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❧ IC Info on Albinia's Journers
Journers are expected to be both students and teachers. They are expected to love learning new things and pursue research in the laws of the natural world. They must not squander what they learn and be willing to teach those who wish to know. It is also important to set a good example. Be responsible, for yourself and for others. Do not sacrifice all that you are for others, but make sure to do what you can to help them otherwise.

If you wish to know what I can offer to help live a life like this, then ask.

❧ Expectations of Journers
Albinia views the role of a Journer being more like someone being passionate about their job. She doesn’t have strict schedules or the like, expecting Journers to love learning enough to do their duties without needing them. It’s more along the lines of her being the boss keeping track of progress in an R&D department. People will usually be given free reign of what they research, but she will occasionally give specific subjects to look into if a Journer has nothing to work with or in times where a lot of information on something is needed.

1. Journers are expected to be doing legitimate research on some scientific subject regularly. The information does not have to be correct, but the effort must be sincere. Albinia will require progress reports every week. (These can be handwaved.)
2. Journers are expected to be either students or help teach the classes Albinia offers regularly. They must also help her in experiments involving their research if she asks.
3. Journers must always be willing to teach things to people who ask for help. If they cannot teach it, they should point the person to someone who can if they know. They must not give out false information on a subject intentionally. (Exceptions can be made for dangerous subjects.)
4. Journers are expected to take care of themselves both physically and mentally. Albinia will harass them if they don’t for too long.
5. Journers are expected to help others if they can reasonably provide help.
6. Journers must keep their word, and own up to the consequences of their actions so long as the consequences are reasonable.
7. A Journer should try to keep people from making incredibly bad or reckless decisions if they can be reasonably avoided.
8. If following any of Albinia’s expectations will get the Journer, or someone else hurt, then they are allowed to not fulfill the expectation.

❧ Powers given to Journers
Albinia offers two ability sets with two facets to each. All Journers have access to these.
Cryokinesis
The ability to make and manipulate the form of ice. Such as they can make shapes. The ice is slow to melt even in high temperature. Albinia will say this is more an ability to preserve things than combat, but can be used as such if needed.
-Quick Freeze. The ice will engulf something within seconds. However, a Journer can only freeze something the size of a Moss Lion instantly before they would be effectively drained of the ability.
-Slow Freeze. The same thing, but without the speed. It wouldn’t freeze a moving target instantly, more taking a minute or two to freeze something like a Moss Lion. However, the slow freeze could encase two Moss Lions before the Journer is drained.

Psychic Database
This is a mental database all Journers have access too psychically. In essence, it’s Psychic Wikipedia. There will not be pages on specific people, but instead things one would learn about in a school. So a person’s race could have an article, there would be no article on the person themselves. The database will also contain all the scientific knowledge a Journer has, expanding what the database has.
-Information Access. A Journer can access this information at any time! They can use it for reference, research, however they wish. Though they may not have all understanding. If a Journer who knows nothing of geometry tried to look up a complex formula first, they won’t know how to be able to apply that formula. They will need to start at the beginning information and work their way up. However, smarter they are, the easier they can use the information. For example, a smart Journer could use the database while dissecting an animal to come up with more conclusions on the animal than if they just simply dissected it. Though it should be noted sometimes it can be hard to navigate the database so things can be missed. (This is an OOC mechanic, in case a Journer didn’t know another Journer could do something with science at the time.)
-Database Edit. There is no intentional lying in the Database. But a Journer can make an edit to the Database. As such, when a Journer does, they actually alter the fabric of reality. For example, if a Moss Lion was trying to eat a Journer, they can make an edit to the Moss Lion page to make the Moss Lion a plant eater instead of a meat eater. So the Moss Lion would stop trying to eat them. However, the edit will only affect the immediate area, not all Moss Lions will be affected. An edit will also only last at most five minutes before the edit is undone. There will also be disorientation when an edit is made as the Journer is changing the knowledge in their own head. They will believe the Moss Lion is a Plant Eater until the edit is fixed, but they can still have inklings that may still want to get away. Others with them will still remember the truth. Any edits that are really big, or if a Journer makes edits too often, they will then find themselves suffering from severe headaches.

When Albinia Isn’t Happy With You
It’s not an ability so much as what would be Albinia’s equivalent of a pay cut. If a Journer is acting too irresponsibly, she won’t just jump to making them not a Journer. Instead they will have to suffer one of two punishments.
-Becoming physically cold. No matter what the Journer does, they cannot get warm. The more irresponsible they are, the more severe the cold. It can even become painfully numb. However, they will be no actual damage to their health. So even if they’re sick, the cold feeling will not make them worse. It’s just the discomfort.
-Becoming emotionally cold. Their emotions get muted. They are still compelled to follow through on their duties, but they can become curt, cold, and even rude. The more irresponsible they’ve been, the more severe.
Minor irresponsibilities will be overlooked as long as they don’t happen all the time. The punishments can be just mild forms of having a chill or being a bit snippy or they can go to full out extremes. It should be noted that making a Database Edit will almost ALWAYS get a med-to-high punishment depending on the reasoning for making the edit. Albinia does not encourage altering the fabric of reality.
If a Journer is naturally one of these things, or might even be happy with one, Albinia will give them the other one more often than not. Otherwise, whatever is more fun to play with.