BONUS ROUND 5

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Bonus Round 5

Tales from the Road

Hey, shippers! HSO is winding down, so we thought we'd take a look back at the journey, so to speak. With that in mind, this next bonus round is going to be roadtrip-themed! Give us a little taste of your characters' life on the road, whatever form that takes.

Rules

1. Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of one ship (friendship/gen is fine too!) and a location. This cannot be your team's ship! This round we will not be giving points for prompts.


2. Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!


3. You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.


4. Fills should be posted as replies to the prompts which they are for, following the format below. They may be any medium.

Title Format
If you are starting a new thread, please use this format in your title.
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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 you are filling a prompt, use this format in your title.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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 we cannot guarantee that it will 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
For fills (as stated here):
First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15 in each post: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+ in each post: 5 (per entry)

All scored content must be created/assembled new for this round.

If you have any questions, please ask them at the FAQ post here, or email them to us (homestuck.shipping at gmail). Otherwise, we cannot guarantee that we will see them in a timely fashion!

Bonus Round 5 is now closed!

16/08/12 Comments are unscreened again, for the sake of comments on fills. No new fills are being counted for points.

Comments

FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY

[fayharley]

"You look nice," Aranea said. She waved her hand through the red mist that made up Auto's torso.

"I always look nice," Auto responded. "The sudden semi-corporal body is simply rendering my hunkiness into a form you mortals can understand."

"I'm not mortal," Aranea pointed out.

"Nitpicking," Auto said. "Let's get this show on the road, we've got people to rescue."

As they walked down the dark tunnels things shifted around them. Constantly evolving digital code was rewriting the fabric of this virtual reality a million time a second. To those who had the capacity to see it was utterly breathtaking.

"Meh," Auto said. "When are we getting to the river?"

"River?" Aranea asked.

"What, you trolls don't have those?" Auto asked.

"Oh, we do," Aranea said. "I didn't know computers did."

"I'm not a computer," Auto said. "It's more complicated than that."

"This sort of thing is not my forte," Aranea admitted. "Programs and scripts and web thingies."

"Thingies? Is that the technical Alternian term?"

Aranea huffed.

They finally reached the river, made of broken programs howling as they writhed across the ground. If you got too close they would lash out, trying to grab your leg and suck the data from your body, reducing you to error messages and spam.

"Okay, that is legitimately kind of creepy," Auto said.

Across the waves came a boat, pushed by a lean figure in dark robes.

"But that? Just cliché," Auto said.

"Don't we need money?" Aranea asked.

"I'll just siphon some bitcoins from an idiot in Indiana," Auto said.

"I don't understand what those are," Aranea said.

"Don't worry," Auto said. "No one does."

The passing of what appeared to all non-digital entities around to be nothing but empty air satisfied the ferryman, because he gestured for Auto and Aranea to come aboard. He paddled them across the turbulent waters. They disembarked and traveled deeper, down winding steps through tunnels decorated with jpeg artifacts and comic sans graffiti.

"This truly is hell," Auto said.

Aranea nodded in agreement.

The three headed hell hound wasn't much of a threat honestly. They had its data wiped out before it could even growl.

"Hey dumbasses," came a voice. "I liked that mutt."

"Meenah!" Aranea cried. She rushed forward to the sea troll who was sprawled on the throne. Auto approached more cautiously.

"I guess I'll just get someone to make a new one," Meenah said. "There's so many programming flunkies just begging for my attention. They'd make me a hundred hounds with a hundred heads each."

"Yo," Dirk said. He was sitting in the lower throne next to Meenah, literally her right hand man.

"Yo," Auto answered.

"Here to take us back, right?" Dirk asked.

"That was the general plan."

"Ugh I don't want to leave," Meenah whined. "This place is way cooler than the last afterlife dump. Hey Aranea, why don't we ditch the buys and you stay with me? We can rule these chumps together. What do you say?"

"I guess I could like the tuna that," Aranea answered. Meenah squealed, jumping and hugging Aranea so hard they both fell to the ground.

"Let's blow this place while the lesbifins are busy," Dirk said.

"Lesbifins?" Auto asked.

"The fish puns are contagious."

[asherdashery]

Oh my god are you going to do all of mine? ;_; 8_8

I...added three more to the last page...

Also I think this might've been my favorite one, all the mixed imagery and references were delicious.

[fayharley]

Only the ones with old people or sassy computer programs. I have my favorites, you see.

But thanks again, I'm glad you're enjoying these!