Questing Country: The Next Jaunt.

[powersthatbe]

QUESTING COUNTRY
July 22nd - August 26th

Nobody knows quite how Questing Country works. Any species who are capable of lucid dreams can enter it. Six Known Worlds are connected to it - planets which may or may not remember one another in the waking world, but whose Chosen have formed alliances through Questing Country for thousands of years. The landscape changes, but the place is real - anyone who dreams of Questing Country vanishes from their bed, and wakes up with the wounds, marks, or treasures they earned there. But a few things are clear: it taps into the most powerful beliefs in the minds of sentient beings. When those beliefs are too dangerous, Questing Country births strange talking beasts who lend abilities to the young, the only people hopeful and naive enough to believe one person really can change the world - and so, they’re the only people who ever have the chance to change it.

But there’s more to Questing Country than the Champions it anoints and their dangerous lives and uncertain fates. These troublesome beliefs - they take shape, too. The Fire Mushrooms range out from the place called Nuclear Winter. Hordes of Men in Black come from Conspiracy Country. If they’re not stopped here, they gain power in the dreams of the Known Worlds… and those are only a few of the more obvious ones.

Sometimes, though, the untapped powers of Questing Country find other shapes, as well. There are unstable nodes of energy called Valences that appear only a few times a generation… and when they do, Champions and Oracles and Adversaries all fling themselves into Questing Country with wild abandon. Because every Champion has some belief they’re fighting for, some hope they want to come true… and deep in their hearts, every Champion believes that one day, if they’re strong enough and pure enough, it will. The Valence is that belief, taken shape, the hope of hopes, the power to make dreams come true in an instant… but because Champions believe they have to prove themselves worthy, well, they’re right about that, too. To gain the Valence, they first have to succeed in a series of tests, tests that will send them against their friends and allies from across the worlds...

Age & Gender Swaps | Roles | Species | Casting Call | Bonds & Bonded | Skills | Calendar | World Info | Player Resources | Questions | Plotting

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Questions

[powersthatbe]

Go here!

Re: Questions

[shiroganeheir]

Two questions: Those who come to Questing Country, how isolated or connected are their homes? Are there different cultures/countries/areas even among each race?

Question 2: If one's gender is changed, would any other physical attributes change as well, such as, would the rest of their physical appearance fit a mental picture?

[thirdarrow]

With regards to the physical mutations of the Spartoi, are they mostly land-based or can we have aerodynamically or aquatically inclined ones?

[someonetocarry]

Are the other races in contact with each other in real!space, or only through Questing Country? As in, will people be surprised to see the other races, or will they be familiar?

Also, is there a real moon, or is it close enough to regular liminal space that Lyall won't be doing his werewolf change for another month? ^^

Re: Questions

[leftbehindagain]

Doesn't apply to me, but in general: Can Pillars become something other than Pillars with the right catalyst?

Re: Questions

[mermaiding]

steeples fingers.

Mostly just for Winnie, re: no soul. Is this something that could be picked up on by other familiars/spirit animals? With that in mind, even investigators get spirit animals/familiars (ri...ght??) so would I just have to say Winnie's spirit animal managed to work around that ooorr...?

I mean I'm okay with it not even being a thing they or any NPCs or anything would care about, or leaving it up to the other players, I just wanted to be sure.

[creativefool]

Is there any distinction between 'normal/civilian forms' and 'transformed/powered up forms' while in Questing Country?

Re: Questions

[bloodysaint]

Okay this pretty much specifically applies to the old burd here but

I think Janos will be Investigating, but would it be okay if people recognized him for what he really is under that "other species" rule? Maybe not know immediately what he is because there probably haven't been Vampires there for a long time, but at least see that he's blue and feathery?

Also are the Familiars/Spirit Animals immortal? Or at the very least don't age if the one they're connected to doesn't? I'm considering giving him one as a skill but would rather not if he could tell it'd have a "short" life span.

[papacerberus]

Would it be possible for a Champion to sacrifice their... Champion-ness to save/protect others (like giving their hope, or their archetype or their power to someone) and then end up an Oracle through that method?

Alternately, what happens if someone dies in Questing Country? (as in, outside of travelers. could an infiltrator's story involve dying to save someone/something, and then coming back)

Re: Questions

[howexciting]

Can Bonded sense their Bond with someone, i.e. by touching them, or making eye contact with them, or possibly through just a telepathic sense of rightness when they're around a person they are Bound to?

[howexciting]

Can volksgeists respond to any character who has a spirit animal/familiar contained within that volksgeist? Can a volksgeist who is part familiar talk to everyone, or just the people whose animals/familiars are part of the volksgeist?

[shantiprayer]

Okay another question before I forget again (I'm so sorry for all the questions) but would the gender-swap rule also work to make a character agender? There's an androgyny theme in Sera's canon and I'd like to play with that.

Re: Questions

[creativefool]

Bond dynamics! Are Bonds with the group as a whole or to individuals? Can different members form them separately - if Person 1 Bonds with Person 2, and Person 2 with Person 3, does 1 automatically Bond with 3 at that point? Or do they need to all connect with each other at the same time? What if Person 1 and Person 3 don't even know each other when 2's getting to trust the other?
...these are general examples as much as anything and probably not well explained. But yeah.

Re: Questions

[volving]

I am going to admit that I have no actual sense for what the spartoi look like from the description. Are we talking orc-like, or...?

[dalectable]

Bit of an odd question - is it possible to have mix-breed Champions etc.? As in one that's half-Hecatite and half-Vodyanoi or some other mix?

[itsananimalthing]

Here's another one I've been pondering... since Questing country is basically dreaming, how much do people remember/believe when they wake up? Like, Neeshka is going to meet her long-lost sister in Questing Country... will she believe this to only be a dream, will she even remember it, or will it let her know in waking-world that her sister is out there?

[creativefool]

For reference when taking skills, once they're back from the Jaunt, how will the racial trait skills work? Is it an Audiocaudal Syndrome etc. type situation where they'll be switched on and off at will?

Re: Questions

[oftoomuchfaith]

Just how sensitive are the eyespots on Gorgon hair-tentacles, and what other sensory input do they get from said tentacles? is there a limit to how thick/thin they can be? when you say "brightly colored", can that mean a darker version of a color that we'd consider WACKY for skin tone? (like this or this?) Or is it always a brighter color?

I have all the nitty questions, sorry. ^_^

[willyousee]

I saw that familiars/spirit animals/doppelgangers don't age... Can they be killed? Or are they Kyubey-eternal?

[shantiprayer]

I am so sorry for all the questions posts but I just thought of another one.

After the Jaunt, can the Spirit Animals/Familiars kept as Skills still come together to form Volksgeists? Or is that dependent on actually being in Questing Country?

[turbedon]

Can Investigators be other races during the Jaunt, or is this restricted to Infiltrators only?

Re: Questions

[neverfeltthatway]

Is the dream body skill communicable like ganymede or audiocaudal syndrome, or alternately can it be taught?

[capital_risk]

Is there a way for Bonded to locate each other over long distances?

[seestheworld]

Out of curiosity, do dead people who aren't Investigators ever show up in Questing Country?

Re: Questions

[soulsrob]

really dumb quick question: are the spirit animals still hanging around their chosen people during twilight time?