#also i fixed up the image hosting issues for ecdysis and katabasis finally wahoo

[vryptidart]

Morag Locke is a dockworker. She goes to work, goes to the pub, goes home, and does it all over again the next day. It's honest, solid work, in the remnants of Wayhaven's industrial heart. But times are changing. And Morag will be damned if she lets the next to useless Wayhaven PD be the only ones investigating the murder shaking this sleepy little town.

> scumverse (wayhaven dockworker) MASTERPOST

What if the events of The Wayhaven Chronicles played out- but your player character would never be a cop? What if, instead, she was a cranky bastard of a dockworker, colleague (and technically friend) of Lance Huttle?

What if you wrote like over 130K about a huge bitch that doesn't deserve Nat's love and affection and then realised it's really hard to convince anyone to hop on board, because that's also 18 posted works (as of April 2025)?

Yes it's all in a series, and the most determined can just read through in that order, which is more or less published order, but definitely not chronological or even recommended order. But I want to Self Advertise a bit So Anyway, here's a guide. Essentials first, and then the remainder. Check each story for its content warnings, this list is going to be Long Enough.

Recommended Essential Reading Order:

1. simple twist of fate. 59,055 words, 17 chapters. Complete.

A full book one rewrite, following Morag Locke, busybody dockworker, as she deals with discovering and investigating the death of Janet Greenland, and the arrival of Ava, Nat, Felix and Mason into her life. Morag/Nat slowishburn Commences.

2. rituals. 1,154 words, one chapter. Complete.

A moment aside, after the plot of simple twist, exploring a little of Ada Grey's homelife. Featuring a lot of my homebrew Gargoyle lore from before we got Any information about them in the setting.

3. flotsam. 1,808 words, one chapter. Complete.

A boring day at work is made more exciting for Morag, when a selkie seeks her assistance. Who said being a liaison would be hard and unrewarding work?

4. tangled up in blue. 23,573 words, seven chapters. Complete.

Thought there'd be no protagonist detective, huh? Before the events of book two, Unit Bravo is assigned to observe a city detective, Salt Wax, who appears to have the same blood mutation as Morag. Detective Wax, meanwhile, finds her life on the line when she investigates a series of disappearances linked to a local strip club... And I get to add the Detective/Ava tag to the series.

5. the times they are a-changin'. 19,640 words, six chapters. Complete.

We're not at Book Two and my beloved Falk yet. First we need to see Detective Salt Wax move to Wayhaven, and how Morag handles an incident or two, involving new supernaturals that move through the town- some to stay, and others planning on drifting on... Unit Bravo don't get tagged but they do pop up right at the end there.

6. playing cards. 1,430 words, one chapter. Complete.

Set midway through Chapter 3 of the last fic here, we get an additional scene of the tarot cards being pulled and discussed. Happens right before Niko's Bad Nap.

7. lethe. 1,237 words, one chapter. Complete.

A glimpse both backwards and ahead. An early appearance of Sanja- when she met Salt as a child, before she met the Maa-alused.

8. shelter from the storm. 34,502 words (so far), 8 chapters. In Progress.

The most current entry as of writing- the Book Two Rewrite begins. Or began like a year ago and now I'm back to it with chapter 3 oops. ANYWAY. Unit Bravo returned at the very end of times, but they hadn't finished settling in. Rebecca returns to her position as handler, and tries to take back control. Salt fights multiple walking headaches. And the Maa-alused are driven from their home...

That's It That's The Essentials

We're excluding the Art ones for now, but only because my energy to fix my image hosting is depleted. But now I've cherrypicked through the list, here's the more optional ones, rearranged in reading order…

transitions. 1,199 words, one chapter. Complete.

After simple twist, scenes of Wayhaven as spring rolls in.

crazing. EXPLICIT 6,233 words, one chapter. Complete.

Between tangled up in blue and shelter from the storm, Ada borrows Mason for what should be a quick sidemission- and ends up being a sexpollen fanfic.

The next lot have the ambiguous chronology of being established relationship for their featured pairings, possibly post-TWC-full-series, or maybe slot in among them- their positioning might change.

raw. 880 words, one chapter. Complete.

Actually the first thing I published of Morag and Nat. Written during the early writing days of simple twist, but set likely well after. Morag gets in a barfight.

ecdysis. 1,716 words, one chapter. Complete.

Salt is cursed in the course of a mission, and Ava must follow the wisdom of fairytales to free her.

goliath. 1,379 words, one chapter. Complete.

Ava and Salt get a cat.

it leads you here, despite your destination / under the Milky Way tonight. 824 words, one chapter. Complete.

Dinner with friends domesticity, with Morag trying to start a fight over music with Salt.

like real people do. 2,277 words, one chapter. Complete.

Evil offscreen nobodies try to get Nat to eat Morag. Luckily Morag drugs her! Then they make out. I promise it's kinda sweet and maybe hot but DO check the content warnings for this one.

And then... the beginning of the end.

Sometimes you know how the story will end. For Morag, I started writing it already, years ago. There's still plenty in between here and then, I don't plan on finishing any time soon and I'm having fun scuttling in Sera's shadows and rewriting the main series, but here is the start of the sequence.

One More Cup of Coffee for the Road.

katabasis. 3,774 words, one chapter. Complete.

Morag Locke is now fifty-seven years old. Natalie Sewell is now three hundred and fifty-two years old. Average human female life expectancy in ██████ is eighty-six years.