BONUS ROUND 2

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Bonus Round 2

The Return of Round Robin Fanadventures

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Hi shippers! Welcome to Bonus Round 2.
Round Robin Fanadventures generated so much awesome stuff last year that we decided to bring it back!

For those who are new to HSO, this is not actually that complicated a concept, but it might be a little tricky to explain, so bear with me. The point of this round is to create a bunch of fanadventures that are for a team other than your own.

Rules

1. If you are starting a new adventure: start a new thread using the title format defined below. Include either text or 1-2 pieces of embedded art setting a scene (or both!), and finish with a command (==> does not count as a command for new threads). Then sit back and wait for someone else to contribute!
   
2. If you are continuing an adventure: find a thread that does not center around your team's ship. Then comment using the title format defined below. Include either text or 1-2 pieces of embedded art continuing the scene (or both!), and finish with a command (this can include ==>, though generally we would prefer otherwise). Then sit back and wait for someone else to contribute!
   
3. For ease of reading, we suggest using standardized image sizes. 600x400 landscape is a pretty good size! But as long as it's the same as the other images in the thread, people will have an easier time following along. The HTML for inserting images is <img src="http://yourimageurlhere.com">
   
4. For this challenge, there is no minimum wordcount. We are trusting you not to abuse that fact!
   
5. You may not comment twice in a row in one adventure. The point is to hand off the scene like a hot potato.
   
6. You may not introduce or create for your team's ship into a fanadventure. If someone else introduces your team's ship to a thread, you can still contribute to that thread so long as your contributions do not involve your ship.
   
7. This challenge will run until 11:59PM EDT July 7. After that time, even if it's just by a minute according to the LJ timestamp, no submissions will be accepted for points.

NOTES:

• Audio posts are fine, so long as you include a transcript.
  
• Please make sure to check that your titles are correct!
  
• You may answer commands that have already been answered. Think of it like a 'choose your own adventure' game!
  

Title Format
If you are starting a new thread, use this format in your title.
New [THEIR SHIP] Game (FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP])
Replace [THEIR SHIP] with the ship you want this particular fanadventure thread to be. Remember that you cannot create a fanadventure based on your own ship. Whatever ship you choose must be represented by a HSO team not your own. The only exception is gen adventures, which are permitted.
Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with. If your team name is not in this format and in the title it may not be counted.

If you are continuing a thread, use this format in your title.
[COMMAND] (FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP])
Replace [COMMAND] with whatever command the previous fill has specified.
Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your title is not in this format it may not be counted.

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Scoring
(as stated here)
First 5 entries per team: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+: 5 (per entry)

All fanadventure content must be created new for this round.

We would prefer that any questions about this challenge or anything else in the HSO be emailed to us at homestuck.shipping AT gmail!

Comments

New [Dirk<3Jake] Game (FILL: TEAM [Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose])

[andthus]

The morning dawns. Dirk and Jake roll out of bed. It is their first day together as husband and husband and their first day on their two week long honeymoon. They have decided to spend it in Las Vegas.

Getting dressed for the hot Nevada sun, Dirk has to remind Jake that guns are not allowed to be worn out in public. Of course, Jake then catches Dirk trying to bring his sword along so he's not really sure about that.

They make sure not to forget sunscreen since they both know how bad sunburns can hurt.

Then they head out the door to face the day as newly weds.

Dirk and Jake: Go explore Las Vegas

Dirk and Jake: Go explore Las Vegas (FILL: TEAM JOHN<>VRISKA)

[aibouftw]

The moment that they exit the hotel, Dirk is (once again) extremely thankful for his shades; the sun is extremely bright today.

He doesn't think about that much longer and looks over at his new husband. The way that Jake's emerald eyes widen with complete shock and fascination at seeing something so new will never cease to get old in Dirk's mind. With a small smirk placed on his lips, Dirk smoothly slides his hand into Jake's. When he feels Jake's fingers immediately intertwine with his own, Dirk doesn't even notice that his cool Strider smirk has turned into a totally unironic smile.

Dirk and Jake: Stop Being Sappy And Just Explore The City Already

New [Feferi<3Jade] Game (FILL: [TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX])

[faeriearmy]

The sun is setting on the ocean as the two girls lounge on a beach. It was a beautiful end to a great day, full of swimming, splashing, and a bit of surfing.
Jade sits up, and states her desire to go for a walk. Feferi stands and offers her a hand, and they set off.
Feferi and Jade: Go for a walk down the beach.

Feferi and Jade: Go for a walk down the beach. (FILL: TEAM [Aradia<3Feferi])

[hoodedscarlet]

The sunset is already beginning to stain the sky red as the two girl girls walk side by side down the beach, sandy shoulders brushing. The sand is warm underneath their feet, the last remains of the day's warmth. Now it was a different warmth - gentle, like a blanket's.

Jade's eyes survey her surroundings, but keep on coming back to her friend. She was still intrigued by her despite the length of time she had been able to see one other; the candy corn horns, the grey skin that still seemed so full of life despite the colour, and especially the more fishy parts of her appearance - namely the fins protruding from her face, and the brilliant pink gills hidden under flaps down the sides of her torso.

The intrigue wasn't in a bad way though - no, far from it. It was just so... Interesting! And she always loved learning more about her friends. But she could ask about the skin and the horns with any of the other girls. The fins, the gills - she could only ask Feferi.
And why not ask now?

Jade: Inquire about Feferi's fishy qualities.

New Dave <3 Tavros Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

[eremiticantiquarian]

Your name is Dave Strider. It wasn't that long ago that you fell victim to one hell of a shaving nick. That very bladed accident to your throat has landed you in your very own hellbubble for the rest of your afterlife. As luck would have it, your fairy deathtroll, Aradia, left you a little present after playing Tour Guide Troll Barbie of Death. That gift seems to be in the shape of one troll who is currently sleeping on your futon.

Dave: Examine sleeping troll.

Dave: Examine sleeping troll. (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT)

[crowry]

He sure is asleep. Doesn't even wake up when you lightly tap him on the face, like a dream fairy lightly landing on his drooling maw while he's deep in his death sleep, only the fairy is also dead, and you are not a fairy. Like you said, the fairy left.
> Dave: Wake this guy up for real.

New Alpha!Rose<3Alpha!Dave Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<>ARADIA)

[binners]

Scene: The Strider household. A two-room apartment shared by two brothers. Dirk, the younger, is in his bedroom. The common room, which serves as Dave's sleeping quarters, is in disarray. A futon is tipped onto its back; stuffing spills from a slash in the mattress. The large plasma television's screen is cracked. Papers are strewn about and flutter as a fan oscillates. Sparks leap from a cracked knitting needle, which sizzles ominously near the doorway. The SORD lies on the floor, snopped beyond repair.

Dirk: EXIT BEDROOM.

Dirk: Exit Bedroom. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE)

[portaling]

You exit your bedroom, slightly dreading what you're going to find -- oh god, please don't let it be another porno being filmed in the name of the rebellion you've really had enough of that. But instead, you see your Bro, sitting on the counter, poking at what appears to be...

....is that a frying pan? In your apartment?

"Get away from that," Rose swats his hand with some tongs and you frown. She must have brought those up her dress or in her beehive or something. She spots you, and smiles, sweet and bitterly sarcastic. "Do you want some breakfast?"

Well gee, usually you just dodge a bunch of swords (still don't know why Bro puts those in the fridge but hey whatever).

"Don't do it, she's using poison."

"It's called bacon. It's a food."

Dirk: Kick the poisoned bacon to the curb!

New [Rose<3Kanaya] Game (FILL: TEAM SLICK<3<SNOWMAN)

[specialagentartemis]

BE ROSE

It is day 212 of your journey through the void that is the outer reaches of Paradox Space, and you've just finished reading the entirety of Kanaya's library. For the second time.

Over the past several months, you and Kanaya have also redecorated the room that you two have claimed as your own, written several short stories centered around the adventures and travails of Zazzerpan and Calmasis, as well as at least one novel-length tale of forbidden romance and paranormal intrigue. And this is in between researching and writing your greatest epic, the tome that you hope will one day be the greatest sum of all knowledge ever collected about Sburb and its machinations.

You haven't passed through a dream bubble in a month and a half, and you've exhausted most topics of small talk with the other five (technically six, but you only ever see five) people on this meteor with you.

Frankly, you're bored.

You know Kanaya feels it too. It's all well and good for Karkat to argue endlessly with himself, or for Terezi and Dave and the Mayor to play in their chalk-and-can town, but you're Rose Lalonde. You need to be intellectually stimulated. You need things to occupy your brain. Kanaya is suffering from this lack of new and interesting things, too, and it shows.

So after a full day of doing nothing but pacing back and forth in your lovingly finished room, you turn to Kanaya and say, "Just how extensive is this meteor, do you know?"

Kanaya thinks about it, and shrugs. "I'm not quite sure. I do not believe that anyone has undertaken an actual methodical attempt to explore the whole thing."

You smile. You think you've just hit upon today's activity.


Rose and Kanaya: Begin exploring meteor

Rose and Kanaya: Begin exploring meteor (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

[eremiticantiquarian]

Kanaya leads you to a door she remembers having come across a while back. She tried once to open it, but it was locked and she had had many other things on her mind at the time. You can't blame her for focusing on the bloody murder mayhem instead of a curiously sealed door in an infrequently traveled corridor.

You are curious, however, as to how she plans to open this door. None of the handle jiggling or mashing of buttons on the keypad have had favorable results. You think that perhaps she will bother Karkat into at least making some attempt at figuring out the locking coding.

But then, you smirk as you watch her shuffle through her sylladex, Kanaya has always seemed like more of the take charge kind of lady.



Kanaya: Retrieve chainsaw from sylladex

New Aradia<3Feferi Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Equius)

[person4]

You never really like it when the ghosts of old heirs visit you. It makes you think too much about how awful it is that if Feferi isn't very clever and very lucky one day she'll be joining them, and then you need to sit down for awhile and try not to think about it.

But this visit went much better than usual! The dead girl told you all about ruins hidden under the sea, just ripe for exploring by a plucky young up-and-coming archeologist!

The only problem is, how can a landweller make it down to them?

Aradia: Contact a friendly seadweller for advice

Aradia: Contact a friendly seadweller for advice (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[slippy]

apocalypseArisen [AA] began trolling cuttlefishCuller [CC]

AA: hell0 feferi
CC: )(I ARADIA! 38D
CC: It's R---E---ELY nice to )(ear from you so early in t)(e evening!
AA: d0 y0u perhaps kn0w 0f any way f0r a landdweller t0 g0 underwater
AA: except executi0n by dr0wning i mean
AA: 0h and i was visited by 0ne of the previ0us heiresses
AA: if y0u want t0 talk ab0ut that

It occurs to you that maybe you have a knack for raising depressing topics. It's taking Feferi a while to reply...

> Feferi: Respond.

New Nepeta<3Karkat Game (FILL: TEAM [Aradia<3Feferi])

[hoodedscarlet]

Your name is Nepeta Leijon, and after all this time, the day has arrived.
Today, you will execute your plan to finally reveal your feelings to Karkat.
Today, your OTP becomes a reality.

As soon as your alarm goes off you roll out of your bed quick as lightning and dress as fast as possible while trying not to disturb Pounce. You barely taste your breakfast as you shovel it down your throat, your hair as poofy as usual is fussed over fanatically. You must look perfect today.
You must be perfect today.

Once you're ready, you lug your school bag onto your shoulder, huffing as you realize just how heavy it is. And it's not just because of all the stuff you put in there for your plan concerning Karkat - high school demands your textbooks and drawing pad too! All set to go, you rush out to the bus stop. It's not a far run at all, and with the energy you have right now, you could sprint ten times the distance.

And that energy is certainly not spent when you get there, so you settle for rocking on your heels and tugging at the sides of your blue cat beanie in anticipation.

You just can't wait!
You just can't wait!
You just can't wa-

Nepeta - Get interrupted.

Nepeta: Get interrupted. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE)

[lilytooth]

"Can't wait for what?" a voice behind you asks. You had no idea that had started muttering to yourself. Whoops.

You grasp your wrist and look to see who asked. It was Terezi, who is your friend, but also your Romantic Rival. In a you-think-Karkat-is-interested-in-her-and-she's-probably-interested-in-him sort of way, not in a shipping-people-who-hate-each-other sort of way. Speaking of shipping people who hate each other, you think it'd be really sweet if Terezi and Vriska made up after that huge fight they had. Vriska had apparently tricked Terezi into doing something to assist her in a plan to hurt another student. You can't remember the details. But anyway, Vriska and Terezi should become friends again and realize that they still care about each other. Then make out.

You suddenly notice that you started staring awkwardly at Terezi and didn't answer her question.

Nepeta: Come up with something to say! Quickly!

New Aradia<3Jade Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE)

[portaling]

Your name is ARADIA MEGIDO.

For what seems like eons you have been exploring dream bubbles, attempting to find someone that you know. Those horrorterrors really like to play tricks on you sometimes! Thankfully you've just stumbled across what looks to be a little human girl's bedroom, covered in Squiddles and pictures of....are those human actors with whiskers drawn on?

JADE: hi aradia!!!
JADE: do you want to come have a tea party with me?
JADE: i think its technically difficult to drink tea while dreaming, but maybe we will figure it out :P

Aradia: Gratefully accept a cup of tea.

Aradia: Gratefully accept a cup of tea. (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

[binners]

ARADIA: ok, thank you!

You gratefully accept the tea. The teacup is plastic and the tea looks stronger than you like. You look around for some grubjuice or roe cubes or sourbeast slices to add but you only see a pitcher of milk, some sugar, and a dish of cut up yellow fruits. This is the strangest tea party you have ever been to. You decide to drink the tea as-is, and it is indeed too strong. Sometimes precognition is a little obnoxious.

You distract yourself from the bitter drink by looking closer at Jade's walls.

ARADIA: jade your room is so interesting!
ARADIA: i did not know you were so interested in fine art.
ARADIA: these are lovely! they would fetch top caegar at an aucticution!
ARADIA: did you do these yourself?

Jade looks a little baffled. She glances at her walls, then back to you.

JADE: uh....
JADE: you mean the funny faces on my posters?
JADE: yeah i guess i did those myself!!! i really like animals
JADE: how great would it be to be part animal right?
ARADIA: well, i was a frog once!

ARADIA: Fondly recall frogself.

New Dirk<3Equius Game (FILL: TEAM Eridan<>Rose]

[wallwalker]

Your name is Dirk Strider.

You are one of the best damned mech pilots in the Human-Troll Alliance, and you know it. And as soon as you get into your mech and make the most amazing demonstration ever, everyone else is going to know it too.

Your engineer Equius is already gone, most likely off to get everything ready. He's damn good at what he does, even if it's like pulling teeth to get him to admit it.

Looks like it's time to get ready to rock this demonstration.

==> Dirk: Get into your flight uniform.

Dirk: Get into your flight uniform (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

[eremiticantiquarian]

You stand in front of you locker. If your hand trembles in anticipation, you wouldn't admit it. The man-made material blend which makes up the cloth of your jumpsuit feels almost foreign in your hands.

This is the first time you're wearing it.

You step into the uniform one leg at a time.

When you get it pulled up to your waist, adjusted to be snug against your calves and thighs, you hear stomping behind you. Equius stands there, staring silently at you as he his known to do.

"What can I do for you, man? If you've come to wish me luck... I sure as hell don't need it. Unless of course it's a certain kind of luck."

You waggle your eyebrows and flirt carelessly. He never seems to take you seriously but sweats buckets anyway so what can it hurt to have a little fun with him?

Equius: Wish the pilot some luck

New Eridan<3Karkat Game (FILL: TEAM John<3Karkat)

[crowry]

Your name is Eridan Ampora and you are a RADIO CELEBRITY. In case that wasn't clear, you are a celebrity of the radio. You are not a radio, or even really a celebrity in places that aren't the radio. Mostly people think you are a pretentious douche with decent "SCOOPS" on actual celebrities. Actual celebrities just think you are a pretentious douche.

This is all well and good, but the only opinion that really matters is that of your LEGITIMATELY WELL LIKED and RESPECTED rival, Karkat Vantas. His show runs at the same time as yours. He is a REBEL, a HERO, and probably REALLY HOT.

What will you do?

> Eridan: Go Live.

Eridan: Go Live (FILL: TEAM [Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose])

[andthus]

KALT413
((Alright, that's the link for the audio. I can never figure out html...))
----
Hi everyone and welcome to KAlt 4.13, your major source of everything worth knowing.
I'm your host, Eridan Ampora.
First things up, stars of the newest movie "Two trolls of the same hemoclass find themselves embroiled in a pale romance cheating on their respective moirails together in a pile and are caught by said moirails,including three cullings, two explosions, a hop beast, and the death of a lusus," Tharfask Gharjeth and Crimalgs Flafjarn may or may not be making black overtures to each other. We have video of them fighting while on set.

So listeners, what do you think, is kismesistude on their horizon or is it merely platonic?

>Listeners: Call In

New Roxy<3Dad Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Equius)

[person4]

Your name is Roxy Lalonde, and you feel like your hangover has a hangover.

This is why you should never agree to sleepovers at your best friend's house. No matter how much you love Janey, and no matter how awesome it is to be in the same time as each other, nothing good can come of spending that much time with someone who refuses to use alcohol for anything but cooking, and then never more than a splash.

But what Janey doesn't know won't hurt her, and while she's still sound asleep you're going to find some booze before your brain hammers its way out of your skull. And you think you know just the place to look if you don't want to be stuck with that salty cooking garbage!

Roxy: Enter Jane's Dad's study

Roxy: Enter Jane's Dad's study. (FILL: TEAM Jake<3Terezi)

[theycallmeruthless]

Ah fuck, what a snooze fest. The room's filled with a bunch of Dad stuff, and none of that stuff is what you're looking for.

Dad's desk is to the right of the door when you enter and it's about as neat as the rest of the house. A couple of Batterwitch recipes are scattered on the top and you consider casually tossing them in the trash, but decide against it. This is parent territory, after all.

And it's not like you want to get on Mr. Crocker's bad side.

There's a sort of creepy mural on the opposite wall and it'd definitely freak you out if your head didn't hurt so much. You scan the rest of the room. He's gotta have booze hidden in here somewhere, right?

The safe in the corner of the room catches your eye. Jackpot! There's gotta be something in there!

Good think you're the 1337est hacker. Even the thickest of safes aren't able to resist your charm and twist of the finger!

Roxy: Crack open that sucker

New SWEET BRO<3HELLA JEFF Game (FILL: TEAM JOHN<>VRISKA)

[jesscookie]

THE SECQUEL TO THE SWET BRO AND HELLA JFEF: YAOIS...........





>Geromy: calm yo tits

==> Geromy: calm yo tits (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3 NEPETA)

[anothera]

===>Geromy: mental breakdown

New [Jade <3 Karkat] Game (FILL: TEAM SOLLUX <3 TEREZI)

[heybuddyboy]

WARNINGS: underage alcohol use

GC: H3Y K4RK4T YOU W4NN4 COM3 OV3R TOMORROW FOR 4 N1GHT W1TH JUST US L4D13S
GC: (4ND 4LSO N3P3T4 >:P)
GC: :33 < *the furocious feline hisses with dismay and claws terezi right in the face!!!*
CG: WHAT THE FUCK. NO. A THOUSAND SCREAMING OCEANS OF NO WAY IN GOD'S NOOK AM I EVER SETTING FOOT IN YOUR HOUSE AGAIN.
CG: ESPECIALLY NOT WHILE SHE'S THERE!
GC: :33 < *ac gasps*
GC: :33 < that is so rude! :'((
CG: IT ISN'T RUDE, IT'S SELF-PRESERVATION!
CG: YOU FORGET, PYROPE, BUT I SIT RIGHT NEXT TO HER IN MATH NOW
CG: I'VE SEEN THE WAY SHE DROOLS OVER ANYONE WHO'LL GIVE HER THE TIME OF DAY!
GC: :33 < *hisssssssss!*
GC: :33 < *ac does not drool! kitties dont drool!!! DOGS drool, cats RULE!*
GC: :33 < N3P3T4 STOP ST34L1NG MY
GC: D4MN 1T!
GC: 4NYW4Y BY DO YOU W4NT TO 1 4CTU4LLY JUST M34N 'H34DS UP 1TS H4PP3N1NG YOUR3 COM1NG' SO UH B3 TH3R3 TOMORROW 4T 31GHT OK4Y
CG: YEAH AND WHAT HAPPENS IF I DON'T FEEL LIKE LOWERING MYSELF TO KISS YOUR FURRY ASSES.
GC: H4H4H4H4H4 SC4LY 4SS DONT YOU R3M3MB3R 1TS DR4GONS NOW
GC: 4ND 1F YOU DONT SHOW UP TH3N
GC: UUUUMMM........
GC: HUUUUUUUGS!!
GC: :33 < *AC GIGGles and blows karkitty a kiss on the soft wind of her purring*
CG: ARE YOU DRUNK OR JUST OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS???!!
GC: H3H3H3 BOTH K4RKL3S BUT TH3 L4TT3R COM3S N4TUR4LLY, 4ND FR4NKLY 1M OFF3ND3D YOUD FORG3T SUCH 4 V1T4L P4RT OF YOUR B3ST FR13NDS 1D3NT1TY
CG: SOLLUX IS MY BEST FRIEND.
GC: OH Y3S 4ND C4N YOU G3T MR DOUBL3 4CT1ON TOOTHP4ST3 TO COM3 TOO 1 M1SS H1M!!
GC: NO OTH3R BOYS THOUGH
GC: ON TH3 OTH3R H4ND 1F YOU H4V3 4 L4DY FR13ND 1N M1ND L3TS H4V3 H3R
GC: *SLURP* >;]
GC: :34 < *HEHEhehehehehe*

> Karkat: Invite Jade.

> Karkat: Invite Jade. (Karkat<3Karkat)

[doubleohally]

Your name is KARKAT VANTAS and you really don't want to go Terezis house tomorrow. At least she said you could bring someone with you. Sollux might complain if you dragged him along with you to hell. There was this girl, however, that would probably enjoy it.

CG: JADE, HEY JADE.
CG: TEREZI IS MAKING ME TO SOME DUMB THING AT HER HOUSE.
CG: 'GIRLS NIGHT' SHE SAID, HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THAT?
CG: REALLY, AND THEN SHE SAID I COULD INVITE SOLLUX BUT NO OTHER BOYS.
CG: REALLY THOUGH, WHY WOULD I DO THAT HE'D PROBABLY JUST COMPLAIN MORE THAN ME.
CG: YOU'RE NOT A BOY SO I FIGURED I'D ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO COME WITH ME.
CG: NOT THAT YOU HAVE TO OR ANYTHING
CG: I JUST FIGURED IT BE REALLY NICE NOT TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH HER AND NEPETA ON MY OWN.
CG: AND YOU'RE MY FRIEND, RIGHT?
CG: YEAH...
CG: HEY, ARE YOU THERE?

> Jade: Respond.

New [Terezi<3Aradia] Game (FILL: TEAM JAKE<3JANE)

[primitiveradiogoddess]

You stroll out of your hive when the sun sinks behind the horizon, the fresh colors of the surrounding trees a perfect lavender glow in the dark and stretch your limbs till you can hear the joints creak. What a night for a date in the good old courtroom scribbled on your walls.

When you gather the jury for the hearing on Dr. Grape-eyes's scandels, recently uncovered after a long and tiring investigation, the echo of a trollian message alert rings out from your husktop.

Terezi: Answer.

TEREZI: ANSWER (TEAM: ARADIA<>TAVROS)

[miltennious]

"Your justice must wait, Dr. Grape-eyes," you announce, and leave your chalk-and-stuffing courtblock to climb over an armrest into your desk chair and answer your blinking Trollian window.

apocalypseArisen [AA] began trolling gallowsCalibrator [GC] at 9:56
AA: terezi
GC: 4R4D14 TO WH4T DO 1 OW3 TH3 PL34SUR3!
AA: i was w0ndering
AA: if y0u were in y0ur hive
GC: WH3R3 3LS3 WOULD 1 B3?
GC: 1S SOM3TH1NG TH3 M4TT3R?
AA: n0t right n0w there isnt
AA: l00k 0utside
apocalypseArisen [AA] ceased trolling gallowsCalibrator [GC] at 10:13

You leave your husktop behind to lean out of a window.

Aradia Megido is smiling up at you from the base of your tree, looking a little sunburned.

Terezi: Don't panic

New John<3Vriska Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3KARKAT)

[vannyjae]

JOHN: oh fuck!

Your name is JOHN EGBERT, and your date with your girlfriend has not gone as planned.




How the hell did THIS happen?

> John: Reminisce.

> John: Reminisce. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[slippy]

You cannot reminisce. Your girlfriend is not at all, in any way, the shy and retiring type, and she just punched you in the leg. From your experience with Dad's Mangrit Method of Interaction you recognise it as a friendly punch. She is tiny but she is a troll, and it STILL HURTS.

"I've always wanted to conquer aliens!!!!!!!!!!" she says, so excited that you're pretty sure she missed her count on the exclamation marks. "You look like a really silly one!"

"Welp," says Dave, and "Oh noooooo," says Terezi, who has been getting along pretty well with Jade. Karkat's jaw is probably about to unhinge in sheer horror. Everybody else who came out with you guys are a little too far away to have noticed what happened.

"I ... I could show you movies ... of much sillier ones..." you say to little Vriska, because you two were planning to watch movies after you finished your flight-date.

"Yeah!!!!!!!! Is it one of those educational videos where a whole species blows up? Those are awesome!"

You take tiny Vriska by the hand and start to walk home, trying not to think about Chris Hansen. You once had daydreams about holding the hand of - the older version of!!! - this girl. You thought about not closing your eyes, not falling asleep, and not missing a thing about her. Because you had missed her for a long time, a little bit, even though logically you knew that there wasn't that much to miss after all.

Wait, now you are reminiscing, but way too far back.

Karkat and Dave had been having a fight as stupid as theirs always were, but this time it wasn't even entertaining. Vriska had been caught in the Time-and-Blood crossfire when she went to talk to Terezi, and now she has been made as dear and sweet as Casey ever was, and you have been made A TERRIBLE CREEP.

"Fix this!!" you hiss over your shoulder at Dave and Karkat.


> Select characters: Dave & Karkat | John & Vriska | Terezi & Jade

New Kanaya c3< Karkat c3< Gamzee Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE <3 TAVROS)

[milkbar]

It is DONE.

The APPLE OF YOUR EYE. The WORK OF YOUR LIFE. Your MOST CHERISHED ACCOMPLISHMENT. The TROLL PRETTY WOMAN of your romantic cinema. Your MASTERPIECE.

You, Karkat Vantas, WEDDING PLANNER EXTRAORDINAIRE, have just finished the last touches of the decoration of the ULTIMATE PALE MARRIAGE. It will be a ceremony for the ages: sweeps in the future wedding planners all over the MIGHTY ALTERNIAN EMPIRE and the PLANET EARTH will be studying the perfect composition between pale pinks, olives and blues that came out of your skilled, highly competent imagination, hoping that if they stared hard enough they would catch a little of your GENIUS SKILLS by means of OSMOSIS.

Of course nothing would have been done without the help of your trusted, intrepid advisor KANAYA MARYAM, and the emotional support provided by your moirail GAMZEE MAKARA. Speaking of which...

You can hear the faint gawking of Gamzee's voice somewhere in the distance.

Well my WICKED SISTER.
If this is how you want to do this
IF THIS IS HOW YOU REALLY ARE GOING TO DO THIS.
motherfucking.
BRING.
it.
ON.
honk.

You sigh. Please, not today; the photographer's for Alternian Bride are going to arrive any minute now.

Karkat: Go find your moirail.

Karkat: Go find your moirail. (FILL: TEAM JAKE<3JANE)

[primitiveradiogoddess]

You proceed to initiate the first step of a LONG AND TIRING PROCESS otherwise known as AUSPICSTICING between your moirail and your advisor, which is to locate the source of the voice.

You find them in the kitchen, where your adviser's CHAINSAW and your moirail's JUGGLING CLUB are out and READY TO SPILL SOME BLOOD. This stand-off was, quite possibly, initiated by LEFTOVER FEELINGS OF THE CALIGNIOUS KIND.

The first thing you worry about is that they're going to ruin the LARGE WEDDING CAKE sitting just opposite of the battleground with spilled jade and purple blood.

Karkat: Interfer before the cake is ruined.

New Nepeta<3Terezi Adventure (FILL: TEAM [ENGLISH])

[cerulean_neuf]

You are surrounded by huge trees that Dave calls Redwoods. They remind you of the large white trees by your Hive which makes you sad, but their slightly red-brown hue is delicious. They would be perfect for hanging deceivers and bringing about justice. The blood will drip down and fertilize the new plant life. You intend to protect and defend the just, destroying evil from this pure world. This is what a Legislacerators troll does on Earth and you are Redglare.

No, actually you are Terezi Pyrope. You were hoping to have a nice long day of Flarping with your friends without anyone dying this time—unless they are particularly wicked and unworthy of mercy like Senator Lemonsnout, then you cannot turn your nose away and unsmell their crimes. It would be unforgiveable to forsake your duties and allow any nefarious deeds go unpunished, how could you continue to wield your staff? You couldn’t. The officer would have been shot down just before retirement, and who could create such a—

Pawsomely purrfect set of evidence as much as you! Your partner is Nepeta Leijon. She has pounced on you and together you roll in the dirt. Is this a betrayal? No. Her scent is pure and sweet. For a moment you are a bit exasperated—your team is not showing your cool side to park. However, the sunlight filtering through the trees warms the ground and everything has a wonderful, musky odor of the wilderness. Maybe if you search long enough you might find a volcano and there, a dragon egg. For a moment, you miss you your lusus. Then you remember your mission. You will not let Pyralsprite down!

You shove the warm sensation that is Nepeta off your chest and get up. She looks hurt at first, but you cackle and help her up. She meows and leaps up, brushing the leaves off her coat. She licks her claws, but doesn’t begin grooming because she is polite and not self-centered, like Vriska is at times. You both greet another, enjoying a short, quiet ritual of scent—discovering how you both are doing and where you have been.

You can’t resist and mess up her hair. She rubs against your chest, elongating her spine and purring. Her ears flop and you scratch them. She is adorable and grabs your arm. She hugs it. You tap her back with your cane; you both know you could do this all day. You must stop before you start to lick each other all and before the world is overwhelmed by dastardly evil doers. They must be stopped. You must stop. It is hard because you are both so tasty and want it so much.

You succeed and take out your rainbow chalk. There are many pieces of bright red, candy crunchy pieces. They are your partner’s favorirtes as well. And Nepeta has foraged some paper. Excellent. You apologize quietly to the trees, but sometimes you must make sacrifices for the better good! And this case is very important!

Terezi and Neputa: Begin to draw

Terezi and Nepeta: Begin to draw (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[slippy]

The subject matter of your drawings is not what it used to be like!

You draw the shape of oceans and landmasses you first saw on the screens in the Veil, when you zoomed out far enough away from the humans' personal timelines, and constellations you've come to know. It still amazes you to be on a planet that is yours, that you've never even set foot on before a month ago. You draw the forest in the sunlight, which - even if you don't mind that your eyes don't work - is not something you would have drawn with quite this much pleasure before. The sun here is bright, but gentle.

Nepeta draws your friends, the way she always used to - and humans she's never met and never might, having all kinds of interactions. Crowded onto sidewalks without caring, living in enormously claustrophobic hive-clusters, adults and children and the very old all mixed up together, and taking care of each other almost all the time. She's fascinated by the interactions between humans. It's almost like she's a bit of a Seer of Mind! or of Heart, anyway, you suppose.

But you are not the only ones in the woods today. Your other FLARPing friends are still around.

> Mysterious FLARPing friend: Sneak up on this foolishly artistic duo!


PS: you write them so adorable, OP. <3

New Darkleer♦Summoner Game (FILL: TEAM Equius ♦ Nepeta)

[fiveforchibis]

You are The Summoner. Actually you're not really The Summoner, though if you ever ended up in a distopian alternate universe due to some weird glitch in a game, you'd totally be him. As it stands, The Summoner is just one of your many rp personas. You like to rp a lot, it's nice pretending to be someone's who's actually allowed to go out and do something, and not someone who's been trapped in a monastery his entire life.

You're real name is Rufiyo Nitram. Hundreds of sweeps ago your ancestor accidentally started this religion that for some reason requires trolls to rub little statues of him for good luck, among other things. This religion has now become a huge deal in certain parts of your world, which means that you, as his descendant, have never once been allowed to step outside the monastery you grew up in. It all has something to do with ensuring your safety, but you're pretty sure it has a lot more to do with ensuring your boredom.

You spend most of your time online, it's the only way you ever meet people from outside the monastery. A few sweeps ago your friend Aranea
introduced you to this blue-blood friend of hers and the two of you ended up as moirails. It's nice having a moirail, even if you don't see him a lot. He's really a super strong troll, which you think is a totally cool thing to be.

Speaking of your moirail, you haven't heard from him in awhile, you wonder what he's up to.

Summoner/Rufiyo: Contact your moirail

Summoner/Rufiyo: Contact your moirail (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[slippy]

AT: PEACE AND CONFIDENCE BE UPON YOU, bROTHER,
AT: ESPECIALLY SINCE, yOU ARE MY PALEBRO }:)
AT: ct, aRE YOU THERE, aS YOUR AWAY MESSAGE IS NOT TURNED ON,
AT: IF YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO TALK, i'D STILL LIKE IT IF, yOU RESPONDED TO MY MESSAGE SIMPLY TO SAY THAT, aND THEN I WOULD BE HAPPY, tO GIVE YOU MORE TIME TO YOURSELF,
AT: i KNOW YOU ARE, a PRETTY SOLITARY PERSON, aND THAT'S ok,
AT: wELL THAT'S, iT, ct,
AT: iT'S SERIOUS NOW }:0
AT: i WILL, hAVE TO TURN THIS REQUEST, uP TO A PROTEST, dIRECTED AT THE SILENCE, dOING MY DIAMOND A VIOLENCE,
AT: aND i'LL EVEN MAKE A CHALLENGE, oN WHICH pEACE AND cONFIDENCE, wILL HINGE,
AT: aS i'D LIKE FOR MY MOIRAIL, tO TELL ME HIS PONYTALES, AND i KNOW HIS PRIDE, wILL NOT LET HIM SET A HOLY sLAM ASIDE,
AT: aND IF PUSHED, tO THE BORDER,
AT: i WILL MAKE THIS AN ORDER
AT: dARKLEER, sLAM IT WITH ME,
AT: TALK TO ME, BRO,

There is no response that night. Nor in the coming nights, and his chat handle remains active on your screen.

You have a feeling that something has gone wrong.

> Rufiyo: Contact someone else about this.

New Nepeta<3Terezi Game (FILL: TEAM BRO<3DAD)

[jabberwockyx]

Deep in a lush green forest where blue trees blossom with leaves of the palest pink, a mighty huntress stalks her prey. As silent and stealthy as ever, she crouches behind bushes as she waits for her victim's next move. Nepeta Leijon is a cunning and exceedingly patient huntress, willing to stay on the prowl for as long as necessary until the opportune moment to strike presents itself. As such, she has been prowling for a good ten minutes, always watching and waiting. She is mindful of standing upwind so that her victim, one Terezi Pyrope, cannot catch her scent, and takes care to be as quiet as she possibly can. Suddenly, her ears prick up when Terezi comes to a stop by the base of her hive. Clearer than ever, she realizes that this is her chance to pounce.



Nepeta: Attack your prey

==> Nepeta: Attack your prey. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

[ephemeraldelusion]

==> Nepeta: Attack your prey.

By attack, you actually mean JUMPSQUISHTACKLEHUG, are you gracefully land on top of your favourite blind troll girl.

You have not seen her in a long while, and it has been rather sad. From time to time, you make a small wish that she would magically show up at your doorstep, offering to play a game or even to just sit and chat, because from what you learnt after all this time was that Terezi was an awfurry interesting troll, and definitely had some interesting stories to tell.

NEPETA: :33 < *ac furriously tears apart the teal blooded troll!!*

TEREZI: H4H4H4 TH4TS CUT3 L31JON... NOW M4Y 1 4SK WHY YOU 4R3 NUZZL1NG MY N3CK >:?

NEPETA: :33 < aw terezi you didnt answer back like you usually do!

TEREZI: SORRY N3P3T4... 1 H4V3 JUST H4D 1 LOT ON MY M1ND

Well that was a bit of a surprise. Usually Terezi is never down like this. You wonder what could have pawsibly gotten into her!

You believe this is time for a little bit of detective work. But first, you gotta ch33r her up some!

What will you do?

==> Nepeta: Be the teal blooded troll.

New Aradia <> Sollux Game (FILL: TEAM KARKAT <3 NEPETA)

[slippy]

In the species known as Trolls, there are many psychics who can perceive insight into the future. This happens by any of the senses, even taste, or by various methods such as lucid dreams, changes not yet incurred appearing briefly on their own bodies, and many others. In particularly unlucky cases, this can even involve the voices of the dead, and these Trolls are the ones who know d00m.

You are ARADIA MEGIDO and youre not like any of those unlucky suckers! :)

(Why, your smileys don't even look stupid! They might have, elsewhere-and-when-and-way, but currently we are exploring the wonders of AU FANWORKS.)

Sure you hear the voices of the dead, but though they're not bound by the normal rules of the timestream, you still are. If they talk of the future as if it's already happening, your perception of their voices fades away. If you really, really try, you can make out some words and get a hints about the future, but it gives you incapacitating migraines.

There's enough of an advantage just in getting information about the past and the present! You know things hardly anyone knows - that you'd hardly have the right to know in the normal way of things - and it helps you make a future you want.

When you're not doomed, the possibilities are endless...

> Aradia: Get in touch with your equally und00med moirail.

New Eridan<3Feferi Game (FILL: TEAM EQUIUS<3ERIDAN)

[gabbyv23]

Oh glub. Or atleast- that is what someone very lame would say. But at the time you do not have the sanity to act like you are not lame. Right now you are VERY nervous.

Your name is ERIDAN AMPORA and for a while now, you have been wanting to be more-than-pale with your moirail. You've wanted to tell her since pretty much forever, but you could never gather up the courage to do it. Today is going to be different though, you can feel it. Just about as much as you can feel anything right now, which is not much.

You haven't slept over at your moirail's hive in sweeps either, but in recent pesterlogs she suggested that you should! In about an hour, you are expected to show up and hang out at her hive. You just hope she doesn't think you're acting strange. You need to calm down.

What will you do?

Eridan: Read Feferi's messages.

Eridan: Read Feferi's messages (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3KARKAT)

[vannyjae]

-- cuttlefishCuller [CC] began trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] --

CC: ----ERIDAN!!
CC: I'm so -EXCIT-ED for our sleepover today!
CC: It's been so long since we've spent any time toget)(er.
CC: QUALITY time, I mean!
CC: )(unting w)(ales doesn't count.
CC: I mean somefin reel important and bonding.
CC: W)(en are you going to get )(ere?? 38(
CC: I'm getting anxious already!
CC: So....
CC: )(URRY UP!
CC: )(e)(e. Jk.
CC: Take your time! I'll see you later.

-- cuttlefishCuller [CC] ceased trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] --

-- cuttlefishCuller [CC] began trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] --

CC: O)(! Btw.
CC: I'm totally painting your nails w)(en you get )(ere.
CC: OK BY-----E!!!!!

-- cuttlefishCuller [CC] ceased trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] --




Well, that was the stupidest thing you could have done. Now you're even more confused! Augh. You suppose you have no choice but to visit her, though. Feferi is pulling out the big guns--nail painting is for very special occasions only. You would never admit outloud how much you loved it when she tinted your nails to a sort of magenta sparkly shade. No. Never, unless it was to her. In which case you insist she paint on the matching dolphin designs that go along with it.

You're getting off topic.

>Eridan: Visit Feferi.

New John<3Karkat Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI)

[megaparsecs]

Your name is KARKAT VANTAS and you have just made THE WORST MISTAKE OF YOUR YOUNG LIFE.

You've irrevocably ruined all chances with your horrible love, JOHN EGBERT. The tip of the tongue taking a horrible fall of three steps from the roof to tap, at three, on the fangs. John. Eg. Bert. He was John, plain John, yadda yadda -

Look. You don't have time for this shit. Your aural cavities are still ringing from the last revelations of your own idiocy, Kanaya's shoes are actively plotting to murder your feet, and if Rose ever finds out what happened to her book you're a dead troll.

You're sure the general gist re: you never ending longing for the heart, butt, and bucktoothed smile of John Egbert has been communicated, and references to both modern literature and fan adventures of yore have been satisfied.

The point is, YOUR LIFE IS OVER.

Also, there's a bucket on your head.

>KARKAT: EXTRICATE SELF FROM BUCKET.

==> KARKAT: EXTRICATE SELF FROM BUCKET. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

[ephemeraldelusion]

==> KARKAT: EXTRICATE SELF FROM BUCKET.

You would do it, you really would, but you feel so damn ashamed of yourself, you suppose that this overtly disgusting form of self-punishment and humiliation is probably the best way to remind your self that YES, YOU ARE A FUCK-UP.

You take it off anyway.

Placing it down beside you, you knock it wayside a little with a gentle (READ: ridiculously infuriated) kick, and proceed to plop your self down with all the grace of a tyrian blood. But not really. If you honestly think a single molecule in your body could possibly possess grace at this moment in time then damn you, you need someone to recalibrate your thinkpan.

You really want to talk to John. You really, really do. You want to cry and beg and grovel until he forgives you, but HOLY SHIT, that is way OUT OF CHARACTER.

So instead, you sit and stare at your CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, praying to the stars that the previously-considered-annoying-but-would-now-be-glorious beeping noise characterised by the "ONE UNREAD MESSAGE" sign would go off.

Any day now.

Any second now.

Really, before the 12th Perigee's Eve, for fuck's sakes.

You only barely resist the urge to throw the damn thing against the wall, before suddenly, the useless technological lump of refurbished metal chunks in your hand dings.

Great, you wonder who it could be.

==> KARKAT: Answer the message.

New Karkat<>Kanaya Game (FILL: TEAM DUALSCAR<3<MINDFANG)

[retardokoolaid]

Actual rainbow drinker, Kanaya Maryam.



You’re walking in the woods.
There’s no one around,
And your phone is dead.



Out of the corner of your eye you spot her,
Kanaya Maryam.

>Kanaya: Follow Karkat.

Re: New Karkat<>Kanaya Game (FILL: TEAM DUALSCAR<3<MINDFANG)

[doubleohally]

I can't think of anything to do for this but dear God I love you hjfhjhfh

New Eridan<>Aradia Game (FILL: Karkat<3Karkat)

[doubleohally]

Your name is ARADIA MEGIDO and you are a WOMAN ON A MISSION. You've spent a lot of time drifting through dream bubbles, doing things to try and help the Alpha timeline go on the right course. You've been inside everyones dream bubbles, including doomed timelines of course, at least a million times. You realize now that there were a lot of people you never talked to, or considered at all besides them being a team mate. One of these people was Eridan Ampora. You didn't pay attention to him much. All you knew was that he apparently hated landwellers (you never really seen him saying anything except to Sollux, but Sollux tended to rub people the wrong way. He was a big boy, he could handle it). Also, he didn't like lowbloods (he'd never said anything to you, and you're officially doubting a lot of these things you've heard). By now, you've spent enough time around him to realize through all of his 'flirting' he wasn't serious, and that his hatred was mostly just a ruse. You observed he really liked wizards even though he said they were fake. He loved Feferi, but she'd never love him back. He liked history, he liked the military, he liked his friend Karkat (was there something there? You had no idea.)

There was something else you noticed about Eridan Ampora, he had never smiled.
It was your mission to make him smile.

> Aradia: Seek the highblood.

> Aradia: Seek the highblood. (FILL: TEAM ARADIA <3 FEFERI)

[chiuchiu]

After a long, long, looong time trying to find him (not that time really matters to you in this case, anyway), you finally find the highblood wandering aimlessly through one of the dream bubbles.
You stare at him for awhile, paying a lot of attention at not making yourself noticiable.
You have no idea about HOW to start a conversation with this guy.
You know some of his main intrests, that's true, but you two had never had a proper conversation, and just popping out all of a sudden like that could be pretty awkward.
Also, even though you feel that all he ever said about lowbloods was not real, the fact remains that he said he wanted to cull them all.
It looks like he doesn't have such problems though, since he's now staring at you with a weird look on his face.

Wwhat are you doin here?

>Eridan: Wonder why the lowwblood girl is here.

New John<3Dave Game (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3TEREZI)

[masagiri]

small epilepsy warning for the second image.
--

Your name is John Egbert and you are locked and loaded. You've got a kick ass super soaker filled to the brim with water, two back up water pistols, and a backpack full of water balloons. Oh man, you are so ready for this. SO READY.



Hm, what's that? What kind of mission? Why it's tactical submission of course! You are prepared for a serious battle of wits, strategy, and skill. This is no ordinary duel! You are fighting to regain your honour and take revenge on the one who has wronged you!

You are going to assault Dave Strider on all fronts, endlessly soaking him as payback for knocking you off of the bed last night. That was an unforgivable deed he did, forcing you to sleep on the cold, lonely floor-- and what better way to take revenge than to surprise him with a water fight! He'll never know what hit him. Or well, he will once you actually hit him, because by then it'll be obvious.

He'll know it's water that's hitting him. And that you're the one hitting him with it.

Ahem.

Anyways, it's about time you find a good hiding spot for yourself! You want to make sure he won't suspect anything when he comes home.

John:

WAIT!!!!!!!!

You forgot something really important! You need a disguise so he won't know it's you attacking him. Who knows what he'd do if he knew it was his best bro John shooting endless amounts of water at him.



You truly are the master of disguise.

John: Seek refuge and prepare to strike.

==> John: Seek refuge and prepare to strike. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

[ephemeraldelusion]

==> John: Seek refuge and prepare to strike.

You are indestructible, for you are now in HERO MODE.

There is no way Dave would be able to see you from behind these CLEVERLY PLACED BUSHES.

Dave will never know what hit him.

You almost hope he is ready for this.

==> John: STRIKE!!!!!!!!