It's about a group of humans from our world who get hypno-suckered into some plot-device portals that land them in a city in a world where Dungeons & Dragons is reality. It is not glorified in any way - its eleven humans in a world of elves, dwarves, orcs and other humans, and they have no money, no powers (to begin with...) and are shit out of luck. Some of them get killed, some enslaved, with a few lucky ones—including the narrator—just barely surviving.
Then shit gets awesome.
Later the iPod is accidentally turned into a tiny golem that blasts random music everywhere. All anons agreed: the tomb of that artificer will be guarded by similar golems that will leap out at looters and rickroll them.
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A narrated version by James from Neckbeardia can be found here.
Stranded In Fantasy provides examples of:
- A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll": Marcus doesn't hesitate to repurpose Queen songs among others into his bard work, to the Journal Writer's slight annoyance.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Winterfield barbarians, oh so much.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: It's unclear exactly what happened to Avery. There was a flash of light, and suddenly that person was gone, along with the roof.
- By the end the narrator's body is destroyed and he is left permanently detached from his body. He becomes a psionic spirit-like being that no longer needs food, water, or sleep to survive.
- Cell Phones Are Useless: Zig-zagged. While the group has to initially rely on solar chargers and hand cranks to recharge what electronics they brought with them, they can still use them for entertainment, note taking and to take photos. They eventually are able to rig an electricity-producing magical stone to recharge their devices more efficiently.
- Cool Airship: Subverted at first, where airships are simply boats made to fly with magical engines and are prone to failure. Played straight once Austin gets his hands on the Golden Hind and gives it a tune-up.
- Creative Sterility: Since magic makes most things trivial, and there are gods to keep everyone from killing each other, the natives are largely incapable of innovating on their own. It's eventually theorized that the Terrans' ability to do so is the entire reason they were brought over at all.
- Deconstructed: Although the city of New Paris was founded by a previous group of Terrans, they weren't able to impart their talent on the people living under them, leading the city's people to abduct future groups in the hopes they'd be able to further their progress. By the time the current group finds the city, the journal writer estimates that they're only a couple of decades ahead of the next-most advanced city on the continent.
- Deal with the Devil: Oddly enough, Devils don't actually make deals with Terrans because the last time they tried ended with them being unable to visit the Material Plane on their own. Demons are totally fine with it, though.
- Distant Finale: The ending takes place 200 years after the story's events, with the new batch of Terrants being pulled through the portal and the Narrator and Avery, who survived that long by virtue of becoming disembodied entities, are ready to guide them to the new world.
- Evil Lawyer Joke: One of the previous Terrans was a lawyer and tricked demons and devils into not being able to manifest in the Material Plane on their own. He ended up becoming a top ranking devil lord.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: The Narrator starts musing on ways to help the Orc army attack Wolflake, mentioning in passing that even the "magical reagents" the caravan they assaulted was carrying could have been mixed into gunpowder. Then starts moving on to different topics before realizing they were carrying gunpowder ingredients themselves and interrupting himself with a sudden "OH FUCK", making this a Double Take as well.
- Gold Digger: Marcus' girlfriend and baby momma turns out to be a dragon disguised as an elf girl, so naturally the tendency to hoard gold must come with it. And she'll come up with all sorts of bizarre taxes and contracts to try and impose upon the Terran party to the journal writer's great annoyance.
- He Who Fights Monsters: The narrator realizes at a certain point that all of the Terrans are doing things that they would not have considered doing when their travel started.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Downplayed thanks to shape shifting, but Marcus thanks to his bard work ends up fathering a child with a freaking dragon!
- No Name Given: The story includes a wide variety of unique and interesting characters, but outside the main group, the number of people whose names are known can be counted on one hand.
- The only person in the main group whose name we don't know is, ironically, the journal writer.
- Real Men Wear Pink: The MP3 Golem plays music at random and has all kinds of music in its harddrive from Metallica and [AC/DC] to the B-52s... To Madonna and Celine Dion. This MP3 player used to belong to Mike.
- Secret Diary: The entire story is actually the private journal entries of the main character.
- Properly Paranoid: Stop reading my journal Avery! >Then stop leaving it out for me to read!
- Spontaneous Combustion: Scions have their reasons for shaving their heads.
- Technology Uplift: As the Terrans come from the modern world this happens repeatedly.
- Out of money, the Terrans sell a ballpoint pen to an artificer who goes on to try and create pens based on it.
- At the beginning of the War for Wolflake the Terrans decide to contribute to the orc tribes by explaining the idea of stirrups. Stirrups go on to enable the orcish cavalry to dominate the field in further battles.
- In response to Wolflake trying to create a cannon the Terrans introduce gunpowder to the orc tribes. This leads directly to the first major victory for the tribes.
- Tsundere: The journal writer's interactions with Avery definitely have this vibe. In both directions.
- Will They or Won't They?: They do, but decide afterward that it shouldn't happen again.
- Trappedin Another World: The main character and 10 other humans are mind controlled into entering a portal a world completely unlike their own.
- The main characters then discover this has happened at least once before.
- With This Herring: The Terrans, or at least the narrator, only had 30 minutes to gather whatever they could before crossing through the portal. The items the narrator directly states as having taken are a Kindle, an mp3, a solar charger, a handgun with a few magazines, a safety razor, a taser, a kitchen knife and (out of habit) his wallet and keys.
