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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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A better question is "where haven't I traveled", really. My world is an expansive place, and I've put quite a bit of effort toward seeing as much of it as I can.

As for your second question — you're suggesting using something you've learned here to change your future, aren't you?

There weren't many places to go, before we learned to ride dragons. It's all ocean around Berk. Even now I've mostly just been to other islands, all smaller than my own.

I've been back there, since coming here. I did remember this place, but it all seemed like a dream. It wouldn't have helped me any to tell anyone about here, but I would look for it, sometimes. Just in case.

[There were...plenty of things he'd change if he went home, depending on how far back he could go. But it was best not to dwell on that.]

I went to Mars.
Only for something like three hours, and I was getting shot at the whole time, but it's still the furthest from Earth I've gone.
And I guess I'd have a lot of stories to tell people, though they'd start thinking I'm crazy quickly enough. Not that I'd blame them.

[wow just hit him in every issue he has at once, why don't you]

I was roughly halfway across the world before I got here, which is about as far away as you can get from my home in London, I suppose. I didn't like it much, really --- it's called Japan, and it's effectively this place but... ugh.

Well, I'd only been to one city; perhaps if I'd been visiting a city that resembled Ecruteak, I'd be a bit more enchanted. Fuyuki is boringly consumerist, though --- I'm sure it has things of historical and value, but they're drowned out by everything else.

...anyway, who wouldn't take advantage of their memories of this place?

There was the time I got sent to Drachma, I think that's the farthest I went. Certainly wasn't my favorite place.

Thinking about changing things?

[because fuck text.]

The farthest I've traveled was to a completely different continent. Not by my choice though.

[He pauses.]

... And I don't know what I'd do if I returned home, whether at the time I left it or before. I wouldn't be the person I am today if I went around changing events.

My hometown is located in the far north of my world. My location at the time I arrived here was in the far south. That is about as far away from home as I could've gotten. The location I was at wasn't very pleasant, and I would much rather have been back home. However, I haven't been able to properly live in my hometown in decades.

As for your second question, I wouldn't benefit very much from retaining the knowledge of my time here. I wouldn't benefit from returning to my world in general, to be honest. Circumstances were...difficult, even at an earlier point in time.

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When I was still in training, my father used to take me with him if the assignment would allow. We've gone all over Japan mostly. I'd say the furthest he's ever taken me was to Kyushu which is on the southernmost tip of the country.

As for your second question... that's kind of surprising. If we arrived home sometime before we were taken, would that mean we'd be brought back again or does it mean we live out our lives without having been taken but with memories of being here?

i've been to another world!! before this one i mean! does that count? ^_^;

if u mean within my own world umm my family went to okinawa for vacation once!! it was fun but i rly want to go to america!!!!

and hmm idk what i'd do if i went back and knew about this place! probably just tell my friends because they would believe me since we've all been to another world before! but i don't think I've learned stuff here that will help with what i have to do back home or anything?

unless!! could i bring my pokemon with me???

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In my world, we've gone to space. I've orbited my own planet and there are those who have been on the surface of our moon. We haven't yet managed to go to a neighbouring planet.

My class took a trip to the zoo once...it was in a bigger city than where I live...

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.

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?

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.]

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