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[yousayyes]

[As Winston's second day at sea starts, he feels the distinct creeping anxiety of his mind preoccupying itself with worry over what could be happening back home in his absence.]

[Normally, he'd try reading to pass the time and keep his mind busy from those thoughts- but Mom only packed him two books, and he's already read through both of them cover-to-cover multiple times by now. ...he started to realize somewhere in the middle of his fifth re-read of the trainer's guide that he wasn't actually working to absorb the information. By that point, he was just glancing down at the turning pages to feel some amount of productivity as he's stuck waiting for the cruise ship to reach Kanto.]

[Setting the books back in his bag, Winston opens his Pokégear, thumbing through its features until he reaches a text posting option. ...it can't hurt to put something out there, right?]

Hi.

Current events outside of my control have left me temporarily unemployed, seeing as I'm now stuck in a different dimension from my former workplace.

I know- we've ALL been there before... /endsarcasm

While I'm sure my coworkers will be understanding of the situation and leave my spot open until I return... I don't see that reunion happening anytime soon. So in the meantime: if anyone could point me towards a job listing in the Kanto area, I would appreciate it a lot.

Many thanks.

- Winston Zeddemore

Comments

[yousayyes]

[He's starting to get more than a little concerned over the growing number of people he's seeing on here that have apparently also experienced this sudden dimension hop.]

Sorry to see you're in the same boat as me, Webby.

If you have a minute, do you mind telling me a bit about how you got here? I was swept away to this world in my sleep, so I don't know how it happened or how much damage was caused in the process of warping spacetime around us.

[alittleobsessed]

Oh, it's nothing to be sorry about! I'm here with my best friend, and I thought I'd never see her again but she's here so it's great!

I'm not really sure how I got here. One minute we were celebrating Magica's defeat, and the next thing I knew I woke up in a bed with some lady who thinks she's my mom.

And I got turned into a human. I've read about alternate universes, but I didn't think I was gonna actually encounter one for a while.

[yousayyes]

That's good, at least.

[He's a little disappointed that she's just as unsure as to what brought them here, but... the bit about a woman claiming to be her mom gets his attention.]

Did this lady happen to live in New Bark Town- the house right next door to the town professor? That's where I remember first waking up here.

...huh- I didn't notice anything different about myself, but I was already human to begin with. [He almost wants to ask what she was before, but something about that sounds kind of... rude to say upfront to a person.]

[alittleobsessed]

Yep, that's her! I'm still thinking she was possessed by some kind of Pokemon... or she's a robot! I can't get back into the house to make sure.

[And luckily, Webby will answer that question for him!]

Well, I was a duck before I was a human! So yeah, kind of a big change.

[yousayyes]

(/Wow/- that couldn't have been easy, adjusting to a radically different bodyplan overnight like that...)

...I think you might be on the right track with that- if we arrived the same way in the same place, then that must mean there's something supernatural going on either with this "Mom" herself... or her Home. Could be her house happens to be built on a place brimming with otherworldly energy that's made it a hotspot for inviting in outsiders like us.

It's a shame you can't check the place out now. Feels like a big stone to leave unturned when it comes to figuring out how we're all getting here.