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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!

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You are currently standing about in some old ruins you vaguely recall exploring before in your life. You do however recall being in a dream bubble, but cannot be bothered to recall how they function or how you ended up here.
Not that it matters, you are sure there is some reason for this, but such reasons are pointless to understand anyway.
Admittedly, you do feel some cold and likely dead nostalgia for the cold deadness of this place. Perhaps you might break it later to derive some form of vague enjoyment when you can be bothered to do it.

Alas, it appears someone else has arrived to break everything first. Or perhaps consume would be the better word to use as reality seems to be corrupting and disappearing around her as she hisses in rage. You are surprisingly okay with this.
She appears to be more than willing to consume you too though, considering the remains of another unfortunate victim. How inconvenient. Sadly, you are not in the mood to be eaten.
> Aradia: Nonchalantly pacify the bitch

Edited 2012-06-25 06:33 (UTC)

You never remember how much you're supposed to feed this thing. You really need to get her to write down specific instructions for next time. You're pretty sure it was either one pinch or one teaspoon.

You decide a teaspoon is better, who'd ever heard of measuring things in pinches? Besides, more wouldn't hurt the thing.

> Fish: become overflooded with fish food flakes.

You get on the bus with a lot more vigour than normal, you are extremely excited and you feel extremely lucky.
For some reason you want to thank Vriska for that but you shrug it off.

You wave hello to the driver practically twitching with excitement who simply gives you a tired smile and a good morning. You turn towards the rows of seats scanning each one.

Vriska is seated next to Tavros and behind them is Gamzee they are talking animatedly to each other. Eridan, Feferi, Rose, Kanaya and Jade are seating near the front. Aradia, Sollux and Dave at the back noses in some sort of book.

Most importantly however is Karkat who is seated next to John who is talking to him with as much excitement as you about some movie he saw last night. He notices you get on and his eyes flick over to you, you think he smiles but you are probably just crazy.

You yell a good morning and everyone waves, you head to your seat next to Equius, who just happens to be behind Karkat and John, and sit. Equius smiles at you and it looks weird but you don't mind that's just him.

==> Nepeta: Put plan into motion

Sitting inside, Kanaya Maryam
Applying some lipstick
Kanaya Maryam
But she's not paying attention
Kanaya Maryam
You sneak up behind her

And...

==>Karkat: Do something
(damn sorry no art)

Finding the squishy human is a lot harder than you thought. And you think that might be a good thing, it means hes getting better at hiding!

Though since your goal is supposed to be to make him stronger hiding
is not what he really should be doing.

Oh well!

That is not your concern right now, hugs are, lots of hugs, the best hugs, yea hugs are great.

Ah! There he is, heading towards his bedroom, which is not all shocking, and you are a bit disappointed it took you this long to figure out.

Once he reaches his room you prepare to attack, er you mean hug. You will do what you have heard Dirk talk about, a 'glomp' in which you surprise/attack them with a hug. You think it fits perfectly with your desire to hug and your instinct to attack.

==> Brobot: Glomp Jake.

-- gutsyGumshoe [GG] began pestering tipsyGnostalgic [TG] --

GG: Roxy? Are you there?
GG: Please answer!
GG: As intolerable as you may be sometimes, we are still best friends.
GG: I'm worried about you.
GG: Hello?
GG: ...
GG: Roxy?
TG: oh hey srry bout that
GG: There you are!!!
GG: Where on God's green earth have you been?
TG: no where special you know
TG: jus running around 2 my neighbors houses
GG: Neighbours? I was worried sick about you! Gosh. You make me so frustrated sometimes, you know that?
TG: im sorry
TG: uuuuugh janey
TG: you know i love u but
TG: im suffering from a killer hangover right now ;(
TG: i have a hangover and theres fire and just NOTHING is goin right
GG: Fire? What's going on?
TG: s kind of a long story
TG: so to put it short everythings cool now i just gotta get in the game soon
TG: but that should work out fine too
TG: no worries
GG: If you say so.
TG: n e way..........
TG: what does ur land look like? care to send pics
GG: I suppose it wouldn't hurt. Give me one moment!

>Jane: Take pictures of your land.

You really have no clue where to look. He could be anywhere, heck most of the time you can't even find him when he's in your apartment.

You decide it's probably best to start with the basics like any good detective. You'll go to his usual places first.

> Jane: Check the kitchen.

Edited 2012-06-25 09:14 (UTC)

Your name is CALLIOPE UMBRA and today is a very big day! Today is the dawn of the first con of the year, and to commemorate it you've dressed up as your favorite character (ever) CALMASIS, from the critically-acclaimed, award-winning series penned by ROSE LALONDE about the planet ALTERNIA, populated by a fascinating warrior race called TROLLS. It would be the biggest understatement and an insult to say you love this series to death - you LIVE for it!

And not only that, this won't be just any con. You've heard hearsay that Rose Lalonde's daughter, ROXY LALONDE, would be there too! It's almost too good to be true, but you have very reliable sources.

A lot of thought went into your cosplay today. You put can hardly recognize yourself. To say you are somewhat of a MAGICIAN with makeup would be another understatement.

You're really excited.

>Calliope: Fantasize and fondly peruse your copy of Homestuck: Complacency of the Learned.

Your name is Terezi Pyrope and ever since you made the tough decision to let Vriska go instead of stopping her, you've been drifting in and out of dream bubbles like all the other dead people do. You and Karkles died because you let her go, and honestly you should have seen that one coming, or you know, whatever.

You were in a familiar location you could tell right away, one of the last places you had been before you lost your sight. You knew what was supposed to happen. You lay down against one of the trees and wait for Vriska.

> Vriska: go 'wake' her up.

Edited 2012-06-25 09:13 (UTC)

Your FLARP inventory currently contains the following:

- Three (3) GOLD COINS of no actual value or use
- One (1) vial of HORN POLISH
- One (1) empty PIE PAN
- Two (2) extra HAT FEATHERS
- One (1) length of STRONG ROPE

Your inventory is unfortunately out of IDEAS. However, you think that maybe if you concentrate, you may be able to use your thinkpan to generate some.

You could, perhaps, apply the HORN POLISH to your horns in order to make them slippery enough to get unstuck from the canyon. However, knowing you and your characteristic clumsiness, you feel that that way lies pain and debilitating leg injuries.

The idea of you injuring your legs is frankly just silly, so you decide to come up with another idea.

Ah, of course.

> Tavros: Kick your shoe off in the direction of Gamzee's head.

You turn to gaze upon the splendor that is your bookcase. There are a great many tomes there as well as a few games. Your bag of gaming dice sits on one of the middle shelves as do a few little nicknacks. Most of them handmade in loving honor of Mrs. Lalonde's work. At least you assume she is a Mrs. judging by her having a daughter.

The pride and joy of your bookcase isn't your drawings or plushes or even the small clay figure of Calamasis you made one week. It is your copy of Homestuck: Complacency of the Learned. You pick the book up and marvel at it. It's a worn from your many readings, but you've done your best to preserve its integrity. And soon, so very soon, you may have this lovely thing signed by Rose Lalonde herself. Oh it's just too wonderful. Your heart leaps with joy and anticipation as you picture the scene. Hours of hard time spent in line all pay off with a smile and book signing from the author.

Oh and you might meet her daughter too. Who's surely a well learned and respectable woman like her mother. And you might get to talk and oh it will be so lovely...

This wild fantasizing just won't do though. You have a bus to catch if you're going to make it on time. You place the copy of your beloved book in your bag, check your horns once more, and head out.

>Calliope: Head to the bus stop and pray your brother is not around

You fail to ignore the figure. Your eyes are gummed shut despite being pool balls. You slowly sit up on the tiny bed, and you ask yourself, out loud,

> Dirk: Explain.

(reply from suspended user)

W--ELL GLUB! 3:\

Your name is FEFERI PEIXES and you are momentarily speechless after being hung up on by a DOUCHEBAG RADIO DJ with ZERO LISTENING SKILLS.

This is something you should be QUITE ACCUSTOMED to already, since that phrase also describes your CURRENT MOIRAIL perfectly. These chumps never cease to amaze.

However, you are a PRINCESS as well as an ACTUAL CELEBRITY. You are such a celebrity that you have never actually been HUNG-UP ON before this event. You are also the source of 99% of Eridan's CELEBRITY NEWS SCOOPS and are almost entirely responsible for his debatable SUCCESS as a RADIO HOST. The whole affair is RATHER TAXING, actually, and you had called in to KARKAT AND NEPETA'S QUADRANT TANGLE WRANGLE HOUR because your quadrants are a GLUBBING SHIPWRECK and you are contemplating BREAKING UP WITH YOUR MOIRAIL.

>Feferi: call Eridan.

(reply from suspended user)

You.
Your choices.
Your life.

The only successful way you can do that is if you lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling and think about how pathetic you are. Your expression turns into a disgusted one when you remember that one time--

Actually, you'd really rather not get into all of your screw-ups right now, especially when you're already in a terrible mood. Like always. When are you not in a crabby mood?

You hear another notification from your CELLULAR DEVICE, but you're not in any hurry to see what Harley's response is. You don't even consider that it might actually be the derpy-faced boy you were hoping for.

Instead, you simply lay there for a good couple of minutes. Maybe you should check your messages.

==> KARKAT: Attempt at regaining some dignity and check your messages.

???

You are not a merry man!

You briefly contemplate explaining the important visceral, cultural and most unfortunately psychical distinctions between your species and some hypothetical naked apes whose idea of "alien" is forehead putty. You have been the flagship to conquer some legitimately alien societies, ones whose mindsets, biologies and ways of life were so impossibly unlike yours that you would have loved to study them peacefully, and in doing so learn about yourself as much as them. Perhaps this could have even led to some sort of confederated alliance of star systems, in which you could have taken a place as some sort of psychological officer using your psionic abilities to coordinate a diverse crew.

But instead, what happens is you just drive a ship over to pulverize their defenses, drop off the first waves of VICEROYNFANTRY to impose your cultural over theirs as violently as possible, and then skip off to deliver the queen to the victory parade with enough time to get a mani-pedi first.

The ship's loudspeakers crackle, advising personnel to prepare for acceleration. Your useless ruminations are an inadequate distraction for what's coming. You really need to think about something else. The worst part about it is always that it's the opposite of what being with the Sufferer was like. It's as though every single ounce of compassion and happiness he gave you is being drained out of you.

You can hear the hum of the preliminary stages of the FTL engagement sequence. Your baseline level of excruciation is about to multiply exponentially; not much time to try to focus on something else.

==> Helmsman: Remember the most peaceful, calm moment of your life.

Edited 2012-06-25 06:47 (UTC)

You are now the fish. You live a simple, but happy life. Swimming around and forgetting the sights and sounds of your world within a minute or so is a fine and dandy.

Having your bowl overflooded with food however is not. You take the time to attack the food anyway. Yes it is murdering you slowly, but dammit it tastes good and it's not like your fish brain has much else to tell you to do.

>Dave: Flip your metaphorical shit and try to save fish

JOHN: vriska!
VRISKA: John!!!!!!!!
JOHN: thanks for inviting me to your swank ass party.
JOHN: i cannot deny i am hella excited for this.
VRISKA: You haven't seen anything yet! I have this place decked out in stro8e lights.
JOHN: none of our friends have epilepsy right?
VRISKA: What's that????????
JOHN: uh, nevermind. what other cool things do you have?
VRISKA: I've got the 8est party goods in all the lands located in my hive.
VRISKA: Look at this disco ball, for example.
JOHN: i do see a disco ball.
VRISKA: You do, in fact, see a disco 8all. You know what's special about that particular 8all?
JOHN: oh my god, what?
VRISKA: I lovingly handcrafted that 8all for this party.
VRISKA: I shaped that winning 8all with my own two palms!
JOHN: oooooooo tell me more! heheheh.
VRISKA: With the skills of a thousand professionals I moulded that 8all.
VRISKA: I touched and fondled that 8all like only the 8est of them.
JOHN: heheheheheheh.
VRISKA: This is serious 8uisness John! No laughing allowed! ::::::::)
JOHN: of course not! i would never consider it!
JOHN: oh, is anybody else here yet?
VRISKA: No, you are impecca8ly on time, as usual.
VRISKA: It always amazes me that the two gods of time can never actually arrive when they're supposed to.
VRISKA: You are always the num8er one at arrivals!!!!!!!!
JOHN: haha, i think they just want to be fashionably late or something, who knows.
JOHN: anyway, i'm kind of glad i caught you alone! i have something to give you.
JOHN: in commemoration of your assuredly awesome party to-be.
JOHN: and as a thank you for inviting me into your lovely abode!
VRISKA: Oh???????? ::::::::)

>John: Give Vriska your gift.

As you exit your room you hear loud snoring coming from your brother's room. In another instance you would have grimaced at the ugly noises and wished that they would cease. But today you are inwardly cheering for the sound. Your brother is currently slumbering which meant that you'd be able to make a quick and easy escape. Thank goodness for that!

You had no time for your brother's horrid teasing today of all days.

After successfully exiting your home, you make your way down the street, and to the bus stop. You take a seat on the metal bench and check the time on your phone. Excellent, you were right on time.

Oh! What's this? You seem to have a text message from one of your friends.

>Calliope: Check the text

Seeing as though this odd reality warping girl is a threat you decide to take to VIOLENT MEANS of PACIFICATION. You psychically steal away the arm, sword, and other miscellaneous objects circling about her and proceed to pelt her with them in the most nonchalant manner you are capable of. Which is pretty damn nonchalant because you're an emotionless ghost. There isn't much else for you to do save nonchalant stuff.

The bitch sadly isn't falling so easily to your attempts at harming her. Instead she absorbs the arm into some manner of black aura that you're beginning to believe may be part of her as opposed to some manner of black aura. She begins to shriek in some unworldly tongue. It sounds quite similar to the speech of the outergods. In fact it appears to be some manner of broken dialect of Eldritchese.

>Aradia: Attempt negotiations with unruly eldritch girl

Edited 2012-06-25 06:57 (UTC)

You are an amazing person and I love you.

>Sweet Bro: combo that shit yo

Edited 2012-06-25 08:36 (UTC)

While you feel like you should explain to him what happened you decide against it. You currently have more pressing matters to get to first.

> Lord English: Continue to be confused as fuck.

(reply from suspended user)

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BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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New Dead Aradia<3<Grimdark Rose Game (Fill: Team Roxy<3Autoresponder)

> Dave: Feed this stupid glubbing thing. (Karkat<3Karkat)

Re: Nepeta: Get on the bus. Greet your friends.(FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT)

Re: >Karkat: Approach doorway. (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT)

Re: Brobot: Find the squishy human. (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT)

Jane: Pester Roxy (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3KARKAT)

> Jane: Look for Gamzee. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

New [Calliope <3 Roxy] Game (FILL: TEAM [Dave <3 Rose])

> Be the doomed girl who's not actually sleeping. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

> Tavros: Check FLARP inventory for ideas. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

>Calliope: Fantasize and fondly peruse your copy of HCotL (FILL Team Dolorosa<3Mindfang)

Lord English: Ignore relatively miniscule figure standing... (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT)

Karkat: Hang up on speechless caller. (FILL: TEAM DIRK♥JAKE♥JANE♥ROXY)

==>KARKAT: Look at life. Look at choices. (FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3KARKAT)

==> Helmsman: Suddenly realize you look like a Star Trek alien. (FILL: TEAM Kanaya<3Rose)

Re: >> Fish: become overflooded with fish food flakes.(Team Dolorosa<3Mindfang)

> John: Meet your excellent host. (FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT)

>Calliope: Head to the bus stop and pray your brother is not around (FILL Team Gamzee<3Jane)

Re: > Aradia: Nonchalantly pacify the bitch (Fill: Team Dolorosa<3Mindfang)

no subject

>Hella Jeff: Resist the urge to touch that sweet rump. (FILL: Team Roxy<3Autoresponder)

> Dirk: Explain (FILL: TEAM GAMZEE<3JANE)