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When walking through something, you always assume you're going to continue through while remaining upright and on level ground. There's no reason to suspect that when you go through a door or something, you'll fall downward like a stone dropped from the ledge of a cliff.
"AHHHH!"
The moment you stepped through, you felt the work of gravity dragging down towards a floral-patterned hotel carpet. Luckily, it was a short fall and didn't hurt. It reminds you of a game Haruhi mentioned playing before, Portals?
"MEEP. Your Majesty, are you okay?" Your guide asks with concern.
"Yeah, let me get up. Tell me, is it typical for a gate to drop people like that?" You get up from the floor with a groan and check your backpack. It's all in order; you stand up and stretch your back.
"Occasionally. It depends on what gate you use. I chose this gate because you mentioned 'Japan'. It has the additional property of find a good place to start a Quest. Also, you are a King; you will survive quite a long fall with your powers. Meep. Once, when I was guiding Ser Rodomonte, we fell a few kilometers downward from the sky into the sea, and it didn't kill us. It took a good few hours to swim to shore, though."
That's not very comforting... wait, there's something bothering you about your guide's answer. Did this guide try to murder Rodomonte?
".... Hey, quick question. Was that by accident?"
"Twas by choice, meep. Ser Rodomonte wouldn't listen when I told him the gate he chose has a tendency of sending voyagers to extremely dangerous places or exactly where they need to go. He was a gambling man, tended for 'all or nothing' and kept on choosing the Perilous Gate until his luck ran out.... meep... I barely survived that fall; mayhap it would have been better if I had died back then; it would have prevented him from returning to Avalon for a very long time."
Ah, so your guide is a professional, even to an asshole. That's good because you're about to give a very unreasonable order soon; the guide is to go home and leave you behind in Japan. That is, once you've determined where you are first. You look around in the hallway you've landed in. It's a typical cheap hotel, a serviceable but sort of rundown place for business travelers. You crash-landed right in front of the elevators.
The gate is supposed to take you where you need to go. So why did it land you here in the hallway? That question is answered very quickly when a door opens and a girl exits a room.
