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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.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Trying to crowdsource your next Isekai, huh?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Probably quite quickly, if the train was traveling at any significant speed when all of a sudden it had no tracks under it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Go on Slack and say I’m going to miss the daily stand-up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This is a person who has been isekai'ed into work

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what are you talking about that's literally already how underground trains already work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What trains are you going on, lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

One ticket to wherever he’s going please!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and… smell the ashes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I don't remember seeing you get on...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See how much insulin I have left in my pump and start preparing myself mentally for death.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Well congratulations to our newest isekai v~~ict~~olunteer! 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!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is exactly like our world, only all doors that you expect to open outwards, actually open inwards, and vice versa.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It is, yeah! I'd never heard of that, thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 😜

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isekai harems are "all of the above."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey sometimes they are flat chested autistic girls or 7,000-year-old dragons who happen to look like a 9-year-old.

Personally I'm interested in neither but I've read a lot of manga

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Check if wifi/mobiledata still works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It does not.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming I survived in fairly good health?

Observe. No details would make me skittish with this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Seize the day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Here's some educational material for anyone curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRxeJXpNOE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We should split up to explore more efficiently!

Ohh, this small creature in the underbrush looks adorable! I'm going to pick it up.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Stay the hell on the train. Observe what happens to other passengers when they get curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’d hope this one is better than what’s in the rear view mirror.

Also, happy cake day!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh, thanks! Didn't realise it was my cake day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I would be quite surprised

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Immediately gather any crumbs.

[–] Ziggurat 2 points 1 month ago

Have you played Kult because it looks like the thing which can happen in that game

[–] southsamurai 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Find the author of the isekai that had made it happen and punch them in the taint

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Freak out. After that, it would depend on which world.

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