I would be quite surprised
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Wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and⦠smell the ashes.
I don't remember seeing you get on...
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.
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It does not.
I'm just going to assume I got swallowed up in 'Inverted World' and start looking for the 'city'.
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
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.
Go on Slack and say Iβm 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.
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!
Sweet! How do I charge it?
Its been nine hours, i hope you havent died with my delayed response. Because, frankly, its very easy to charge your device. This applies to all electronic you might have had with you, so where you typically plug in the device all you do is touch that area and channel your magical power into it, this should come natural to you being in the new world. It goes at a good pace so dont worry time, but you do have to worry about your mana consumption, im sure you're already aware of what happens when you run out....
You are overpowered by a demon who then has its way with you?
We might be playing different types of games...
Hmm perhaps. Idk how to proceed, maybe i shouldnt
Lol. I mean, having a magician cast cure disease might also work
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.
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.
before Isekai, it was called getting Narnia'd. Last book happens with a similar situation
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
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