Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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In which Mumbo's friend would make a really good addition to Hermitcraft, really, despite the paranoia and the traumatic backstory he doesn't want to elaborate on.
Or: Three times Xisuma met with a Hermit, tea optional.
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- Part 1 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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Infected by docofthedark (doctortrekkie)
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
20 Dec 2023
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Grian has an idea for a game.
Some old friends of his have ideas on how to improve it.
Grian doesn’t think it’s been improved.
(First of the seven main fics in Still the Echoes Give Us Light, covering the events of the 3rd Life series)
(Originally finished 01/25/22; updated and slightly reworked with bonus content as of 12/20/23)
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- Part 2 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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Apocalypse State of Mind by docofthedark (doctortrekkie)
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
28 Jan 2022
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In which Jimmy's been here before, Scott Smajor can find you anywhere, and maybe Evo wasn't as doomed as Grian originally thought.
Or: Third Life wasn't the first death game the Evolutionists went through and Jimmy finds himself the only one that starts remembering.
(Heading lyrics and title from Apocalypse State of Mind by Aviators.)
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- Part 3 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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In which a Watcher learns to be human again, with no small amount of difficulty.
Or: In which Grian crash-lands into Mumbo's world, promptly dies, and also accidentally acquires a very persistent best friend who seems to think Grian is in dire need of both stability and cuddles. (He's not.)
(He is.)
(First chapter was originally part of The Pines, now moved for organizational purposes.)
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- Part 4 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
- Part 4 of Out From the Endless Night
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Icarus by docofthedark (doctortrekkie)
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
23 Mar 2022
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Eight Hermits and their friends reel from the aftermath of the server they've dubbed Third Life. Those who were inside struggle to put the desperate actions taken in the death game behind them and those who weren't are trying their best to support their traumatized and mixed-up friends.
Mumbo just wants to wrap his head around what happened, and find out why his best friend came back from the doomed server with wings.
Impulse just wants to put his double-crossing past behind him and regain the trust of his closest friends.
Grian just wants to be safe from the Watchers who had orchestrated it all and are still hell-bent on hunting him down.
(That's a lie. Grian also wants to find out what, exactly, happened to the other members of Evo, and why Jimmy's started remembering things that are probably better off forgotten.)
[Sequel to Infected]
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- Part 5 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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In which a friendship is struck, organized, carefully protected, and then unceremoniously shattered.
Or: The story of how Pearl met Grian, lost him, died, and finally found him again.
(The original first chapter (non-Pearl) can be found here)
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- Part 6 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
- Part 3 of Out From the Endless Night
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Villain by docofthedark (doctortrekkie)
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
24 Jun 2022
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There are a number of differences between the first version of Third Life and the second. The largest, perhaps, being the fact it can’t be called Third Life at all, considering the odds are heavily against any one person living and dying no more and no less than three times. It is a crueler game this time, resources even more limited, the bloodlust of one’s last life cranked up to eleven and impossible to remain allies with anyone who can’t understand that need, and the infamous, regular presence of the Boogeyman curse leaving even the strongest alliances only one moment of mistrust away from shattering.
And that is, of course, before adding in one Watcher of indiscernible motives and their interest in a lost fool of a pet playing a higher game he knows nothing about and a second Watcher determined to piece back together the facsimile of a family he had once had.
But the third comes into this game bereft of himself from a code gone wrong, unsure just what it is he’s fighting for, bloodied and bruised for a cause he can’t remember, knowing above all else he has to win this game again. So why is it that every blow he deals seems to hurt Grian more than anyone on the other end of it?
[Sequel to Icarus]
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- Part 7 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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It’s simple, really. If Scar had ever seen a horror movie, none of this would have happened.
Or: In which Scar inherits a mansion, and a whole lot more than he bargained for along with it.
Or: In which a dinner invitation from a Vex should never, ever be taken lightly.
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- Part 1 of Out From the Endless Night
- Part 8 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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There are things in Boatem that aren't talked about. Open secrets, if you will, some less secret than others.
Scar is part Vex. (And has stumbled into a situation with unintentional magic that's dragging him back to those roots.) Mumbo is a potato—among other things. (And he can't figure out why when the defective codes that made him that way are long gone.) Pearl is, periodically, turning into a ghost. (And she doesn't know why, even when she can't stop staring up at the ever-growing moon.) Impulse is, quite possibly, the sanest person in all of Boatem. (And that's just a terrifying thought, because no one should have that responsibility.) Grian is a Watcher. (And that's causing all sorts of other problems of late, most of which he is pointedly ignoring. Not to mention the other open secret, his wings, and how he is absolutely not coming to terms with the fact that, after Last Life, he'll never be able to fly with them again.)
And there are a few other things—how Xisuma's terrifyingly unaware of his own server and possibly possessed, how Doc never wanted to take over his position as admin, how Jimmy never came back from Last Life.
Oh.
And the moon's big.
[Sequel to Villain]
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- Part 9 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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(Alchemy, alchemy, tell me what you've done to me)
(Synthesized and transformed)
(...Pathetic life form)Or: In which Impulse's quiet night is interrupted by Grian in his storage room who has decided to make his problems everyone else's problems.
(Alternate POV to Chapter 10 of Our Solemn Hour; not a standalone fic unless you want to be really confused.)
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- Part 10 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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(I am the host of this hostility, I’m the master magician that makes you believe, I’m real, I’m not fake, but in reality, I’m a lying man)
Or: Scar was not planning on having a quiet night, but Grian definitely made sure he wouldn’t.
(Alternate POV to Chapter 10 of Our Solemn Hour and Alchemy; not a standalone fic unless you want to be really confused.)
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- Part 11 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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Cry of a Banshee by docofthedark (doctortrekkie)
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
16 Feb 2024
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Jimmy swallows, then lets out a strained chuckle. “You guys are making it sound like I’m some sort of Chosen One.”
The Listeners do not laugh.
Jimmy stops laughing too. “Um.”Or: In which you can't force Fate to choose a Chosen One. Right?
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- Part 12 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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In which the life of Tangerin “Tango” Aristotle Tek is told in snapshots, from childhood to university to Hermitcraft.
Or: In which a young Cinder with five sisters gains three brothers, biological relation not required.
Or: Five times Tango remembered wrong, and one time he didn't.
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- Part 13 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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In which a teenage Etho loses everything, and spends the next decades trying to find it again.
Or: In which you hear music, until the day you don't.
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- Part 14 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
- Part 2 of Out From the Endless Night
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Twenty-six hermits, scattered through the universe.
Grian has a problem, and it’s in the form of secrets he never planned on letting go of being yanked out by the roots. Tango has a problem, and it’s called Grian and secrets he’s kept. Impulse, Etho, and Mumbo have problems as well, from being caught in the middle of fracturing friendships to revealing the genocide of your entire race to the aftermath of stealing your best friend’s soul. (Scar and Pearl fall along unexpected sides, while Skizz falls back on his status of not actually a Hermit.)
Back on Season Seven in the wake of the fall of Season Eight, seven Hermits and some unexpected guests shatter along faultlines on the journey to return to twenty-six.
[Sequel to Our Solemn Hour]
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- Part 15 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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An Ender and a Watcher. The last scion of Lioneth and the Watcher who seemed to be anything but.
And you’re friends.
Sure. Only on Hermitcraft.
(And now Hermitcraft is gone.)Or: Etho grieves. Again.
(Alternate POV to Chapter 7 of Faultline.)
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- Part 16 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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In which Pearl is definitely not keeping any secrets, definitely isn’t making any plans, and definitely isn’t pissed off at the entire universe.
Or: Faultline, from the eyes of Pearl.
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- Part 17 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light
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Grian’s on a timer, counting ever-upwards, with no choice but to guess what happens at the end of it. Scar’s pulling in a life debt that can’t be dissolved to tag along, no matter the risks.
Mumbo’s signed up for an adventure, one that might have been a very bad idea. Pearl’s not entirely sure she wanted him along.
Impulse is having a great time. As one does when having to reckon with no longer being in charge and also sleeping in your childhood bedroom while a third of your server is still missing.
And Etho is not crazy, thank you. No matter what happened on the Hermethius, and the strings of Fate that pull tighter every moment.
(Something wicked this way comes.)
[Sequel to Faultline.]
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- Part 18 of Still the Echoes Give Us Light