Science is always the answer. At least, to Test Tube it is. But this time, science may not give her the answers she wanted. What happens when you become too curious..? The feeling of isolated boredom we all know too well. Now, Test Tube is trying to find the solution, through a psychological experiment. The picture painted in blood can be just as pretty. Trigger Warnings: Murder, Suicide, Mental Illness, Claustrophobia, Extreme Violence, and some cussing. Cover art credit to a wonderful friend of mine, Shiiro on amino! All characters and rights reserved to the proper owners. Thank all of you so much for the support. This was my first story and it means the world to me, truly!!

Danny rarely got to decide what to do with his future. He got his power because his friends urged him to make a mistake, the career test laid out the future of an underpaid fast-food chain worker. But perhaps a new world could help him make a choice of his own and forge his own path.

"Each world has its own story. Even if you tried to get a story from me, I wouldn't be able to tell you half of it. There is so much life in each build and block, and each event has told their own tale. But it has to start somewhere." Fate has the oddest ways of getting people together. It might tear your world apart as you know it. It might give you loss and grief. It might even show you a side that you never knew you had. But it does all this for a reason. What is that reason? Well... You'll have to find out. This is the origin of how Hermitcraft came to be. Just remember-- Every end of a story is a new beginning for another. - Some information before you start the story: - This story takes place before Hermitcraft officially started, so maybe 7-8 years ago or so. - Despite this, though, the world is set in 1.13/1.14. - If you die, it's permanent. There are no respawn mechanisms. - The backstories for each character are based around events that happened in Season 6, which might not be relevant in seasons to come. - The total word count for this story is 49,001. It was originally published on October 16, 2019. - I try to mention each Hermit at least once, but I might have missed some. DISCLAIMER: This book does hint at a bit of shipping. I write ships based on the Hermits' Minecraft personas and not their actual IRL selves. None of this content is meant to offend anyone, it's purely a writing hobby. If any of the Hermits find any of my content disrespectful or uncomfortable, I have no problem in taking it down. With all that being said, enjoy the story!

Description: "Heh, powerful as one can be having the best of both worlds, having the Admin and Watcher magic, you cannot resist against the code no matter how corrupted or clean it may be in your eyes. It's my duty to bring back the balance, meaning destroying the works of the brothers while I'm at it" The white hooded Entity sneered, hatred evident in his glitchy voice. Ruby red eyes drilling into the player's soul. As a smile crept up to its face as it tightened its grip on the winged player. He kicked it as he held his dual swords, by his side. "If you are doing your duty, I'm going mine" He growled. It looked amused despite the inhuman face it held, wanting him to continue. "My duty as the Protector" [-----------------] Disclaimer: I had a lot of inspiration from other writers so I hope you guys understand, I will try to make this as original as possible! Thank you and enjoy the story! [-----------------] Cover drawn and edited by me

In a world where all magic is outlawed, finding a magic user is a hard thing to do. Being one is so much harder, with authorities who would hunt you down untill they kill you and no-one you can trust, how could a magic user hope to survive? Hermitcraft is a hidden safe-space, where magic users can hide from the authorities, the outside world, in a family of other magic users, but it's impossible to find without being brought there, so many magic users could never hope for salvation, since they don't know it exists. ((Bad at descriptions))

Would you hide a part of yourself? You might do it if that part scared you. After a while, you might get good at hiding your secrets and past. Grian had experience with that sort of thing, and now he must do it once again - but it's so much harder this time. I am writing this for AO3, but I decided to start posting it on here as well Because of that, updates might be slow even though I update the AO3 version very VERY often This takes place in Season 7, and begins during the Mayoral Campaign

Mumbo, Grian and Xisuma got out of Concorp, but what happened to the others? Where did they go? This will focus on the horrors that happened to Stress, Ren, Iskall, Doc, Tango and Jevin when the others ran to safety. Mainly Iskall. The chapters may contain depictions of gore or blood. You have been warned. Once again this is strictly the personas and Cub and Scar are out of character. They are lovely people in real life this is just a story. I wanted to say that just because you never know what people will say.

'Being tortured isn't that bad once you get used to it' After years of the AHA, or Annihilating Hazardous Anomalies, plucking his feathers from his wings and torturing him, Grian has lost all hope of getting out of his chains. Until one day a new employee comes in and instead of torturing him, he sets Grian free. I do not ship any of the real people, only their personas. This is my first story so if you have anything that you don't like please tell me and I will improve from it! There is blood and gore in this story so if you don't like that sort of stuff then don't read this. There is also LGBT+ so don't read if your homophobic. The cover art is not mine but I couldn't find who drew it to give credit. If anyone knows I will gladly tag them for credit.

Evil X returns to Hermitcraft, causing chaos to break loose. The smell of impending doom is in the air. The most unexpected things happen... yada yada yada. If this is the vaguest description you've ever read, I'll consider it a success. Note: I do not endorse the shipping of the hermits in real life; I am only shipping their minecraft personas! Also note: The art used for the cover is not mine!! Ships: Grian x Mumbo Cub x scar Impulse x Tango x Zedaph Ren x Doc Jevin x Evil X (...or Xisuma)