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...

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Comments

[tothefly]

In my head Nat was the previous Champion of Shadows, who struggled with becoming an Adversary and fought her way back to becoming Oracle of Spiders. I would v like her to mentor Mello, trying to pull just enough strings to nudge him back onto the path of the Champion. Because Shadows don't have to mean darkness and endings.

[gitanes]

COSIGNS THIS LOUDLY AND AGGRESSIVELY

this is so meaningful and i may cry

also he doesn't know what to do with positive female role models so this will confuse the shit out of him later :')

[tothefly]

GLORIOUS. I'm gonna work on building her backstory, but yes. Don't go wrong like she almost did, grasshopper :[

....Although I don't know if 'positive' is the word I'd use for the kind of role model she is--

[mylegacy]

positiveish....... BETTER THAN WHAT HE'S USED TO OKAY

[tothefly]

She's at least--matter-of-fact? Sort of? She may not always tell the truth but she does everything with the best intentions /o/

[fulminates]

lol what is telling the truth even

if he imprints on her in some weird way i'm blaming you

[tothefly]

Blame accepted

She will teach him how to use his powers for some morally ambiguous flavor of good

[fulminates]

better than selfish evil ok

nat you did good this day

[tothefly]

Good, good. If he learns that then maybe she will also teach him to use his powers for fun