Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I fell asleep with my light/sound machine on. My first plan was to go heal Allison. I had spoken to her IRL and she had said she was feeling sick and It might be the flu. With this first goal in mind I slipped into a WILD…

I was on the moon. I looked around. I didn't see anyone there. I was just outside the biodome. I was thinking I was in the wrong place. I had wanted to go to Allison, not come to the moon. I wondered if Nomad was here. I thought maybe I had subconsciously come here so he could help me heal Allison. I didn't see any sign of Nomad. I decided to try to get to Allison. I focused on Through the Never and on opening a portal to Allison. A portal opened and I went through it. On the other side I was in Allison's apartment. Allison was lying on the couch. She had a black cat on her face. I went over to her and pushed the cat out of the way. I couldn't tell if Allison was asleep or not. I focused on using the song Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack to heal Allison. The song played through and golden healing energy flowed through Allison. I repeated the song again after it was over and that created golden healing energy intermixed with swirls of light blue energy.

After the second play Allison got up. She looked at me strangely. I told her she was dreaming. I said there was something I was supposed to say… and it was… um… snuffle… up-your-ass. Yes. That was it. Snuffle-up-your-ass. She got a strange look on her face and said I should snuffle up MY ass. She said that didn't make any sense. I asked her how she felt. She said tired. She looked at me closer and seemed to recognize me. She said she was going to bed. She said if I wanted to play with her XBox that was fine or if I wanted to go home that was fine, too. She disappeared back towards the bedroom. I heard her ask, "What the fuck is this?" Allison came back out with a winged purple jaguar cub. She told me to stop trying to give them extra cats.

"Nomad?" I asked the cub, "You're here?" The cub jumped out of Allison's arms and flew over to me. It transformed into a jaguar man. Allison stared at that for a couple of minutes. She said she must be getting a fever. She said the two of us could do whatever we wanted, but she was going back to bed. She left. I asked Nomad how long he'd been there. He said he'd just gotten there. He said he'd thought we were meeting at the biodome but I wasn't there so he'd tried to track me with a portal. And here I was. He'd just gotten there. He asked why I hadn't said anything about Allison needing healing. I said I hadn't talked to him since I found out. I asked about his friend A, the one with the dream demon. He said we should go get the others and then head out there. I opened a portal back to the biodome. I figured everyone could meet there. A portal opened and we went through it.

On the other side we were in a beautiful forest clearing with several other people. I recognized them. I looked around at the group. Spike, Q, Sephiroth, Altaïr, Bakura, Link, and Basara. I was remembering what we had to do. The first thing to do was some healing. We each took a turn in the small version of the healing glen that is located in the biodome. I used Full Moonlight from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack. The entire biodome was filled with golden energy created by Basara's, Nomad's, and my healing spells.

Note: I was so relaxed from the healing energy that my lucidity slipped to semi-lucidity...

After that was done I was trying to think what was next. I remembered we were going after a nightstalker that was being controlled by a dream demon. The first step would be to get A and the dream demon separated and then kick the dream demon's ass. I don't know A, so I looked over at Nomad. I said he'd have to open the portal since I had no idea where we were going. He opened a portal. All of us went through it and into a strange place. I didn't like our destination. It was rather ugly…

I looked at the area. It was a dark and foreboding forest. The air was thick with moisture and smelled of decay. A thick mist hung over everything giving it a rather Silent Hill-ish look. Dark shapes seemed to be moving within the mist but they never stopped long enough to tell what they were. I asked Nomad where his friend was at. He said he didn't know. I looked into the shadows. I figured the first thing would be to find A. I couldn't try to separate A from his dream demon if I didn't know where he was. I heard Nomad comment that we might have to fight A to get the pair of them weakened a bit so they could be separated. Since A was dreaming we wouldn't end up hurting him. I focused on trying to locate anyone out there. Someone was directly in front of me. I looked there and Altaïr came out of the mist. I pulled a Homer (D'Oh!). I wasn't looking for Altaïr… I was going to keep looking when I saw Link move like lightning and run his sword through Altaïr's chest. WTF?!

"Link!" I yelled in shock, "What are you doing?! Don't attack Altaïr!"

Link pulled his sword out and looked at me like I was insane. Altaïr was now holding a wound that was heavily bleeding. He looked very shocked by Link's actions. I went over to Altaïr. I had to heal him. And Link, too. What was wrong with Link that he'd attacked Altaïr?

"Why did you attack Altaïr?" I asked Link.

"What are you talking about?" Link asked, "That's an orc!"

"That's Altaïr!" I said, "We can't be attacking each other…" It was then that I saw Altaïr standing beside Q, completely unharmed. He was looking at me strangely. The Altaïr Link had attacked laughed and then turned into a red vapor and dispersed. The real Altaïr came over to me and said he had seen Link attack a strange monster.

"He's tricky," Q said, "He'll try to manipulate our perceptions. Be careful. I'll put a shield on each of you that should keep it from happening again." Q snapped his fingers. Each of us briefly glowed blue. We continued looking through the dead forest. We entered a clear area where all of the trees were fallen and mostly rotted away. We were also under attack. A giant winged serpent swooped down out of the sky towards us. There was another Q trying to get the serpent's attention. The serpent swooped down at Bakura who jumped out of the way and onto the serpent's back. He was quickly thrown off. The second Q grew to be about 50 feet tall and he grabbed hold of the flying serpent. He seemed slightly irritated at being ignored. He told the serpent that those were his allies, not enemies. The serpent hissed at him. Q hissed back. They must have been speaking to each other because a look of realization seemed to cross the serpent's face. The serpent shrunk down to about the size of a man and landed among us. So did the second Q. The second Q said someone was clearly screwing with MoSh's perception. He snapped his fingers and MoSh briefly glowed blue. The second Q (I'll refer to him as Q2 from here on) said that wasn't going to happen again.

"So," Q said, "If we're done attacking each other we can continue."

We didn’t have to go far. A strange figure emerged from the mist. A man in a dark suit. I wondered if we had finally found the nightstalker. It was strange. I saw a dark man in a black suit. At the same time I saw a younger man. And at the same time I saw Freddy Krueger. All three images were somehow superimposed on each other. I needed to split them up. I focused on the song by the Offspring called Come out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated) to try to force the dream demon out. The song played loudly through the desolate landscape. The man disappeared in a burst of red mist but then re-solidified as the mist hit a solid blue barrier. Q said he would not be leaving so easily. I saw Selene was with us now. I wondered when she had arrived. I didn’t remember seeing her earlier. She created beams of moonlight that fell over the man that held him in place. He was getting pissed. My song played through to its end. A creature that looked like Freddy Krueger was violently ripped out of the man and tossed aside like so much garbage. The man left under Selene's net collapsed. Basara said the man needed healing. He headed over to the man.

The dream demon, which I was perceiving as Freddy Krueger, got up and glared at us. I saw Basara taking the unconscious man away from the area. I figured he was taking him to a safe place. Q was following Basara. I figured Q could help keep them safe. The dream demon looked like he was on fire. A bright orange and red aura of flames flashed brightly around Freddy. And he was laughing maniacally. He said this time we had started a fight we couldn't win. Giant pods sprouted from the ground. There were lots of them. The pods grew to the size of a man and then split open. A disgusting mucus covered clone of Freddy stepped out of each of the pods. They were all green in color and dripping with slime. They smelled like death. A fight broke out all around me.

I focused on the song Dream Warriors by Dokken. The song started playing across the entire area. I was also being attacked by two Freddy Kruegers. I formed my Witchblade sword and engaged them in battle. I cut through the first Freddy and ducked out of the way of an attack from the second one. I immediately counter attacked and cut the second Freddy Krueger in half. I turned around and saw a Freddy attacking me from behind. He stopped and dropped dead. After he dropped I saw Link standing there with his sword. A giant serpent in the sky was breathing blasts of fire at the Freddy Kruegers on the ground. I used Battery and hit several Freddies with lightning. I saw Selene in the air shooting Freddies with moonlight blasts. For the most part, however, there was too much going on for me to keep track of everyone else.

The Freddy clones seemed to keep coming in endless numbers. The only way to stop them would be to stop the main dream demon. I had to get to him. I pushed and fought my way through the fray towards where I had last seen the main dream demon. I took to flight to see over the top of the fray. I spotted the main dream demon. A blazing Freddy Krueger standing on the top of a tall stone pedestal where he seemed to be conducting the fray down below. There was a force field around him that kept anyone from getting in. The effectiveness of that was demonstrated as the winged serpent tried to charge in at him but was repelled by the force field. The winged serpent fired blasts of fire at the force field which also did not get through. I had a thought. I went in close to the force field and drove my sword into the surface of it. Some cracks formed where my sword penetrated but they sealed back up immediately. I signaled to the winged serpent. Maybe… I got right on the cobra head of the winged serpent and we were charging at the force field. I held my sword out in front of us. Witchblade made it grow longer. It penetrated the force field ahead of us and then when the serpent hit the cracked force field it shattered into a billion pieces. The dream demon looked up in shocked surprise but did not get out of the way in time to avoid having venom dripping fangs buried in his body as the winged serpent bit him almost in half and threw him down to the ground.

Down below the Freddy clones stopped forming. The seriously injured dream demon was apparently trying to get out of the fray before he was noticed. Too late. Before he got three feet he had the claws of a huge jaguar ripping through him and a hidden blade buried right between his eyes. He had landed practically right between Nomad and Altaïr. Spike joined in and was sucking the energy right out of the dream demon. The dream demon withered away and became dust which was carried off on the wind. As if on cue, all of the clones also collapsed and changed into dust. With the main dream demon dead there was nothing left to sustain them.

Nomad was looking around. He said he had to find A. Q was there and said A would be fine. Some healing would be helpful, though. He led us to a small healing glen he had set up. There was a man there. Basara was playing music there. I moved to see the man better. I felt like I was waking up. I told Nomad I was waking up. I tried to hold on to the dream so I could help heal the man but it slipped away and I woke.

I wonder if we fought on parallel dimensions, or what. It's strange how the synchronicity fades in and out.

I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on. My first goal was to heal my friend Allison who says she is coming down with the flu. I fell asleep and focused on getting to the biodome on the moon. My first stop was to pick up Nomad because he said he would help with the healing. I thought Basara might also be there. I fell asleep and found myself in the biodome in a lucid dream…

I was in the biodome. I was standing next to a pond. I looked down into the water and saw an array of colorful fish swimming about down there. I looked around at the beautiful scenery. A portal opened and Basara came through. He came over to me and gave me a hug. He asked if I was ready. I said Nomad had told me he would be coming. Basara said that was fine. He looked around at the scenery a bit while we waited. I wondered where Nomad was. Just shortly after I had that thought a portal opened and Nomad came through it. I said hello to Nomad. There was a woman with him. She had on a pretty green dress and had long brown pigtails. She had a cute smile. I said hello to Pixi. Basara came over to us. I said I would open a portal now. I used Through the Never to open a portal to find Allison. A portal opened and the four of us went through it.

On the other side we were in Allison's apartment. Allison was on the couch sleeping. We started the music. I was using Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack as Basara and Nomad were playing along with it. Golden energy formed and was flowing through Allison. We did two repetitions of the song. As it ended Allison seemed to be waking up.

"Jen, honey," Allison said groggily, "Turn the music down… I'm trying to sleep."

"You are sleeping," I told Allison, "This is a dream."

"A what?" Allison asked as she sat up and looked at me. She looked at me, then at Nomad, then at Pixi, then at Basara. "Oh, hi everyone. I don't think we'll be going out today. I feel like shit. I'm going to be sleeping most of the day, so go on without me."

Pixi said she didn't think Allison was fully lucid. She said some lucidi-tea was in order.

"Lucidity?" Allison questioned.

"No," Pixi said, "Lucidi-TEA. Here. Have a cup of tea."

Pixi produced a tea pot and poured four cups. She passed it around to all of us. Allison took a cup of the tea and sipped it. She said it was actually pretty good. I took a sip. It was sweet. It was good. Everything around me seemed to take on a surreal quality of clarity. It felt like I must be on some kind of drug. Allison didn't seem to notice. She turned on her XBox 360. She was playing DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) on her XBox. That was not normal. I knew that is a game only for the PC… She had a sorceress character and was fighting in a dungeon. There were a lot of enemies around. She was using a combination of magic and a nasty-cool looking sword. She hacked through numerous enemies and into a room with a boss. The boss was a dragon. The dragon bit her character in half and she was dead.

"Fuck!" Allison cursed as she went back to a save point, "Why won't that guy die? Where are those jerks I helped on their quests? Why the fuck won't they back me up on this one?"

"They can't get online to DDO in your dream," I said to Allison, "This is a dream, not an MMORPG."

Allison's character transformed into a werewolf now. I thought that was cool. I wondered if transformations are possible in the real life version of DDO. I've never heard of that. She tore through the enemies in the first room even faster before getting into the room with the boss. Her werewolf grew to match the size of the dragon boss. She engaged the dragon in battle only to have a huge dragon talon impale her character through the chest and then the dragon tossed her dead character aside.

"Fuck!" Allison cursed again, "Forget that fucker! I've had enough." She put down the controller.

"Maybe if this level exists IRL," I said, "we can go through the quest together. Maybe two of us can do it."

"Maybe," Allison said, "Too bad you forgot your laptop."

"Do you want to go do something?" I asked, "Maybe a Star Gate world? Do you feel up to it?"

"Not today," Allison said, "I'm going back to bed. Just lock the door on your way out." She headed back into her bedroom.

Nomad said he was going back to his temple. He said he was going to meet with a woman. He only referred to her as M. I told him I was going to find somewhere that I could help someone. He asked where. I said I didn't know for sure. Maybe Assassin's Creed, maybe Star Trek, I wasn't really sure what would happen. He said he'd like to check that out but he really wanted to contact M. A portal opened and he went through it. I was thinking about opening a portal when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

WOOHOO! Back in sync!!!

Thanks for trying to help. I do remember DDO in my dreams. Since I have been playing a lot I have been dreaming of it a lot. Maybe next time I'll become lucid or feel like going out to play!

Note: I went through this entire dream without once considering doing a reality check!

I was in a strange place. I looked around to see where I was. I didn't recognize anything. I was outside in a rather desolate area. There were many large rocks and dirt, but the little grass there was looked rather sickly. I saw a couple of small pools of water. The water looked disgusting. I didn't want to go near it. I followed a path through the rocks and soon I came to a trashed road. It looked like it had once been a normal neighborhood street but now it was cracked and broken in many places. Nothing short of a vehicle with four wheel drive could get through it now. They were houses sitting along the side of the street but they also looked long abandoned. They were all in various states of disrepair. There was no sign of life anywhere. I thought I had found a ghost town. Cool! I wanted to go investigate. I checked my pocket for my cell phone. I wanted to take pictures for possible use in a game. I didn't have my cell phone. I cursed to myself. I still wanted to investigate. I would just have to remember everything and use it for inspiration.

I went over to one of the houses that was mostly intact. The door was not locked. I felt a little hesitant to walk in even though it was pretty clear that the house was abandoned. I opened the door and peeked in. No one was there. And the place was a mess.

"Hello?" I called out into the house, "Anyone here?"

There was no response. I went into the house and started looking around. Most anything useful had already been looted by someone who found the house before me. I looked around for anything interesting or anything of value that might have been missed by previous scavengers. I was starting to feel like I was in a game of Fallout 3. The house I was exploring was a lot like the old houses in the wastelands in Fallout 3. I looked in a couple of drawers. I found money! A small stack of money! I wondered how careless the scavengers before me must have been to have missed that. True, it was way at the back of the drawer, but it wasn't hard to find. I counted the money. I had $183! Sweet! I would have no problem paying for Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines now! I stuffed the money in my pocket and headed upstairs.

There were three bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs. I went into the first bedroom. It was a kid's room. There were toys all over the floor. A train set was scattered about. I looked over at the bunk bed in the corner and froze. There was a skeleton there! I had found a dead body! What now? Should I call the police? I didn't have a cell phone! And I was sure there was no phone service out here! I couldn't just walk away. With all of my searching I was sure to have left finger prints all over the place! I would have to go to the nearest inhabited town to get the police. I had to hide the money. There was no way they would know I'd found money. And I really didn't see how the money could be connected to the death. I had to get back to my car. I could stash the money there and drive to town to get the cops. I'd tell them since the house was abandoned I had been poking around when I'd found the body. I couldn't get in trouble, could I?

I went over to a broken window that looked out over the ruined street. There were people down there. Lots of people in a group. Perfect! I would tell them what was going on. I turned away from the window but then felt compelled to look back. These weren't good people. There were 5 armed men that were keeping a bunch of other people prisoner. The other people, about 7 men and 8 women, had their hands tied behind them and were also chain tied together. One of the gunmen prodded his rifle at one of the prisoners who was apparently moving too slowly for his liking. The man he prodded fell over. He kicked the fallen man. Another gunman came over and made him stop. He said they wouldn't get any money for dead merchandise. He said they would rest briefly and then continue onward. Merchandise? They must be slave traders! I wanted to stop them.

I went to the other bedrooms in the house. In the master bedroom there were two more skeletons in a loving embrace. It looked like they had been making love when they died. Their death must have been instantaneous. I looked desperately around. My searching was rewarded. There was a cabinet that looked like a gun cabinet. But surely it would have already been scavenged. I looked and it was locked. I looked for a blunt object and found a loose brick. I bludgeoned the lock until it gave way. I opened the cabinet and was rewarded with a hunting rifle and some ammo. I was a bit afraid I wouldn't even know how to use the weapon. But I seemed to instinctively know how it worked. I loaded bullets into it and headed back to the window.

Outside the slave traders were standing guard while the slaves were all sitting on the ground. Good. That made the slave traders easier to spot. I hesitated to shoot. What if I missed and hit a slave? I then decided being shot probably wouldn't be any worse than what the slave traders had planned for them. Besides… I have played lots of video games. I should be a good shot. I took aim. My scope was telescopic so I could see the slave traders up close. I aimed at one of them and carefully squeezed the trigger so I wouldn't be surprised by the recoil. The gun made a loud report, BANG, and the man I had been aiming at fell to the ground with a bullet in his head. Bullseye! The slave traders were looking around now, shocked and alarmed. I took careful aim at a second and pulled the trigger. BANG! Bullseye again! The second of the slave traders fell over dead. Now they were looking up. Clearly they had figured they were being sniped. I ducked down so they wouldn't see me. Two down and three to go. I heard a couple of shots fired. I peeked again. I couldn't tell what they had been shooting at or if they were just shooting to scare me into hiding. I took careful aim and picked off a third one. BANG! He fell over dead. My luck was bound to run out. They would surely figure out where the gunfire was coming from. I peeked over the window sill again and saw a gun pointed at me. One of the slaves tripped the shooter before he could fire at me. I took careful aim at the last standing shooter and fired. BANG! He fell over dead. As the final gunman was getting up I aimed and fired. BANG! The last one fell. Wow, I was thinking, those FPS video games really pay off!

I put the gun down and headed downstairs and out to the tied up slaves. I used a small knife I found in my pocket (Where did that come from, I wondered?) to cut their ropes and set them free. They were all grateful to me. A woman asked where my gun was. I told her it was in the house. I hadn't wanted to come out with a gun and scare anyone. She said to get it. Their town wasn't far off, but it would still be safer with a weapon. They were also collecting the guns off of the slave traders. I had the idea I wouldn't be there for much longer. I wasn't sure why I had that idea. Where did I have to go? Oh, yeah! I had to get the cops! There were three dead bodies in that house! There would surely be cops back in town. So I would stay with the freed captives. I saw someone had already gone into the house for my gun. He was coming towards me. He said he would give it to me since he had seen that I am a crack shot with it. He held it out to me. I was going to take it but everything around me faded to black and I woke. All that time and I never once considered I was dreaming!

Note: It was after I finished talking to Nomad for the last time today that Q spoke to me about something I needed to do. He said it involved Malkus (the Templar I brought back with me) and either a dream demon or a residual connection between Malkus and the demon in the dark realm that is basically having the same effect as a dream demon. All of the attacks take place through Malkus' dreams. Q said he had noticed something was off because it seemed Malkus was having constant nightmares. But he wouldn't admit it, or really talk to anyone. He just wants to go home. Q said that Link found Malkus having a nightmare and tried to wake him up… but it didn't work. Link couldn't pull Malkus out of his dream. Link got Q and Q managed to get Malkus to wake up. Since the dark Templar problem in Altaïr's and Malkus' home world seems to be over Q had figured on putting Malkus back where we found him. Q doesn't see a single non-shadow Templar as being a threat to anyone. And Q also thinks Malkus will avoid trouble of any kind. But Q says he can't approve sending Malkus home until these nightmares are figured out, especially if there is still a link between Malkus and the demon from the dark realm. Q said he has a dream crystal - a crystal that allows one person to easily enter the dreams of another while maintaining full lucidity. He said I would need the crystal since Malkus isn't from our world, and thus his dream world is not in frame with mine. I'm not sure I understand Q's reasoning but I told him I would meet him tonight and try to take care of these nightmares.

So I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on. I focused on meeting with Q in the area where Malkus has been staying until he is ready to go home. I fell asleep and found myself in a different place in a fully lucid dream…

I was in a strange room. It looked like the interior of an old fashioned building. The walls were made of adobe and had some cloth wall hangings on them. There were two comfortable looking beds in the room. Q was standing next to one of the beds. There was a man sitting on that bed. The man looked over at me and then at Q. He asked if Q really thought that Assassin was going to help him. He was indicating me as the Assassin. Q said I am not actually an Assassin, and it wouldn't matter if I was. He said it seemed the man had a dream demon and I was the perfect choice to get rid of it so the man could go home. Q called the man Malkus and told him to lie down and go to sleep on his own or Q would just put him to sleep. Malkus was looking at me in a very distrusting manner. Q rolled his eyes. He pulled a Gibbs on Malkus (a light swat to the back of the head).

"For the last time, you dense person," Q said, "Raven is the only reason that demon in the dark realm doesn't have you in his torture dungeon!" Malkus finally lied down and closed his eyes. Q held one hand over Malkus' head and then said Malkus was now approaching REM sleep. Q assisted REM sleep… Q told me to use the other bed. He held out a pendant with a pretty clear crystal. It looked like a really big diamond. I put the dream gem around my neck and lied down on the second bed. I closed my eyes. Although I was already in a dream I let myself fall into a WILD. I went into a WILD within a WILD. In the process I lost part of my lucidity…

I was in a green forest. It didn't look like the stuff of nightmares. I walked through the forest for a while. I reached a clearing. There was a small house in the clearing. A road led to the house. The road didn't look very heavily traveled. I saw movement near the house. I approached it. I looked into a window. There were some people inside. I saw Malkus, a woman, and a couple of children. The children looked like they were maybe an 8 year old boy and a 10 year old girl. I didn't see any problems there right away. But the calm didn't last long. There was an Assassin in the room. It looked disturbingly like Altaïr. But he looked so much more evil than Altaïr. And he was more evil. He ran his sword through both the children. They fell over but weren't dead. They were writhing in pain. I was stunned by Altaïr's behavior. He also sliced open the woman. The little girl had crawled over to Malkus.

"Daddy… help… me…" she said and then she died. All three of them were dead.

"Altaïr!" I said, finally finding my voice, "What the fuck did you do that for?" I had temporarily forgotten that I was in a dream within a dream instead of just in a normal lucid dream.

"Raven," he said in an evil voice that didn't sound at all like Altaïr, "Go ahead and take the first cut. Make it painful, but make sure he doesn't die. After all the idea is to watch him suffer!"

"Are you insane?!" I asked Altaïr, I was pissed at him.

Altaïr disappeared from in the house and he appeared beside me. I wondered how he did that. He told me to stay down and watch. I looked into the house again. The corpses of the children and the woman were moving again. Malkus looked relieved to see them move.

"Daddy…" the girl said. Her mouth fell open and blood poured out, "Why did you let me die?"

"You let us die," the boy said.

"But I couldn't…" Malkus started.

"You killed us," the woman said, "Now it's your turn."

"It was Altaïr!" Malkus protested, "He killed you!"

"You let him," the three of them said all together. They all closed in around Malkus and actually started eating him. Like zombies from Resident Evil. It was so gross I didn't take action immediately. Possibly because my lucidity was lacking. I was semi-lucid, but not even as lucid as I usually am. Malkus screamed in agony for a brief time and then he was dead. I heard Altaïr beside me laughing. I turned and punched him in the face.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" I asked him, "I liked you! But you turned out to be just a sick fucker!"

"You can kill him next time," Altaïr said as he rubbed his jaw where I had punched him.

"Next time?" I questioned, then I called Q, "Q! Altaïr made a mess! Come quick!"

"Look!" Altaïr said, "He's not quite dead."

I didn't want to but I looked back in the house. Malkus was alone now. The zombies were gone. Malkus was bleeding and badly injured. He was pulling himself across the floor. He wasn't making any sound but he was clearly still in pain. Altaïr was laughing. I turned towards him and punched him in the face again. I climbed in through the window and went over to Malkus. Right as I reached him he collapsed and appeared to be dead. The scene changed…

Now the place looked like a nightmare. It was the dark realm. I had no doubts in my mind about that. I was alone. I wondered where everyone had gone. Where was Malkus? Where was Altaïr? I walked through the nightmare landscape. There were dead trees everywhere. I reached a clearing. I had found Malkus. Malkus was hanging upside down from a tree over a fire. He was just beyond reach of the flames but the heat was causing nasty looking burns and blisters on his face as he was struggling to get free. There was also a demon there. The demon was watching Malkus with great interest. He was laughing. He poked Malkus with a sharp burning stick. Malkus' shirt caught fire. He was screaming in pain. I could smell burning flesh. The demon laughed louder. This was absurd! I wasn't going to sit and do nothing again.

"Hey, double ugly!" I called out to the demon, "Why don't you pick on someone who can fight back, you coward?"

The demon glared at me. He said this was none of my concern. He said this was his play thing. This soul belonged to him. He said it is none of my concern since it is just a worthless Templar. I told the demon that if Malkus was just a worthless Templar then he wouldn't mind handing him over. The demon laughed. I told him he could either turn Malkus over to me willingly or I would kick his ass. The demon laughed again and turned back to Malkus. The fire had died a bit and he was building it up again. I fired an energy blast at the flames that blew the fire apart and extinguished it. The demon glared at me.

"So," I said, "One ass kicking coming up!"

The demon was just glaring at me. I used the song Enter Sandman on the demon. It created a spiral of white energy going up and a spiral of dark energy coming down. The two mixed right over the demon and created a massive explosion. When the explosion cleared the demon was gone. I didn't think it was dead. I went over to Malkus. I used a Witchblade blade to cut him down and I telekinetically lowered him to the ground. I used Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack to heal him. He scrambled to his feet and backed away.

"Wait!" I said, "I'm here to help you out of here!"

"Stay away from me, Assassin!" he said.

I looked down at myself. I was dressed as an Assassin. I pulled a Homer (D'Oh!) and focused on changing my outfit. I now had on a sexy black sorceress' dress. "Come on! I'm here to get you out of here!"

Malkus was looking at me closely now. Someone grabbed him from behind. Razor sharp claws dug out both of his eyes at the same time. Malkus cried out and streams of blood ran down his face like tears. I formed Witchblade into a sword and jumped right over Malkus and came down, sword first, on the demon attacking Malkus. I impaled the sword in the demon's head. The demon roared in rage and disappeared. I landed on the ground and looked around quickly. I saw movement nearby.

"Come out here and fight, you flakey jerk!" I called out to the demon, "Face me, you coward!"

All of the dead trees around us came to life. Like an army of twisted ents. They were closing in around us and reaching at us with their branches. I got right next to Malkus, who was holding his hands over his bleeding eye sockets.

"Suddenly, the unreal silence is broken by a lament," I did the Immortal Fire spell, "A lament coming up from the deepest, darkest abyss. And from the seven gates of the dark fortress the dead come back to life to face them! This is Hell! Immortal fire, now rise, light my heart, light my way, through the darkness, a guardian of space and time!"

The white flames of the immortal fire spell blasted out from us in a circle, incinerating all of the twisted ents as it went. When the flames had cleared we were standing in a vast wasteland. No trees, no plants, no animals, no nothing. The demon appeared in a blast of fire. He was pissed. I walked towards the demon. I focused on another song now. I used the song Crush 'Em by Megadeth.

(Enter the arena and hit the lights, Step up now you're in for a ride, this is war, ain't no fun and games, we get up, you go down in flames!) The demon seemed to find it comical that I was approaching and threatening him.

(Party time, going down, you better not mess us around, the stakes are rich, take a hit or stay, the price is high, someone's gonna pay!) The demon moved forward to face my approach. He looked amused now.

(Heads I win, tails you lose, out of my way I'm coming through, roll the dice don't think twice, and we crush, crush 'em!) I hit the demon with a massive gravity blast. He was knocked a long way back and seemed injured.

(Looking for trouble, now you've found it, you're a drum and we're gonna pound it!) I threw a blast of fire at him and hit him.

(Last one standing wins the fight, hear us scream and shout all night, down on the floor and eat the grit, this is gonna hurt a little bit!) The demon got up from the fire blast and glared at me. He was about to launch an attack of some kind when I hit him with a bolt of white lightning.

(Heads I win, tails you lose, out of my way I'm coming through, roll the dice don't think twice, and we crush, crush 'em!) Another massive gravity blast on the demon. It knocked him down.

(Now we lay you down to rest, you'll never be more than second best, step inside you're in for a ride, and we crush, crush 'em!) This gravity blast came from above and crushed the demon into the ground.

(Don't need reason, don't want names, just a John Doe to put to shame, step aside let me explain, the name of the game is pain! Now we've found you, We're gonna pound you, We're gonna beat you, Gonna defeat you, We're gonna bust you, We're gonna crush you, We're gonna crush 'em!) I lifted the demon up into the air and hit it with a gravitational blast from each direction. Six gravity blasts crushing the demon into a miniscule space. And a blast of white lightning to finish it off. I heard one last roar from the demon and then he was gone. I looked over and saw Malkus still holding his eyes. Then everything around me faded to black…

I woke in the bed. Q was standing beside me with a smile on his face. He was clapping.

"Nice job!" he said, "You really showed that demon who's boss! And he really boosted up the connection he had with Malkus to do it. So I found that connection and broke it."

I got up. Malkus sat up in the other bed. He looked at me.

"You stopped it…" he said, sounding a bit surprised by it, "You stopped him… but he'll be back."

"Not this time," Q said, "I found his connection and broke it. And the beating he took from Raven sent a nice backlash along the link. He'll be in a bit of pain of his own for a while!" Q laughed. "He's earned it."

I told Malkus that meant he could go home now, home to his family. He said his family was already dead. And it wasn't Assassins who had killed them. It was raiders. I said I was sorry about his family being dead. He said that was a lifetime ago. I left the room and found myself in a forest outside a small house. Altaïr was there. My first reaction was to be pissed at him. I had watched him murder two innocent children and that woman! No. That wasn't him. That was Malkus' dream image of him. Instead of getting mad at Altaïr I went over and put my arms around him. He returned my hug. I was in his arms when I woke up.

Note: Lyrics of Crush 'Em are copyright Megadeth, and it is a kick ass song!

Wow. Sometimes even lucid dreams are terrifying. You never cease to inspire me.

I fell asleep with my light/sound machine and focused on going to meet Nomad on the moon. I had plans for the night. Exchange some healing spells with Nomad. Find and make MoSh lucid. Find and make WarriorTiger lucid. First the healing. I closed my eyes and slipped into a WILD…

I was in the biodome. I was looking into a pond where there were colorful fish swimming around. I looked up and around at my surroundings. There was a dog at my feet wagging its tail. It was a pit bull. I petted the dog. I looked around to see if there was anything else of interest. I walked down a path that led away from the pond. I found a pretty little clearing. There was a bench there. I saw a silver space ship land just outside the main gate of the biodome. Nomad got out and came into the biodome. He looked like a purple jaguar man. For some reason I made special notice of how soft his fur looked. I wanted to stroke that fur. That seemed weird, though. He came over to me and said hello. I was thinking Basara was also going to be here. I wondered where he was. As if I had summoned him a portal opened and he came through. I focused on the song Full Moonlight. Nomad was playing his didgeridoo. Basara was playing his guitar and singing. The entire area was filled with golden energy. It was flowing around and through us. It felt very relaxing. It seemed to be washing black stuff out of us. The black cloud stuff was pulled into the center of the triangle formed by Nomad, Basara, and me. It was pulled there by the spiral of the flowing energy. When the song ended the golden energy completely surrounded and destroyed the dark mass. I was so relaxed my lucidity slipped to semi-lucidity.

"Thanks," Nomad said, "I feel much better. Now we can get MoSh!"

I was just about to open a portal to find MoSh when Nomad opened a whole bunch of portals. I asked him what he was doing. He said he was going to bring MoSh. He transformed into some kind of octopus man with way more than 8 arms. More like 80 arms! An arm reached through each of the portals he had opened and each one came back clutching a MoSh. He deposited what I estimated to be somewhere around 50 MoSh's on the ground around us. The clearing in the biodome had just gotten really crowded. And it was crowded with MoSh! All of the MoSh's were looking quite confused. They were talking to each other. I heard a couple of them asking why they were dreaming about themselves. I heard others respond that they were completely different people. Some of them accused other MoSh's of being DC's while those others denied it. Other MoSh's were just going, "What the fuck?"

I asked Nomad if he had found enough MoSh's. He said he hoped he had… He asked which of those MoSh's knew him. Several MoSh's looked at Nomad strangely. One of them said he didn't know any jaguars. Nomad laughed and transformed to his normal form. He asked if anyone recognized him now. One MoSh said Nomad looked like his sister's ex boyfriend. Another MoSh said Nomad looked like his brother's current boyfriend. A third MoSh said he'd never seen Nomad in his life. A fourth MoSh said Nomad looked like his ex boyfriend. A MoSh told Nomad to stop screwing his mother or he would kick Nomad's ass. A MoSh said his mother would never stoop to the level of sleeping with the likes of Nomad, he followed that with a quick "No offense, dude." Another MoSh said Nomad would have to be pretty desperate to sleep with his mother. Two of the MoSh's argued over who was insulting who's mother. Several other MoSh's answered all at the same time so I couldn't make out their responses. This was getting ridiculous. I remembered thinking Q could sort it out. I focused on contacting Q telepathically. Q answered and said he would be right there. And he was. Instantly.

Q appeared in a flash of white light. He looked around at all of the MoSh's. He asked who had started the MoSh convention. He said we had a regular MoSh pit going on here. He said yes, the bad pun was intended. I just rolled my eyes at him. He said seriously, who had created this gathering of MoSh's. I pointed at Nomad. Q floated up over the crowd of MoSh's. He said he was a spirit guide to one of them and he would like that one MoSh to please step forward. All of the MoSh's were staring at him in a perplexed manner. Q said he was going to get MoSh's own spirit guide Q. He said this was a lot to sort through. He disappeared and then reappeared an instant later. There were two Q's hovering over about 50 MoSh's. They dispersed among the MoSh's. I heard them talking amongst the MoSh's.

"Not you," a Q said and then he snapped his fingers. A MoSh disappeared. "Nor you," a Q said as he made another MoSh disappear. They kept sorting through all of the MoSh's until there were only three MoSh's left. One of the Q's pointed at one of the MoSh's. "This is the one!" he said. The other Q made the remaining two MoSh's disappear. The single remaining MoSh was looking around with a "What the fuck?" look on his face.

"Hey, MoSh!" Nomad said, "It's me! Nomad!"

MoSh pointed at Nomad and then stared at him for a bit. "You didn't disappear…" he said.

"Nope," Nomad said, "I'm a real person. I'm Nomad. This is a dream."

"Do a reality check if you don't believe him," I said to MoSh.

MoSh looked at me. "Raven…" he said. "Where is Morrigan? I think she is in danger…"

"Morrigan?" Nomad asked, "What is wrong?"

MoSh hesitated. "I'm not sure… It's just a feeling I am getting."

"Maybe we should go check on her," I said.

"She's calling me," MoSh said, "I have to go to her."

"We'll come with you," Nomad said. But MoSh disappeared before either Nomad or I could say anything more.

"I have to follow him," Nomad said. He opened a portal and left. I was alone now. I remembered Allison. I would find her. I used Through the Never and focused on getting to Allison. A portal opened and I went through. On the other side I was in a large room. There was a star gate there. I wondered if Allison was here and had created that star gate. I called out to her, "Hey! Nice star gate! Let's use it!"

I didn't get any response. Instead everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I fell asleep with my light/sound machine on and a couple of plans set up. Plan #1 was to meet with Nomad on the moon and do a bit of healing. Plan #2 was to go find Morrigan and see about some hostiles who have been attacking her lately. Plan #3 was to get into the dream of DV user Bengron and try to make him lucid. Plan #4 was to get into the dreams of WarriorTiger to get her lucid. Hmmm… a lot of plans for a short night! So I closed my eyes and focused on the biodome at the moon. I slipped into a WILD…

I was in the biodome. I looked around but I didn't see anyone there. I was supposed to meet with Nomad. So where was he? Basara came around a corner. He didn't say a word. He just gave me a hug. I hugged him back. I asked if he had seen Nomad. He said no. He said maybe Nomad had gone to the temple by mistake. I agreed that seemed like a possibility. I opened a portal to the temple. I looked through. I saw Nomad talking to Sarnox. Nomad was a purple jaguar man while Sarnox was a druid.

"Hey! Nomad!" I called, "You're late!"

Nomad looked over at me. He said a couple more things to Sarnox and then came through my portal. Now the three of us were in the biodome together. We started the healing. The three of us played healing music and the entire area filled with golden healing energy. Blackness was washed out of Nomad and me (not so much out of Basara) and gathered into the center of our triangle where it was destroyed. I found the golden energy so relaxing that I slipped into a semi-lucid state…

Nomad said Morrigan needed us. He opened a portal. I went through it with the others following me. I saw a couple of other people join us. When I got through the portal I saw Morrigan lying in bed. She was surrounded by monsters. There was a big demon dog on each side of the bed. A man in a dark suit was standing at the foot of the bed watching Morrigan sleep. He looked predatory. I noticed a smaller demonic cat-like creature standing on Morrigan's chest. It seemed to be draining energy right out of her mouth. I threw a quick fireball from Damage, Inc. to knock the smaller creature off of Morrigan. It fell through the far wall. I then noticed a woman at the head of Morrigan's bed. She looked like Ultimecia off of Final Fantasy 8. Long black hair, black feathered wings, pale skin, and a slinky dress that made her look sort of sexy in a really evil and disturbing way. She looked over and glared at me. She hissed loudly and stared me right in the eye. Her eyes looked so dark and cold. I was thinking there was supposed to be a spark somewhere in there. I wondered if it was there. I looked back into Ultimecia's eyes to see what I could see. Darkness and cold. Hate and anger. Nomad.

Nomad had jumped right over me and was now crouched protectively over Morrigan. A force field formed around Nomad and Morrigan. I remembered the idea. I focused on the song Enter Sandman by Metallica. A blast of white energy rose, spiraling around Morrigan's bed. A blast of dark energy spiraled down. They formed a spiral of energy that pulled the two demon dogs right into it. It also sucked in the demon cat from through the wall. He put up a bit more resistance but the creepy man at the foot of the bed was also pulled into the spiral. There was an explosion in the spiral as the dark and white energy mixed. The four entities were launched up into the air. A portal formed up there. The two demon dogs and the demon cat fell through it. The creepy guy tried to come back. A silvery net prevented the creepy guy from getting back. Wrapped up in the net, the creepy guy was also pulled through the portal. I noticed the only one not affected by the spiral was Ultimecia. She phased through the wall behind her, glaring at me as she went. Her spark. I wanted to find her spark. I phased through the wall after her…

Now I was in a strange place. The sky was a dark red. Red clouds were moving through the sky. The landscape was desolate. Like the middle of a lifeless desert. There also seemed to be a red glow to the air. I walked along the ground for a little ways. I saw a pillar of energy firing up into the sky. The energy looked like a mixture of red and black energies. It emitted a bright reddish light. There was a woman standing beside it with her arms outstretched. I got a little closer. It was Ultimecia.

"Hey!" I called to her, "Ultimecia!" I called her by her name (which isn't actually Ultimecia, but I am using Ultimecia because that is what I saw).

Ultimecia turned towards me. She was mostly silhouetted against the light of the energy stream but I could also see a red glow in her eyes. "You dare follow me to my own domain?" She said with an evil laugh, "Now you will never leave!" She fired a blast of energy at me. I used the song Whiplash by Metallica to deflect the blast of energy. I had to look closer. I had to see further. I walked towards Ultimecia. She was pissed. The first part of a song by Garbage came to mind. The song is called Queer: "Hey now, take a look at me, Let me dirty up your mind, I'll strip away your hard veneer, And see what I can find…" As I focused on that part of the song it was like I could see inside of Ultimecia. Most of it was horrible. The stuff of nightmares. Death, decay, torture, evil… But as I focused on the song more and more layers seemed to peel away to reveal something beneath it. She attacked me again and I was barely aware that I instinctively used Whiplash to deflect it. Each layer removed seemed to reveal only more darkness… until finally I saw it. A tiny pin prick of light. A tiny gleaming spark in the pure darkness. A tiny spark that looked like it was struggling to barely stay lit. That was what I was after. That tiny light. I would make it into a powerful flame. Now I just needed to do a healing spell while the spark was exposed…

As if suddenly realizing that her deepest self was being exposed Ultimecia spun around and wrapped herself in her midnight black wings. She let out a shriek of rage that was deafening. I heard the shriek echoing across the barren landscape. She said I would pay for doing that. She transformed into a huge blast of black swirling energy. That blast of energy was fired at me at high speeds. I dived to the side and out of the way just in time to avoid most of it. Witchblade formed and protected me from what I couldn't avoid. I got to my feet quickly and looked in the direction where Ultimecia had gone. She was gone. I wondered where she had gone. I focused on Through the Never to open a portal to follow Ultimecia. A portal opened. I went through the portal… and woke up.

That fight was on two dimensions. I remember both.

I said I would find Bengron and try to make him lucid and also to find WarriorTiger to make her lucid… so that was my goal as I fell back asleep after a brief wake-up. I wanted to do a middle-of-the-night WILD, but I fell asleep very quickly. I must have been really focused, though, because I followed through with my plans even though I wasn't lucid… But I knew how to open a portal I must've been semi-lucid…

I was in my room. It was a slightly different version of my room. I was in bed. I was trying to sleep but I was having problems. I got up from my bed. I was thinking of finding Bengron and making him lucid. The idea that I could open a portal didn't seem at all odd. I used Through the Never and focused on finding Bengron. A portal opened and I went through it… and fell into my bed. WTF? I looked around in my own room. How did I get back here? I focused on the portal to find Bengron again. A portal opened. I went through it and once again fell into my bed. Was there something keeping me from sharing a dream with Bengron? I thought I would try a different person. I focused on Through the Never and on opening a portal to find WarriorTiger. A portal opened. I went through it… and fell into my bed.

"Shit! Shit! Shit!" I was saying to myself, "What is going on?!" Now I just wanted to open a portal to anywhere. I focused on Through the Never and on opening a portal to the moon. A portal opened. I went through the portal… and fell into my bed. Something was blocking my portals. I focused on Through the Never again. I used as much energy as I could put into it. I played through the entire song this time, focusing on opening the portal to wherever I needed to be. A portal opened. Something exploded within the portal. I went into the portal…

And came out in a green field. There was a thick forest nearby. There was also a small village in the opposite direction. I headed for the village. There were people walking around in the village. It looked like something out of an RPG. The people walking around in the village looked like elves. I noticed all of the buildings were made out of trees and parts of trees. The elf people were going about their daily business. Most of them seemed to be in a good mood. A couple of them seemed cranky and a couple seemed depressed. A few children ran around playing. Everything looked peaceful. I heard noise behind me. I turned towards the forest.

There were figures approaching from the forest. Not a lot of them, but they were strange looking things. They were knights of some kind in solid black armor. They seemed to have a black aura. There were also black tentacles extending from their back like those of an octopus. Freaks. I could see right away that they were hostile. I walked out into the field to meet them. That must be why I was needed. I met the figures in the middle of the green field. Where they had stepped the grass had withered up and died. I noticed the trees where the figures had emerged were also dead. There were five of the things. They didn't speak to me. They snarled… and they attacked. They tried to wrap their tentacles around me. I jumped out of the way and formed Witchblade into armor and a sword. I used Battery to hit one of the enemies with a bolt of white lightning. That caused a surprisingly large explosion. I was thrown away from the blast. The blast didn't seem to affect the other enemies. I jumped up and went right back into the fight, attacking one of them with my sword. Tentacles wrapped around me. I came down on one of the enemies and cut through him with my Witchblade sword. He exploded. I didn't get thrown this time because the remaining three were holding me there with their tentacles. But my Witchblade armor protected me. I cut through the tentacles and then through a third enemy. The remaining two were on either side of me. I did a spin attack like Link does on the Legend of Zelda. That cut the remaining two enemies in half. BOOM!

I was now standing on a dead area of grass. There was no sign of the enemies. They had exploded completely. I wondered who they were. I wondered who had been keeping me from opening a portal. I figured at least I had finally been able to get a portal opened. Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

wow. that is so intense. Right after I learned how to use my astral tentacles.

Another MoSh said Nomad would have to be pretty desperate to sleep with his mother

that would be me.

I fell asleep. I had a lot of plans for this night. Healing with Nomad and Basara, sending some of that healing energy to Morrigan, clearing negative energy and entities from Nomad's house, looking for and kicking the ass of War-Bringer from SilverWolf's dreams, and bringing some people back to see my inner world. Lots to do. So I focused on the lights from my light/sound device and slipped into a WILD…

I was on the moon just outside the biodome. I looked around. I spotted Nomad's ship in the sky. It looked like he was flying drunk. I wondered why his ship's AI didn't take over. His ship finally landed/crashed near me. A silver stairway slid open at an angle and Nomad stumbled out and fell on his face. He was in his purple jaguar man form. And he was puking. He was puking black crap all over the ground. The black crap was alive. It slithered around on the moon. I threw fireballs at the blobs. They were incinerated. I went over to Nomad and focused on the song Full Moonlight. Golden energy formed and flowed through Nomad. I focused on sending some of that healing energy to Morrigan. I saw a beam of golden energy shoot up into the sky. I hoped it would make it to the right place. Basara came through a portal and joined in on my song. A lot of black crap was washed off of Nomad by golden energy. Nomad was between Basara and me. The golden energy formed into a spiral and pulled more black stuff out of Nomad and compressed it into a small ball. When the healing was completed the black orb was consumed by the golden energy.

I went over and looked at Nomad. He seemed better. I asked if he was ok. I asked what had happened. He said he wasn't sure. There was something nasty at his house. I said we should go ahead and get rid of that shit. He agreed. I told him to open the portal to get us there. He opened a portal and we went through it…

On the other side I was in a dark house. I could hardly see anything. I felt disoriented. Nomad said the entire place was filled with negative energies. I was losing the dream. I needed to restore stability. I reached out blindly and found Nomad's furry arm. I clutched onto it and tired to focus on keeping the dream. My lucidity slipped to semi-lucidity…

"Hey!" Nomad said in a half joking manner, "Don't rip it off!"

"Sorry…" I said as I tried to loosen my grip without letting go, "I'm losing the dream… I need to stabilize." I focused on stabilize the dream. It seemed to be working. I let go of Nomad's arm… and everything started spinning again. I grabbed hold again. I said if I let go I would lose the dream. He seemed to be doing something. I couldn't see what he was doing. I focused on the song Full Moonlight. I focused on making the golden energy spread out and cleanse the area. I could vaguely make out a wave of golden energy flowing through the house. The golden energy felt good. It seemed to clear my head a bit. So I did it again. Full Moonlight. Nomad said he knew where the dream demon was. I didn't even remember we were looking for a dream demon. We went somewhere… I was losing the dream again. I lost lucidity…

I was holding the arm of a person who was half jaguar and half human in a strange house. The fur was soft and silky. It seemed ok so I hugged the arm and felt the soft fur on my face. Nice. Warm. I didn't recognize the place. It was a nice place. I could see the kitchen and the living room. Something about it didn't seem right. I wondered if I was hallucinating. I let go of the man's arm. It looked like he was making a tornado. That didn't seem right. Cat people making tornados? I figured I don't know the extent of the abilities of the cat people. The tornado seemed to dig down into the floor. Something came out of the floor. The form hit the ceiling and then slammed to the ground. It was Freddy Krueger. Seriously? Was this some kind of joke? A game? The cat man probably had a costume on. So did Freddy. I liked the cat costume. I didn't like Freddy's costume.

I ran over and jumped onto Freddy's back. I dug my hands into the mask where it was around his neck and pulled. The damn mask was stuck. The cat man looked rather shocked. I pulled and tore harder. I could feel the mask rip. I felt a warm gooey substance on my hands. Yuck. Freddy was trying to throw me off. Not without that mask! Freddy was cursing at me. The jaguar man sliced into Freddy with his huge kitty claws. I pulled as hard as I could… and RIP! I fell off of Freddy with the mask in my hands! I looked at the mask in my hands. I couldn't even identify it as a mask. It looked like a goopy lump of flesh. I looked at Freddy. There was a gaping hole in his throat. That hole was bleeding heavily. He was holding his left hand over the wound. He hadn't been wearing a mask… I had just ripped the guy's throat out! Yuck! I looked at my hands. They were covered with blood and goop. Gross. The jaguar man wrapped Freddy in glowing white tentacles and crushed him into non-existence. So he wasn't only part cat, he was also part octopus!

"He was real?" I asked the cat-octopus man. He asked if I was ok. I said I was fine. Just tired. I was going to go take a nap. He said I was already sleeping. I said if I was sleeping then I was doing a great job of sleep walking and sleep talking. I asked if there was somewhere I could crash. I spotted the couch. I went over and collapsed on the couch. I fell asleep and woke in my own bed.

After the previous dream I woke up a bit disoriented. I rolled over and petted my cat before falling back to sleep…

I was still disoriented in this dream. I remember only vague things. Voyager. MoSh. Nomad. A race of reptilian people divided into factions. They were fighting each other. One group wanted to wipe out the other group. The one group looked like Reptizars (a reptilian creature that is big on muscles, big on having thick skin that is as good as any armor, big on violence, and very small on brains). The Reptizars were trying to destroy the other race. I will call the other race Argonians after the reptilian race off of Oblivian. Not so big, bulky, and violent, but much more intelligent. The Argonians had developed space travel which was way beyond the capabilities of the Reptizars. The Reptizars had managed to steal some of the Argonian ships. They figured out how to fly them, but not fix them. So the Reptizars were constantly having to steal more ships. The Argonians try to destroy the ships the Reptizars have stolen so they won't be able to use them any more. I remember sneaking into a hidden ship yard and using a sword to cut through vital system parts with my Witchblade sword. Aside from sabatoging those ships along with a few other people I don't remember much here. Voyager was in orbit around the planet. They needed to trade for some supplies. The Argonians were more than willing to trade, but the Reptizars wouldn't have any of it. And the Reptizars kept stealing the Argonians' supplies. After we completed the mission we were on the Reptizars had lost their most powerful stolen ships, the higher ups who had the most brains had been eliminated, and a large amount of supplies had been recovered.

So the trade was made. Then I remember being in space in my Fire Valkyrie. Voyager was there. MoSh was in the seat behind me. I was thinking I needed to open a wormhole to help get Voyager home. Q was on the view screen. He said he didn't want me to send Voyager all of the way home… just part way. He said it would take a large amount of time off of their trip. He said there was a race that Voyager would encounter that needed their help. The view screen switched to the bridge of Voyager. I saw Janeway, Tuvok, and Seven of Nine in the center of the screen. Seven of Nine had very little sign on her that she was part Borg… just the small implants around her left eye.

"There she is…" MoSh said. He disappeared. He reappeared on the bridge of Voyager right next to Seven of Nine. Janeway was a bit taken aback. Seven of Nine looked at him in a somewhat curious way. MoSh said he'd always wanted to meet Seven of Nine.

"Do I know you?" Seven of Nine asked with a slightly perplexed look on her face.

I remember seeing MoSh kiss Seven of Nine on the lips. She pulled back.

"Was there a purpose to that?" she asked without emotion.

I don't really remember what happened from there on. I just remember that I opened a portal before waking up.

My non lucid dream self is always so forcefull .

I did get some dream action last night. but it wasn't from seven.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

My non lucid dream self is always so forcefull .

I did get some dream action last night. but it wasn't from seven.

You weren't forceful... just pro-active! It looked like she might have been a bit confused, but not upset. At least you did get some dream sex! I think I'm going to have to get myself some soon...

I was in a strange place. It was my own bedroom. I got out of bed and was thinking I was awake. I just needed to use the bathroom and then go back to bed. I needed to get back to my dreams. I had a lot of dreaming to do and not much time. I left my room and went into the bathroom. I looked in the mirror. I saw my own reflection. I was thinking I was looking good. My second chin wasn't even visible. Maybe I'd lost weight. Sweet! I would have to weigh myself on my Wii fit the next day. I turned to leave the bathroom, completely forgetting I had to pee. I almost ran into Q. he smiled at me. He asked if I knew I was dreaming. He said I should do a reality check. I pinched my nose. I could breathe. I was dreaming. I became lucid.

Q said my next goal was to find Allison and take her to kick the ass of one asshole who refers to himself as War-Bringer. When he said the name War-Bringer I got angry. He needed a nice ass kicking. I focused on Through the Never to find Allison. A portal opened. I went through. Allison was playing a video game on her XBox 360. I looked at the screen and saw it was DDO. I asked Allison if she was ready to… She interrupted me and told me to leave her the fuck alone while she was playing DDO. I said I had something better. She said not better than DDO. I got between her and the TV. I said it is much better than DDO. She said for me to move before she died. I said the name War-Bringer. She looked at me and dropped the controller. I said now that I had her attention, I wanted to go on a quest with her to kill War-Bringer. She said to count her in. I said first we had to go prepare. I opened a portal, focusing on SilverWolf's house in the woods. A portal opened. Allison came through with me.

I knocked on the door of the house. Pixie opened the door and smiled.

"Hi there," she said, "I hope you've come for some food… I made way too much. And some lucidi-tea, too! I have a fresh pot all ready! Come in! Come in!"

Allison and I went into the house. There were cups of tea and food on a table. Pixie asked if I had brought Nomad. I said he would be coming later. For now we had something to do. We all sat down at the table. SilverWolf joined us. There were little cakes served with the tea. We ate and drank together. The tea was good. The cakes were good. I thanked SilverWolf and Pixie for the tea and cakes and said they were very good. Pixie grinned. I asked Allison if she was lucid. She said yes. I asked if she was ready to play. She got up and summoned a sword in one hand and a sawed off shotgun in the other. SilverWolf said she didn't know if it was a good idea. Allison said it's not a good idea… it's a GREAT idea! She said we should go. I focused on opening a portal to find the bastard War-Bringer. A portal opened. Allison and I went through.

On the other side we were standing in a forest. I wondered if War-Bringer was near. I thought he must be. I called his name. "Hey! War-Bringer! Come out and play!"

A horse came out of the trees. There was a man in armor on the horse. He was looking at Allison and me. I couldn't see his face.

"Are you the one they call War-Bringer?" I asked him.

"Yes…" he said, "Who is it that asks?"

"Raven," I said, "Raven Knight. This is Warrior Tiger. We have a message for you. From Silver Wolf."

The man got off of his horse and removed his helmet. He had his hair, which was the darkest black, pulled back and tied into a ponytail. I might have thought he was decent looking if I hadn't known so much about what an asshole he is. "I, ladies, am War-Bringer." He took my hand and kissed it. I pulled it away. It felt soiled. He reached for Allison but she pulled away before he got to her and told him to get the fuck away from him.

"Such language from such a lovely lady," he said, feigning shock. "So, what is the message from SilverWolf? Will she be joining us for some fun?"

"SilverWolf doesn't want you in her dreams," I said. I didn't know if a third party can relay to a nightstalker that they aren't permitted to share dreams, but I thought I'd try it. "You are absolutely NOT invited to share dreams with her. You are FORBIDDEN to enter her dreams for any reason. Got it?"

War-Bringer didn't look pleased. "I will do what I want in my dream," he said.

"But Warrior Tiger and I would like to have some fun with you…" I said, "She's up first." I stepped away from War-Bringer. Warrior Tiger approached him.

"Run," she said.

"What?" War-Bringer asked.

"Run," she repeated, "I don't want this to be too easy."

"Just what do you think will be easy?" War-Bringer asked.

"Kicking your foul ass," Warrior Tiger said, "That's my wife you've been tormenting. Now you have to deal with me!"

"Your…" War-Bringer started, "Your wife? But you're a woman! That's impossible that she could be your… That's disgusting! That's foul!"

"You're disgusting and foul," Allison said, "Now run! I'm getting impatient!" She pulled out her double barrel shotgun and fired a round at War-Bringer's feet. The bullet blasted a small hole in the ground. "Now RUN!"

"I do not run from a fight," War-Bringer said as he pulled out his sword and attacked Allison. Allison blocked his sword attack with her sword that she had in her left hand. At the same time she pointed the shotgun in her right hand at his head and fired. BANG! A large chunk was torn out of War-Bringer's throat. He fell to his knees clutching the wound and gurgling. He fell on his face bleeding.

"Great," I said, "I thought I was supposed to get a turn."

"Heal him," Allison said, "Then take your turn."

I used Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack to heal the wound in War-Bringer's neck. He looked surprised.

"Was that fun?" I asked. He didn't answer. "The party's just getting started," I said.

He got up and looked at me strangely. I formed Witchblade into a sword and armor. I beckoned him in with my left hand as I held my sword at ready in my right hand. Unseen to War-Bringer, I formed Witchblade into an Assassin's hidden blade on my left arm.

"I challenge you," I said.

"So that's how it's going to be," he said. He put his helmet back on. He had his sword prepared for attack. We dueled for a bit. Exchanged attacks, parries, and blocks. I was holding back. My Witchblade sword could have cut through his sword and armor at any point. I knew that to be true.

"Now how about we get serious?" I asked.

He didn't respond. I thought maybe he had thought we were already serious. He tried to run me through with his sword. I dodged to the side. He grabbed my sword arm and held it to his side. He smirked as he pulled his sword back to run it through me. I was faster with my hidden blade. I couldn't help but smile as I ran the blade into his gut.

"If you're a nightstalker I know this won't kill you," I said.

"If I ever catch you tormenting my wife again," Allison said, she had come over behind me, "You will be wishing you'd never been born!"

I cut downward with the hidden blade towards his favorite part. He cried out in pain. Allison ran her sword through his head. Now he wasn't moving. Everything faded to black as I woke.

You women ROCK!!!

I guess that explains why I felt great when I woke up. Too bad I don't remember it well. Reading your entry did bring back memories of something like that, but just small details that don't make sense. At least we showed him!

I was in my room. It was crowded! Q was there. Nomad was there. Nomad was in his normal form. Pixie was there. MoSh was there. MoSh looked disoriented. Q said not to worry, he had made sure he got the right MoSh. He said he hadn't been able to get hold of Allison… but that was ok. She could come later. We went through my door and outside. There were houses on either side of a normal looking street. Trees lined the street. MoSh touched me on the shoulder. He said the timing was perfect. Pixie was standing next to him. She was giggling. She whispered that she loves a good joke. MoSh transformed into Pixie. Pixie transformed into MoSh. Pixie (looking like MoSh) said I had better remember this so we would have a nice record of the event. We all followed Nomad and Q into the street. The house across the street was Mary and Marty's. The introductions revealed:

Mary: An old friend of my ex boyfriend's guardian spirit, Sarah. Sarah contacted Mary when we seemed to be getting a lot of attacks. Mary is an expert at tracking any residual energy paths left behind by other people. She is also an expert in just about anything that fires. A gun nut. She can hide guns on her person, probably in places I'd rather not think about. She has short black hair and kind of a tom-boy appearance.

Marty: Marty is a clone that was sent by enemies to take Mary's place when Mary was kidnapped. This was discovered and Mary was rescued. It was discovered, however, that Marty truly believed herself to be Mary. She wasn't faking. They had programmed her memory. After she discovered how she had been used she joined our side. Now Mary and Marty are as close as twin sisters, which basically they are.

We went to the next door house. This is where Julie lives.

Julie: She was initially sent to attack me as an enemy. This was before we even realized that some of the entities visiting were real people and not just DC's. It took a while to get the picture, but finally we realized what was going on. Julie was an old friend of Mary's. When Mary got here she cleared up the situation on Julie. Julie has the ability to reform when she is killed. She has been here, and a friend, ever since.

Q snapped his fingers and teleported all of us to the yard of a small house. There was a strange structure in the yard. Somehow I knew it was the gravity training chamber Vegeta uses, or at least he used to use. By now I think he has out grown it. He is too powerful to notice the higher G's. Serena and Vegeta were in the yard with a couple of kids. The kids looked like they were about seven years old. Twin girls.

Vegeta: Vegeta was originally selected by our enemies to come in and kill me because he had a high power level and wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone. He also had a spark. I used a healing spell and restored his spark. Since then he has been using training techniques he can only get here to increase his power far beyond anything even he could ever have imagined. He still continues to train and he also likes to train others now. Pretty much no one comes here and leaves without knowing the basics of the Ranma Saotome Anything Goes School of Martial Arts.

Serena: An expert with the sword. We enlisted her help to train me with the sword in the dream state. She fell in love with Vegeta, somehow in spite of Vegeta's attitude (which did not go away when his spark was restored). Serena got pregnant and gave birth to two beautiful twin girls. (I can't remember their names…) They are showing that they will be very powerful once they have grown and trained more. They inherited their mother's beauty and skill with their father's power and also his skill.

Pixie (MoSh in disguise) pulled me to the side. She (he) said she (he) wanted me to see this. She (he) pulled Nomad to the side. Nomad smiled at her (him).

"Wanna have some fun?" Pixie (MoSh) asked.

"Shouldn't we wait for after this tour?" Nomad asked, "We don't want to be rude to Raven…"

I was behind Nomad, so he didn't even see me there.

"Ok," Pixie (MoSh) said, "But let me give you a little preview…" She (he) pulled Nomad in for a kiss. Nomad puckered up to kiss her (him). Just as Nomad's lips touched Pixe's (MoSh's) lips she (he) whispered what looked like a sweet nothing to Nomad. What she (he) actually whispered was, "I am naga…" Nomad now found himself kissing the nose of a huge winged cobra. The look on his face was a look of complete shock. He was apparently so stunned that he stood there kissing the nose of the cobra for a bit longer as if unable to recognize what he saw. MoSh(Pixie in disguise) was laughing his (her) ass off. I was also laughing my ass off. The forked tongue of the snake came out and licked Nomad across the face before the snake too to flying. Serena came over and asked what was so funny. MoSh (Pixie in disguise) said Nomad had just tried to score with MoSh!

"Oh!" Serena said, "Nomad prefers men?"

MoSh (Pixie) turned back to Pixie. She was laughing her ass off again.

"You all knew about this?" Nomad finally asked.

"No," Serena said, "But there's nothing wrong with you just because you prefer men."

That set off new waves of laughter in both me and Pixie. Serena looked perplexed.

"I don't prefer men!" Nomad said, "I prefer women!" He grabbed and kissed the nearest girl to him. Serena.

"No! Don't!" I said just a little too late. Serena slapped Nomad across the face, but she smiled. Vegeta glared at him.

"You know, Vegeta," Serena said, "Maybe I might want him to do that more… unless some husband of mine would like to take a bit of time off from his training and teaching to remember he has a WIFE!" She sounded like she was joking, but not entirely joking. In my opinion things got awkward. Pixie ran over and kissed Nomad. She said he had gotten the wrong person twice now. It was time he got it right.

Q had disappeared. Now he reappeared with MoSh in his normal MoSh form. He said there had been reports of a giant winged serpent in the area. We went to some RPG style houses deeper in the forest. The people there included:

Xena: An expert with the sword. I met her when I was obsessed with the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, so that is the form she appears in. Her horse Argo was grazing nearby.

Gabrielle: Wherever Xena goes Gabrielle is sure to follow. Gabrielle prefers the staff and similar weapons. She is also a complete addict to any and every type of chocolate. Types of chocolate we have discovered include milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and the very potent red chocolate. She loves them all.

Hercules: Same period of obsession, thus the same theme of appearance. Very similar to the Hercules from the show. He is dating Xena.

Iolas: Hercules' side-kick. He will sometimes take the form of Indiana Jones because his lover, Gabrielle, likes that form.

Callisto: One of many versions of Callisto that I found and played a healing song for to restore her spark.

Joxer: He was like the loser off of the television series when he arrived, but no more. Vegeta whipped him into shape, Xena provided the training with the sword. Link provided training with the bow and arrow, which he is now very good at. He is dating Callisto.

Although these have pairings listed, I get the sneaking suspicion they trade off on a regular basis…

Malkus: For now Malkus is still here. He is the Templar I brought back from Altaïr's dimension. He should be completely free from that demon in the dark realm, but Q suggested he stay here a bit longer to be sure. The idea has been to send him home, but from what Q has said he doesn't really have anything to go back to.

Q snapped his fingers again and we were in a lush forest. There were animals all around. Animals of all kinds. This is the area where Angelina lives. There was a small house near a stream. She came out to see who had come to see her. She smiled when she saw Q and me. She looked at the others curiously. Q introduced all of them. Nomad, Pixie, and MoSh. Angelina went over to Nomad and took his hand and shook it energetically.

"You have no idea how glad I am to meet another person that doesn't see the need to devour the flesh of innocent animals!" she said with a smile, "You are a vegetarian, right?"

"Uh… yeah," Nomad said. He seemed surprised by Angelina.

"My name is Angelina," she said, "and I'm the lo… ur… let's just say I have a thing with animals. I love all animals, great and small. And I am a vegetarian. I couldn't stand the idea of eating one of my beloved friends.

"You like all animals?" Nomad asked.

"All animals," Angelina said, "And I can communicate with them. That is my special gift."

Nomad transformed into a small purple jaguar cub with wings.

"Awww," Angelina said as she scooped the cub into her arms, "You're so cute!"

Nomad transformed into a full grown jaguar. The size of the cat now in her arms knocked Angelina over on her butt. But she was laughing.

"Those cubs grow up so fast!" she said, "You blink, and you miss it!"

"Ok," Q said, "I don't mean to rush anything, but there is still another couple of places I want to show them. You can talk more later.

"See ya," Angelina said to Nomad. Nomad transformed back to his human form and waved at Angelina, smiling back.

Q snapped his fingers and teleported us to Moe's Tavern. I felt like I was going to lose the dream. Q said to go ahead and go. He would get everyone home to where they belong. I said ok and let go of the dream. Everything faded to black and I woke.

That whole dream seemed like a crazy cartoon world, but the setting was real. Just the people were cartoons.

I don't remember a thing . something has been messing with my recall maybe?

but haha. that was a good prank. that's what you get for jumping and letting your ego get so large that it seeped into my dreams