That was the traditional form of the vision quest, yet Falcon had heard that certain tribes had rung some very modern changes on the ritual. In the Pueblo Council, for example, he’d heard that some would-be shamans went on their vision quest into the Matrix. (What shape would a guide take there? Falcon wondered.) And then there were a number of groups—not just the new "suburban tribes" that had sprung up around the continent—that considered the city a reasonable place for a vision quest. Would-be shamans would leave their homelands to travel to the sprawls—admittedly, as hostile an environment as anywhere else in North America—and there they’d wait for their guide to come and lead them to the totems.