<< This is true of any part of an adventure hero's daily life. Adventure stories are about interesting trouble. >>
It seems to me that you would only go on a Heroquest if you life was "interesting" and "troubled" enough to have to go and do something dangerous like Hero Questing. So it is a solution to a problem rather than a problem in itself. "We must succeed at 'Arim Feeds The Pigs' or else such and such a dreadful disaster will ensue, even though Arim Feeds the Pigs is very difficult, practically suicidal and extremely smelly". The "not so dangerous" Hero Quests could be called worship ceremonies and then they wouldn't need to be described.
All IMO,
Keith N
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