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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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[Since it's not a Pokemon he's overly familiar with, he takes a moment to look up Yamask on the 'Gear and...oh.]

That is quite the mystery, isn't it? This world is full of those. Though I have to wonder how it happens...I've never heard of anyone dying and I've been here for over two years.

Yes, I've experienced similar inconsistencies. I've had people from my world appear from points in time before and after my own. If anything, it only serves to cause a mess of confusion.

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[ossifragant]

It's strange, isn't it? It must happen, somehow, though I can't imagine how.

Yeah, I've had that happen to me, too. Everyone from my world is from a point after me. It's kind of a strange thing to get used to.

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Indeed. It would make for an interesting research topic.

Is that the reason you asked your second question? From finding out what happens in your future due to your acquaintances filling in the blanks?

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[ossifragant]

I guess you could say it is.

I've known since I got here what happens. At least, what happens to me. Let's just say I don't remain in the picture long term.

I know why it happens. How it happens I can't know and I don't really want to know. I was curious if anyone else had experienced something like what I have upon coming here. Call it guilt or whatever. A desire to change the past probably isn't anything unusual for most people.

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I imagine knowledge of one's impending death would eat away at them. That is quite unfortunate.

But you are right, you are not alone there. Changing the past...I made that my life's work back home. Unfortunately, if I were to manipulate my return date in time upon leaving this world, I would be going back decades.

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[ossifragant]

Why would you be going back decades?

You've got me curious now.

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The part of history I want to change happened when I was a child. Before I arrived in Johto, I had been working on a way to make what happened that day right.

It would be quite convenient to be able to simply go back in time to prevent that event from happening in the first place. Needless to say it would be very strange to be reverted back into a child with all of my adult and Johto memories, however.