Trying to crowdsource your next Isekai, huh?
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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.
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.
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Wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and⦠smell the ashes.
I don't remember seeing you get on...
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 heβs going please!
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Go on Slack and say Iβm going to miss the daily stand-up.
This is a person who has been isekai'ed into work
See how much insulin I have left in my pump and start preparing myself mentally for death.
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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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.
before Isekai, it was called getting Narnia'd. Last book happens with a similar situation
This. Of course isekai is a thing, but it's not like the concept is exclusive to Japanese culture
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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?
There's lots of flavor of Isekai as it literally just translates to Another World, but a running gag that has been meme'd ad nauseum is for a protagonist to be hit by a truck and die that they've named the truck.
Sometimes you put on a vr helmet. sometimes you save an old lady from Truck-kun.
Hey you, you're finally awake.
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.
bitch about SEPTA with other riders
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?
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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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 π
Isekai harems are "all of the above."
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
Flat chested autistic girl here. Can confirm I'm in 3 harems with brave travellers from another world.
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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.
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.
I'd shit myself.
Seize the 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.
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Check if wifi/mobiledata still works.
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Stay the hell on the train. Observe what happens to other passengers when they get curious.
Iβd hope this one is better than whatβs in the rear view mirror.
Also, happy cake day!
Oh, thanks! Didn't realise it was my cake day.
Assuming I survived in fairly good health?
Observe. No details would make me skittish with this
Immediately gather any crumbs.
Happy cake day!
Have you played Kult because it looks like the thing which can happen in that game
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.
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