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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[shesearches]

Jane will be infiltrating on her first-ever Jaunt, as the human Oracle of Constellations. That means stars -- mostly in a sense of guiding light/north star/something to know your way by, but I was thinking also maybe a heat/fire aspect as the closest thing she's got to an offense/defense -- but alongside that also, seeing connections and the attempt to explain the world. She can't quite see what's ahead, but she's very intuitive and can draw lines and parallels between things quickly. And of course, she's always gathering knowledge -- and happy to share it. I'm not set on her familiar yet, but it's some kind of bird; probably a blackbird, a crow, or a crane? Any other infiltrators who want to backstory having known her for a while will not be at all surprised that she's an Oracle, because she was always all about learning and figuring things out, even as a Champion. Or that she seems to have made up for the hope she lost along the way with sheer stubbornness.

As for anything actually going on, I'm wide open. A Champion to mentor, someone to bond with, people she knew during her Champion days, I would love all the stuff with anyone.