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Hi, so... Quick question. I'm thinking of collecting recipes from different places and making a restaurant somewhere. So what are the foods people miss from home? Have you found something almost like them? What's your favorite dish in some of the big cities?

And like... do any of you have cures for motion sickness or indigestion from riding flying pokemon 'cause it doesn't matter how much space experience I have, my gastrointestinal tract has never wanted a part of any adventure on any realm of existence. If there's a noncorporeal plane to visit? I guarantee I'd find a way to feel sick on it on the first hard right turn.

[Mostly he's learned to just cope and ignore it but not dealing with it at all would be nice.]

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[He's made a few friends over the network, but he's not left the Sevii Islands very much. He likes it there, it reminds him a lot of where he grew up, but he does know he needs to get out more. Even if it means he needs to hitch rides more.]

[He's walking around with a Nidorina in tow, (though she's shambling considerably slower than him). A box of poffins in one hand and a lunch for Luisa even if he probably should have asked her what she liked first. He's got his gear out, looking over the directions to the meeting place with a confused squint.]

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Most of the things I've tried have only helped a little and still made me really tired. It blows, man. Usually I wasn't the adventuring type so it wasn't a huge problem until I really needed to get around.

I've cooked for planets that cater to herbivorous species so I learned a lot of tricks to making good flavorful vegetables. I'm definitely down to hear some more. [Goldenrod is somewhere he might go to more often, so he'll want to pick up a few from there.]

What do you think of the idea of commissioning art based on people's worlds? So they can have some reminders of home on the walls? You know, so long as they're neutral [Don't want to trigger someone's PTSD with some specifically associated with conflict, but scenery or native plants and animals would be nice, right?]

Yeah, no kidding. Well, I wouldn't think the wristbands would make people sleepy, but who knows.

Great! I'll send over some favorite recipes.

That sounds pretty cool. I could definitely help with some Earth images.

Yeah, it's amazing how much I miss things like cars or familiar birds. Or, you know... quiet. But you can't really get that in a picture.

[And he doesn't know if there's a way to proof against ambient existential sound.]

Yeah.... I'm glad a lot of the Pokemon look like animals from home. It helps a little. And the regions even look like places from there, or Johto does, at least. But it's still not the same.

Yeah, the Sevii Islands are a lot like where I grew up. Upolu and then O'ahu. But it's still different enough to notice. Sort of like an uncanny valley thing.

That's a good way to put it.

O'ahu? Like in Hawaii?

Yeah. Some of my family lived there. I can even do pidgin when the mood hits me. And the mood is usually an argument with a cousin or something.

Cool. It's always nice to talk to someone from the home planet.

I don't know any Hawaiian myself. I speak English and Spanish and some Japanese. But I'm always up for learning new things, if you ever feel like passing on some of the language.

Don't worry, there's just a little slang here and there. [Hawaiian pidgin being the mixed lingual bag that it is.] But sure! I'm happy to share. Might be able to cook up some malasadas if you've not had them, too.

That sounds great! I'd love to get together. Do you pretty much stay where you are? If the Warp Pads don't cover that for me, I can probably get out after my Rookidee evolves enough to carry me. But that'll be a while since she just hatched recently.

I'm on Island 4 of the Sevii Islands! I keep having to borrow flying pokemon to go anywhere. But sure! Any excuse to make malasadas is a good one.

Okay! If you don't make it out here first, I'll come as soon as I have transport.