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.
Trying to crowdsource your next Isekai, huh?
Die, probably.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then I won’t even notice I’ve world swapped until I meet my clone
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
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.
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 😜
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.
Here’s some educational material for anyone curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRxeJXpNOE
Stay the hell on the train. Observe what happens to other passengers when they get curious.
Immediately gather any crumbs.
Happy cake day!
Have you played Kult because it looks like the thing which can happen in that game
I’d shit myself.
Seize the day
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.
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.
