#and since it's not affiliated with any nerdpoe acct i can say it here

[aizawas-upper-left-wisdom-tooth]

I know that it's not really the prompt exactly, but this would be wild for the Journey to the Center of the Earth universe!

It's been forever since I've watched the movie, but basically the premise is that the center of the earth is kind of hollow and dinosaurs are very much alive down there!

Imagine your minding your own business when a cult kidnaps you and knocks you out after putting you in the middle of this summoning circle looking thing! When you wake up, you're in the middle of this wild jungle looking place with no plants you recognize and the sky is just gone!

Then you run into a fucking dinosaur and your just so incredibly confused??!! You think maybe you've time traveled, but that doesn't explain the lack of sky! Your somehow surviving months down there, going practically feral in the process while convinced the cult somehow sent you to another world, only to one day find a EXTREMELY well hidden camera!

After a while longer you're finally able to find the cult and fight your way out of the exit. The entire time you're dragging the lead cultist with you just trying to find a ritual room so they can send you back home! Your main theory is that they sent a random person first so that they knew it was possible/ safe for them, but that still doesn't explain the cameras??

Once you get to the top exit the first thing you see upon exiting the cave is one of the cultists Prius parked near the entrance and a highway not too far off in the distance with tons of normal people on it going about their days......

Shit would be wild

We need more isekai premises with plot twists that it's not isekai, I think.

Like some dude appears to have woken up in a mysterious other world, except it actually is some weird cosplay cult that has kidnapped him. Or a wildly intense reality television prank show. Or alien abduction. For one shining moment he thinks that something truly magical has happened to him, only for it all to come crashing down and now he's gotta survive an extremely intense Midsommar LARP instead.

Not because it's more "realistic", that's still an absurd premise, I just think that isekai has become such a standard expectation itself that the whole song and dance of someone refusing to believe it should now, sometimes, be replaced by the reverse. Guy who is convinced that the walrus at his door must be a fairy in disguise, but it is actually a walrus.