Yep, this is reality. Or at least pretty darn close.

Being gone so much makes it hard to remember that there are things to do here as well. Apparently I forgot about several events happing around the neighborhood, the house, with family, and with friends. Yes, this time there is a real reason I haven't been posting, not because I'm going insane anymore. By day I was caught up with my forgotten life and by night I was... elsewhere.

A few highlights on my travels.

I witnessed, in person, the very first nucluer explosion used in war. I was trying to train an underground Samurai brigade. That didn't work.

I discovered sticks can be a real pain. I also went to ancient Africa for a few months. Dancing on thorns is not fun, but it sure does make you laugh at people who complain about a papercut.

In Africa again (this was actually this last week, last time was between two other posts I did). I gained a new appreciation for cows. And their blood. When you have to protect cattle from lions with nothing but a spear and a loincloth, and you live off the milk, meat and blood of those cattle, you get pretty tough. And still laugh at people who complain about papercuts or missing a meal.

I made India the first country to hit the Industrial Revolution. What I didn't realize was that Europe was still in the Medieval Age and had many powerful "wizards". At first I thought they had some very special technology I still hadn't seen. I soon learned otherwise...

And now the strangest yet. I went someplace where people had real superpowers. It was in the future, and someone had invented these special suits. The suits increased natural abilities, and for a normal wearer they meant being faster, stronger, quicker healing, ect. But there were other wearers who... weren't so normal. They had these small abilities they had hidden for centuries, including such things as super strength (yeah, those legends are real), super speed (yep), enhanced healing (no, really?), basic telekenisis, enfluence over fire, increased toughness, and many others. That almost sounds like a list of powers you would find in a game. It really was. These suits, when wore by one of these other wearers, also increased natural abilities. But they had different natural abilities... A person who could barely extinguish a match with their mind could, with a powerful enough suit, put out a forest fire. Or make a match a forest fire in seconds. And of course, these suits also had pretty sweet tech. The worst was probably these nanobots that were stored near the palm of the suit, and could be released into the air. From there they would fly to their target (within a few hundred feet), and find microscopic ways into the suit and... for lack of a less gruesome word, kill the target. There were flamethrowers, miniguns, rocketlaunchers, armorplating, shielding, phasing (walking through stuff), teleportation, and so much more that you could attach to these suits if your suit was good enough and you had the cash. Some were very basic, just for increasing natural abilities, others were giant battle mechs the size of skyscrapers (NEVER let a telepathic get in one of those! Or anyone with freaky mind powers!)

Things have been interesting. But now to get back to all that stuff I've been forgetting since my first journey.