Kudzoo

Kudzoo was one of the first un-sphered Insight teachers in the Dream City. He was a pacifist. Also see: Sanctuary of Poetry

Four Plus One

"Boggen chuckles at the tormented souls trapped within the race of the gods."

Our Interviewer hikes through Trinity, being guided by Druss to Flash333's location in the Southeast Ring Path. She stops to remove a rock from her boot, and exhausted, slows as she becomes nearer to the ring. It has been a long, hard day for her. Finally she arrives and finds her friends Turbo-Speed and Flash333. Flash bobs in the air, a permanent Soulsphere, blood-coloured with an azure aura. He agrees to share the story with her, and our Interviewer takes a seat on the grass, resting her back against the hedges, relaxing and absorbing this story.

"I'll go back to when I first met Boggen, and how this came to pass.

"When I first entered the dream, Grog took me to Bogrom's Lair to see the great Mare Tamer. There in the center of the room was a collapsed Sphere with his pet Bogrom. Many dreamers were there, dancing with the mare. This was in the first days of April, and I had just started dreaming March 31st. Grog and I were friends and we had been hunting mares, but this time in the Lair was something special.

"Then wandering the dream exploring, I kept meeting up with the Peacfull One, Kudzoo. Even though I hunted mares he allowed me on many of his mare taming trips.

"I was down visiting the Lair one day when a dreamer named El poyo Loco (the crazy chicken in Spanish)... So this dreamer collapses Boggen's Bogrom; not that this was the first time a dreamer had done this; but Boggen went after the dreamer and collapsed him, not the first time that had happened either. But it seemed Boggen was getting tired of this. Though Boggen's students pleaded with him, it seems, Boggen wanted something different.

"I went to the lair many times to talk to Boggen but he was no longer there, he had left the dream. I had remembered the times I had heard Kudzoo and him discuss philosophies, the two brilliant Dreamseers, expressing themselves. Nothing caught my attention more in the dream.

"So soon I swore off mare hunting to help Kudzoo, and with Kard's allowing me to tell Dream Poems, and Kudzoo encouraging that, I became a Dream Poet, studying the Dream's mysteries, and publishing the poems in the scrolls.

"Then Boggen returned. Kudzoo was a teacher for the students, and knew the system wasn't fair. I know that also. Boggen's dream could never be, for dreamers would not let him have his lair. Boggen was to become nothingness in protest. But he couldn't get past a soulsphere, he still existed.

"Then Brother Timothy talked to him and the Four Plus One plan began to take effect. This become a long lasting protest with the dreamers providing the statement: four plus one reasons: Boggen, Brother Timothy, Shadruith, and myself, (MDkill and Spyder94 helping us also) to show the dream was more than arts and spheres, in hope of changing things to help the dreamers who go against the grain.

"Boggen performed many Mist Ceremonies. Shadruith and Kudzoo got rid of their spheres and moved about the dream differently. A dreamer named Blurp came, and showed us how to explore Sanctuaries, hidden passages, and we walked onto roofs never before seen, out windows, into unexplored territory.

"The Four Plus One carries on: The Sages Stone was made, and is hidden in the Mists. Those who want to can influence the dream. That is what it was about."

Kudzoo on his perch in Kudzoo's Perch, Edgeward Barrows

Since gathering this story long ago, Kudzoo's Perch has become the official name for the rocky part of Edgeward Barrows where Kudzoo first began preaching pacifistic beliefs.