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Hoverboards, holograms, bipedal technology and all sorts of sci-fi advancements were apparently made and integrated into society during your weekend outing at a convention. That, or you’ve been isekaied here while you were asleep on the train. Could you even sleep through your own death?
Well, whatever, that’s not really the important part.
Looking over a map courtesy of the station you’ve arrived at, you’ve arrived at a city consisting of 5 islands. The train lines run a closed loop between the western and middle islands, which feature more urban development when compared to the southern and eastern islands. Needless to say, it's impossible to just go back where you came from. Those 4 islands are also connected via bridges, however, the fifth island on the northeast is isolated, with zero connections to anywhere else, and seems to be much more rocky, enveloping someplace in the middle of it.
The layout of the city isn’t completely foreign, as staring at it for so long trying to get your bearings led to the realization that it roughly correlates to home. Sure there were a bunch of oddities and additions, but places that did exist beforehand were at an approximation of where they would be otherwise. You walk towards where home should be, as it shouldn’t be far.
The area home should be is around one of the bridges between the middle and eastern islands. Buildings face each other separated by a waterway, while the bridge has this roundabout that acts like a plaza more than it does actually serve traffic. People are crowding over, preventing you from crossing as something seems to be going on there. Seeing as the destination was just on the other side, you try contacting someone on your phone rather than see what’s going on, figuring that it might end soon.
No luck. It’s not that there isn’t any signal here, but nobody’s reading, let alone responding. Did use of the phones become obsolete or something? As you gave up on this, an message came at the last second, though from an unknown number.
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