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[ossifragant]

So here's a question for all of you. What's the furthest you've been from home? Before coming here, I mean. This place doesn't count. I want to know how far people have traveled before coming here.

The name of the place you're from, the name of the place you like going. What your favorite city is called. Things like that.

I've always liked traveling. But I used to spend years in one place, even so. Always found myself drawn back to where I was born. It's one of those interesting things about people. I don't exactly miss the place, but I do find myself thinking about it sometimes. What it would be like if we could go back with memories of this place instead of forgetting everything.

So there's a second part of my question, I guess.

Say you go home, but you remember everything from here. What would you do with that information?

What if you arrived home at a time before the last thing you remember?

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[ossifragant]

Someone else pointed it out to me. If no one can actually die, where do the Yamasks come from?

[He really hates talking about ghost Pokemon but it's relevant here.]

So that's why I say there has to be more to it than people can't die.

People aren't always brought from the same period in time, either. I know people here who come from some point after me. It's not consistent, whatever this is.

[sincereheart]

well my regular world is... the regular world!! no magical monsters or anything! and the world i went to was called the digital world and that one had monsters called digimon in it!!! kind of like pokemon except they can talk and you can't have more than one bc they're your partner! ^_^

the world had a lot of different places in it!! some of them were really nice and pretty like the castle i lived in and some were just weird and confusing like the beach with a bunch of phone booths or the vending machines that had poop digimon in them!!! also a lot of the time there were digimon attacking us but usually that wasn't their fault bc they were controlled by an evil digimon! so i don't think that is a usual thing that happens but it was for us!! ._.

oh goshhh i do want to go home but i wouldn't want to leave my pokemon behind when i do! they're my friends and i want to introduce them to palmon (my digimon)!!! although maybe if they came back with me then they would have to fight! real fighting i mean where they could die!!!! D: i don't want that!!!!!

[explosivecombat]

I've only left the country once; I was sent into Drachma on an assignment, and I didn't see much of it as a result, but at least I can say that I've been.

I don't know if I'd say I like going there or feel particularly drawn to it, but I did tend to spend a good amount of time up north; fitting, I suppose, since that's where I was from before joining the military.

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[captainash]

[Or maybe it's in the same timeline, but before the Dark History! ...Except nobody talks about the Dark History.]

After a while here, the word 'surprise' kinda loses its meaning.

[francia]

[France answers anyways. Partly because he needs to say it for his own sanity. Partly because he's afraid if he doesn't say it now he'll forget it as he's wont to do.]

No, I haven't told him, and precisely because I know it will sadden him. I don't want him to be sad. I'm sorry to burden you with this, too. From what I understand of your world, it is a very sad place.

Even though I always tell people that honesty is the best route in a relationship, I am a hypocrite. But I suppose that is just how I was designed.

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[glaciates]

I can't answer your first question since I never did much travelling, but as for your second one... Well, it would have to be from a point before where my memories end, since that resulted in my death.

There are a lot of things I would do differently. What I was trying to do was definitely right, but I went about it in the wrong way and got a lot of people killed. I was too stubborn to try to get help for what I was attempting to do, so I guess the first thing I'd do differently is trust people with the information I had. There's no guarantee that it would have helped, but if someone had listened to me, the number of casualties would have been far lower.

What about you? Are you asking because you've done things you regret?

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[sadisticwarfare]

That's certainly an interesting set of questions.

Is there something you want to talk about?

[Archer, that's not how you respond to posts like this, what are you doing. Is he being serious? Mocking? Who knows.]

[ossifragant]

[It takes him a while to respond because he's not sure if Archer is giving him shit or not.]

Not in particular. You're already aware of what happens. At least in the most basic sense.

I did what I did for a reason, but sometimes one can't help but wonder if there was an alternate path to take.

What about you?

[sadisticwarfare]

You're wondering if there was any way to see Kimbley's betrayal coming.

[It's not a question. This is obviously what he'd assume with very little knowledge of Dante.]

I doubt there was any way to change things, short of kicking Kimbley out, of course. Who knows how that would have changed everything?

[He might never have met Kimbley. It's not something he wants to think about.]

I try not to have regrets in life. There's no sense mourning over the way things could have been. That said, there are some things I genuinely do wish I could change. Everything in Liore, actually.

[ossifragant]

I never was sent up north, so I don't have much knowledge of the area. I'll admit I don't know much about Drachma besides things that are common knowledge.

Is there a place you enjoy being if you don't have one you're drawn to?

[explosivecombat]

Other than the obligatory "anywhere but prison," you mean?

[ossifragant]

Of course.

[ossifragant]

If I had seen his betrayal coming, I wouldn't have killed him. Kicking him out would have been sentencing him to death.

I think I still would have let the military attack the Nest. Had I seen it coming, I would have been able to spare the patrons and the guards at least. Walking into an empty bar would have been a giveaway but I don't care.

[Oh. Well then.]

I think he'd find it funny that we're discussing him right now.

[explosivecombat]

North City. Again, saying that I like it feels like an overstatement, but it's familiar, in the way that few things are. I know the people there; I could probably find my way around it blindfolded and with my ears stopped, and I still remember the basic schedule the city itself runs on.

As for places I'm drawn to...you'll probably think it horribly morbid, but after the war ended, I was interested in returning to Ishval someday.

[sadisticwarfare]

[That's... certainly something. Archer isn't really sure what to do with that.]

I'm sure he would. I'm sure he'd complain that we're both going too soft. Everyone is bomb materials in the end, right?

[ossifragant]

Yeah, that's right.

You got that speech too, huh?

[sadisticwarfare]

More times than I care to count.

...I used to agree with him, you know. Not necessarily with the idea of everyone being bomb materials, but that life has no real meaning. We approached it in two completely different ways, but there was a time when I thought the same way he did.

[ossifragant]

Sometimes we make mistakes we don't notice until it's too late. It's not that this is something uncommon, but it seems common for a section of people here to have made horrible mistakes. This place is something of a second chance in that way. I certainly look at it that way.

Yeah, I've done things I regret. I abandoned someone without meaning to. There's no way to take it back, either.

[ossifragant]

[It's not like Greed entirely disagrees...]

I'm not surprised. I never did care when he used his alchemy. He never tried to use it on anyone in the Nest so I had no reason to ever tell him to stop.

But you're saying you don't believe that anymore. Is it because of your time in this place?

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[ossifragant]

I guess it does, huh?

[sadisticwarfare]

Of course not. This place is certainly different from Amestris, but it isn't enough to change me.

[SURE, ARCHER]

No, I don't believe that anymore because I've found people to care about. I don't consider them to be worthless like everyone else. It's a small difference, but it's changed everything.

[ossifragant]

[.....So it's this place.

Unless...]

He's one of them, isn't he?

[glaciates]

I consider it a second chance as well. It's an interesting place.

I've never abandoned anyone, but I've felt that way before. You'll find that people can forgive a lot of things. Maybe the person you abandoned will show up here and you can apologize.

[ossifragant]

I wish I could see them all. I've never been to a zoo before.

I know the Safari Zone is a little bit like a zoo here, have you ever been to it?

[sadisticwarfare]

He is, yes. I started to care about him a few months before we departed for Liore.