The Nomad Chronicles

I leap out of bed with a roar, a savage werelion with a necklace of skulls around my neck, wielding two swords. I am on the astral plane I see no Templars around... no... they are fighting in the sky with Moon Orcs. I laugh and open an astral portal to Raven's house. I morph into a black jaguar in the portal, and creep out into the desert outside Raven's house. I hear some kind of snuffling in the bushes. A scent: the reek of goblin. I stalk the goblin, downwind. He is smelling some bushes mumbling something about, "those mean Templars..." I pounce and the goblin shrieks in terror, and tries to clamber away. "Who do you work for? Who do you serve?"
"I.. Not I, I only serve the Goblin King!"
I see a dark mark on his cheek, a brand. The All-Seeing Eye. "What's this?" I demand.
"The ... The Templars came, came through a portal to our world, and enslaved goblins, yes they did. Killed the Goblin King, and all his kin. The Ghost King sat on the Goblin King's throne, and smashed his crown, made the goblin crown into his own bracelet. Oh, he traps souls, The Ghost King! He dips a cross in goblin blood, vile Templar."
I sense Templars around, hiding in the brush. I open a portal and cast the goblin into it. I see some of them have goblins on leashes, like dogs. I sneak up on the Templars, and slit all their throats, then cut the goblins free, and cast them into their goblin world.
Raven has a dome astral defense, orange and pink, like the sunset. I go through and I see there is an evil entity, penetrated somehow by shielding itself in fire. This astral demon is standing over her next to her bed. I blast it with shards of ice, like a thousand daggers. Its fire goes out, and it starts bleeding. It starts to speak. I dump a small waterfall on it, and freeze it in a block of ice. I then summon the Mjolnir, and smash the demon-block into a thousand pieces, and cast the pieces into a thousand portals.
I look at Raven. She has a few astral parasites, but her astral body is generally healthy and safe. She's sleeping. I cast blue flame on the astral parasites, and they burn away.
Raven wakes up. "Hey Nomad! Want to go to the Moon?"
"Yes!"
She stands up, and we hug. "Any Templars around?"
"I assassinated them along the way. They were hiding this time."
"Epic." Raven opens a portal to the Moon.

Raven wakes me up in the astral world. "Nomad, I was waiting for you, but maybe you weren't asleep yet. It felt like I was waiting a long time. It was weird. Maybe has to do with time dilation? Or I just got lost looking at the koi. Anyway how are you?"
"Oh! Am I dreaming?" I look at my hands. Ghost hands. I see WinterFae sleeping next to me. "Oh, we're in the astral."
"Yes, I thought it might be easier to heal the physical body from the astral plane than the dream plane."
"Right! Let's do it."
Raven and I whipped out our sacred cadeucei, and raise them to the sky. The serpents wind up the staffs, look into each others' eyes, and the four snakes bite their partners. Lightning strikes our caduecei and engulfs us in heavenly flame. Our impurities burn away. We pull the caduecei into our bodies, and they spin as we morph into archangels. I feel Michael's energy pulsing through my body, light shining out of every cell. Raven and I slam our fists together, and a sonic boom blasts out negative energy from the area. I draw a flaming angel sword, and run in a circle around the perimeter, as Raven raises her arms to the sky and charges herself with lightning. I run faster until I am running into my own flame. Raven creates a dome of electricity springing up from the fire circle.
Then, we step to WinterFae, and place our hands above her. I pray to the angels to grant me the power to heal. I see her heart chakra spinning wildly, and I calm it. We balance her chakras, and move stagnant energy through her astral body. I notice she has dark energy stuck in her ankles. Raven does a soul healing, and I hear a song something like, "Take this heart, all the broken parts... mend beyond .... end ..."
WinterFae sighs and smiles in her sleep. I work in trying to straighten her spine. Michael tells me in my head that energy healing works best against infections and illness resulting from viruses, bacteria, and fungi, and speeds healing, but is not so effective for things like spinal adjustments.
I focus on soul healing with Raven. WinterFae smiles again, and cuddles with our blind kitten, Gypsy. I hear Michael say, "You've done all you can for now. You have more to heal ahead."

I wake up in a desert. Holy shit, I'm thirsty. Afternoon... I'm in the Sonoran desert. Why am I... I see a raven watching me, about ten feet away. The raven caws and flicks it head. I feel the raven looking into my soul. I stand up, on all fours. I'm a coyote? I must be dreaming... No, too thirsty to be dreaming. I'm hallucinating. Did I eat peyote? I see heat waves, and a form like Raven Knight flashes in the ripples. "Nomad?"
What? O, Eris help me... O Nechtan, help me find water, for I thirst my god. The raven flies a few feet away and caws. I follow it, and the black bird leads me to a green palo verde tree, and scratches the sand. I smell... water! I dig in the sand. About two feet down, water fills the hole. I dig deeper. At about two and half feet, there's enough water for me to drink my fill.
I am so exhausted, I fall asleep, under the tree.

I awake on the mountain the biodome. I see don Juan. He looks deep into my soul and laughs. Then he whispered in my head, "You're almost there."
I fall down a wormhole.

I land in a strange land of hills with dark dead trees and a red dawn rising. I feel strange and cloyingly terrified. I see Raven standing on a hill, arms raised to the sky. She turns to me. The fear makes me buckle, and I fall to my knees. White light shoots out of Raven's eyes. "O Brother Nomad, thou dost feel the pain of thy soulmate. You are one, yet separate. Now is the time to cleave her pain from thine, o angel."
Raven's light energy fills my body. I can walk again. I stand next to her. She calls down lightning, and I call down fire. All the dead trees are struck by lightning and burn. I hear WinterFae moan in pain. Raven summons a wind to blow all the ash away, and I summon rain. The sky changes from red to violet to blue as the sun rises. Grass and shrubs grow, then trees, and streams appear. Insects and small animals, and then larger ones. I hear WinterFae smile and giggle in her sleep. Raven turns to me and smiles. I give her a hug. She makes a portal, and we return to the Biodome.
We are at the Hot Springs in the Biodome. WinterFae is in the water with her eyes closed. MoSh and Asuka are sitting next to each other. Raven and I get in. Link is in the water, recharging his heart containers. We sit in silence, enjoying the peace of the dream.
Selene walks to the edge of the hot spring, and whispers something to me about the heart of the moon. I feel half asleep, but I'm in a dream.

I am suddenly underground in some strange cavern. A large greyish human heart, the size of a small house, pulses, sitting on steel columns. I feel like vomiting. Why is the heart of the moon plugged into machines. I feel terrified.

I wake up in the sick bay of the Biodome.
Selene is next to me, wiping sweat off my forehead with a cool cloth. "You were having a nightmare," she explains.
"What?"
"Sh..." Selene kisses my forehead, and the dream fades to black.

I see Raven kneeling by the koi pond in the Biodome on the moon. She is looking at the fish with WinterFae. They stand up when they hear me approach. WinterFae is led away by Selene after my two lovers kiss me. "Winter needs to rest and dream within dreams," Selene says. I nod.
"Let's do dream healing on your foot, Nomad," Raven smiles at me. I give her a big hug.
"Thank you for this, and for helping me to remember my dreams, and dream sharing and teaching me how to teleport, and summon weapons and make portals and for being a good friend and saving my ass so many times in nightmares." Raven just chuckles in response.
"Raven, I think it's time for us to return to the Temple of the Angels."
"Let's do it," she says.
I raise my hands and ask my Guardian Angel, the archangel Michael, to aid us in our journey. He appears from everywhere and nowhere, suddenly a supernova searing the back of my skull with holy flame, and then a simple man in a robe made of woven light, with a sword of pure astral/dream fire and eyes like hot ice.
A ripping sound from behind us: we turn and see a tear in the fabric of timespace. Koomo, my Dark Spirit Guide, King of The Planet of the Bat-People, the Man-Bat with skin black as coal, climbs through the hole and then expands his great leathery wings, alighting on the ground in front of me. "Koomo? Good to see you! But, why are you here?"
"You think my two best childhood friends get together, and leave me out of an Adventure?"
At the word 'adventure', I suddenly have flashbacks of thousands of adventures I had with Michael and Koomo in Dreamworld and the Astral Plane. Memories surged to the forefront of my brain of me talking and playing with them in Wakeworld.
Koomo and Michael gave each other a strange greeting, grabbing two arms of the other person, and bowing, almost as if about to do some strange wrestling. Then, Koomo bowed to Raven and said to her, "Thank you for helping to defeat the WraithLord which secretly ruled my planet, and aiding me in my journey to the Throne as rightful King of Mon-Wa You have my gratitude. I have not been able to repay you or thank you as I have been so consumed with restoring peace to my planet. Also, my servants were crafting these five gifts for you to aid you in your journey, and to have cool fucking dreams, I give these to you, designed by King Koomo, and crafted by the best smiths of my planet, of gold and secret black stone from deepest mines."
He gives Raven three gifts, a belt, a necklace and a tiara, each one golden with a beautiful pure black stone. "First, try this necklace, every gift is functional," says Koomo.
Raven presses the stone on the hanging from her neck, apparently, it's a button. Quickgold, flowing like mercury over Raven's torso, golden straps grow, and out of her back, wings of the same yellow liquid metal. "Take flight!" says Koomo.
Raven takes to the air, and laughs, "You don't have to tell me twice." Raven loops and spins, and flutters like a moth.
"The wings increase maneuverability."
Raven laughs and lands. "This pendant has a passive ability," says Koomo as he turns away and half-closes his eyes generating a small fiery orb of dark violet energy, " to REPEL DARK ENERGY." Koomo blasts the orb at Raven, and the black stone absorbs the attack, then spins and shoots the energy back toward Koomo like a thousand shards of broken glass, who blocks the counter-attack with his wings.
Koomo gives her the bracelet. She puts it on and then presses the stone. The belt flows into her hand and becomes a whipsnake, a living whip with a venomous bite. The golden snake has beautiful deep black eyes, and is captivating, yet terrifying as looking into the uncaring vacant eyes of a psychopath. Raven whips it, and it hisses and roars like a crocodile. Raven smiles mirthlessly.
Koomo gives her the tiara. She puts it on her head, and loses balance for a second. "This tiara increases lucidity, and will increase your psychic skills in Wakeworld. What you are feeling is disorentation due to your different bodies becoming more aware of each other. You're fine."
"Also, now you have sonar." Music comes out of Raven, a Metallica song with lyrics that sound something like, 'seeking darkness, seeking light, i see in all things, and the blackest night."
Koomo dreamscapes a maze like area for Raven to practice. The sounds are terrifying, cute, and weird coming from Raven. Raven and Koomo bow. "I have one last gift," Koomo says as he takes to the air, "and in the tradition of my savage people, you must fight me for it."
"Fly, blackbird, Fly!" he taunts. Raven looks annoyed. "FLY!" he roars, as he summons a golden spear and throws it at her. She dodges the attack, and throws the spear back. Raven summons a double-bladed quarterstaff, and they fight in the air. Koomo charges his staff with dark energy, and screams at Raven. She yawns in response. She wields her whipsnake, and whips it at Koomo's spear. The whip wraps around the spear, and Raven yanks it into her hand. Koomo disappears into the maze. The maze goes dark, so dark the darkness shines out of the maze like light. I hear Raven making funny bat sounds and playing that rock song about seeking all, and see in the light and night. Koomo flies out of the cave, and Raven tackles him, and Koomo falls to the ground. She stands with her foot on his chest and his own spear at his neck.
"You win," he says, grabbing the spear, which Raven uses to help him stand. "And the gift is in your hand." Raven looks at the spear, which melts on to the ground, and then grows up on to her feet as boots.
"Um... Spear-boots?"
"Yes! that, and more. Any object or shape you desire, an object of pure liquid Quickgold. I recommend it for weapons, armor, and lockpicks."
Raven puts her palm out, facing upward, and the quickgold flows into it, a ball about the size of a baseball. The quickgold giggles and coos.
"This quickgold is semi-sentient, similar to Nomad's symbiote, but quickgold repels dark energy instead of absorbing it like Nomad's alien. The quickgold also helps balance light and dark energy of the wearer."
Raven pets the little giggling yellow sphere, and says, "I'll call you Goldie, funny little happy ball." Goldie starts laughing uproariously, and forms a mouth. The laughter emanating from the quickgold is so ridiculous, we all start laughing hysterically.
After the laughter dies, Koomo greets me by head butting me. "Nomad Nocturne, and Raven Knight, I bestow upon you the title: Champions of Mon-Wa! All Bat-People who bless you may they be blessed a thousand times in return, and all Bat-People who curse you, a thousand curses return!"
"My friends, I sojourn with you to the Temple of the Angels, for my planet is sick and dying after just 300 years rule of the WraithLord. I seek aid and wisdom to heal my planet's heart."
Selene appears in our midst. "We must heal the heart of the Moon."
I wake up with a jolt. I am in my bed in BanYanLand on the Moon. Selene is sleeping next to me. I am confused. I look out the window, and see the full moon in it. I am more confused. A raven flies across the moon and lands in the window, then looks at me. I hear a voice whisper, "Heal the heart of the Raven, heal the heart of the Moon." I feel something like a tiny moonstone angel-heart flutter inside my human heart. I fall back to sleep.
I am standing back right where I was a second ago, slightly dizzy. Selene catches me. "Nomad?"
"I'm alright."
I look at Raven. She smiles at me benignly. "You're really important to me," I tell her earnestly. A tear rolls down her cheek. She hugs me.
"You're really important to me, too, Nomad," she whispers.
Michael opens a beautiful portal rippling with iridescent fractals. He creates a rainbow a large disc which we step on to: Koomo, Selene, Raven, and I. The four of us join hands, and we fly into the portal. The wormhole is perfect and clean, in total balance in harmony of all the flora and fauna. We land on something like a round stage or landing pad ringed about with marble pillars. Metatron greets us, his face shining like the sun.
When he speaks, his voices sounds like a thousand waterfalls. "Welcome, weary Travellers. I know well of your journey. Thank you, Brother Michael for ushering these mighty Dream Warriors to our sacred Temple, Selene, Goddess of the Moon, may you receive what you need to heal the heart of the Moon. Raven Knight, the Moon Queen, may your healing skills ascend to match your limitless compassion. Koomo, King of Planet Mon-Wa, may you receive the wisdom and knowledge to heal your dying planet. Nomad Nocturne, Lord of Night, God of Nothing, may you receive the deep soul healing you desire to transfer to others.
Metatron leads us to warm saltwater pools with air and water the same temperature as the skin. We float in them and fall asleep as if they were beds for what seems like days. We awake in different rooms in what feels like beautiful tropical bread-and-breakfast hotels, or medieval inns. Metatron invites us to eat with him and others at a great table in a beautiful edible garden. "So many Peoples of Myth have been transported here from the Dark Realms as you rescued them. They are healing in various areas in our Temple. I seen you are concerned, and they are doing well.

I fly to the Moon with an unconscious WinterFae on my shoulder. We go to the Balancing Pools and meet Raven there, then the Healing Glen, where we meet MoSh and Tigress.
The Frost Giant comes, and takes WinterFae to his cave for more healing. We say hi to Joseph, the hawk-boy.
Raven, Tigress, MoSh and I board a spaceship and fly to a Templar base on a satellite orbiting Urth. They try to parlay with us for some artifact that they insist Raven stole. We laugh and shoot lightning at them. We blast them with all kinds of guns and arrows, turning their space base into swiss cheese. I laugh and we return to the Moon, and eat huge mounds of chocolate.

Ramen!

I leap out of bed. I am crawling with pArasites. I scream and vomit up tapeworms. Raven flies out of a portal and engulfs me in healing violet flame. The worms shrivel and die. I hear the hollow laughter of the Templars ringing in my head. I cough and scream at them. Raven opens a portal to the moon and throws me over her back like a rag doll, and we fly to the Green Moon. Raven sets me down in near The Balancing Pools in The Biodome. I fall to my knees and vomit. I crawl into the pool, and relax. Little cleaner fish come and eat the dead tissue in my wounds. I see nastiness being drained out of my dream body. I look at Raven with a look of fear and angry sorrow. "NomAd, no one can hurt you here, we're in The Biodome. We're safe."
Tears stream down my face. "They wAnt to destroy us, Raven. They want us to be killed by our own hand or another's. They want to drive us mad, so we end up in the loony bin, prison, or an early grave. I have so much anger in my heart."
"Tonight, we take the fight to them," Raven says grimly. I nod.
MoSh comes flying out of a portal, a Green Knight. "We attack at dawn. I have discovered a secret base the have on Venus." (To be continued)

I leap out of bed on to a giant wolf-dingo wearing a red And black duster. I open a Portal to the moon. Raven and Mosh are there with Roland. Raven is riding a horse, and Mosh a giant lizArd. Raven opens a portal to another world. We land in a forest in th middle of a battle. Elves against giant wolves. raven unleashes a flurry of arrowS, and the wolves drop the elf children in their mouths.

I am in a large room, like a warehouse or gym, with a busty Black lady in her late 50's. She's a friend of mine, and is telling me something about the event we are attending. I am led to sit at a table with a tablecloth and centerpiece. A Black man in his 40's with some white in his hair seems to be vaguely hitting on me.
[I]I am confused. What the hell is this? Some kind of speed dating? This guy is obviously deep in the closet, so why? WTF?
Maybe I can help him admit his gayness. Ah, fuck it. That's his own path[/I].

I awake

I floated up out of bed, and morphed into weretiger form.

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I sprouted wings, then formed my staff into one with a black raven and a white angel form at the top holding in their wings, The Moonstone with a tiny chaostar swirling in its core. A dark green silk robe with gold lining covered in magickal symbols woven with silver thread formed over my black fur with silver stripes. I turned and formed a mirror portal. I looked at my furry tiger face, and guffawed, 'HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH!" I grinned at my mad reflection, and roared, "I AM JUARGAWN!"
My lady, Winter, appeared next to me, a were-snow leopard, wearing Arctic ninja gear and skis on her back. She curled around me and licked my face. "Hmm... where are we going tonight, my darling?" she purred, and looked at our reflection.
"Oh my Goddess! We're kitty kats! You're a... night tiger, and I'm a snow leopard! Am I a ninja or something? I am confused."
"Hail Eris."
"Is this is a dream?"
"I don't know, why don't you play with your swords?"
"Hmm? Play with my swords?" said Winter, spinning her swords madly. "How am I doing this?"
"Magic. You can do anything in a dream. How else are we werecats, silly?"
"Cool!" She sheaths her swords and kisses me. "So, what's this?"
"It's a portal."
"What's on the other side?"
"The Moon."
/do you want to go/
/of course i do, Nyne/
/are we speaking telepathically/
/yes/
/lol/
/how did you do that/
/i call it a mental tickle/
/lol/
/lol/
"First, we need a spaceship to protect us from astral parasites as we fly through wormholes. It works on the basis of the sacred 9, or the 3 6 9 torus."
I call my silvery liquid spaceship, Future's Hope, and she appears through the portal. We are teleported to a hill, where she is perched. We climb aboard, and I funnel my portal energy into the ship, and she creates a portal with her nose, and we fly through to the Moon. We dock in the Biodome, New Eden, on the Green Moon.
There is a huge party in New Eden. There are five kinds of music stages all over the Biodome. I forget what the party's about, I am so overwhelmed by the flying magical fireworks, and the vivid intensity. I sit down and meditate. I focus on aligning and spinning my chakras, and especially my pineal gland. I ask Gawn to enlarge my pineal gland, and increase the DMT released at night to me in my physical plane body as I sleep. I see the face of Gawn, the Devil, my father-in-law, grinning at me in a vision, and he is laughing, amused, mocking, confused, angry, sorrow, mad, joyous.
Suddenly, Gawn, the Dream Warrior Master and I are in a great Black Void. There is nothing I can sense except he and I. He charges at me, multiplying as he rushes into a hundred, thousand, ten thousand great goat-hoofed Pans, twenty thousand HanuPans, racing toward me, a storm of gods screaming into my mind, until my soul shakes: GO-O-O-O LUCID!
I laugh and teleport behind him.
He touches me, and teleports us to a luscious jungle in what looks like South America. We are standing on a mountain.
"All this can be yours, Simba-Jesus, if you simply bow down to me."
"I will never bow to you, Father-In-Law! I will never bow to The Devil."
"I am the Devil, and the Devil is Gawn," sings Gawn, dancing on the cliff and laughing.
"Hail Satan!" I laugh. We sit on the edge of the cliff.
"Thanks for the madness, sir. I need more in my dream life."
"Exactly. You've feared the madness of the dream, even though Xaphor told you to embrace the madness of the dream, you did not. You're learning sacred fool. Maybe one day you'll be a magician, if you can figure out how to get one from zero. Will 'tis be the greatest Leap of your Lyfe."
"Hmm..."
Gawn fades away.
I am lying on a bed somewhere... in a cottage. I sit up. Winter is watching me. Raven walks in the room. "You fainted, Nomad. So, I brought you here, to my Inner World." I smile and stand up. I feel dizzy. Winter touches my elbow. I sit down.
"Raven, how can I feel dizzy in a dream?"
"I don't know, friend. Maybe we are physically incarnate?"
I look at my hands. Tiger hands. I pinch my nose. Can't breathe.
Hmm... I look at the cute wooden bed. I see tiny marks of wear and tear, and even weathering. Everything looks so... real. I am overwhelmed, and I fall back on the bed.
I go to some strange Energy Realm, where everything is simple colors, glowing colors, but everything is simultaneously hyper-evolved... I see Raven and Winter with me. I tell them I want to go to the Temple of Chaos. We are suddenly on a remote island with high sea cliffs in the middle of the Mediterranean.
Spiraling steps lead us to a strange white temple, which seems to be pulsing. I run up the steps, overcome by a mad lust for the void. In the temple, a great Chaostar swirls and pulses as it floats above a pedestal. Eris appears next to me, and whispers in my ear, "Seek me not in the Temple of Chaos, lover, seek me Everywhere, for I am All. So, actually, you can totally seek me in the Temple of Chaos." Then, she kissed me on the cheek, and I felt the universe implode. I was back in Raven's Inner World. I sat up. What a cute little cottage! I stretch and stand up. Raven and Winter smile at me. I walk outside and look around. There is a lovely garden growing all kinds of things, half of them chocolate. I pick a chocolate cake fruit. It tastes amazing. I feel more aware of my dream life. We are on a plateau on on a gently rising mountain, and the sun is rising over a tropical and evergreen landscape. Wow.
"Your Inner World, is beautiful, Raven," I whisper. "Thanks for letting me rest here."
"You're welcome," she said, and hugged me.
We were back on the Moon, and I was sitting on a pile of cushions in a tent with a large hooka in the middle.
"What did I just smoke, man?" I turned to the man to my left, "Hunter S. Thompson?"
"Just call me, The Doc. And you smoked DMT. In a muthafukkin' dream, dog." mahalo

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I am meditating in my Meditation Room in BanYanLand in the Biodome on the Green Moon. Xaphor appears in the mirror, and grins at me.

[I]Thou shall create unto me a great shadowy society of Dreamwalkers, O Nomad, Son of Gawn. All across Urth, your connections shall slowly increase in strength. In time, we will usher in the Atlantis. Us, the great Dreamers of the the New Aeon. Our chakras our spinning in time, brother. Now look upon Urth.[/I]

Then, Gawn takes me to The Mountain in the Biodome, and shows me Urth in the future. Great Oneiromancers are a glowing red energy as are their connections. First, a few, connections becoming stronger, later more and more appear. Dream dragons fly to and fro through Urth, awakening more Dreamwalkers. Dream guides appear out of the ground, kissing dreamers on their foreheads.

I feel like crying, laughing, collapsing, but I simply watch in fascination. The Dreamnet becomes stronger as more red lights appear and connect. Then, the Dreamnet vibrates at multiple harmonic frequencies, and I see chord-colors, and sounds of chanting and laughing resonate through Urth, bathing the planet with rainbow love. Urth vibrates and belches. Disharmonic energy vibrates in time with the harmonic, and submits to the gently overwhelming energy of the organic dream-love.

I am at a family gathering outside somewhere. Someone tells me some of the food is human flesh. I wonder if I ate any. Are we cannibals, I wonder? Why? Well, it is in my culture to eat other humans... I choose not to, not to eat humans or any other animals. I feel disgusted with myself and my ancestors for eating flesh.

(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.

I awake with a jolt, and leap out of bed. Wait? Glycon? I must be dreaming. The great hand puppet snake god of anarchy laughs into mist. I create a portal with my ChaoStaff, and fly to the moon. I battle with some kind of gross astral parasite mother creature in the wormhole with a wormhole Wyrm. I spin out of the wormhole, burning with violet flame to kill those lil buggers. I land on the Green moon with a Boom, slamming my staff into the ground. Raven appears flying in the sky wearing as Queen of Night, wearing a long black dress, with onyx horns spiraling out of her head, riding Shadow, a winged black panther.
Oh, you silly Nomad! Let’s go on a Mission. Vegeta appears out of a wormhole. “You two! You have not trained for some time. Want some training?” He says angrily challenging me. He slams his fist into his palm, and his hands burst into flame. He growls like distant thunder. I charge at him. I am so angry, and I don’t even know why. He sidesteps me, and laughs mockingly. “Look at you. You’ve grown weak. You’re so pathetic. You have no excuse for your weakness, the once-great Nomad! Ptah!”
I see Raven fighting a double of Vegeta in the distance. Hmph. I multiply myself and surround him. He morphs into a million tiny versions of himself and swarms over me like army ants, striking me as he runs over my body. I scream in rage, and he laughs again. He claps his hands and shouts, ‘SCENARIO!”

Raven and I are in a forest, on a hill overlooking a bowl-shaped valley. We have lost lucidity. “There, she says. The Beast lies within. From it, we will have our treasure that was stolen from my people so many ages ago.” I look at Raven. She’s an elf with black hair and violet eyes. She’s wearing some kind of dark metallic armor that makes no sound when she moves in it. “Underground, the labyrinth. Nomad, don’t you remember the mission?”
A geometric shape comes out of her third eyes, and into my mind. Download. Mission: Recover Artifact in center of Labyrinthe. The Artifact is guarded by a great Minotaur.
Raven and I levitate, and fly over the ground in a vertical position about three feet off the ground. Around the labyrinthe there are puddles of water collecting. I am wearing the markings of… A Templar? No! Wait… I see on my chest are many sacred symbols… I am wearing the armor of an elven knight, and have sprigs of vines in my hair, and the hilt of my sword has a strange red jewel… The Bloodstone. I am a Drow. I look at my Dark Elf face in the water. I have a long face, pale lavender skin, white hair, pointed ears, nose, chin. My eyes are slanted and black as night. My sword drinks the blood of my enemies… yes. My sword, with the sould of an ancient vampire infused into it, forever cursed, bound to me. In my right hand I wield a staff with a Chaos Star emblazoned. I am a Chaos Paladin. Fuck. Yes.
The labyrinth entrance is a rectangular hole in the ground with a ramp leading down. Raven and I float down. I slam my staff on the ground and a magical fire burns. Raven casts a Glow spell, and light moves down to the end of the hall.
We walk for a few minutes uneventfully until we are deep inside. I see a map in my mind. The ground shakes. A stone is pushed into the hall from a wall, a rotted hand reaches out. Fuck. Zombies. They come at us from all angles. We race down the hall, burning our way through the zombie hordes, blades aflame. My sword complains that there is no nice blood in the zombies.
We come to a great abyss with just a small ledge. We see the hole on the other side, our destination. We take to the air. Suddenly a flapping of a great many large leathery wings is heard, and the din of a hundred harpies screeching in rage. Raven laughs at them, casting wind spells at them, flinging them to walls. I sonically counterattack, and the harpies get vertigo and fall.
Raven and I make it to the other side. Right here, it’s on the other side of this wall, I can feel it, Raven says. We rub the wall with our hands and vibrate it until the molecules resonate, then walk through. We are in a large room with the sun shining on a golden orb floating above an obelisk. Raven smiles at it, and walks to it, in a trance. “Raven!” The Minotaur leaps from the shadows and tackles Raven. She grabs him by his great neck, and then he laughs and morphs into a Dark Elf. “My love?” Raven says. She grabs the man and kisses him. I feel confused. Hail Eris. Eris whispers in my ear. “Turn around.”
A great snake with long hair, about 20 feet tall, the size of 5 busses rises and whips me with its tail. “HERETICS!” it screams at me. Raven and the elf fling knives into the snake’s throat. My sword flies at the fresh wound, drinking in the blood through the air before the red liquid can hit the floor. The Bloodsword pulls me into the snake, and we slice it up from the inside out.
“SCENARIO. END.”
We are standing on the Moon. Vegeta is floating in front of the three of us. “Good job. Til Next time.”
Who is the man we were with? I look at him. Oh, Spike. The Vampire returns.

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.

I am on the Moon chatting with some people in the Biodome. Where's Raven? someone asks.

Hmm... I open a mirror portal. I see her sleeping in her bed, an astral demon sitting on her chest. I feel a dark rage overpower me from deep within my soul. I morph into my Demon Self, Deathgawn. I roar in anger, and rocket down the wormhole. I come flying out of the portal and slam into the astral demon full force as we crash into the dirt outside her house. He tries to strangle me by picking me up by the neck. I laugh as fiery spikes shoot out of my neck into his hand. The astral demon tries to speak, but is too busy getting sucked into the black hole in my chest.
A host of demons descends from the skies, and apparently are starting a ritual where Raven is the sacrifice. There is a green fog around Raven's face which I blow away by summoning a wind.
"Come to enjoy the sacrifice, brother?" One of the demons asks. I respond by leaping to Raven, and spinning my staff and creating an energy sphere around us. I summon my giant hellhound, Jo, with his eight legs and crocodile teeth to protect Raven while I go into her Inner World to wake her up.
I create a portal on Raven's third eye chakra, and hit the Micro button on my belt, then leap in.

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I am in a forest. I see Raven's childhood self, and my childhood self. My boy self is telling Raven he can't play with her in dreams anymore because she is an imaginary friend. Raven is very hurt and frustrated. No! I'm real! she is saying. A tear rolls down my demon cheek, and lands on the ground. A tree grows there, and two snakes wind up the tree. My kundalini rises, and I morph into my Archangel Self. I ask Michael to possess me.

"Raven, this is a dream. We need to wake up in the astral!" She looks at me, smiles, then morphs into her adult self. She hugs me, then hugs my boy self, and he fades away.

She opens a portal, and I tell her what is going on telepathically as we fly through the wormhole. We leap out of her third eye chakra. Raven's dream body merges with her astral body, and she flips off the bed, transforming into Queen of Night, but she looks more like Catwoman. haha.
We fly into the sky, and the demons rush me, thinking Raven an ally, and me the enemy. I allow them very close before I go supernova and blast them into thousands of portals Raven has opened for them to fall into.
The battle is quickly over. Raven and I nod at each other, then she suddenly collapses. I catch her and open a portal to The Healing Glen in The North. I lay her down on the grass, and parasites run off her as MoSh, Tigress, Pablo, and Basara play healing music. The Frost Giant comes and blows healing herbs on Raven. He picks he up and takes her to his cave.
As she sleeps, he talks to me by the fire.
"You, all of you. All the lucid dreamers in your Urth are under attack on all Planes. You are being poisoned, subjugated, busied, distracted, confused, and assassinated. See with Nine Eyes, brother. The Time is nigh."

I am in the year 2215. yep. earth is still beautiful. humanity is still making cancerous growths we call "cities." I live in one of the tumors, called the Pacific-Plex formerly known as the Hawaiian Islands. fucking shithole. just want to make a few creds...

I wake up and stretch. My robot is telling me to wake up. "I know shut the hell up."

"I'd prefer if you didn't-" I grab the robot, and rip its head off. "FUCK YOU ROBOT."

Why am I in the movie, "Heavy Metal"... or am I?

missing time

I am driving a fare through the hilly streets of an old dump paved over. This fare's a GMO-cyborg chimera like most people nowadays.

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missing time

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I am going insane, destroying the whole fucking world. I have a machine gun. I run across the world, detonating a line of nuclear bombs behind me. I fly away from the earth, and shoot a billion nuclear bombs at it. The earth explodes. I laugh maniacally.

I wake up in bed, sweating. I am still in a dream. WTF?