hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 2

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

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!
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!
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">
For this challenge, there is no minimum wordcount. We are trusting you not to abuse that fact!
You may not comment twice in a row in one adventure. The point is to hand off the scene like a hot potato.
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.
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.

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.

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Your name is KARKAT VANTAS and you're currently standing on the beach. The waves are riding over your feet and the Alternian moons shine bright above your head. You know he'll come, he always comes.

You bend down to touch the sand. You know he doesn't live in the water, but when he tells you to come see him he always swims through the water to get to you.

Eridan: Arrive.

Your name is ERIDAN AMPORA and you're currently swimming frantically towards Karkat. You are late because your hair was being difficult. You know that tonight will be your last night with Karkat, and you want to make this meeting extra super special. You are nearing him, and you see him shoot you a lustful glance. The waves knock you to and fro, but you ignore them and just keep swimming.

After a while, you step out of the water and walk over to Karkat. You take his hand.

Karkat: Express feelings.

You throw your arms around his neck and kiss him deeply before breaking away in embarrassment.

Karkat: WHY DO YOU EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO FIX YOUR HAIR IF IT MESSES UP WHE YOU SWIM.

Eridan: wwell its the thought that counts

You stare at him again for a few moments.

Karkat: GOD, I PITY YOUR DUMBASS SO MUCH.

> Eridan: Respond.

Edited 2012-06-25 09:11 (UTC)

You are at the moment incapable of responding. Never did you expect him to be so bold n expressing his feelings. Perhaps you should have considering he is such a romcom fanatic but you didn't and now you are left speechless.

Of course you feel the same way, you pity Kar more than you could ever have hoped to pity Fef, but your mouth is not really cooperating right now.

==> Eridan: Sound like an idiot.

You waste no time in shaming yourself.
Eridan: a ba b h uhblahng
Karkat: WHAT?

You bite your tongue staring him in the face.

Eridan: yeah

> Karkat: Shake some sense into him.

You shake some sense into him.

> Eridan: Come to senses

You come to your senses, but barely. He’s still shaking you, which might be part of the problem, now that you think about it.

You tell him to stop and he complies. But now he’s just looking at you in that adorable way of his and you’re standing there not saying a fucking thing and shit shit shit there’s not enough time!

Kar notices your distress but interprets it incorrectly.

Karkat: IT’S OKAY IF YOU DON’T FEEL THE SAME WAY, YOU KNOW.
Karkat: I CAN HANDLE IT, IT’S NOT LIKE I JUST CAME OUT OF THE GRUB YESTERDAY.
Karkat: I MEAN, I MIGHT AS WELL HAVE COME OUT OF THE FUCKING GRUB YESTERDAY.
Karkat: I MIGHT AS WELL BE COVERED IN BLOOD AND TWITCHING AROUND LIKE A SMALL, HELPLESS MUTANT.
Karkat: THAT WOULD ADEQUATELY PROVIDE A VISUAL FOR HOW PATHETIC I SOUNDED A FEW SECONDS AGO. FUCK.

Oh no. You can’t handle this right now.

Eridan: kar shut the fuck up its not that ok

Karkat: THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?

Shit. No way around this now. You had planned out exactly how you were going to profess your feelings to Kar—it was going to be the most romantic thing he’s ever fucking experienced—but you should probably tell him sooner rather than later, right?

>Eridan: To tell or not to tell.

To tell! You are Eridan fucking Ampora and you've got this shit down.

Maybe...

Hopefully...

Eridan: wwell kar you see
Eridan: uh

Karkat is looking a little impatient but maybe that's just your nerves getting to you and making you panic. You stumble on.

Eridan: thats wwhat i was wantin to talk to you about tonight
Eridan: and ive got somethin to give you

Why is it so hard to just say it? Karkat had no problem doing so but you're acting like a blundering idiot. Focus, Ampora, you think. You already know Karkat feels the same way and you know you don't have to worry about him judging or ridiculing you. You just wanted this to be special because special is what Kar deserves. You should have borrowed some of his romcoms to get ideas.

Eridan: Spit it out, already.

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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

Eridan: Arrive. (FILL: TEAM [Jade<3John])

> Karkat: Express feelings. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

> Eridan: Respond. (FILL: Team JOHN<3KARKAT)

> Eridan: Sound like an idiot. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat

> Karkat: Shake some sense into him. (FILL: Team Eridan <3 Feferi)

> Eridan: Come to senses (FILL: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA)

Eridan: To tell or not to tell (FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY)