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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.

muse ,
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bitch about SEPTA with other riders

WhatsHerBucket ,
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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.

southsamurai ,
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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 ,
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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.

MrFunnyMoustache ,

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.

polonius-rex ,

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

JackGreenEarth OP ,

What trains are you going on, lol

WhatsHerBucket ,
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One ticket to wherever he’s going please!

Spacehooks ,

Trains are load screens.

simple ,

Die, probably.

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

OhmsLawn ,

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

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.

Crumbgrabber ,

Immediately gather any crumbs.

Teknikal , (edited )

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 😜

FaceDeer ,
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Isekai harems are "all of the above."

bizarroland ,

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

apotheotic ,

Flat chested autistic girl here. Can confirm I’m in 3 harems with brave travellers from another world.

bizarroland ,

Congratulations on your success. Good luck defeating the demon lord or whatever evils plague your many lands.

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 ,
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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.

Ziggurat ,

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

BertramDitore ,
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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.

JackGreenEarth OP ,

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

kat_angstrom ,

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.

Shdwdrgn ,

Finding a weapon is definitely the highest priority. As soon as everyone starts freaking out they’re coming after anyone who has something they want. After the bloodbath you can use your weapon to get food or possibly help with making shelter, and you’ll be ready to meet the natives once they arrive – just in case they’re not friendly and are at a lower technological level than what you have available.

FaceDeer ,
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Most cultures don't immediately leap to "better kill everyone else in the train so I can take their stuff."

Shdwdrgn ,

Some don’t, I’m not sure about “most”. Regardless, I’m not waiting around to see what kind of passengers I’m traveling with. If everybody plays nice and works together then that’s great, we all have a better chance for survival. You still need to protect yourself against any hostile natives or wildlife because everything you know about what’s safe and what’s dangerous just went out the window.

Rhaedas ,

Seems okay.

mocha_lotsofmilk ,

Trying to crowdsource your next Isekai, huh?

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