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

[shesearches]

This comment is very belated but HI THERE. I was speaking to B's player about Jane being B's mentor and a part of his and Lila's bond group, and I have been meaning to poke you about it for a couple of days now to see if you're interested in this, whoops.

Jane is the Oracle of Constellations, human, and generally the smart guy instead of a fighter in any situation, especially now that her powers have downgraded from when she was a Champion; ridiculously stubborn; and if she had taken on Lila in any capacity, even if not her main mentor, would be very fixated on trying to help her retain her hope and keep her from going adversary. I don't know if any of that sounds interesting to you, but poke me if it is and the three of us can work it out?

[mylegacy]

HI!! oh man this sounds incredibly great to me tbh. I would love to play with this in the jaunt. I think Lila's main advisor is going to be Zoe BUT you can never have too many tbh. and someone who is devoted to keeping her not adversary would be amazing.

also I am on vacation and on my phone rn (hence the wrong account lmao) but if you're on plurk feel free to add me! I'm porphyrogene.

[shesearches]

So Zoe and Jane are former bondmates and friends, which actually plays out pretty well, because she will happily step back and let Zoe take over as main mentor with no reservations, being that she trusts her. So yes, mostly I think she'll be focused on steering Lila off a dark path; Jane's default means to this is "outstubborn the crap out of them until they see her way" but since that's failed for her before she'll be doing her best to, uh, find other routes. XD

Which basically none of this is new news but IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER and also I am super excited. She'll also be happy to help with anything else Lila might need of course, bu her focus will definitely be "try and help her keep on a Champion path", and "if that fails, minimize damage and try to keep bond alive between everyone".