BONUS ROUND 2

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Bonus Round 2

The Return of Round Robin Fanadventures

Comments have been screened; we will be tallying the points over the next 48 hours or so, after which we will unscreen the comments. Comments have been unscreened! You may continue the fanadventures on this post as long as you like, though we will not be awarding further points.

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 Equius<>Nepeta Game (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3 NEPETA)

[anothera]

Your name is Nepeta Leijon and Equius is totally NOT boring!
He's not!
He's just anti-social and sweaty and kind of scary most of the time.
He also hates it when you roleplay with him and picks you up when you try to start wrestling with him and it's no fun.
He gets on your nerves a lot.
But he's not boring! Sometimes he wears your hat and meows a bit and it's totally cute. He's your best friend.
You just wish he got out more.
But you have the purrrfect plan.

>Nepeta: Call everyone. Slumber party.

>Nepeta: Call everyone. (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)

[runespoor]

Unfortunately, over the course of the next half-hour, it turns out almost none of your friends are both a)interested, and b)avalaible.

Tavros fumbles with hesitations until you get impatient enough that he squeaks out a no, Kanaya’s in the middle of preparing her fashion show, Sollux is an asshole who didn’t pick up the phone when you called and in fact changed Feferi’s message to not iinterested iin hangiing out with sweaty assholes wiith a domiinatiion kiink when you called her, you can’t get Gamzee to keep track of the conversation, and Karkitty’s answer can accurately be summed up as FUCK NO, though he spends the next two minutes detailing the depths of his abhorrence for the idea.

Vriska informs you she has too many irons in the fire. That’s too bad, she and Equius have this weird friendship that you like to pretend you don’t care about, but you’re actually really glad for him, even if it is Friska.

Even Terezi, who’s your good friend by all definitions, has told that she had a HOT H4T3D4T3.

The only one who’s said yes is Aradia, so now you have to find other people.

At Aradia’s last party, she thought it’d be fun to try and talk with ghosts. You spent the night fighting off angry spirits. That was cool, you can admit, but everyone already knows Equius is good to have on your side, and it hasn’t helped with this idea the others have that he’s boring yet!

And that’s everyone accounted for, though technically you guess you haven’t called Eridan.

> Reflect on whether you should call Eridan

That doesn’t even need thinking about. You’re trying to help Equius connect with the others, not make him suffer through an evening with the creepiest creep of creepdom. Last time Eridan was in the same room as the both of you, he suggested a flushed threesome.

And then you had to deal with Equius’ freak out.

You’re all for Equius letting his hair down a little, but Eridan was lucky you were too busy shooshing Equius to escape with his miserable fins intact. You’ve been looking for an oppawrtunity to remind him that cats eat fish, but you should keep that for another time.

> Realize you’re clawing at the air and go back to the issue at paw

Done.

No-one’s willing to come over and play into your master plan, which is something of a setback.

You were prepared for this eventuality.

> Break out blackmail material

[crowry]

I made a google doc index of games started! I'll try to keep up with it throughout the round.

[djiinraidinnae]

Oh, awesome! that's a perfect idea! It will be so much easier to navigate that way! Thanks so much.

New [John<3Karkat] Game (FILL: TEAM [Dave<3Rose<3Terezi])

[dragon_bagon]

Your name is JOHN EGBERT and you are HEIR to the THRONE of the kingdom of PROSPIT. Last night you saw a STAR fall out of the sky. This is not the first star you've seen fall from the sky, but it is the first star you've seen land nearly close by- just in the local FOREST.

As soon as morning arrived you ran down to the stables and jumped upon your valiant steed, POGOGHOST. After tending to the INJURYS caused by POGOGHOST bucking you off his back, (like normal) and remounting him you were off, into the woods to find the fallen star!

Unfortunately, you were not born with an innate sense of direction. You are quite lost, actually. It's rather embarrassing even just to watch. Perhaps if we switch to the point of view of the other main character in this tale you will have time to once more find your way.


>Karkat: Attempt to fix your broken SPACESHIP though use of percussive maintenance.

Karkat: Attempt to fix your broken SPACESHIP... (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE)

[psonu]

You spend the better part of an hour performing PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE on your VERY EXPENSIVE SPACESHIP.

To no one's surprise, nothing happens.

>Karkat: Examine surroundings.

New Dirk<3Jane Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE <3 KARKAT)

[deecherrywolf]

Your name is JANE CROCKER and you are currently busy trying to bake a cake for a certain SPECIAL SOMEONE.

You see, a special day was rapidly approaching and you weren't about to be caught without some type of gift to show your love and appreciation.

What better way to celebrate a special occasion than with a special cake?

But dag nab it! If only his pesky AR would allow you to bake, rather than asking you trivial questions. But any good sleuth could tell the AR was just trying to gather information for this special day.

You suppose you could humor him.

==>Jane: Answer AR

==> Jane: Answer AR (FILL: TEAM JOHN<>VRISKA)

[togekissies]

TT: What's cookin', good lookin'?

GG: Nice try, but you're not getting anything out of me.

GG: You and Dirk will just have to wait and find out!

TT: It seems you're unwilling to give me any clues.

TT: Is there anything I can do to change your mind?

GG: Shucks buster, you caught me. Completely uncooperative. Now shoo! I'm not done yet.

TT: We all know you're baking something.

GG: Really now.

TT: You humans are stupid predictable for a rad pair of infinitely calculating shades such as myself.

TT: The only question is what. Brownies? Cookies? Some other ridiculously sugary so-called delicacy?

GG: You're just jealous because you can't partake in the festivities yourself.

TT: You know what.

TT Fuck you too.

Oh, that AR. Jake might find him aggravating, but you can tell he enjoys egging people on. You always make time to talk to him, since you figure he's very lonely.

...Wait, what's that smell?

Oh no! You were so caught up in talking to AR that you forgot about the cookies in the oven! You rush over, shove your hand in an oven mitt, throw open the oven door and dramatically pull out the tray, revealing--

Oh no.

==> Jane: Initiate Plan B!

New Feferi<3Jake Game (FILL: TEAM Dave<3Eridan)

[zeecatfish]

Your name is Jake English and you were supposed to be out surfing with your best bro today. However, since you are very bad at it you decided to find some place more secluded to fail in peace leaving one mister Strider to fend off any and all bitches his splendiferous surfing skills might attract.

You are pretty sure you have found the perfect spot when-


Darn it that took you by surprise. Of course, she could use a little more blue but hot damn if you didn't just spot one lovely damsel standing in the water.



>Jake: say hello to the lovely lady.

>Jake: say hello to the lovely lady. (FILL: TEAM Dave<3Jake)

[geronimogal]

Gosh, what a beautiful gal she is. Right up there with Neytiri and Lara Croft on your list of gorgeous babes! Well, almost as beautiful, maybe if she was blue...wait haven't you already said this??
You're mumbling a bit about her but you might just be a bit too far for her to hear and now she has her goggles up and golly if her eyes aren't the prettiest you've ever seen.

You start going off into a tangent over how lovely the girl is and then comparing her to your favourite actresses and your mouth isn't quite working how it's supposed to. Nor is your brain. Maybe you should just be the lovely lady.

=> Be the lovely lady.

New Brobot <3 Magnetic W Game (FILL: TEAM Equius <3 Tavros)

[djiinraidinnae]

Your name is BROBOT.

You were recently rebuilt by someone because they had the technology.
Actually, it was more-or-less just a new URANIUM ENERGY SOURCE and a patch job by a trans-universal space-witch-dog who came from space on a golden battleship with friends and several small planets!

This isn't particularly exciting to you, however, because you are a ROBOT.

As a robot, you have a variety of mundane INTERESTS that pertain to everything you were BUILT and PROGRAMMED for. Seeing as the human, JAKE, for whom you were built to WRESTLE and do FISTICUFFS with is no longer on this planet, you determine that there should be SOMETHING ELSE for you to do SOMEWHERE.

What will you do?

==> Brobot: Realize you are without pants.

Brobot: Realize you are without pants (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)

[runespoor]

Well, that’s not the most embarrassing thing, seeing as you are a miracle of technology and not a silly flesh puppet predisposed to fits of modesty and dreams of acute embarrassment and nakedness, for you, means circuits showing.

Now, if you were without PARTS instead of PANTS, that would be embarrassing indeed. Especially for such a tiny typo.

You tried explaining it to AR once, but he snickered in a way that he would decidedly pretend had never happened if a human were to question him on it, as though you’d said something illogical, absurd, or otherwise full of the double-entendres that your common creator is a master at.

Still, Jake insisted on making you wear pants, for his own peace of mind if nothing else. Should you come across another human, it might be more convenient to be wearing clothes.

>Brobot: look for your pants

New Terezi<3Vriska Game (Karkat<3Karkat)

[doubleohally]

Your name is VRISKA SERKET and you're sure you are being punished for all the terrible things you did. You've tried to reassure yourself that Terezi was much worse than you, she did it for 'justice'! You had a lusus to feed, that was your excuse, what was hers?

You know it's pointless to think stupid things like that. You could never hate Terezi over that, over anything really. When you found out she was happy being blind, that was the most relief you had ever felt in your life. There was potential for you to start a black romance with her, before you had died, but you knew you couldn't have done it anyway. She was too pitiful.

You hadn't experienced a good dream bubble since your visit with John, they were all full of Terezi. All of them. Being around Terezi, flarping with Terezi, conversations with Terezi, drama with Terezi, the bad memories with Terezi, all of them were Terezi.

You wondered which memory this was.

Vriska: Realize which memory this is.

Vriska: Realize which memory this is. (FILL: Team Dave<3Jake)

[geronimogal]

You're back at Terezi's house and you figure it out. This was after an afternoon flarp you had had with her and Team Charger (which you totally annihilated! hehe.) and you had gone back and laid down by a tree with her chatted for a few hours before napping on each other's shoulders. You remember it rather fondly. You look atthe trees around you and sigh a little. They were awfully pretty and you feel kinda bad about taking away Terezi's eyesight. Shoot, you're doing that pitying thing again.

You continue walking until you find the tree where you guys sat but you freeze. Terezi's already there. Napping. You proceed to freak out a bit. What if that means she's dead? Oh god what if that's really her actual dead self and not some doomed timeline? You edge closer to the sleeping girl.

=> Be the doomed girl who's not actually sleeping.

Re: A Question Pertaining to BR2

[jamkiske]

"We would prefer that any questions about this challenge or anything else in the HSO be emailed to us at homestuck.shipping AT gmail!"
You should e-mail them if you want a timely response!

New Jane<3Roxy Game (FILL: TEAM Dave<3John)

[jamkiske]

Your name is Jane Crocker, and you're growing very frustrated. Things simply haven't been going your way lately! First, there was the whole debacle with Jake (which really is a terrible thing to think about so... moving on!) and now of course there's this game business! It's extremely important that you find your father, regardless of what those sassy shades may think.

Another concern of course is that you haven't heard from your friends, and the shade's words about Dirk and Roxy's current situations. At the least, AR can let you know that Dirk is doing well enough and relay any messages to him, but what of Roxy? The thought that your best friend might be in peril without any aid is truly troublesome!

You let this stir in your mind a while as you continue to explore the land within the game, still looking for signs of your dad. After a while, you simply can't stand it anymore! Thinking about Roxy's potential peril is truly troubling! What if something has already happened to her! How on earth could you live without her?

Gosh darn it this was simply too much to stand! You'd just have to hope she'd respond if you kept on trying!

==>Jane: Pester Roxy

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

[vannyjae]

-- 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.

New [Jane<3Gamzee] Game (FILL: TEAM [John<3Karkat])

[acriseus]

Your name is Jane Crocker. You have returned to your apartment after a long day of interning at the PI office downtown. To your horror you have discovered that a number of stiffs are sticking out of your hall closet. A murder is afoot!

You wonder who could be responsible for such a deed. A criminal mastermind who needed his opposition out of the picture? Perhaps a serial killer out for blood? Or maybe, just maybe, it's...



Nah it's probably just your psycho alien boyfriend.

> Jane: Examine stiffs.

Jane: Examine stiffs. (FILL: TEAM John<3Karkat)

[crowry]

You lean in closer to get a better look. Not TOO CLOSE, though, since this a crime scene, and also your apartment. Not that your apartment has never been a crime scene before, thanks to previously mentioned KILLER ALIEN BOYFRIEND.

Upon closer examination one of the corpses appears to be a bus driver. Another is a kid from two floors up who plays DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION until THREE IN THE MORNING every weekend. As a private investigator, you know it is your job to find facts and stay impartial to the case, but you can't say you're all that sorry this guy has kicked the bucket. Metaphorically speaking.

In any case, the cops will arrive soon. Gamzee is never all that discreet with his body disposals. Someone must've seen him dragging five corpses up your apartment's stairwell. You'd better go find him and get out of here.



> Jane: Look for Gamzee.

New Roxy<3AutoresponderGame (FILL: Team Dolorosa<3Mindfang)

[aondeug]

Your name is Roxy Lalonde and you have just woken up in a dark room with a pounding headache. That's pretty normal really. As is groping around for some manner of lightsource and finding a random flashlight. You don't think it's normal that you've found yourself in what appears to be an Egyptian tomb though once you flick on the flashlight.

What the hell did you drink last night? Whatever it was it must have been something damn good to make you forget all this apparent traipsing over Egypt. And Egypt totally wasn't even a thing anymore you thought, what with fish nazis with a baking fetish flooding the world and all. Oh well. You seem to be stuck here and without a drop of booze in sight which is annoying, but eh. Seems like you have to go sober. You decide to wander through the tomb a bit. Only to get horribly lost. Well...more so. But still.

Lost as shit you are only mildly disturbed by the odd moaning noises you hear in the distance, which aren't even the sexy kind but the horrible zombie kind. Really you should be at "Pissing your pants" levels of disturbed and have your gun out, but you're not. And so you do what you always do in these situations. You hit up the autoresponder.

==>Roxy: Ignore immediate danger and proceed to flirt with the autoresponder

==>Roxy: Ignore immediate danger and proceed to flirt with the autoresponder(FILL:Team Kanaya<3Rose)

[endless_aegis]

TG: yuo
TG: *oyu
TG: *you
TG: you
TG: there
TG: gotit
TG: YOUUUUUUUUUUU
TT: You sure do seem to be saying you.
TG: my god jsut
TG: ENGOUH w that catch phrase ok
TG: it sounds liek prolly a thing a alien said once
TT: And any event which happens once has a nonzero probability of happening again.
TT: Which means there's also a good chance it can be run into the fucking ground.
TT: You know, when you do the math on it.
TT: Speaking of which, my advanced predictive algorithms, and by which I mean you do this every damn time, tell me I should be telling you to get out your gun.
TG: myg un or my
TG: GUN
TT:
TT: So I don't, in this instantiation, have personal experience with possessing anatomy? But I don't think that makes any sense.
TG: god ar
TG: im not even gonna try 2 spell that rgt now but how many times do i have to say it
TG: ur not an *thta word*
TG: you
TG: are a person
TT: Are you going pale on me? Because that's a weird place to be for a statistically staggering number of reasons.
TG: ok first off the word staitsically had like no businiss n that sentance
TG: and 2nd no
TG: i just no how much you like hearin me say it <3
TT: I'm just going to skip past a response edging on the perilously sincere, and point out you should probably draw your gun.
TG: duuuuuued
TG: im ay not be a lvl 12 intellcte or w/e
TG: but i can got my multlitaksing on
TG: guns out horrible zombie shits at bay
TG: n i got one HELL of a headache
TG: lets talk about shit whiel i biohax myself to sobererty
TG: then ill get out and about, send u some pix of these ruins
TG: n maybe some other pix...
TG: *WONK*
TT: The dreaded wonk, how it exposes my vulnerable core like some kind of shitty video game boss. Alright.
TT: What is it you wanted to talk about?

==>Roxy: Talk about shit, perform biohax.

New Gamzee<3Tavros Game (FILL: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA)

[gjarble]

Your name is PUPA PAN.

You are an intrepid BOY-SKYLARK known throughout Alternia for your courageous exploits and youthful demeanor. Your name is legend. Your skills are... uh...



Your name is really TAVROS NITRAM, and you can never figure out how to finish an introduction trumpeting yourself up when you haven't really done anything of note.

You are currently engaged in a game of FLARP with your matesprit, GAMZEE MAKARA. He didn't come up with any fancy role-playing name or outfit, but that's okay. It was enough of an effort just teaching him how to play. Unfortunately, not too far into the game, you misjudged the size of a gap and are now CANYONSTUCK. You'd ask your faithful matesprit to free you, but...



...he is unlikely to be of any help.

"jUsT oNe MoThErFuCkIn PiE fOr ThE rOaD nEvEr HuRt A mOtHeRfUcKeR", he said. Yeah, right. You know him; he can stay knocked out for a while with that stuff. Looks like you're on your own for now. This would remind you of that human movie 127 HOURS if you knew what humans were. Or if they existed yet.

> Tavros: Check FLARP inventory for ideas.

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

[memyselfandi]

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.

New Dave<3Feferi Game (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)

[veebox]

Your name is DAVE STRIDER and you are not sure when you agreed to this.

Your alien fish girlfriend, FEFERI PEIXES, went to the B---EAC)( with some of your mutual friends, and, having taken the advice of said friends, left behind her pet FISH. To you, it's like a dog having a dog as a pet, but whatever floats her boat. You've been wading for her to text you about what time she's coming back today and where she kelps the extra fish food, but you've found it already so it's a bit pointless. Good fin she bought an extra jar before she left.

...Fuck. You're doing it again. Stupid fish puns.



Anyway, you think it's time to feed this stupid glubbing thing, since you found the food and all.

>Dave: Feed this stupid glubbing thing.

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

[doubleohally]

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.

New Dirk<3Lord English Game (FILL: TEAM [DAVE<3ROSE])

[lovelytoken]

Your name is LORD ENGLISH, and you are currently ASLEEP. You are also completely unaware of your surroundings for the time being, as you are, you know, pretty knocked out and having some pretty BOSS dreams.

You do not notice the relatively miniscule figure that is standing over you.

>Lord English: Ignore relatively miniscule figure standing over you while fighting consciousness.

Re: New Dirk<3Lord English Game (FILL: TEAM [DAVE<3ROSE])

[sugoiprincess]

(not a fill but my god, this is ridiculously adorable for a big scary lord english)

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

[ramus]

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

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

[aondeug]

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

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

[heirbrusch]

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.

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

[aondeug]

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

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

[ramus]

>Sweet Bro: combo that shit yo

New ARANEA<>MEENAH Game (FILL: TEAM MEENAH<3<ROXY)

[salticidae]

Your name is MEENAH PEIXES, and you've been sitting on your SWEET MOTORCYCLE in front of the library for about an hour now. Your NERD MOIRAIL is late, and you're sure as shell not setting foot in that musty old building. Her phone's off, though - you know this because you texted her five times on the way over and then when you actually called her it went straight to VOICEMAIL. You left her a message that you're pretty sure sounds exactly like puppy dog eyes.

> Honk your horn really loud so she knows you're here!!

> Honk your horn really loud so she knows you're here!! (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Tavros)

[windytier]

Unfortunately she's not responding and you're not waiting any longer. A girl has things to do!!

You leave your motorcycle in front of the building (reely not the best idea) and make your way up the stairs. You can do this.

=> Enter the nerd kingdom (SIG-H 38C)

New [Eridan<>Kanaya] Game (FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Terezi])

[puppyloverpearl]

(Hey everyone, I can't draw Eridan, I apologize.)



You just got rejected.
More then that, actually. You just got your heart ripped out and then stomped on by the girl of your dreams. Feferi. The nerve of some trolls. No one understands you.

Oh look who's bothering you. What the hell does she want? You barely have the energy to deal with anything now.

Eridan: Answer Kanaya

Eridan: Answer Kanaya (FILL: TEAM Aradia <> Dave)

[eremiticantiquarian]

You tell Kan that you're just not in any kinda mood to be socializing right now.

She tells you that she knows with plenty of exact words and biting sarcasm that you'd only expect. She heard it laughed from Vris who heard it stuttered from Tav who heard it squealed from Nep who heard it gossiped from Kar who actually overheard it from Sol when he had no business hearing that conversation between him and Fef herself.

And dammit, does everyone know about your miserable and shameful failings now?

And then Kan says that she's sorry this happened to you, even if you should have seen it coming.

That pity mixed with condescension and scolding makes your earfins perk up.

Eridan: Determine if Kanaya is sending you some pale-tinged hints

New Dave<3Kanaya<3Rose Game (FILL: TEAM TEREZI<3VRISKA)

[mishfin]

Your name is DAVE STRIDER and you swear they are doing this ON PURPOSE.

Dave: Investigate immediately.

Dave: Investigate immediately. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI)

[artillie]

guys
hey
dudes
hows the research going


Were Making Progress
Its Slow But Its Progress

sweet

Real smooth. Real cool. They are definitely fucking with you.

Kanaya's nearly as tall as you are but she's sitting, and so you can at least look over their shoulders as they work. The text is an incomprehensible scrawl, half-Alternian and half-English, but they're picking through it faster than you'd be able to. Rose rests her head on your upper arm and pats your hip. (Her negligee-thing used to be a set of curtains on the fifth deck, you're sure of it.)

What brings you down here so late, Dave?

DAVE: Be the coolkid. Make your move.

New Terezi<3<Vriska Game (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)

[runespoor]

Your name is VRISKA SERKET. You have, at various times, been a MASTER AT EXTREME ROLEPLAYING, a SERIAL MURDERER, a POLARIZING ANTI-VILLAIN, a TEENAGE GIRL THIRSTY FOR REDEMPTION, and a GOD.

More recently, you have also been a PIRATE, a SUPERHERO, a STUDENT IN A HUMAN CULT CALLED A HIGH SCHOOL, a WITCH, and a LOSER WITH A TASTE FOR DANGEROUS LADIES.

None of these roles appeal to you at the moment, though.

You’re in a dream-bubble that you were sure was the one you were looking for since you pried the info from the indifferent grip of an Aradia a while ago (all your time measurements have devolved into A WHILE, or FOREVER if you’re feeling empathic).

According to Aradia, you are ON A QUEST.

You’ve been telling yourself that’s good. Sagas aren’t your genre of choice, but heroes are supposed to obtain what they’re looking for, right? What’s the point of writing an epic if the hero fails?

Your quest is different because you're not looking for a treasure like Aradia used to do back then, and you're not looking for revenge, you're done with that, but you're looking for a PERSON.

The lead looked promising; when you arrive, you see Terezi is wearing the same Legislacerator outfit as she did when she killed you.

You don’t try to be discreet, so when you land – or crash, whatever, it’s been a long flight – Terezi’s head snaps up, eyes hidden behind her glasses. There’s a wide, weird teal-and-red splatter on the roof of the meteor, around the place where you died, but never mind that.

Your name is VRISKA SERKET. You are DEAD, and you badly want to CONFRONT TEREZI PYROPE.

> Vriska: Confront Terezi

New SOLLUX <3< JOHN Game (FILL: TEAM ERIDAN <3 KARKAT)

[murasakivie]

Your name is Sollux Captor and you're the head IT support technician at Skaianet Technologies. This is, of course, a tremendous waste of your apeshit bananas computer skills, but the job comes with the best 401k plan you'll ever hope to be able to wrangle in this slump of the economy.

Speaking of this bullshit economy, it has certainly sacked you with an unwelcome heap of miscreants human resources likes to refer to as "employees" even though you prefer the more aptly named "worthless toolbags." You're currently becoming acquainted with the newest model that comes in the form of this bucktoothed buffoon fresh out of college in all his never-held-a-real-job-before glory. Your favorite kind.



Not only is he incompetent at practically everything he does, but he's got a snarky little mouth on him and, apparently, a penchant for pranks that you'd care not to find out about. None of this concerns you. Your company cycles through these type of techs like you like to go through raptors in World of Warcraft that you take the care to play only specifically when you're on the company's dime. You figure he'll be out of your unkempt hair in a matter of days. Still, you have the unfortunate task to perform the duties assigned to you and...

==>Train the new guy

==> Train the new guy. (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)

[veebox]

HOLD UP!



How can you expect to train him when you don't even know his NAME?

Granted, you really don't want to know his NAME, but it's a start in this inevitable journey through training new guys.

=> Ask for his name.

New ERIDAN<3<ROSE Game (FILL: TEAM GAMZEE<3<TEREZI)

[ilyat]

Your name is Rose Lalonde, and you are most assuredly a wizard - and quite likely the most capable, competent, and powerful wizard that has yet to deign live in and help the Kingdom of America. It's not that you're boasting. You're just that good. None other in all of recorded history has managed to master not only the forces of Light but also the dread secrets of the Horrorterrors inhabiting the Great Beyond.

And, like all great wizards, you have an apprentice, upon whom you are to entrust your training and experiences that the world may continue to benefit from your sage counsel even after your untimely demise in what is hopefully some distant future catastrophe. In a benevolent gesture of diplomacy, you even agreed to take on as your apprentice a young noble from the Alternian Empire. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Unfortunately, it wasn't.

Unfortunately, your apprentice is - once again - the bane of your existence.

You briefly wonder for the seven-thousand five-hundred eighty-sixth time why you haven't just killed him already.

==> ROSE: ASSIGN MENIAL TASK TO APPRENTICE.

> Rose: Assign Menial Task to Apprentice (FILL: TEAM [Bro<3Grandpa])

[apollosglare]

But why would you do that? You all ready have your apprentice mopping the floors. Having him do your chores really frees you up for daydreaming, anyway. Thinking about things like, having a true wizards beard. Ah yes, how majestic it would be. How grand!

For some reason though, you like to imagine yourself with an almost 'w' shape for your mustache to make it complete. You're not sure why, you get the feel it's a passive-aggressive jab at some sort of mother figure you have.

Whatever it is, it completes the look all the same.

==> Be Apprentice

New DAVE <3 DAVE Game (FILL: Alchemiter FRUITY RUMPUS)

[cephalopod]

Your name is Dave. All your friends are also named Dave. Pretty much everyone is named Dave, including you, because you are a single runtime-process in a hugely overclocked entity that spans the entire galaxy.

This is you.


This is your sweet ride.


Today you and your sweet ride are on your way to the Funky Death Planet Trimesculon IV to deliver some superhot science-fantasy subjugation. Apparently one of you has...gone rogue.

==>DAVE: Descend from the heavens like unto a god

> Dave: Descend from the heavens like unto a god (FILL: TEAM [Bro<3Grandpa])

[apollosglare]

This most definitely did not go as according to plan...

> Dave: Save Dave!

New Aradia<3<Vriska Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Rose)

[centrumlumina]

Your name is ARADIA MEGIDO and you are headed to the library.

While your Archaeology course often requires you to visit the library to pore over weighty textbooks and ancient manuscripts, today you don’t have any assignments to write or research to undertake. You don’t, in fact, have any reason to be visiting the library yourself.

However, your morning class is held in the building next door to the campus library, and one of your friends asked if you could stop by and check out a book for him. You told him you had “n0 pr0blem” with this.

You’re quite sure you won’t have a problem with it. Assuming, of course, you don’t run into any trouble.

Aradia: Run into trou8le.

Aradia: Run into trou8le. (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Tavros)

[windytier]

=> Aradia: Run into trou8le.

You turn a corner, breathing in that wonderful library smell. Musty books, knowledge, adventure! What else could a girl want (aside from that new limited edition Troll Indiana Jones figure but thats an0ther st0ry!)

Sweeping your hand over the spines of books new and old, you get down to business. What was that title?

Before you can remember, you hear a voice.. ugh not that voice.

Serket.

It looks like she's doing her usual combo of loud and huge 8itch. Doesn't she know the rules of the library? But no, she's too busy taunting someone.

=> You hate bullies. Set her straight.