What would you do if you were on an underground train, when suddenly the train shook, you passed through a portal, and the next thing you knew your carriage was lying in an unknown new world?
What would you do if you were on an underground train, when suddenly the train shook, you passed through a portal, and the next thing you knew your carriage was lying in an unknown new world?
Edit: apparently this is a very common form of Japanese storytelling called an isekai. There are 8 billion people in this world, no idea can be original. And sometimes you miss out on things many other people know. I'm clearly one of today's lucky 10000.
I would be quite surprised
Wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and… smell the ashes.
I don't remember seeing you get on...
Trying to crowdsource your next Isekai, huh?
Die, probably.
Probably quite quickly, if the train was traveling at any significant speed when all of a sudden it had no tracks under it.
Go on Slack and say I’m going to miss the daily stand-up.
This is a person who has been isekai'ed into work
You wouldn't have internet access. To be clear.
Hey you, you're finally awake.
See how much insulin I have left in my pump and start preparing myself mentally for death.
Well congratulations to our newest isekai v
ictolunteer! While traveling through the portal your body absorbed magical energy and you gained a new power! The power you have gained is... The ability for your insulin pump to never run empty! Now go out and fight demons and monsters, once you have slain the demon lord you may return back to your original world, and as a bonus you will keep your power that you received!
First thing, try and breathe to see if the unknown new world has an atmosphere compatible with the one I'm accustomed to. If not, I guess I'm dead.
Second thing, determine if I'm in a wasteland / nature setting, or a civilized one.
Third, regardless of the answer to the second, take stock of my current resources and seek new ones. Water is highest priority, food second, shelter third.
Finding a weapon is definitely the highest priority. As soon as everyone starts freaking out they're coming after anyone who has something they want. After the bloodbath you can use your weapon to get food or possibly help with making shelter, and you'll be ready to meet the natives once they arrive -- just in case they're not friendly and are at a lower technological level than what you have available.
what are you talking about that's literally already how underground trains already work
What trains are you going on, lol
One ticket to wherever he’s going please!
Trains are load screens.
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I thought they died on that train, and because they died they were brought to the end times/ revelations? It's been a long long time since I read all the Narnia books though. I just remember lines of creatures coming before Totally Not Jesus and being judged as stars fell from the skies?
...or is that what's happening in an isekai, and I've just not realized it?
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I'd seriously worry about not having immunity to whatever diseases exist in that world, and the people of that new world not having immunity to whatever I might be carrying from my world.
Probably try and figure what the skills of the other survivors on the train to assemble a team with the goal of survival and information gathering.
Here's some educational material for anyone curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRxeJXpNOE
I would be shocked for sure but how would I know how to react if I don't know what this new world is like? Does it look like a barren wasteland? Does it look like Dinotopia? Does it look like a different planet altogether? When you say 'unknown', is it unknown to me only or do you mean it's completely devoid of any civilized/intelligent species?
You look outside the train window and see what looks almost exactly like a forest on Earth, maybe something like redwoods, except the trees are much bigger than redwoods. A horse-sized dragonfly flits by. The front of the train carriage is crumpled, but there is a gash in the metal big enough to allow you to leave, if you desire, and to let the atmosphere in. You don't feel any ill effects.
Okay, so I'm shocked and after a while I'm definitely hopping out of the train, presuming no emergency services show up. I don't think I'll last long if dragonflies are that large but I sure will die looking for them
Probably just sit and wait for what happens next and hope all the people around me don't freak out.
I lived in Japan for years without knowing about the whole isekai thing; I've just never really been into anime/manga.
Pending Train is pretty darn close to what you're describing. I only got through the first episode, it falls prey to a lot of annoying little tropes, but it's a cool concept for sure.
It is, yeah! I'd never heard of that, thanks for sharing.
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Check for my super cheat powers and pick the first woman for my isekai harem.
I'm thinking odds are it's either a busty elf or a cat girl 😜
Check if wifi/mobiledata still works.
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It does not.
Well I mean first off if everyone on the train was there you would want to discuss how to procede given the unknown part. I think the one person has it right in that I can't think of something like it before narnia.
1, get really annoyed that whatever plans I had are now changed because I'm not super good at paradigm shifts.
2, try to make the best of it because I really believe we bring our own good time.
Assuming I survived in fairly good health?
Observe. No details would make me skittish with this
You look outside the train window and see what looks almost exactly like a forest on Earth, maybe something like redwoods, except the trees are much bigger than redwoods. A horse-sized dragonfly flits by. The front of the train carriage is crumpled, but there is a gash in the metal big enough to allow you to leave, if you desire, and to let the atmosphere in. You don't feel any ill effects.
First assumption is an isekai into a world where all life is scaled up in size. Would gather up supplies and explore away from the train, heading for the base of a tree for shelter. If my theory is right, the train is a danger zone that will attract attention. If my theory is wrong, I can raid it for metal parts later
Of course, I would carry some of the steel from the train - Can use it to make sparks, crude weapons, etc.
Also would bring fabrics - Can't be sure on water quality, and I know how to make a filter using bark, sand, gravel, and charcoal. Some fabric as a further filter would help out by preventing the components from slipping out of the hole in the bottom
I'd shit myself.
Seize the day
I’d hope this one is better than what’s in the rear view mirror.
Also, happy cake day!
Oh, thanks! Didn't realise it was my cake day.
Fight the urge to immediately get off the train.
Even with as many episodes of Star Trek as I've seen, I'm sure I'd want to rush right out and start exploring.
We should split up to explore more efficiently!
Ohh, this small creature in the underbrush looks adorable! I'm going to pick it up.
Well you have to aquire local workforce.
Freak out. After that, it would depend on which world.
You look outside the train window and see what looks almost exactly like a forest on Earth, maybe something like redwoods, except the trees are much bigger than redwoods. A horse-sized dragonfly flits by. The front of the train carriage is crumpled, but there is a gash in the metal big enough to allow you to leave, if you desire, and to let the atmosphere in. You don't feel any ill effects.
I crawl out and explore then. Hope to God I brought a straw water filter. Step onto the bouncy moss of the forest floor, look around at the landscape, happy I can breathe. Wonder how something horse sized can flit, then duck as it comes back towards me.
Find the author of the isekai that had made it happen and punch them in the taint
So you would assume you're in a story. Interesting. If it happened to me, I would first think I'm dreaming, then the real world. But I wouldn't think I was in a story.
I have extremely vivid dreams, and can sometimes lucid dream, so I have checks I can use to tell if I'm dreaming with a decent degree of surety.
Since dimensional travel via train isn't a documented real world event, I would not jump to it being real as a first assumption.
That would lead me to conclude that reality itself was I question, and thus that someone had changed reality. Any simulations that we might be in as a reality would have something close to an author considering how our perceived history reality has worked. I would want to punch said author if I discovered that everything up to that point had been controlled and could have been so much better.
Stay the hell on the train. Observe what happens to other passengers when they get curious.
Immediately gather any crumbs.
Have you played Kult because it looks like the thing which can happen in that game
I'm just going to assume I got swallowed up in 'Inverted World' and start looking for the 'city'.