The Nomad Chronicles

DJ of Waking Nomad
6/9/2013
Abbreviated due to CTS

Behold the wizard.
I awake and cast an AoE Sacred Flame Spell over Winter and I.
Raven comes out of a portal.
We go to the Moon and do mutual healing.
I train elemental wizard powers: Fire: Ice: Dark and Light.
BEHOLD THE WIZARD.
BEHOLD HIS POWER!
I strap on the Moon Energy Boots Selene gave me and open a portal to Hell.
I run through Urthan hell shouting at Nevergawn to challenge me in battle.
Raven tries to pull me back, but then she lets me go. She says I have too much neg. energy.
I find the great Archdemon: Nevergawn sitting on his throne with his great smug pigface grimacing at me. I cast a earthrending spell of darkness, cracking the cavern, splitting his throne in half. He roars at me and charges.
I teleport behind him and infect him with me red rage. He runs smack into a wall. I infect him with me dark energy. He gets sucked into a black hole, the hole in my chest, Demon, I, Deathgawn. I roar to the heavens that I am now the God of Thisworld. I am the Devil, I am the Christ. I am that I am Jesus Satan Christ, Devilgod, Evil-Good. I pick up Nevergawn’s Scepter, and Proclaim myself King of Thisworld Hell, Lord of All Demons. I shout at the all the demons of Hell to challenge me for the throne of the Underworld. Demons with swords and claws, fangs and hammers swarm me, hundreds, then thousands. I slay them all with my baby dragons and three swords. I grow six more arms to fight them all. I laugh and dance as I kill them all. I imbue myself with the power of angels, and morph into an angeldemon.
I kill them. ALL. Then, a host of angels come to challenge me, and I slay them all as well. Feathers everywhere.
I stride up to the throne. There is a black hole portal on it, Nevergawn is sucking me in. I get pulled in. I fight the suck inside the wormhole, to no avail, Nevergawn is not just pulling me into another dimension, I am being sucked into the Inner World of the Devil himself.
What I see is revolting beyond measure. Every atrocity thinkable, I witness. I feel like vomiting. Instead I feel sorry for Nevergawn, how disgusting he is, how much self-hatred. I feel compassion, and chant, OM MANI PADME HUM. I morph into a Shaolin Monk, and run through the madness of blood and pain around me, a maze of filth, and find the Inner Child of Nevergawn. He looks like a pure white little baby. I place my hand on his forehead, and communicate with his Inner Buddha. Golden power comes into the baby, and it morphs into a golden demon boy. He tells me he is going to heal Nevergawn from the inside out, and it will take 1000 Earth years. I teleport out into the Hell, and I see demons fighting over the throne. I laugh as they keep getting sucked into Nevergawn’s Inner World. I teleport back to the Moon, and Raven does fire healing on me. Mahalo.

I float up out of bed. Raven is standing next to me. “You were surrounded by Templars, but I cleared those bastards out of here right before you woke up.”
What we were going to do?
“Let’s cast astral shields around this place.” Raven and I usher in astral fire to cleanse the house, then rain, then plants to clean the air. Then, I give Winter an astral squirrel to keep the parasites off of her. Winter stays asleep, but she cuddles with the squirrel, and says, “Gypsy!” (our cat’s name.)
“Ok, Now to the Dream Plane, and Winter’s Inner World.”
Raven opens a portal to Winter’s Inner World. We are in her deepest hell. Tiny rock islands in a sea of blood vomiting lava with demons screeching …. “love.” What the fuck? But, all the demons are her. “These demons are DC’s not real dream demons. She has not been invaded.”
“Good.”
“But, this is going to require integration.”
I nod, and summon a thundering rainstorm. The islands stop burning, and the sea changes to freshwater. The demonesses fall from the sky to a small point of rock jutting out of the water. I catch the demon-Winter. She morphs into an ancient vampire. Her skin is pale as the moon, and her large sad eyes an icy blue. Her hair is so light, it’s translucent. She whispers to me, “I thirst, my love. I’m dying.”
I put her mouth to me neck, and I am somehow now also my Vampire Self, Soulkyst, the tall gentleman vampire, of lavender skin. She bites and drinks, and I feel no pain, only her pain, her torment, her sadness. Rivers of tears pour out of my eyes until the freshwater turns salt. I feel an intense beam of calm healing energy from Raven. She is singing, and it sounds so angelic. I feel so undeserving of this angelic energy. Born a demon, and a demon before I was born. I am 9, Son of Satan, lover of Lucifer, and a Dark Knight I will remain. I realize I feel an ungrounded guilt, a guilt of existing, a guilt of being born on The Dark Side.
I have a flashback of all my Sith Masters from time beyond time, their souls, in a row, teaching me the dark arts of The Force. I faint.
I wake up in The Healing Glen of the King of the North, whom I perceive as The Frost Giant. Raven, Winter, Mosh, Tigress, Pablo and I are waking up, sitting up in the tall grass. There are lovely bees and butterflies, iridescent beetles, and cute golden finches flitting about. It feels like… summer.
“What? It’s never been summer here… always… Spring!” I shout.
“Well, the time works different here, son,” The Frost Giant replies. We are being sung over by Michael, Metatron, the Lord of Music, and other healing entities. I fall asleep and wake up in a small resort on a mountain in Hawaii… this is Whalesong! I came before, in a dream, and then I went in real life, and here I am in this place in a dream again! And I heard a whale singing here, waking me up… I fall over laughing. My laughing is so infectious I wake people up laughing, and they wake up laughing. Winter wakes up and stretches. I give her a glass of water and a cup of coffee.
“This is a dream, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
Winter and I walk downstairs, and see Raven on the lanai outside looking at the view. Altair is holding her. I cough, and they turn around. “Why are you coughing, Nomad? I know you’re here, silly.”
“Hmm? It’s because I’m smoking a joint.”
Winter laughs and turns into a were snow leopard and takes the joint and smokes it. “I want to go on an adventure with you guys. You’re cool!” she giggles.
Raven smiles at her and says, “Okay. You can automatically fight on the Dream Plane, Winter.”
“Cool!” Winter makes white ninja gear appear on herself, and wields sai’s, spinning them around and doing spin kicks simultaneously.
“Nice moves!” Raven applauds.
We greet Altair with the secret Assassin greeting, and he telepathically speaks to us:
My descendant, Ezio is being haunted. This is a physical plane quest. If you die, you will be returned to your universe, but understand the consequences for your actions are serious and you may have strong limitations if you incarnate in the physical plane of Ezio’s universe. There is a false Altair, a demon-Templar posing as me, who we must assassinate in time past first.
Altair opens a portal ,and we step through.
Carpal tunnel acting up. More later. Peace.

I am eating breakfast, a bowlful of rhymes. WTF? so many words in my mouth, wanting to be heard. Raven appears out of a portal, She says its time to fight the Meta-Warlock, the one who calls himself The Soul King.

Raven flashes a sacred orb in front of me, and I see into the past:

In the Times Before Times, all of Earth shed no blood. The Meta-Warlock, an alien-human hybrid rose to power, and opened an interdimensional portal to a Hell world. He ushered in the Frequency of Bloodshed, and came The Rise of the Vampire. Creatures infected with this frequency began killing and eating other animals. Humans killed no humans.

***

"We will fight the Meta-Warlock and his minions, this ancient astral demigod-wraith. He will never die, but neither will we. Or we'll just respawn in a few seconds."

***
my carpal tunnels hurt. peace

Raven wakes me up. She says I'm late, get in. I get in her spaceship, and we fly through a portal to Ezio's parallel universe. He is asleep, having a nightmare. Astral Templars are attacking him. Raven and I destroy the Templars, then go into Ezio's Inner World, which is infested with dream demon Templars. We defeat them and cast them into portals. Carpal tunnels acting up. peace.

Dream Journal
4/19/2013

I am flying my spaceship, Future’s Hope from Urth to the Green Moon, when I get a distress call from Jack Sparrow on the holocomm. His image pops up, “Mr. Nomad, Ms. Raven dear, Moon people, whoever, help!”
Raven: Did you get that message?
Me: Yes.
Raven flies her spaceship close to mine, and I piggyback mine on to hers then join her on the flight deck.
Raven opens a portal, and we fly to a planet very similar to Urth. We fly to the parallel Urth’s Carribbean, and we see Jack tied to a mast of an East India Company ship. He is being taunted and questioned.
“Where is the fucking golden monkey, you worthless pirate?”
“I”ll never tell… unless you feed me some rum!”
“What’s this?” The merchant pulls a map out of Jack’s pocket.
“Please don’t read that note in front of the class. It’s meant for the pretty pirate girl with the black hair.”
“Who?”
Just then Raven whacks the merchant with her sheathed sword. For some reason, she’s a pirate with black hair. The merchant collapses to the ground, and a battle ensues. We fight to a lifeboat, and Jack cuts the ropes, then we fall into the sea. We row away as the merchants shoot at us with their muskets. Raven strikes then with lightning, and laughs. Jack is extremely amused by this. We row into a fog.
“We have to get back to my ship, the Windy Whale.”
“Don’t you mean the Black Pearl?”
“Hmm.. No, the Windy Whale. But, Black Pearl does have a nice ring to it. Is that your ship?”
“No my ship’s name is Future’s Hope.”
“Well, how incredibly boring. But, this isn’t!”
He grabs Raven and kisses her, and keeps kissing her. I create a small fog spell to thicken the fog between us as I row.
I bump into a large wooden thing. “Ah, this must be it, the Windy Whale!”
Jack blows the fog away somehow. A cute blue ship is revealed. We teleport to the ship’s deck. Jack says we must make for a certain buried treasure right here on this- He feels for something, a map. He had it on the East India Company’s ship, but it’s gone now. “I know where it is, I have the map memorized in my head.” Jack commands his crew to make for the buried treasure.
Jack tells us he is looking for a certain magical device, called the Golden Monkey of Atlantis. It’s buried in a shipwreck off the coast of Bimini. We sail into shallow waters. It’s a clear sunny day. Jack says to drop anchor, here we are. We jump off the boat, and dive down. We find a treasure chest in a shipwreck, and hoist it on to the Windy Whale. Jack opens the treasure chest and finds a load of gold coins, but no Golden Monkey. He shouts, “They stole it, those creepy merchants!”
He tells us the Golden Monkey is an idol which gives the possessor an unknown power. But, he knows it’s something more, more than what the merchants know. Jack takes a swig of rum, and so do I. It makes me fall asleep, and I wake up on the Moon.

Raven and I are sitting in the volcanically heated ponds. WinterFae is floating in it, asleep. Raven sends healing energy into my foot and neck. I send healing energy into her brain and heart.
I fall asleep, and dream...
I am sitting on a mountain. The air is gently cool, and a soft breeze blows through my hair. I am in total peace, Xaphor, the red dragon-man, my dream guide, speaks to me, floating on a cloud.
"You and Raven are what's called [I]soulkin.[/I] To help heal her soul, you must go back in time, go back, go back, go back..." A portal opens behind me. I see a young Nomad playing with some rabbits somewhere in a forest. I step through. The boy Nomad does not see or hear me yet.
I see a young Raven step into the glen where my young self plays. "Hi. Whatcha doing."
"Playing with these imaginary rabbits, my imaginary friend."
"But, I AM NOT IMAGINARY. STOP CALLING ME THAT."
"Well, this is all a dream. I made it all up in my own mind."
"If I'm fake, then make me go away."
My boy self closes his eyes and opens them.
"Hmm.. must be doing something wrong."
"I'm real!"
I step into the clearing. My boy self is shocked. Raven somehow recognizes me and smiles.
"Young Nomad, everything you see is real, and everything you see is a dream. I am real, sentient, separate from you, and so is Raven. I am you from the future, and I have some things to teach you."
I touch my forehead to his, and transmit telepathically to him everything I have learned about the Dream Plane. Our transmission is interrupted by a tearing sound, the sound of a rip in the fabric of timespace. I turn and see a hairy green arm with its grip on Raven's shoulder, pulling her through the rip into some nightmare dimension. I barely miss her ankle. The rip starts to close, but I rip it open with my staff, and boy Nomad and I leap through. We are at the entrance to a labyrinth. I smell the demon. I throw my boy self on my shoulders and run after the smell, illuminating the passage with a light from my forehead.
"Got a sword?"
"What?"
"Do you have a sword?"
"No."
"Summon one. Will it into existence!"
"Cool!"
I turn a corner, and see the demon carrying Raven, running down a hall. I see him gunning for a slimy hole in the wall, apparently to jump into it. I toss my boy self at the demon, and he draws his little sword in the air, and lands on the demon, then plunges his sword into the demon's back. The creature collapses to the ground, then his body turns into putrid purple smoke. Raven coughs. I pick her up, and make a portal back to the Healing Glen in the North Country. Adult Raven is there, along with MoSh, Tigress, and Pablo. I lay down in the grass next to the two children, and the others play healing music over us.
I fall asleep, and wake up in the Hot Pools in the Biodome.
whoah.

I stretch and wake up slowly into the dream. No Templars around, at least, not in the immediate vicinity. There are a couple flying in the sky riding their silly pegasi. The bubble of protection is working. I kiss WinterFae's cheek, and open a portal to the Moon. I see a huge battle on the other side. I step through. On the other side, I am in my spaceship, Future's Hope. The Templars are mounting a full frontal assault on the entire Green Moon. The Moon Orks Castle, The Biodome, and The City of Nowhere are under attack.
Raven tells me to command the forces of Nowhere, she has the defense of the Biodome. I see MoSh and Tigress rocket off the Moon in their spaceships. They say they and Pablo are going to mount a counter-attack at The Silver Tower, the Templar's space station base.
I teleport to the City of Nowhere, my jungle pyramid city on the other side of the Green Moon. Templars on Pegasi are flying all over the outside of the city. The Moai heads in the wall are going off shooting lasers out of their eyes.
Island warriors riding winged pigs and flying sharks throw flaming spears at the Templar knights. The monster under the Temple has risen from the ground, and its green slimy tentacles pluck enemies from the air.
I summon a rainstorm, then a lightning storm, to soak then electrify their steel armor. I blast the Conch of Pan, and slam my Green Lantern ring into my palm. "Distress, Green Lantern number: 666999, Sector: Urth, Name: Nomad Nocturne, Nature of Distress: Full Scale Attack, Enemy: Illuminati Templar Knight, Dream Plane, White Lawful," broadcasts the ring.
An Army of Dream Warrior Corps and Green Lantern Corps appear out of Portals. The Green Lanterns grab the Pegasi and toss them into an equine dimension. The Dream Warriors pluck the Templars off their steeds and throw them into worlds full of only Templars.
The Battle is over. Every cheers. There is damage to the City. Little stone golems fly around the city, repairing it. I fly to my Temple, and go inside. I look in the standing mirror. I see Raven on the other side, looking at the fish in the koi pond. I step through.
"Battle over that quickly?"
"Huh? The battle for the Biodome was over hours ago."
"Really? Weird time dilation thing."
"Weird. Check this out, the battle somehow stimulated the Biodome and the plants in it to grow stronger."
I look around. I can literally see the plants growing taller and broader.
"Hmm... my body's sore... my neck in waking life, I think. Let's go to the volcanic hot pools."
****

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.

I leap out of bed, a black werelion. I cast a protection spell over WinterFae, and open a portal to the Moon. Halfway through the wormhole, I hear Raven calling me. I open a side portal in the wormhole, and fly to her house on the astral plane. She is surrounded by wraith Templars in the desert under the full moon with her sword drawn. She and I nod. We commence a move we have done together so many times in the past, but I can't remember how we know. As she throws her sword at one, throwing knives fly out of her as she spins, I teleport behind every other Templar, assassinating them. Then, we run in opposite circles with our swords drawn, decapitating the rest. A putrid purple smoke evaporates from the empty soulless armor. Gross.

I open a portal to the Moon. Raven and I go into the balancing pools. I feel very black and white. I show her how my physical foot looks. She smiles when I tell her it's so much better.

A black pigeon flies down with a note on its leg, from the Moon Orcs. "Moon Tribe: URGENT MESZAGE Frum DREAMHAKKERZ AKA MOON ORKZ
YR TEMPLARZ ATTAKK MOON ORKZ. VVE LOVE FIIGHT. TEMPLARZ STEAL MOON ORK JADE IDOL. TEMPLARZ KIDNAP PSYCHICK BROTHERZ WARLORD, THE GOBLIN KING. WAR IN PARALLEL UNIVERSE, PHYSICAL PLANE. MOON ORKZ REQUEST AID. PLEAZE INFILTRATE ENEMBY BYASE MOON ORKS HAVE NOT SO STEALTH. SIGNLAZ RESCUE OF IDOL AND GOBLIN KING BY PILLAR OF GREEN FLAME, THEN MOON ORKZ ATTAKK TEMPLAR COMPOND. mahalo"

I summon, Jo, my astral beast, and ride out of the Biodome and meet the orc messenger outside the gates. Raven flies on a broom and hovers above the ground. "HAILZ MOON TRIBE. VVE ALVVAYZ GET BOOT FROM AI IN BIODOME, WE FIGHTING, ALWAYZ, YES? DREAMHAKKERZ!" the orc riding his giant beetle laughs uproariously.

"I TAKE YOU! TEMPLARZ TUNNEL INTO GOBLIN CITY TO KIDNAP KING AND CONTINUE TO OUR VVORLD TO TUNNEL TO ORKKEN IDOL. WE GO TO GOBLIN CITY!"

The Moon Ork opens a portal to a lush green planet. We are standing on a hill with a view of a beautiful mountain city integrated into the mountain itself. The goblins themselves look like they are part of the mountain. There is a strange flag flying which makes me feel sick to look at. The Moon Ork explains the flag means the goblin city is in distress.
I smell something strange... a faint scent... blood, human blood, and demon's breath... There is a soft spot on the ground. I dig into a hole, I am falling. I hit the floor about twenty feet down. Shit, my foot hurts. I strained my ankle, I think. Raven lowers a rope down. I strike my staff on the ground. Light. Hmm... I'm some kind of wizard in this world? I try to fly out. No flight. Right. Physical plane. I sniff the ground. I smell metal, iron, steel. "AH! ZSECRET ENTRANCE! SMART MOON ASSASSINS! VE GO PREPARE FOR FRONTAL ASSAULT!"
I suddenly feel a little animal presence on my shoulder. Gypsy? My blind kitten, Gypsy is sitting on my shoulder. She has cute orangey wings. She meows and flies at the speed of sound silently through the underground maze and returns to me in a second. She meows in my ear, and transmits a map of the area.
"I see," I explain to Raven.
"Sh, speak with minds," she says.
"Right. This place is huge, and connects with the underground of the Orks Moon Castle, and the Templars' Castle. I think we should focus on freeing the Goblin King first."
"Right. Looks like this was built by Templars, not goblins." Raven and I shapeshift into Templars. We march along the tunnel, trying to look and sound Templar-ish. We fall in behind some Templars that are mumbling something about a dungeon. We follow them to a dungeon countless stories underground. I hear moanings of many different prisoners. As the great wooden door opens, a foul reek emanates from below.
ME: "We have to focus on the Goblin King."
RAVEN: "Hmm... No. Fuck this."
Raven thrusts two great lances through the six Templars in front of us. They perish in silence. Raven picks up the keys, and pops in in a lock entitled: Master Lock, and all the doors of the jail pop open. Madness ensues as all kinds of Templar prisoners make a break and attack the Templars in the halls of the prison. We run through the battle, and see the Goblin King, ten feet tall, with a large stone in one hand, and a steel post in the other. He shoves the beam into the stone, creating a makeshift warhammer. He roars in anger and crushes Templars with his bare hands.
ME: "Should we give the signal?"
RAVEN: "We still need the Orkken Idol."
"You not find Brother Idol through stealth. I will show you: war!"
The Goblin King roars like a crocodile and smashes his warhammer on the fabric of time space, creating a hole. We step through. Orks and Templars are at war on a huge hilly battlefield full of dead trees. On the highest hill on a platform, stands a jade Ork, about three feet tall. Some kind of power is beaming out of it, apparently giving the Templars power.
RAVEN: "Signal."
ME: Now?
RAVEN: Yes. Now.
ME: You got it.
I envision green flame, and slam my staff into the ground as Raven teleports to the idol. A great pillar of fire rises from the ground, green as forest night. I see Raven snatch the idol, and she tosses it to a great Ork general, riding a wolf-bear. He catches it, and places it on a space on his chest armor. He suddenly morphs into a giant jade Ork, with his wolf-bear beside him. The jade Ork grabs Templars and tosses them into the sky as his wolf-bear tears through them, ripping them apart. Raven and I open a portal to the Templar Fortress. A major siege is already underway with thousands of troops.
We decide to infiltrate the Templar Fortress fron underneath, and destroy them from the inside out. Raven opens a portal to their underground. We morph into Templars again, and assassinate from the inside. When we make it to the top of the castle, the goblins and orks greet us. We cheer, and the dream fades to white.

I awake near a campfire on the ground. Raven is here, so is WinterFae, Roland, and some other people. Roland tells us what the zombie wolves are. As he tells us the story, we see the pictures in the smoke and in our minds.

The zombie wolves are actually men. Men, Templars from other dimensions that became wraiths in their world, forever bound to the astral plane by killing themselves in order to induce a trauma to their soul and bind themselves to the twilight plane of the astral.
They have animated the bodies of mutant wolves, half-dead in order to kidnap children and steal their dreams. The Wraith-Templars want everyone to stay on the astral plane and go no further when they sleep, for on the astral, the Templars can torture people and feed of their pain energy.

I lean forward and reach for a firebrand. I stare at the flame on the end of the stick. I slowly put the flame close to my right hand. Raven shouts, "Nomad, you'll hurt yourself!"
"I have to see!" I burn myself right where my RC tattoo is in Wakeworld. I cry out in pain, and toss the firebrand into the fire. "Nomad-Nyne, what are you doing?" cries WinterFae.
"I have to see." I look at my hands. They look normal except for the burn, which is now blistering. I pinch my nose...can't breathe through it. I try to fly. I can't. I try to shoot fireballs. I can't. I pick up an empty can, toss it into the air, and throw a knife right into it with a loud clang. "...and we are all good shots..." echoes in my head.
"This is real," I whisper, and faint. Raven catches me.
I wake up some time later. Raven and WinterFae are looking over me. "This is real, isn't it?"
"Yes, brother, this is real, this land, this ka-tet, this world. And the quicker you accept that, the quicker we can-" Roland raises his gun and points it at me- no- behind me. A bullet whizzed past my ear, and into the head of a strange templar-wraith.
We look around. No one else, a scout.
"Okay, friends, let's move!" Roland shouts. We quickly pack up camp, and move out from the woods to a cool desert plain.

I hear Raven speak to me telepathically, "Nomad, help me in this battle." I wake up! No, I'm dreaming... on the astral plane. I open a portal to Raven's house in the desert. She's surrounded by astral Templar demons with her sword drawn. I run in a circle around them, faster and faster, creating a whirlwind. Raven spins in place, and the Templar demons get sucked up into a sky portal. Goodbye, fuckers.

Raven and I hi-5. Cool move! What do we call it? Chaos-Storm!

Raven opens a portal to the Hot Pools on the Moon in the Biodome. I slide in. I feel all the muscles in my dream body relax. WinterFae is sleeping, floating in the water. I give her a kiss as she floats by. Raven falls asleep in the water and wakes up. "I feel so much better!"
"What did you dream about?"
"Nothing, silly. I already am dreaming."
"Interesting!"

"I want to analyze these nanites, if I have any. Let's go to the Moon Tower, since we're already on the Moon." We teleport to the base of the Moon Tower. Washu and Janet are there with Stephanie, the Tower's AI, manifesting as a hologram. They say they are very excited to analyze our physical bodies from the dream plane, a most interesting and challenging task.
Washu has a funny dark energy animal, kind of like a cross between a beetle and a hedgehog. She says she has trained it to drain off a person's excess dark energy without hurting the person. She offers it to Raven. Raven pets it, and gives it back, saying she doesn't have too much dark energy in her dream body, it's the physical plane which is the problem.

The three women lead us into an analysis room. They have us stand on circles with lights above and under us, then lie on beds and scan us with lasers. They say we both have nanochips in our physical bodies, but mine are disabled by the alien implants. Raven's nanochips never made it all the way into her brain, but got stuck in the bone of her skull, which can cause headaches. They say Raven can control them.
We access the Collective. Raven and I are flying down a digital wormhole. I feel calm and at peace. I feel like an android, I feel so human, so alive. We fly into two cubes, spinning in opposite directions, like a merkabah. We say we are machine, we are cyborgs, we take control of our bio-technology.

We wake up in The Sick Bay of the Moon Tower. Stephanie is looking at me, her bluish skin faintly glowing. "We are so much alike, cyborg," she giggles.
"What?" I wake up.

I fall back to sleep.
I am on the Moon Tower with Raven. She is looking through the giant telescope at Masyaf. "Templars... infiltrating, counterspies! Look, Nomad!" I look through and see a city on a mesa, and Templar demons disguised as Assassins slowly making their way in.
"Nothing is True."
"Everything is Permitted."
"As above, so below, as within, so without."
"We must counter-infiltrated the Templars going in to Masyaf!"
"Let's do it!"

Raven and I morph into Templars, then put our Assassin robes over them. We think we look so silly and laugh. She opens a portal to outside Masyaf. We are on the side of a road in a valley. We join a band of demon-Templars dressed as Assassins, following up the rear. We walk with them into the city.

We stay in a special training school. After a few weeks, we discover who all the demon-Templars are, and assassinate them at night, and throw their bodies over the cliff. The Templars lay siege to the city. They shout they want their sacred artifact, the Mask of the Dawn Key, and they will kill us all to get it. (con'td)

I fall out of a portal on to a horse, a fine young quarterhorse, sandy brown like the desert we are riding through. Raven is riding black mustang with red mane and fetlocks. MoSh is riding a large black horse, and there are others with us. We are running from demon possessed zombie wolves.
We face back, and take out a few with our guns. We ride to a cliff, and make an abrupt turn. The zombie wolves go sailing over a cliff. We ride up a mountain, there is still one chasing us. A well placed shot hitting a boulder above triggers an avalanche right on to the zombie wolf.
(to be con'td)

I wake up, but I can't move. WTF, I am dreaming, my dream body can always move. A glowing light... I sit up in bed, a stickiness on my face, web? I am suddenly falling, and now, a cold wet stone floor, and bones. I see... Bilbo Baggins? He tells me to sh... I fall asleep.
***
I am on the Moon. I wake up in the Healing Glen, of the Moon. Raven is lying in a hammock strung up between two coconut trees nearby, sipping coconut juice. "Nice hammock you made here, Nomad. Much appreciated. So, is this what Hawai'i is like?"
"Sometimes," I smile.
"WinterFae is sleeping in the Balancing Pools. She turned into a mermaid and fell asleep."
"Was I sleeping?"
"You were having a nightmare, but you woke up. I think you had sleep paralysis."
"Huh? How can I have that in a dream?"
"Don't know."
(to be cont'd)

I tumble out of a portal on to the back of a black horse. Raven is riding next to me, riding a white horse. We are running across a desert. Mosh on a green horse, Tigress on an orange, and Pablo on a red, all riding. Roland, and some of the other characters who's names I can't remember are riding with us, too. We are being hunted by giant zombie wolves, the size of horses. These must be the Wolves of the Calla. I hear the wolves speaking to me in my mind, like humans, saying disgusting things. I repel their psychic attacks. We turn, and blast the wolves with our revolvers and crossbow. We pick a few off, but there are a dozen, and gaining on us. I try to summon my dream shields, but I can't. Raven tells me we are not in a dream, this is a real life in another dimension. Our powers are limited. We might die, and if we do, we leave this dimension, and come back at a later time. But, she's talking to me telepathically... okay, we have some powers. And our accuracy is eagle-eye.
(to be cont'd)

Raven opens a portal, and we fly to the Moon. When we get there, we are somehow in her spaceship. She lands it on the Moon, and we meet MoSh, Tigress, and Pablo.
They say they want to attack the Templars' Silver Tower. We teleport to the Moon Tower, and meet around a table shaped like a pentagon. I show them the Silver Tower on the astral and dream planes, a space station orbiting around Urth, with psychic warriors sleeping in it, on the astral plane. The Silver Tower, the Illuminati Templars' great astral base.
The five of us fly out of the obsidian Moon Tower, and summon allies to us. scores of dreamers and spirits from the dream plane and parallel universes show instantly appear. I send a message to the Moon Orc king via a war-dove. I howl to the Lunar Wolves to aid us in our battle. Three Armies: The Moon Tribe, the Moon Orcs, Dreamhackers of Russia riding giant beetles, and The Lunar Wolves, gather in the sky above the Moon.
A Templar appears out of a portal with a large war banner flying in an unfelt breeze. "Hail Moon People. I come in peace."
Suddenly, a crossbow bolt is ringing the Templar's helmet, piercing his forehead. He slumps over, dead. Raven chuckles quietly.
I shout, "TO WAR!"
The Moon Tribe, Dream Warriors of Urth and other dimensions, shout, "TO WAR!" as we clang our weapons.
The Moon Orcs, the rebel Dreamhackers of Russia, shout in their guttural voices, "TO WAR!"
The Lunar Wolves howl in rage, and Selene opens a giant portal to the Silver Tower.
For a second, the silvery space station benignly orbits the earth, then its sensors pick us up, and the auto-defenses engage. Lasers. But, too late, the laser guns are being taken out by gunfire from a thousand guns. Templars come pouring out of the Silver Tower, in angelic looking chrome armor, riding white winged horses. Some are armed with swords and shields, others with bows and arrows. "We are justified," they shout.
Raven morphs into Queen of Night, and sends lightning into their metal armor. Mosh morphs into a Naga and spews acid upon the Templars, melting their armor. Tigress becomes a great weretiger barbarian, and rips the Templars apart. Pablo runs among them, a little thief-fox, and steals their weapons, giving them weapons to us.
I morph into a summoner, and summon a bunch of angry goblins. No, these are not dream characters, these are the goblins the Templars had enslaved, pouring out of portals. The ghost of the Goblin King is with them, hell-bent on revenge. There is a dark red flame in his eyes.
The Templars retreat back into the Silver Tower, as the Silver Tower itself morphs into a giant Templar, reeking of demonflesh. I blast the Conch of Pan. A great portal opens in the sky, and I see the face of Gawn, smiling with great glee. "Hello, son. You've haven't called for awhile!"
The Templar pulls back his helmet, to reveal an ugly smashed pig-faced demon with horns. Nevergawn, god of Thisworld, Conqueror of Urth, Lord of the Sky."
Gawn floats down out of the portal, Gawn, The Devil, Gawn, Pan, Gawn, Hanuman, Gawn, Satan, Gawn, the Dream Warrior Master, his black and gold cape fluttering in the space breeze. "Hello, brother," he smirks to Nevergawn.
"Thisworld IS MINE!"
"Yes, the Urth and all that's in it, belong to the Lord, doesn't it?"
Gawn lets fly a thousand sentient daggers at Nevergawn. Nevergawn laughs, and blocks with his shield, but the daggers turn to salt, and eat his shield to rust. Nevergawn summons an army of demons, and Gawn summons The Dream Warrior Corps. We fly at each other, and there is a sonic boom.

I awake in a white void. Where am I? did I die?

"Yes, and no," says the voice of Morpheus, god of dreams. "You will respawn soon."

I am back on the Moon. I see a great battle above the Earth. I armor up, and fly back into battle. I end up fighting one-on-one this strange demon with a face like me.
"How dare you mock me!"
"I simply look like you, for I am evil."
I morph into my demon self, Deathgawn. I rip the demon's head off, and cast it into a portal. I cast its body into another. Suddenly everyone is cheering, and I see the Silver Tower vibrate, then implode, leaving a tiny dimple in the fabric of timespace.
"FREEDOM TO THE PEOPLE OF URTH! FREEDOM TO THE PEOPLE OF URTH! FREEDOM TO THE PEOPLE OF URTH!"