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[b][i]Deuel Akakios[/i][/b]

"Actually," Deuel said, "I paid for the plushie; had it custom-made -"

Then all of a sudden, they were Isekai'd. Not in the 'hit by a truck and conviniently getting their connections to their old lives cut off' way, but in the more traditional 'got sucked into a portal and are now trapped in another world' method. And he [i]knew[/i] that everyone except maybe Noah had a reason to return to their world. So it was time to try and get back as soon as possible, unless of course, time was out of sync between universes (?), but to do that, they needed to get their bearings, get back on their feet, and hope that this world held to more recent 'Isekai' tropes.

So his next words were, "We are in a forest. With magical creatures. And I'm in my speedo and sandals; does anyone else have anything that can be used as a weapon? And more importantly... Should we wait here assuming there's a guide who can tell us what happened and what we can do, or should we look for the nearest settlement? There must be a trail somewhere..."

[i]Assume Western 'Portal Fantasy' Tropes, not Japanese Isekai Tropes. This is going to be one of those tests of physical, emotional, and mental endurance; maybe spiritual too if we want to be preachy.[/i] Deuel then thought, [i]Trying to cheat would probably wind up badly for us all, but I can't just let go of common sense or play blindly to a 'script'.[/i]

He then looked towards Niels and Noah and said, "You two; if we're going to move forward, I need two of our best potential... brawn to help me take point. If we're staying here, however, we need to take stock of what we have and form a defensive perimeter... Unless you guys have other ideas?"

Best to ask the others if they had their own thoughts; it was [i]bad[/i] to blindly assume they were going to panic, after all.