I ended up on a stool, back at the same marketplace I had once left, in the potions shop where I had received the 'Lurex Lithia'. I looked around me and everything seemed very much the same. There were people sprawled all about the place, as I was not with Raggs I would tread much more cautiously, and as well as this last time I was here I could not remember ingesting the potion I ingested, so I was very careful. I thought about asking the bar keep about the 'Lurex Lithia' but I felt this might not be the greatest thing to ask.
The barkeep came up to me.
He asked "What will you be having?" Then he gave me a second look "Hey I remember you, you came in and had the 'Lurex Lithia', that other time, can't stay away can you. The 'Lithia' is still active in your system I can tell."
I told him "I don't even remember taking it."
"Lithia will do that to you, I can give you something to soften the blow if you'd like, it looks like you have been knocked around by it, it very strong you know."
I told him "I have no money to pay you."
"Mmmm, that's a pity it looks like you need it, your memories are probably playing havoc on you right now. Even me speaking to you here could be a long distant memory, it takes a while to become inactive. It's not to be unexpected though when you are travelling to places such as you are, life becomes very confusing, I live here so this is normal to me. I want to help you, I do but I can't do anything without the proper payment. A traveler such as yourself would have a 'Star-me' account wouldn't you."
I had no Idea what the barkeep was talking about, but this was normal as I mentioned, even though I didn't have a proper understanding of what was going on around me, I always learnt a lot about life and it's trials and tribulations.
I said "I'm not sure how do I find out."
He pulled out a scanner of some sort and said "Here let me scan your eye and we can take it from there."
He scanned my eye.
"Looky here, you do have an account. I'll charge it to the account."Just as he was about to sell me the potion he called 'Lurex Formulata', a group of gyspys appeared in the bar.
"DON'T DRINK THAT" one of them shouted.
He rushed over too me and said "If you drink that, your life stream will level out and you are entangled in a lot of peoples business, we have been sent here to this memory to make sure you do not drink that because it will have devastating effects in the locality we live 'Section 8'".
The barkeep looked at me "Looks like you're in some deep water there, now that the Coofangtay are getting involved."
The group of Gypsies which I can only assume where called The Coofangtay looked quite serious, again as per usual I had no idea what was going on.They told me it was time I started to take my travels seriously, my research and the people I had met were very important in unlocking the hidden potential of DMT and the mysteries that underpin it.
They removed me from the bar, I was a bit hesitant but went with them, to an encampment just outside the marketplace. I was very confused about where I was, I was told I was in a memory, I must of been to that bar before.
I asked "What exactly is going on?"
A man approached me and said "We don't know everything, but we can explain what we know. You have travelled all over the universe and are known to many, the most experienced traveler and Scientist we have ever come across. You're work on DMT, and the universe at large is very highly sort after and as well as your experiences with 'Omega', if you were to drink the 'Lurex Formulata' your memories would have sprung forward like a rubber band, and they would have reorganized themselves into a composition we would not understand."
I told him "I can't remember travelling through the universe, I have some of it documented but the vast majority is hidden in my mind."
"That's all well and good but there are technologies we can use to make your memories visible and that 'Lurex Formulata' would have made it impossible to unscramble your mind. Your research is very important to the part of the universe in which we live 'Section 8'. It's now time for you to stop being so disorganized with your thought and start to think more fluidly because we need your expertise."
I said "I'm just looking for a way home."
"We can get you home quite easily, but from now on you need to start to organize your travels instead of just forgetting them all the time, your research needs to go public. It's all well and good just to stumble about the universe going from one place to another, but that time is over we are going to set you up with some advanced technologies."
I told them "Last time I tried that it didn't end great and I ended back at square one."
"I understand this so you do not want more 'Omega'"
I said "My life has become so distort that I don't know when I am in a DMT trip and when I am not in a DMT trip, I've never had 'Omega' out of a DMT trip, I believe it would be quite impossible to distinguish between, when I am tripping and when I am not tripping."
The man from the Coofangtay looked at me and said "Not much is known about the drug, we are even surprised you have managed to understand it to this extent, but we cannot help you with your understanding of DMT, but we have noticed that you are travelling all over the place with it, with your research we want to harness it's power as a means of space-travel much like 'Omega' but we can only do it with your research. With your guidance we will also learn how to give the proper respect."
I told the man "I am nowhere near understanding DMT in that way, there are a few ways in which I understand it, I believe with respect it could be used in this way but my research has not persisted to understanding this."
"Well maybe you need to think about it but keep it in mind. We would send you home but we would probably send you to a home within the trip like you say, as we say we do not understand the drug so we cannot do much for you."
I said "Just send me home and I'll figure out the rest."
I woke up on my couch again, I rushed over to the computer to note down what I had seen. As usual my fingers were sticking to the keyboard but this time it way different I was melting into the machine and the whole room started melting around me. What was going on now I thought, this wasn't home..
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Omega
Science FictionAn unknown substance is stricken into the hands of a man where he delves further then his mind will let him.