diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 8048aba..e91d86c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -52,3 +52,6 @@
 [submodule "template"]
 	path = template
 	url = http://github.com/kriszyp/persevere-template.git
+[submodule "packages/node"]
+	path = packages/node
+	url = http://github.com/ry/node.git
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c522e57..4319a73 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,3 +7,17 @@ Clone this repository and initialize any submodules:
 Update any sumbodules:
 
 git submodule foreach 'git submodule update'
+
+To Run off of narwhal:
+
+./bin/persvr example
+
+
+To build nodejs:
+
+ -- compile node first:	cd packages/node && ./configure && make && cd ../../
+
+To run with nodejs:
+
+./bin/node-persvr example
+
diff --git a/bin/node-persvr b/bin/node-persvr
index f0c0024..81b4116 100755
--- a/bin/node-persvr
+++ b/bin/node-persvr
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ cd "$1" || {
 echo "ERROR: Unable to change directory to \"$1\", exiting..."
 exit -1
 }
-$SELF_PATH/node $SELF_PATH/../packages/nodules/lib/nodules.js
+$SELF_PATH/../packages/node/build/default/node $SELF_PATH/../packages/nodules/lib/nodules.js
diff --git a/packages/node b/packages/node
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..dcd41ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/node
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit dcd41ca864749b130b943c1e41eb993388f7e9d8