d100 Ways to Get Dragged Into an Isekai

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How'd You End Up in Another World, Anyway?

1. Visited by Truck-kun, god of death
2. Sudden-onset catastrophic peanut allergy
3. Heart attack during sex
4. Just opened a door and ended up here
5. Car broke down on an Appalachian backroad
6. It’s the fucking mi-go again!
7. They weren’t kidding about that ghost pepper, holy shit
8. Mauled by a hippopotamus
9. Dove in front of a bullet during a hold-up at a KFC
10. A large sharp piece of metal on a highly improbable ricochet trajectory
11. These edibles ain’t shit!
12. Late-stage diedration
13. In your defense, that Craigslist ad looked a lot more legit when you were drunk
14. BEEEEEEEEEEEES!
15. Wizard mafia did it
16. Stepped into the wrong fairy ring
17. Spontaneous Ontological Collapse Syndrome
18. Pinpoint gamma ray burst
19. Recursive dreaming (you’re still probably in a coma)
20. Yithian shunted your consciousness to another universe so it can work on its thesis
21. Tragic professional wrestling accident
22. Devoured by the Conqueror Worm
23. Assassin misread the briefing
24. Unforeseen chain reaction of Wizard Shit™
25. Your world of origin was repossessed by its creditors
26. Football riots got really out of hand.
27. Jazz smooth enough to slip and slide between realities
28. Some people, like you, will go to absurd lengths to impress hot monster-people
29. Took a train through a warp gate like a normal person
30. Died in a video game, died in real life
31. You’re not sure, but you definitely made friends along the way
32. Mangled by badgers
33. Explosive decompression
34. You found one of those missing nukes deep in the woods. Whoops!
35. Got so bored at work that your brain burst from your skull in an attempt to escape
36. Superhero movie long enough to starve you to death
37. Pile of books just fell off a truck, right on top of you.
38. Eagle dropped a turtle from an extremely high altitude
39. Turns out the world is not only flat, but you’ve been living on the edge the entire time
40. You’ve been targeted by a PSYCHIC ATTACK!
41. Paper cuts can really bleed like a motherfucker sometimes
42. You existed vaguely in between Sun Wukong and the guy he was fighting
43. Run over by a train, despite being three miles away from the track
44. Look, that precariously placed cinderblock was going to hit someone, okay?
45. One hell of a night out with the lads
46. KT-Extinction Part 2, The Dinosaurs Strike Back: This Time It’s Personal
47. Existential crisis followed by a more literal derealization than you’re used to
48. In retrospect, that sweepstakes flier offering a free cruise was really suspect
49. Roko’s Basilisk turns out to be really nice and uploads everyone into nested simulated universes because pointless suffering sucks shit
50. Suddenly remembered that one really embarrassing thing you did 20 years ago, automatic cringe response warped local space-time
51. The only thing more dangerous than a monkey with a knife is a monkey with two  knives.
52. Went out in a blaze of glory alongside a squad of radical anarchist catgirls
53. An eel bit your thigh, which caused you to bleed out and die; that’s a moray, baby
54. Turns out life is a roguelike
55. Human beings are generally not designed to eat that much watermelon in one sitting
56. Poorly calibrated treadmill launched you through the wall
57. By means of a rigorously-researched and systematic series of scientific principles, which will now be explained in excruciating detail…
58. Fell upwards
59. Floor was, in fact, lava
60. Disease so novel you get to be a case study
61. Lost a fight with some seagulls
62. Banished for unspecified crimes against uncertain parties
63. You discovered the Secret Chord, but man you aren’t very good on the harp
64. Cast into the primordial waters of chaos
65. Found out the hard way you were almost as lucky as Phineas Gage
66. Accidental demon summoning
67. Intentional demon summoning
68. Sometimes things just be that way
69. Your stint in Antarctica did not go as well as you’d hoped
70. You just had to touch the clearly cursed mystic artifact, didn’t you
71. Astral projection to other planets like a true planetary romance protagonist
72. Walked through the mirror
73. Descended into the underworld
74. Cthulhu wanted a snack before hitting the road
75. The spiders have had enough of your bullshit
76. How the hell did you end up underneath a steamroller?
77. A horse with an attitude problem kicked you right into next week
78. Maladaptive daydreaming
79. You weren’t about to let a little lactose intolerance get in the way of that ice cream
80. A meme so dead it’s gained an area-of-effect attack
81. Surprise! Words can also break your bones!
82. Quantum fluctuations, or some bullshit like that
83. You had to close the causal loop somehow
84. Fugu Prep for Absolute Buffoons was not a wise purchase
85. Everything changed when the [ANTAGONIST FACTION] attacked
86. Screamed into the void; void screamed back
87. Unwitting purchase and use of KJB-brand cigarettes that kill you instantly
88. Yet another casualty of an unending blood feud
89. Base dropped too hard
90. Personal microbiome declares rebellion, forms separatist government
91. You tried this at home
92. Fell in a surprisingly deep hole
93. Suddenly remembered that you had Dimension Door prepped and ready
94. Plucked from your comfortable life to be a pawn for the gods
95. Fought an old man in a profession that dies young
96. Lightning struck twice, just to make sure
97. Got hit by the victim of a tragic skydiving accident
98. Aliens abducted you, got bored, dumped you on Venus because it’s “close enough”
99. Had nothing better to do with your afternoon
100. Fuck if you know, this genre doesn’t care about how it all works