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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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[Please forgive his Earth bias, then.]

There are human civilizations around two different planets, and they're currently at war in my world. What more is there to say about that?

[Other than about two hundred years' worth of history lessons and government coverups, that is.]

Last year, in October. People woke up in creepy castle with no Pokémon, no way to contact the outside world, and wonderful activities such as Dodge the Fog Monsters waiting for them. ...I think. The memories get a bit fuzzy if I think about them too much.

Well, telling me what year it is for you is a good start because where I'm from the only thing people have that can go into the sky are balloons. Colonies in the heavens aren't something I can conceive of.

[.....what is with this place?]

...Creepy.

Here's to hoping there's no repeats of that.

It was AG 164 right before I was brought here, and I'd bet three pokéballs you don't even recognize the dating system. Balloons in the sky were new to us of years ago.

Believe me, I've been crossing my fingers for that every day since then.

You're right, that dating system doesn't mean anything to me.

With everything that people have told me, it seems that October is an unlucky month.

Let me guess, you're still using AD. It's the most popular around, as far as I can tell.

My first October wasn't so bad. People got possessed by the spirits of the dead reincarnated as Yamasks, but most were friendly or just rebellious kids.

AD? Sorry, I don't know what that is either.

Yamasks creep me out.

You don't? What dating system do you use, then? On Earth at least, between those two you could go back thousands of years.

They tend to do that. Luckily, they're not particularly widespread, unless you like ruins.

I think it has to do with the development of alchemy? I'm not certain.

There have been a few competing dating systems, but that's the only one being used, at least in Amestris.

Considering that 'Amnestris' means absolutely nothing to me, even from history lessons, I'm going to assume that we live on completely different planets.

[Or Amestris is Earth on an alternate timeline! Cue spooky music]

That doesn't surprise me with everything I know about this place.

[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.

I guess it does, huh?

Which has its advantages, I suppose, but it does ruin birthday gifts and parties.

It does make things confusing.

Going strictly by calender, I'm 100 years in the future. It's a bit odd.

...It kinda is, yeah. I think I've become too used to hearing numbers in the thousands that are still way back in the past for me.

At least this place has a consistent date. That's something, at the very least.

It has familiar holidays, too, which is more than I'd normally expect from another world.

None of the holidays are familiar to me. Guess you're lucky.

Some of the bigger ones in my world aren't celebrated, but I'm sure no one would complain about those. You guys don't even have Christmas?

Can't say we do.

It sounds familiar, but only in the sense I may have read about it at some point.

That's too bad. I bet whatever you might have read doesn't mention the joys of fighting thirty people to get the last toaster, half an hour before the big family party.

[.........]

What's a toaster?

[...Wait, what, how can that possibly be a question.]

It's a kitchen appliance that toasts bread.

Oh.

That seems useful. The hotel rooms I've been in don't have one.

Buy your own! Incorrectly-toasted bread will soon be a distant memory.

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