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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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    10/33
    Comments:
    50
    Kudos:
    10
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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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    14,954
    Chapters:
    10/?
    Comments:
    56
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    31
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    3
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    351
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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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    40,548
    Chapters:
    13/?
    Comments:
    46
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    19
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    5
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    167
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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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    Chapters:
    4/?
    Comments:
    16
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    26
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    3
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    161
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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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    Chapters:
    4/?
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    Running away from her family’s business, Esther arrives at Sandrock determined to become a builder and live life on her own terms. Little does it matter that she barely has any building experience, that the relic rush has thrown the little town in disorder, or that people have gone missing in mysterious circumstances.
    She is ready to become a builder. None of the whispers from that other world matter now. That is not her problem anymore.

    Right?

    (Explicit and violence related tags for future upcoming content.)

    Language:
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    31,460
    Chapters:
    3/16
    Comments:
    21
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    23
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    2
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    380
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    What if Fang's mother didn't die from a rare heart disease?
    What if, instead... she died after being attacked by a monster?

    This fic is an AU version of MTaS in which Fang is no longer the pacifist, vegetarian doctor that you all know and love.
    Instead, he is a member of the Civil Corps in Sandrock, and he is someone well-equipped to work in a town surrounded by the harsh & unforgiving desert. And that's not all that's different...
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    Lilly is the newest builder in town, and an investigation into the two most wanted bandits in the Eufaula has her working alongside and eventually joining the Civil Corps. She also has her own reasons for wanting to learn more about the town's most soft-spoken & mysterious corps officer....

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    Chapters:
    15/?
    Comments:
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    29
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    The mirror had come with the house and now belonged to Yan. He could have asked where it came from if he'd cared to listen to a single word Email said after telling him she was flat broke, but he didn't bother because all that mattered to him in life were gols. Which meant he no longer cared or had a use for Email.

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    Care for a slice pie? A snippet of fiction, perhaps? This is a collection of small vignettes inspired by the Sandrocktober event from Tumblr.

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    Chapters:
    31/31
    Comments:
    48
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    30
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    Instead of two builders, there were three.

    With summer in full force, two new builders stumble off the train from Highwind, taking their first steps into the dying desert town of Sandrock.

    Bonded in more ways than one, and sharing a single braincell that, to everyone's detriment, tends to get misplaced more often than it should, Kai and Allie unleash absolute chaos upon their new home.

    Are they just another storm in the never-ending barrage of amber claws wreaking havoc on Sandrock, or, ironically, a breath of fresh air that will bring new life to this dying town?

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    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    6
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    7
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
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    When Ruri arrives in Sandrock from Barnarock, she’s greeted by friendly faces, old friends, and a sky that stretches endlessly over the desert. She came for the rocks—the strata, the minerals, and the stories buried beneath the sand. But it’s the people who start to ground her. Amirah’s warmth, Arvio’s teasing, and the quiet steadiness of Unsuur, who seems to understand the language of stones just as well as she does.

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    Chapters:
    1/?
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    Logan makes some gols in a more honest way.

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    Two builders arrive in Sandrock. Mi-an arrives first and she arrives early, which Mason takes as a sign to get out of dodge. But the town's not done setting up Mi-an's little atelier in town, and Yan wants her to start work early, and Rocky wants his crane, so Mason's scrapyard of a workshop will have to do.

    Lucy arrives late, with a busted arm and the only thing she's itching to do is get to work. The good news is, the atelier in town is ready for her to move into. The bad news is, she came on the train that just got robbed by the most infamous outlaw this side of the Eufaula Desert.

    But if Mi-an's at the center of the crises in Sandrock, and Lucy is the builder that learns to take things slow, then what does life in Sandrock look like for her?

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    4/?
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    3
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    New builder Maggie finds a friend and unlikely mentor in Sandrock's resident barkeep. His offer to teach her the ins and outs of Sandrock turns into a game of escalating feelings that neither of them were prepared for. *Spoilers throughout*

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    Chapters:
    9/18
    Comments:
    141
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    119
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    25
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    2,395
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    Alice moves to Sandrock from Portia impulsively, trying to get over a break-up.

    She's not there looking for a relationship, but sometimes things just happen.

    NSFW chapters will be noted.

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    Chapters:
    21/21
    Comments:
    50
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    34
    Bookmarks:
    4
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    1,103
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    From the hustle and bustle the town of Sandrock once was, now the near-deserted desert town is hanging by a thread. With vast expansion of the desert sands, threatening their lives, the only hope lives with two new builders. Can two new faces save the town or the town fall?

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    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
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    1
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    1
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    277
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    She never thought performing her job well would have the unintended consequence of fame. The bright side was that her best friend was coming to find out what the fuss was all about and lowkey spy for her mother.

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    Willa had long accepted who she was. Her family loved her and so did her one brave friend. However, she also understood by how others outside her small circle treated her that she wasn’t to everyone’s taste. Especially the radically devote members of the Church of the Light faith. Even at Atara University, all her fellow builder classmates had let her know by their treatment of her that she’d be outcasted at any workshops she attempted to apply to. So, despite Willa’s peerless grades and awards for her many accomplishments thus far, her options were limited. Either be an independent workshop somewhere crazy, like The Peripheries, where a one woman large assemblies workshop like herself would be put to work in a harsh and thankless environment, or she could see if the folks in Sandrock, where guns weren’t prohibited and the Church of the Light branch there seemed looser in their standings, had thicker skin for a woman most folks described in the most unkind ways as a storybook dragon in need of slaying.

    Never did she think her choice would change her life so vastly and so quickly.

    Never did she think she’d have so many people who’d cherish her.

    Never did she think love wasn’t truly out of her reach.

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    124,241
    Chapters:
    16/?
    Comments:
    137
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    125
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    35
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    3,569
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    In search of answers, Celeste travels to Sandrock on a mission—and a promise—to unearth the long-buried secrets threatening to tear the sleepy desert town apart from the inside.

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    33,585
    Chapters:
    5/?
    Comments:
    136
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    88
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    8
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    1,066
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    This is going to be a novelization of the game with 2 builders based on mine and my IRL husband's characters. Mostly because I have no life and you guys inspired me to hop back into writing fanfics after nearly 20 years. I will try to stay faithful to the material for the most part, with a few of my head canons sprinkled in. Comments and constructive criticism is very much welcome, as I'm using this as a jumping point to get back into my publishable novel. I hope you enjoy. I will post any major triggers that I can, other than game typical violence, in the notes before the chapter in BOLD letters. The worst of it is in Chapter 9, and can largely be skipped.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    140,185
    Chapters:
    50/?
    Comments:
    112
    Kudos:
    51
    Bookmarks:
    27
    Hits:
    3,019

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