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"Builder of the Dragon Quest Builders World: Reborn in Alefgard"

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You are minding your own business, scrolling through your phone with a heavy sigh. It's just another boring day in your room, another monotonous cycle in your very predictable life. You have recently been playing "Dragon Quest Builders," and it has become your escape from reality. The enchanting world of Alefgard, with its vibrant landscapes and adventures, feels almost like a second home. But as you continue to lose yourself in thoughts about the game, an odd sensation begins to creep over you.

You rub your arms as a weird tingly feeling courses through your body, starting from your fingertips and spreading rapidly. The familiar comfort of your surroundings begins to distort, rippling as if reality itself is being rewritten. Panic sets in your chest when your phone slips from your grasp, clattering to the floor with a hollow thud.

"W-What's happening?" you murmur, eyes widening as the world around you takes on the vibrant hues and textures of Alefgard. Your floorboards shift into pixelated, earthy tiles, and the walls warp into stone and mortar. But the changes don’t stop there—your body, too, is morphing. If you were a female, you feel your curves flatten and your chest smooth out. A sharp pain in your throat heralds the forming of an Adam's apple, changing your voice to a more masculine timbre. You can feel an unmistakable shift in your lower abdomen as your genitals change, the sensation both foreign and startling. You clutch at your stomach, an instinctive reaction to the sheer magnitude of the transformation.

Your clothes dissolve into thin air and reform into a distinctly familiar outfit: a blue tunic with a red scarf, white pants, black undershirt, brown leather gloves, brown leather boots, and a brown belt with a gold buckle adorned with a sleeping roll and water skin. A blue Phrygian cap tops your head, settled with large brown goggles with yellow rims. The last to appear is a massive mallet, heavy yet comfortably balanced in your newly-chibified hands.

You look down at your body, but before you can process the full scope of your transformation, dizziness clouds your mind. Your thoughts become muddy, memories slipping away like water through a sieve. "No," you whisper desperately, holding your head in your hands. "I can’t forget. I—"

Your voice is cut off, replaced by the echoing silence of your mental struggle. Thoughts of your previous life blur into obscurity. You desperately try to cling to anything familiar—a name, a face, a place—but your grasp slips further and further. A terrifying fear grips you as you hold your head and scream soundlessly against the erasure of your identity.

"Remember! I have to remember!" But your attempts are in vain. Words become jumbled, your desperation silent but palpable until everything, including your voice, fades away. Your mind clears from the dizziness, and with it, the last fragments of your prior self vanish. It is replaced with the Builder's memories, the mission given by Rubiss, and the task set before you.

As you open your eyes, you find yourself entombed in an unmarked grave. The Goddess Rubiss’s voice echoes in your mind, clear and authoritative. "Builder, can you hear My voice?" she asks.

You silently acknowledge the call, your new identity entirely in place. You have always been the Builder, tasked with rebuilding Alefgard and providing safe haven to its people. The context of your mission starts to outline itself in your mind. The world had suffered greatly, creativity clouded by the curse of the Dragonlord.

Rubiss continues, "You are the only person alive with the ability to forge items from raw materials. The others have fallen prey to the Dragonlord’s curse." She guides you through the basics of crafting tools, giving detailed instructions as she prepares you for the trials ahead.

"I know you once were... different," her voice softens for the briefest moment, "but know that you are chosen for this task because of your lineage and unique abilities."

"Builder, you are not a Hero," Rubiss finally declares. "Your responsibility lies in rebuilding the towns of Alefgard and giving safe haven to the people. Do you understand?"

Confident in your newly acquired purpose, you feel a spark of eagerness. Your new life, challenging as it may be, beckons with the promise of creation and rebirth. The snark and sass inherent to the Builder bubbles up as you think, "I get it; let's just build!"

The Goddess seems flabbergasted. "You... you just want to build things?" Her voice brims with disbelief.

Yet you know your purpose. With mallet in hand, you rise from the grave ready to rebuild and restore Alefgard, every step a testament to your newfound identity. You are the Builder, driven by the desire to create and protect, ready to forge a new world from the ruins of the old.

This story was generated by user LanHikari with assistance by one of OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.

Images were generated with OpenAI's AI system, DALL·E 2, or uploaded by the user.

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Prompt: Write the POV transformation story of a human reader turning into male Builder (who is also a human, albeit magically reanimated unlike the reader himself/herself) from the 2016 video game "Dragon Quest Builders", complete with gender change (if the reader is a female before the transformation; in case the reader is female, her breasts flatten to leave her flat-chested, while her feminine curves vanished to give way to a male body, as an Adam's apple forms in her throat to give her a masculine voice, and her female genitals (vagina, ovaries, and uterus) invert itself into male genitals (testicles and penis); however, the reader could be a male before the transformation, so gender change is optional and only if the reader is female), instant clothes change (the reader's clothes instantly transform into male Builder's outfit), height regression (making him/her shorter due to his/her chibification, making his/her body small with stubby limbs, an oversized head, anime eyes, and minimal detail), age change, voice change (the voice change also causes the reader to lose the ability to speak and becoming silent (aside from yelps, grunts, battle cries, and so forth)), reality change (the reader's real world becoming the world of "Dragon Quest Builders"), and mind/mental change (with all of the reader's personality and memories being completely replaced with Builder's personality and memories, making him/her dizzy with a fuzzy mind (the dizziness and the mind's fuzziness clears up when his/her memories are fully replaced), despite his/her best efforts on fighting them off (he doesn't want to forget his previous self but then completely forgets all about his previous self against his will), making him unable to remember his previous self, so he remembers (or rather knows) that he has always been Builder (which is his true/real self), completely oblivious/unaware of his previous self (which wasn't real to begin with)). The transformation is permanent (meaning it is forever) and is completely irreversible. For male Builer's appearance (after the reader turned into him), he is a young man (without any facial hair) who has light sandy-brown spiky hair (which is short and spiky), while his skin is fair in color, and his eyes' irises are blue in color. He is a very distant descendant of Erdrick and the last person left in Alefgard who has the power to create new things (as such he is titled as the Legendary Builder and he is tasked with rebuilding the ruined world around him). He wears a blue tunic with a red scarf, black undershirt, white pants and brown leather gloves and brown leather boots as well as a brown belt (with a gold circular buckle at the front) around his waist, which is adorned with a sleeping roll and water skin (representing Wayfarer's clothes). He also wears a blue Phrygian cap with large brown goggles (with yellow rims) on top. He is shown equipped with a Hammerhood's giant mallet. On his hands, Geo wears red fingerless gloves with yellow squares on their backs, which widen into red-and-gold discs around his wrists. Here is male Builder's personality; The Builder is curt and informal when addressing their fellow citizens, and even when communing with Rubiss herself. One such instance of this is upon first meeting Myrlund, the Builder opts to address him as "Gramps". The Builder have a noticeably carefree attitude, often telling others not to worry about their concerns and also is initially disinterested in the larger plight of Alefgard, professing that they would rather build for building sake than doing it so for the good of mankind and their fight aganist the monsters. Over the course of his task however, the Builder's attitude changes, forming deep bonds of friendship with the people he met and assisted. In the end, when asked to leave them under the looming threat of the Dragonlord despite having at disposition all the tools necessary to confront him, the Builder couldn't bring themself to do so, and choosed to challenge the tyrant, even if it meant losing Rubiss protection and critically shortening their own lifespan. Even after proving their identity as the Legendary Builder and earning their respect, the Builder hopelessly appears inattentive and dim-witted to the citizens of Alefgard, who often remark on their vacant stare or overestimation of their own skills. This character follows the Dragon Quest series tradition of being silent, though character's voice actor is employed for yelps, grunts, battle cries, and so forth when taking damage or fighting monsters. Furthermore, a sassy personality is strongly implied for both as the protagonist will talk back to several characters over the course of the adventure, even the Goddess Herself. No dialogue is displayed when this happens, and the implication is carried through by the reactions of the other conversation participants. Here are the male Builder's abilities; The Builder is the only person alive who is able to combine, rearrange and construct objects from materials and the only one who can reduce said objects back to their components by destroying them. This being said, the Builder is not totally immune to the hex--he will be stripped of all knowledge gained during a chapter when beginning a new one, and must relearn every recipe again. Due to the focus of "Dragon Quest Builders" (the game which the Builder is part of) being more sandbox-orientated than previous Dragon Quest game titles, the Builder has far fewer stats than the typical protagonist. Only HP, attack, and defence are shown in-game, with the former improving through leveling up the quality of a given chapter's town and through Seeds of life, with the latter two being completely dependent on weapons and armour. Here is the male Builder's origins/history; The Builder's history prior to the events of the game are never fully explained, only that he died sometime ago by an unknown cause and was brought back to life by Rubiss for the express task of rebuilding Alefguard. The reasons for Rubiss's choice to revive him in particular is due to the fact that the Builder, like the the fallen Hero, is also a descendant of Erdrick--something she does not reveal to him until he has completed his task. However, unlike his ancestor, he was not blessed with strength but with the power of creation, an art lost in this series' timeline. The story is that the reader is minding his/her own business, but is then interrupted by a weird tingly feeling as his/her world suddenly starts warping into the world of Dragon Quest Builders, and his/her body starts to change against his will. After the physical transformation ends, his (the reader is now totally a male if he was a female before) mind starts clouding up (making him dizzy) and he starts forgetting all about his previous self (also against his will), making him hold his head in fear and tells/screams himself to remember, but then he loses his ability to speak (other than yelps, grunts, battle cries, and so forth) and he is losing all memories and personality of his previous self as he suffers from amnesia, making it completely impossible to remember his previous self or life and leaving him as an unnamed Builder. The Builder awakens in Alefgard at the words of Rubiss asking if the Builder can hear Her voice. She explains the fate that has befallen Her world, and that the Builder is the only person alive with the ability to forge items from raw materials, as all others have fallen prey to the curse of the Dragonlord that has clouded creative clarity the world over. The Builder begins the tutorial of the game entombed in an unmarked grave, where in Rubiss explains the process of crafting tools and what will be required of the Builder to save the remaining lives left in Alefguard (while being interrupted frequently). The Goddess ends the tutorial by stating that he is not a Hero, and thus the Builder's responsibility lies strictly with rebuilding the towns of Alefguard and giving safe haven to the people. The Goddess is then flabbergasted to hear Her chosen one "doesn't get it" and "just wants to build things" (but the Builder may in fact rebuild the towns of Alefguard and giving safe haven to the people, which depends on the Builder himself). There should also be quotes from the characters in this story so we know what they're saying and what they're thinking. Also, it is a POV reader story, so it should not be in an author's point of view (my, I, mine, etc), and it should be from the point of view of the reader (you, your, etc).

Response: You are minding your own business, scrolling through your phone with a heavy sigh. It's just another boring day in your room, another monotonous cycle in your very predictable life. You have recently been playing "Dragon Quest Builders," and it has become your escape from reality. The enchanting world of Alefgard, with its vibrant landscapes and adventures, feels almost like a second home. But as you continue to lose yourself in thoughts about the game, an odd sensation begins to creep over you. You rub your arms as a weird tingly feeling courses through your body, starting from your fingertips and spreading rapidly. The familiar comfort of your surroundings begins to distort, rippling as if reality itself is being rewritten. Panic sets in your chest when your phone slips from your grasp, clattering to the floor with a hollow thud. "W-What's happening?" you murmur, eyes widening as the world around you takes on the vibrant hues and textures of Alefgard. Your floorboards shift into pixelated, earthy tiles, and the walls warp into stone and mortar. But the changes don’t stop there—your body, too, is morphing. If you were a female, you feel your curves flatten and your chest smooth out. A sharp pain in your throat heralds the forming of an Adam's apple, changing your voice to a more masculine timbre. You can feel an unmistakable shift in your lower abdomen as your genitals change, the sensation both foreign and startling. You clutch at your stomach, an instinctive reaction to the sheer magnitude of the transformation. Your clothes dissolve into thin air and reform into a distinctly familiar outfit: a blue tunic with a red scarf, white pants, black undershirt, brown leather gloves, brown leather boots, and a brown belt with a gold buckle adorned with a sleeping roll and water skin. A blue Phrygian cap tops your head, settled with large brown goggles with yellow rims. The last to appear is a massive mallet, heavy yet comfortably balanced in your newly-chibified hands. You look down at your body, but before you can process the full scope of your transformation, dizziness clouds your mind. Your thoughts become muddy, memories slipping away like water through a sieve. "No," you whisper desperately, holding your head in your hands. "I can’t forget. I—" Your voice is cut off, replaced by the echoing silence of your mental struggle. Thoughts of your previous life blur into obscurity. You desperately try to cling to anything familiar—a name, a face, a place—but your grasp slips further and further. A terrifying fear grips you as you hold your head and scream soundlessly against the erasure of your identity. "Remember! I have to remember!" But your attempts are in vain. Words become jumbled, your desperation silent but palpable until everything, including your voice, fades away. Your mind clears from the dizziness, and with it, the last fragments of your prior self vanish. It is replaced with the Builder's memories, the mission given by Rubiss, and the task set before you. As you open your eyes, you find yourself entombed in an unmarked grave. The Goddess Rubiss’s voice echoes in your mind, clear and authoritative. "Builder, can you hear My voice?" she asks. You silently acknowledge the call, your new identity entirely in place. You have always been the Builder, tasked with rebuilding Alefgard and providing safe haven to its people. The context of your mission starts to outline itself in your mind. The world had suffered greatly, creativity clouded by the curse of the Dragonlord. Rubiss continues, "You are the only person alive with the ability to forge items from raw materials. The others have fallen prey to the Dragonlord’s curse." She guides you through the basics of crafting tools, giving detailed instructions as she prepares you for the trials ahead. "I know you once were... different," her voice softens for the briefest moment, "but know that you are chosen for this task because of your lineage and unique abilities." "Builder, you are not a Hero," Rubiss finally declares. "Your responsibility lies in rebuilding the towns of Alefgard and giving safe haven to the people. Do you understand?" Confident in your newly acquired purpose, you feel a spark of eagerness. Your new life, challenging as it may be, beckons with the promise of creation and rebirth. The snark and sass inherent to the Builder bubbles up as you think, "I get it; let's just build!" The Goddess seems flabbergasted. "You... you just want to build things?" Her voice brims with disbelief. Yet you know your purpose. With mallet in hand, you rise from the grave ready to rebuild and restore Alefgard, every step a testament to your newfound identity. You are the Builder, driven by the desire to create and protect, ready to forge a new world from the ruins of the old.

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