Further on the Walkabout Items
Walkabout is a game about stories. It's about the things that make a story powerful, and how stories can be an influential positive or negative force in people's lives. There's a few things that reinforce this kind of idea. In the old novels of the Star Wars extended universe, there was an unwritten idea that I heard from a few different sources, but which I can't find now to reference. This idea said that the more words were written about a character, the more chance there is that the character will end up being force sensitive. It's possible to go further back and look at "The One Ring" in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. In The Hobbit, the item is an interesting throwaway item...but as more is written about it, the ring gains massive significance. Further back still is the idea of Baba Yaga in eastern European mythologies. This immortal witch appears in a few different stories, rather than just the one. As such she transcends the power level of a sing