New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Note: As I fell asleep tonight, I hadn't intended to have any major plans. I was just about to go to bed when my cell phone rang, and it was Nomad. He said he had a friend who was having some troubles, it seemed like he was going nuts, but knowing him it was likely that he was on a bad trip or something like that… but the point was that we were going to go there and try to help him get past the episode as quickly as he could. I had this intention in mind when I fell asleep, using my light / sound machine, and entered a WILD…

I was in the biodome, I was near the koi pond where I normally appear, but there was something strange about the place. There were people there, a bunch of them, and I didn't recognize any of them, I wondered who they might all be. I was going to go over to one of them and see if I could find out when someone I did recognize approached me, it was Nomad. He said his friend needed help, at which point he opened a portal and pulled me through, not even waiting to find out if I was lucid or not… As we were going through the portal it seemed that things split off in several directions at the same time, leading to the same strange feeling I have had in the past when visiting many worlds simultaneously on the times I have had divergent dreams or visited don Juan… I was in many places at once… now if I could just master that technique IWL!

Nomad and I were in a forest, it was a dark and creepy place with many of the trees gnarled and dead looking. There was a mist on the ground and in the air that obscured everything around us, making it even harder to see than the darkness would explain. In fact, the light color of the mist gave a false illusion of light while keeping things just as obscure as total darkness would have. Nomad said something about his friend having a fractured psyche, but we could help him by bringing the parts back together. I thought my song spell, My Last Breath by Evanescence, would also help, so I stayed close to Nomad, as I figured he would be more likely find his friend before I could. We finally found someone I didn't recognize at all, but Nomad clearly identified it as his friend, so I used my song spell on him as Nomad was doing what he had to do… then Nomad opened a portal and we all went through it…

Nomad and I were in a strange place, we were on what seemed like an endless barren landscape that stretched as far as the eye could see in all directions. There was no break from the bleak colors of the place, the sky was gray, the ground was gray, it was hard to tell where one stopped and the other began. In spite of the vast emptiness, and the fact I could see into what looked like infinity, I still couldn't very easily make out what was closest to me, it was really hard to see very far. That contradiction confused me a bit, that I could see forever and not at all, but it didn't seem to bother Nomad, so I stayed close to him. After we searched a bit, Nomad found his friend, and I used My Last Breath on him, Nomad did what he had to do, then opened a portal that all three of us went through…

Nomad and I were in a tiny room, a black room that couldn't have been more than ten feet cubic, and it was total darkness there. I could sense the walls, I couldn't see them, I wasn't sure if the walls were black or if there was just absolutely no light there. Nomad paused, I could feel him searching the area, and finally he moved to one corner of the room where he found his friend there, apparently hiding from something horrible, huddled in the corner. I used my song spell, he did his thing, we went through a portal together…

I was with Nomad in a vast desert, it looked a little like the desert around where I live, but it was a lot hotter than that. I could actually see waves of heat coming from the ground around us, the trees were withered and dead, cactuses weren't even able to survive the heat. Some areas of the desert were actually smoking as if they had just been on fire or if they were about to catch on fire. There was no shelter from the sweltering heat, but Nomad's friend was crouched under one of the withered trees trying to get at least a little shade, so that was when Nomad did his thing and I used my song, then we went through the portal together…

There was another scene where Nomad and I were in a really creepy place that looked like Silent Hill, it was an abandoned town with a lot of things moving around in the shadows and a lot of creepy sounds out there. There was a scene where Nomad and I found his friend in what looked like paradise, but there was something wrong, and upon closer inspection, everything was only an illusion of beauty, the grass was razor sharp, the fruit was covered in acid, the water burned… There was a scene of being lost in a maze of underground caves, the maze seemed to be constantly changing around us, it took a little longer to find Nomad's friend there…

Then there was our final destination, which I was having trouble seeing very clearly since I had been in so many places just before, it was like all the different me's had just been forced back into one, so I was disoriented. Nomad didn't seem to have noticed that, or at least it didn't look to me like he was bothered by it… There was also only one of Nomad's friend, and his friend also looked disoriented. I didn't get a chance to see what the results might have been, if Nomad's friend felt any better, before I woke.