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

You are now Jake English and wow are you happy you managed to snatch up the last copy of National Treasure! Strider’ll give you hell for it, as always, but you’ll just tell him to shove his overly critical noggin right up his rear end! Nic Cage is fucking majestic and that’s really all there is to say on the matter.

Oh someone else is here—where are your manners? You turn and stare at a blue-eyed bespectacled man with wild hair and large teeth, getting the nagging impression that he looks familiar. A bit like you, in fact.

And oh Christ cakes, he’s staring. Well this is fucking awkward. You smile and try to start up a conversation.

“So…you like National Treasure too?” you flourish the case. He hasn’t moved. He’s just staring. Welp, “It’s one of my favorite films, a real landmark for cinema. Of course, to be fair, a lot of movies are landmarks for cinema—haven’t seen a bad one yet! Speaking of landmarks, have you seen Avatar? Oh hell, that’s one of my favorites.”

Thankfully, he seems to collect himself in the middle of your tirade, “Uh…no. Avatar’s kind of a piece of shit, dude.”

You blanch, “What? Are you pulling my leg!?”

“No, I’m serious. It’s just a bunch of shitty blue people running around the plot of one thousand other films. I mean, I love bad movies as much as the next guy, but I’ve got some standards.”

“I’ll have you know that there is nothing shitty about the Na'vi! There is not a woman alive who can rival Neytiri’s cerulean complexion.”

He snickers, “She was kind of hot, I’ll give you that. But weird ponytail sex?”

Okay that makes you laugh. As you do, you notice his eyes flicker towards the National Treasure in your hands. You tap it against your fingers.

“Oh hey,” he starts. He’s biting his lip a bit, “Are you renting that?”

“I was going to.”

“Oh.”

“Did you want to rent it? There’s a wide selection, I’m sure I could get my hands on something else.”

“Oh no. You got here first, uh.”

He looks weird, nervous. Like he wants to ask something.

>John: Ask something

You are now John Egbert again. And dang it if you don't want to say to hell with politeness and grab your beloved Cage movie and make a break for it. But you already told the guy he could have it. You kick yourself for that. Why did you do that? It was almost a knee-jerk reaction. It was the kind of thing all the good guys do in the movies.

You watch as he mulls the situation over in his head. He clearly doesn't know what to do either. This whole thing is becoming increasingly awkward, because both of you want this movie, and both of you are too nice to just take it and run.

You turn back to the shelf and give it a good scan. Maybe there is another movie that can fill the growing chasm of need for the brilliance of Mr Cage. Everything is checked out. How odd. This must be one popular video rental store. Is that even still a thing that happens? Didn't video rental stores go out of style with the Y2K bug and ridiculous boy bands?

The guy seems to be doing the same thing. Checking for another movie, but he too is coming up empty handed. He picks up a movie by the wildly bizarre and cutting edge director Dave Strider before rolling his eyes ever so slightly and placing it back on the shelf. You agree. Compared the brilliance of National Treasure, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: The Movovie is just a bunch of weird hoopla.

You catch the other guy's gaze and ask what some hardcore movie buffs might consider to be heresy, "So, not a fan of the infamous Dave Strider?"

"I wouldn't say that," the guy replies.

You nod your head sagely. "That's right, you prefer movies about giant blue catwomen."

He doesn't disagree. He just keeps his gaze fixed on your face and finally says, "...Well, yeah. I suppose I do."

This guy is kind of bizarre, but you almost appreciate that he is standing here and having an awkward conversation with you in a video rental store. You almost don't want this interaction to end. The guy seems genuinely nice. And even though you don't even know his name, you can't stop yourself from asking him one burning question. You know you shouldn't. He is a complete stranger, but you can't help yourself.

"So..." you begin, not knowing how exactly to propose this to your new acquaintance. You hope to high heaven that this guy isn't a serial killer. "Would you...would you like to maybe come watch National Treasure with me back at my place?"

>Jake: answer this intriguing stranger

Out of all the things you expected this young lad to ask you this certainly isn't it.
Strider has taught you that people don't normally go around just talking up strangers and asking them places. Something you learned the hard way, because after all shouldn't everyone be up for a little adventure?

Well you sure are! And this seems like a great idea, you both get to see the movie plus you get to meet someone new, as much as you love your friends you would love the chance to make a new friend.

"Of course! That seems like a damn wonderful idea!"

He looks at you bit oddly but you don't really notice.

==> Pay for movie and go to John's house

After giving the guy at the register payment for the movie, you follow your intriguing new friend. You still don't know his name, and though this should bother you, it really doesn't all that much. In fact, you have that familiar itch. The one that tells you that whatever this adventure has in store, it is going to be great fun.

You even let yourself consider that maybe this lad has more things with you in common. Perhaps he likes fisticuffs, though fisticuffs isn't something a person breaks out on a first...erm, what is this thing exactly? It feels strangely like a date, but that can't be right, can it? I mean, he's a guy, and he looks a whole lot like you, and something about it feels slightly narcissistic.

You follow the guy in silence for another block or two, until you stop at a cozy looking brownstone. The guy turns slowly and for a moment you think he's reconsidering the entire thing. Heck, you are kind of considering this whole shindig too. But he just smiles at you, in an endearingly, somewhat goofy way.

"Um, I guess before I invite you into my home, we should probably introduce ourselves. My name is John. John Egbert."

John extends his hand to you. For a moment you forget how to be polite, but you brush it off quickly and add a shiteating grin of your own as you shake his hand vigorously.

"Jake. Jake English. It is a pleasure to meet you, John."

And then he smiles at you again. And you kind of melt.

===>John, take Jake inside and pop that movie in the DVD player.

((hey you forgot to change the title!!!))

Okay so you've invited a stranger into your home and all you know is that his name is Jake English, some part of you also says that hes pretty good looking but you ignore that, you really shouldn't think that way of a stranger or a guy or you know what lets move on from this topic he's standing right behind you.

"So, you can just go in the living room and put the movie in I'll make some popcorn." He nods with that same grin and scampers off, he is certainly an odd person.

You can't say you don't like it.

==> Make popcorn

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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==> John: Be the other guy (FILL: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA)

John: Ask something (Fill Dirk<3Jake<3Jane<3Roxy)

Re: Jake: answer this intriguing stranger (Fill JOHN<3KARKAT)

Re: Jake: answer this intriguing stranger (Fill JOHN<3KARKAT)

Re: ==>John, take Jake inside and pop that movie in the DVD player.(Fill JOHN<3KARKAT)