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’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.
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.
I would be quite surprised
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.
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.
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
Here’s some educational material for anyone curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRxeJXpNOE
I’m just going to assume I got swallowed up in ‘Inverted World’ and start looking for the ‘city’.
Check if wifi/mobiledata still works.
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It does not.
I’d shit myself.
Seize the day
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.
Hey you, you’re finally awake.
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.
This. Of course isekai is a thing, but it’s not like the concept is exclusive to Japanese culture
The important difference is that if it’s an Isekai you get a harem and your story is less interesting than wet paper mache. If it’s a Narnia then you get Sunday school dressed up as fun.
You’re really not into this type of fiction, I get it
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
It is exactly like our world, only all doors that you expect to open outwards, actually open inwards, and vice versa.
Then I won’t even notice I’ve world swapped until I meet my clone
Motha getting isekai might be worth a watch.
