnus! I fly through your dreams on wings of power!

I go back to the Temple, and sit on the landing pad. Francis, Aphrodite, Sarnox, and Guargawn join me.

"Now if I could only remember my regular lucid dreams like this... hmmm..."

A man walks up the steps proclaiming himself Mayor of Nowhere. I say "Go ahead, as long as you don't act like an asshole." He snickers at this and says he got elected.

I don't trust him.

I see he has a parasite on his back. I pounce on him, and rip the parasite off. The man coughs, and seems weak. I give him some water. He says The Bastards did it to him. The Bastards? The Conquistadores, mufukka! Damn.

He says they were controlling his words and actions remotely.

He says he is Juan from long ago, the guy with the sentient plants.

***

We have a huge battle, and fight off Templars with sentient plants turned to their will. I summon swarms of locusts which devour the plants. Lady Datura says the plants are fools.

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abridged

I am driving down the freeway with no car at night. When I get to the turns, I go careening over the edge of a cliff, and fly back on to the freeway. I then realize I am dreaming.

I fly up into the sky. I notice I have a steering wheel in my hand. I toss it aside.

I look down at the beach. I see the reef clear as day, all the way to the seafloor though I am hundreds of feet in the air. It's beautiful. It suddenly goes dark.

I think: Who turned off the light on my head?

I try to turn the light back on, but it doesn't work.

Frustration wakes me.

NOTES

I proclaim myself god of Lucidity. I will fly through people's dreams, an indigo panther bear, with skin wing flaps, and a staff of blue diamonds.

Raven proclaims herself goddess of Night.

Angel proclaims herself goddess of Twilight.

MoSh proclaims himself King of Nagas.

Tigress proclaims herself the goddess of Wolf-Tigers.

Silverwolf proclaims herself goddess of werewolves.

Loaf proclaims himself The Vampire Prince.

Mowglycdb proclaims himself The Beast Lord.

***

MoSh and I battle in the Jungle. I am the Jaguar God, and he is the Rainbow Serpent.

abridged

I am playing with small dark energy creatures in the Biodome.

Raven: Nomad? Uh... what are those?

These are my lil' friends.

MoSh: Get those fucking demon creatures out of here! Biodome AI, teleport them out!

Override! Code: 8529 times infinity. No way man. Don't worry, dark does not mean evil. You just gotta train 'em, like lil' pit bulls.

MoSh: Why the weird accent?

I don' know, man.

A portal opens up beneath me, and sucks me in. You asshole? WTF?

****

Dream explodes. I pull all the dreams to my, and cover myself in dream orbs. The RV Templars are torturing me in an electric chair. They keep killing me. I spit in their faces. I watch myself, Juargawn.

I cover myself in dream orbs and my lil' friends. I launch orbs and lil' friends at the Templars, and rescue Juargawn from another dimension. I take him back to the Biodome.

A portal opens beneath me. I run away, but get sucked in.

I run through dreams, launching dream orbs and lil' friends at the bastards chasing me.

I finally let them catch me, then I absorb their dark energy. I feed it to my lil friends. The spooks are drained, fucking worthless wraiths.

I capture them in a dream orb, and take them back the the Biodome.

What should we do with these?

Raven: Fuck them up!

MoSh: Kill them.

Tigress: Study them. Seriously. Give me the orb.

Tigress gives the orb to Washu and Janet.

NOTES

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I am covered in reflective armor. I have a mirror hanging off my face. My face halfway in the mirror.