There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

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.

tobogganablaze ,

Check if wifi/mobiledata still works.

JackGreenEarth OP ,

It does not.

merari42 ,

Welcome to the Nether Realm, a place of wonder and mystery. Enjoy seamless connectivity with Vodafone. If you have a plan with a flat rate for minutes/SMS or data, it does not apply here.

Otherwise, the standard rate applies: outgoing calls to Vodafone numbers 50 ct/min, other numbers 75 ct/min, incoming calls 30 ct/min, SMS to Vodafone numbers 25 ct/SMS, others 40 ct/SMS, data usage 1 EUR/MB. Wi-Fi calls will be charged as international calls from your home country to the Nether Realm.

For more info, contact Vodafone customer service at +44123456789

Your Vodafone Team

ZagamTheVile ,

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.

Etterra ,

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

tiredofsametab ,

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.

Icalasari ,

Assuming I survived in fairly good health?

Observe. No details would make me skittish with this

JackGreenEarth OP ,

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.

Icalasari ,

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

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

I’d shit myself.

intensely_human ,

Seize the day

WhatsHerBucket ,
@WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world avatar

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

Also, happy cake day!

JackGreenEarth OP ,

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

OhmsLawn ,

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

WatDabney ,

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.

FaceDeer ,
@FaceDeer@fedia.io avatar

We should split up to explore more efficiently!

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

Spacehooks ,

Well you have to aquire local workforce.

ClassifiedPancake ,

I would be quite surprised

RBWells ,

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

JackGreenEarth OP ,

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.

RBWells ,

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.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

JackGreenEarth OP ,

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.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

Crumbgrabber ,

Immediately gather any crumbs.

Ziggurat ,

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

Admetus ,

I’m just going to assume I got swallowed up in ‘Inverted World’ and start looking for the ‘city’.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •