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    Sister's Luna and Sujin are faced with the danger of chasing after the town's mysterious bandit.
    Of course, things don't go as planned.

    I suck at descriptions it's just a rewrite of "The Goat" mission.

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    As a child, Duvos overran and overtook Eden's village in the borderlands between the Free Cities and the Empire. Her family settled in Highwind as refugees. As an adult, Eden tries to escape the haunted parts of her history by moving to the middle of nowhere where no one knows her, with a new career. If only Logan wasn’t primed to drag her back into the middle of everything.

    It's not canon compliant, but it is grounded in canon. Follows the main story, with minor timeline changes and additions for the sake of artistic vibes. A lot of the whimsy has been toned down. I love the whimsy in the game, but I had 500+ hours in My Time At Portia and feel personally victimized by Duvosian shenanigans, and that definitely influenced how I experienced the game and this builder. Following someone who had a previous interaction with Duvos, and all the consequences of that, didn't lend itself to a story cohesive with the whimsy. Mainly the moles and whole rodent monarchy have been eliminated.

    Title is from a Poor Man's Poison song

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    Six months after Enforcer Saoirse loses her soulmark (and her soulmate), a second one mysteriously appears. Surely it won't affect the Old World experiment she volunteered for.

    A pissed and regretful Pen is suddenly sent back in time after a (false) soulmark appears. Surely this Enforcer who came with him won't be opposed to breaking a few skulls.

    Logan isn't sure where Pen's new Enforcer (friend) came from, or why the two seem so united in saving Martle's Oasis. Surely this strange second soulmark has nothing to do with it.

    Time travel fix-it + soulmark/soulmate fic

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    Various builders and OCs, various relationships. Inside you will find lost and mildly annoyed dragonborn assassins, a selkie seeking to choose her own future, a girl who can't decide if she loves or hates her step-brother (spoiler: they're both ride or die), a time travelling builder forced to pretend she doesn't know the people she loves, and more.

    This is an ongoing collection of My Time at Sandrock drabbles and flash fics written during challenges or as quick character studies. Lightly edited to not edited at all, these may or may not fall into larger WIPs.

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    Of all the things that Pen had wanted to achieve in Sandrock, getting trapped here for all eternity, was not high on his list. In fact, it hadn’t been on his list at all.

    How had he found himself in this situation? Pen had no idea.

    One day he’d been locked up in the Sandrock jail, awaiting transfer to maximum security prison, the next, he’d been transported back in time 2 weeks, doomed to repeat the events leading up to his arrest over and over again.

    As Pen attempts to fight his descent into madness, he finds help in an unlikely source. Despite being the cause of nearly all his problems, the Builder may just be the one person who can help him.

    She’s already brought Sandrock back from the brink of ruin countless times. Can the Builder help Pen to fix the broken mess that is his life?

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    Amidst the chaos of Duvos’s invasion and personal turmoil, Fang is forced to confront his deepest wounds and unspoken feelings for Sandrock’s star builder, Imogen. Haunted by the ghosts of his past and convinced he is unworthy of her affection, Fang rejects a repeated offer of a heart knot.

    He’d choose to be alone forever, to shield her from his own brokenness. Until hurting her is no longer a choice he can live with…

    But when Imogen’s life is threatened and no one else will act, Fang must decide how far he is willing to go to save her—even if it means risking everything.

    (Timeline adjustments and derailments made for added drama- Starts in the middle of Words To Betray The Heart quest happening alongside Duvos Attacks! —Rating increased for violence, descriptions of medical procedures, and adult content)

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    Pen is back in Sandrock, baby! Getting a second chance, he knows he’ll need to be on his best behavior to convince everyone that he’s not the same villain that was escorted out in chains. With the love of his life now married and his job as Sandrock’s protector having been passed on to his old nemesis, Logan, he’s been relegated to doing odd-jobs around town to scrape together a living.

    When he’s given the responsibility of protecting a wildlife biologist researching the monsters around Sandrock, he’s surprised to find himself catching feelings for the incredibly serious and awkward woman he now calls his boss, and things start to feel like they’re finally going Pen’s way. That is, until his past with Duvos returns to haunt him and the ones he loves…

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    Hi. The story follows our builder, Charlie. A tragedy upended her charmed life, and she suffered a great loss. In her quest to find answers and serve justice, she found herself at Sandrock’s doorstep. A town plagued by a myriad of misfortunes from destructive sandstorms, water shortages, a declining population, monsters, and bandits. Weaving through the various complications of surviving in the harsh environment and the insurmountable demands of the job, she kept her eye on the prize, to bring those responsible to justice; however, the revelations seem to fuel more skepticism. Amidst the confounding evidence, she is left to wonder about her own motives, unveiling the truth or exacting revenge.

    How much of herself was she willing to lose to satiate her quest to uncover answers?

    She is flawed, straightforward, tactless, foul-mouthed, unapologetic, and some call princess. An enigma draped in armor and armed with a pickaxe.

    The story follows the timeline of the main story of MTaS, with which I took the creative license to serve the plot.

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    Everything is from Lucy and Logan's point of view. There is only a small chance these two will actually meet earlier, but they will be thinking about each other throughout.
    This work assumes that you have played the game so there are all the spoilers.
    I found friends here that have made my life all the better. Life is precious and they are adorable 😍🥰.

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    When a songbird can no longer sing, a blackbird helps her find her voice in a small desert town.

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    The Builder accepts a job in Sandrock! It's time to chase their dreams, but in the excitement of it all, what is that lingering in the back of their mind? What exactly are they leaving behind here in High Wind

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    You never get a second chance to make a first impression. For new builder Melody, the scars of a painful past often make one for her. When she finds herself forcibly arrested for suspected outlawry on her first day on the job, she refuses to lose hope in building a better future for herself -- despite the watchful eye of the so-called Protector of Sandrock.

    In which the builder looks everything like an outlaw and earns the unwanted attention of a patrolling knight.

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    After a lifetime hiding who they are, triplets Lucy, Max, and Nia hope to find answers and a home in the Town of Sandrock. It turns out this small town has a few secrets of its own.

    Chapter Seven - Show and Tell
    The powers of the towns native young adults are revealed during a camping trip. Logan asks Lucy about her past.

    This is a complete AU. It does not follow the game storyline at all. Howlett is alive, Haru and Logan are full brothers, and there is no Grace, no Miguel and no Andy.

    The tags are incomplete to avoid spoilers. This story is closed door but some of the themes are pitch black. This is your warning: It gets dark and it gets violent, but at the end of the day it is a hopeful story of self-discovery and redemption.

    This work is compete but is still in beta. I will be updating chapters weekly so I don't overwhelm my lovely beta reader.

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    Sandrock should have been an easy posting. It's a sun-bleached town full of dust, gossip, and routine patrols.
    But Pen’s orders get complicated when his favorite builder keeps showing up in all the wrong places and looking far too innocent doing it.
    She’s clever, secretive, and entirely too calm under scrutiny. He tells himself he’s only watching her because it’s his job.
    The more he looks, the harder it is to tell if she’s ruining him or reminding him he’s still human.

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    As the new Builder of Sandrock, Lorrie was prepared to do her best by the struggling city state, make some new friends and above all: break free from the expectations placed on her her whole life. What she wasn't expecting was just how much Sandrock would surprise her. Not only is the desert hot and the monsters everywhere, the local alphas are nothing like what she's used to rebuffing back in Highwind.

    An Omegaverse twist on Sandrock, where unusual hair and eye colours are fully natural and sometimes a sign of ones second gender.

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    Mostly Logan POV because I just plain like to write him. Chapters will be released as I write them.

    After Max's failed attempt to save Sandrock from destruction by the Duvosian fleet, he decides he needs a new strategy if he's going to stop them. This time, he's going to help them. To do that, he's going to have to go back further in time, back to before it all fell apart. Of course, Max will do anything to ensure Sandrock's safety, but going back this far will mean Logan won't know who he is. Will Logan still fall in love with him, or will Max be left alone?

    Max's plans will dramatically alter Logan's life. Logan might not even be the same person, too much has happened between then and now. Will he even like the person Logan is when he hasn't gone through any of the events that weigh on the Logan Max knows and loves?

    Too many questions, no way to answer them except to try.

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    Sandrock has always been a town full of secrets just bursting at the seams to get out into the world. First it was the remnants of the past buried deep beneath the town that drove the frenzied relic rush of yesteryear… but nowadays? It’s the dark Duvosian plot unfolding right under their noses to, among other things, keep them down and out- forever. Maybe a newly minted Builder from Highwind is exactly what Sandrock needs to shed a new light on the whole thing... if only they would've had the guts to show up!

    Enter Ink. A scrappy ex-spy and (incidental) traitor to her country, Duvos, who's got nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking on the abandoned role of Builder that this dilapidated town so desperately needs... After all, Ink and Sandrock are both shells of their former glory, hanging on by tenuous threads. Maybe those threads will snap under the weight of betrayal and fear, or maybe Ink can find it in herself to fully step into the Light and bring hope to an otherwise hopeless place that changes the tides of fate- hers, and Sandrock's both.

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    A builder with a past she tried to move on from. A bandit with nothing left to lose.
    Mari thought she'd just build. But a wanted poster caught her eye and attention.She didn’t expect to fall for the outlaw behind it.
    Set after the mission “The Goat,” this story follows Mari and Logan as they uncover the truth behind Sandrock’s secrets, while navigating friendship, trauma, near-death, and love.
    Multiple POV. Rainy kisses. Confessions in the dark. Wounds you can't see,and maybe, a chance to heal.
    Sandrock+Settlement 2 and much more.
    Some chapters will be very dark

    Not all chapters will include his PoV, as to not be too repetitive, but most will.

     

    Chapters marked according to PoV used.
    Marked with ❤️ Contain sexual situations and emotionally intense intimacy, but avoids too graphic descriptions.

    Nov-12-2025-I am currently editing some chapters to make them less choppy as I have learned a lot since I started this, they also have much more details and information that is used throughout, each chapter is marked with the date it was edited if you're interested in going back and seeing the additional details and such.
    Thank u for reading

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    Sandrock’s heat isn’t just in the sun.

    When survival is rationed and loyalty is questioned, desire might be the most dangerous risk of all.

    An investigation into the towns water supply cuts deeper than Lucia dares admit - into bloodlines, betrayal, and the sharp pull of a wanted outlaw who makes her feel alive when she should be walking away.
    She’s the builder holding Sandrock together, and he’s the bandit she can’t seem to escape - infuriating, magnetic, and maddeningly unpredictable.

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    16/?
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    Have you ever wondered what all the conversations were that led to the Duvos Invasion during the Builder’s time at Sandrock?

    Enter Ruby, Sandrock’s most capable builder. She’s a hard loving, fire spitting woman who does whatever she can to protect the town she loves and the people in it. All the while capturing the attention of the local bandit, Logan.

    And anytime their paths cross, flames ignite, and a bond forges.

    Torn between the town she loves and a man that lingers behind his mask… Ruby must decide whose side she’s on, all while dealing with a past that still haunts her to this day.

    Notes: This was originally a one-shot that turned into a multi-chapter fic. It starts with an alternative version of The Kidnapping quest. It follows the main game but takes a lot of twists and turns! NSFW chapters are marked accordingly as well!

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    29/?
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