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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 now the authentic first edition autographed copy of TWILIGHT. You're a lovely book with a perfectly maintained cover and set of pages. On you rests the glorious hand of your author, Stephanie Meyer. Some may balk at you and declare you an affront to all that is literature, but you know that this isn't so. You're the hottest damn piece of written art to have ever been.

You are also now missing. Booknapped possibly. It's not a concern of yours because you lack the mental faculties needed to be concerned. Or self aware at all.

However Kanaya Maryam does have said mental faculties and we have now become the ever fashionable teen lesbian goth with a vampire fetish that is Kanaya Maryam. Your face turns to an expression of pure horror. The book is gone and there is no trace of it.

It has vanished. Mysteriously one might say.

Closing your bag and reopening it does not make it reappear.

Dammit. You now do the only thing you possibly can; you start to cry and feel as though all your plans are for naught. And that you will forever be remembered as that not so fashionable girl who made a total fool of herself one day. This day will be marked down in the history of the school, forever remembered, the story passed down by jovial seniors much cooler than you shall ever be.

>Kanaya: Mourn briefly while listening to The Cure

You go onto plan 2, that consist mostly in speak to him in his own language. Maybe doing that he will understand what you want to say. You think that you have already some knowledge on this primitive idom.

Yes!! You caught his attention!

Jade ==> Be the STRANGER DOUCHEBAG

You are now DAVE STRIDER.

You were just on your way to your BRO'S when you ran into a literal anime dog girl who promptly sniffed your ass and called you a douchebag.

Clearly this encounter will only end in tears, and only someone who hated themselves would pursue it any further.

>Dave: Abscond?

You invite your guest into your home and offer him your hand to shake. He shakes it without much argument, and you flush ever so slightly, retracting your hand from the other man reluctantly.

It had been so WARM and CALLOUSED like your own and yet so different. You gesture toward your living area for them to take a seat while offering to get them something to DRINK.

The other man nods his consent, relaxing into your couch like he is in his own home and making you swallow nervously. You head for the kitchen.

==> Dad: Get that silver fox a drink

Edited 2012-07-02 04:39 (UTC)

It's not actually that hard to track down Kanaya, despite her new elusiveness. You simply seek out the makeshift library where Kanaya and Rose spend much of their time. You suspect they are piling in there, but you have never caught them at it (and to be honest you do not really want to catch them in the middle of a jam) so it will have to remain a mystery for the time being.

It is far harder to follow through with your resolution to stop stalling. You end up standing awkwardly on the transportalizer for a bit. You make coffee as a pretense and try to pose casually while you drink it.

You are not very successful.

Kanaya looks up at the sound of the coffeemaker and seems like she wants to speak with you.

Karkat: Horribly mangle your invitation to hang out.

Edited 2012-07-02 04:54 (UTC)

You mourn briefly about your tragic loss, but the haunting voice of Robert Smith lifts your spirits in a fairly timely manner. You can't admit defeat this easily!

>Kanaya: Realize you might have left the book in your locker.

Obviously the cushion pile is the most comfortable and least obnoxious option. You pull it out of your captchalogue card triumphantly, excited to show off your handiwork. It's kind of embarrassing too, though; that you took the time to prepare a pile ahead of time. Some people might say you were jumping the gun a bit. Those people are assholes, in your opinion, and they can all suck your bulge. There's nothing wrong with being prepared.

You take out the pile and turn around to gauge Gamzee's reaction, only to find that your moirail is.... missing? Where the fuck---

There's a chorus of honks to your left and you realize with a sinking feeling that Gamzee has already climbed into the horn pile. It's kind of gross by now and not really comfy, but you suppose it must be familiar to Gamzee. He looks exhausted, and you don't have the heart to tell him to move. You store the cushions away for another time and clamber up next to Gamzee. He worms an arm around your shoulder and the two of you lie next to each other in companionable silence for a moment.

Fuck. How are you supposed to initiate this feelings jam? It is always much more dramatic in your romcoms.

Karkat: Struggle to talk about your feelings.

You're really nervous about going into there though! It's so dark and scary!
... But you don't really have any choice unless you want to wander around here for who knows how much longer. You slowly enter the dark part of the city...

Wait.
Why do you feel funny?

What's happening?

>Nepeta: OH GOD WHATS HAPPENING PANICPANICPANIC

Oh gosh, she's here! Your heart feels like it's going to pop right out of your chest, with the way it's beating right now. You can't believe how excitedly nervous you are! You've known Roxy forever, yet it still feels new and exciting every time you two see each other in person. And since the the two of you have leveled up to girlfriends, it's even more amazing and wonderful than ever before!!

>Jane: Answer door and commence spectacular birthdaytime adventure.

You almost rather mop the floors...

Almost

You are Lord Eridan fucking Ampora and you will not do what this self proclaimed 'wizard' wants, you will not give in! These chores are simple a disgrace to your station!. Besides she doesn't even have a beard, what kind of powerful wizard doesn't have a beard?

No she is obviously a fake.

Fef must have known that and send you down here to spy on her and to prove that. That MUST be why you're here, after all even wigglers now that magic isn't real.

So you do what any good spy does, snoop.

>Eridan: drop that mop and rummage through that ~~wizards~~ fakers stuff and see what you can find

You are now DIRK STRIDER. You've never had any particular interest in horror films. Movies were all well and good, but My Little Pony was better.

Sadly, your friends had not learned to appreciate the show. Shame. If they had, they might have understood that friendship is magic and that sticking together is always better than splitting up.

You had sent Jane out first, her being an expert private eye and all, but after five minutes the others had become restless. First Jake ran off to fend off the zombies--not even a weapon in hand. (Your best bro needs to think through things a little more.) Then Roxy had insisted on running to the kitchen to return the popcorn and get a drink of water. You tried to go with her, but she refused, saying someone had to wait for Janey to come on back.

You're pretty sure she went to the wrong floor, much less the wrong room. And if those thumps you heard were anything to go by, her feet weren't all that sure in the dark.

This is ridiculous. Zombies don't even exist. It was probably just a fuse.

And yet....

Must be some fuse if the whole house shut off.

You're getting nervous, despite yourself. Time to find the others.

==> Find your friends

You can't just go get another fish. Your girlfriend is a fishgirl, remember? She has like. Special fishy powers, or something. There's no way she's not going to notice a random replacement fish.

Shit. If she finds out you couldn't even take care of her stupid fish while she was at the beach, you're pretty sure your alien-fish-girlfriend-having privileges will be immediately revoked. You kind of like those privileges.

Alright. Time to pull out the big guns.

...whatever those are. Maybe you can find that evil toilet fish and make it throw up Feferi's fish? Do fishes even have gag reflexes?

Oh god, how long do you even have before Feferi gets back? Oh god. You are totally not freaking out. Freaking out is simply not a thing that you do.

Wait. You've got this.

> Dave: Go back in time to prevent tragedy from inevitably striking.

[epilepsy warning, gif warning]

It doesn't seem to be working! He just keeps on ranting. And now he's kind of splashing around, too. It's pretty silly!

You guess you'll just have to wait till he's done. You are such a patient boyfriend.

> Karkat: Get self-conscious with John just staring at you.

Mumbling and drawing circles on your desk does not prove very effective, I'm afraid! Somehow you have not managed to improve the situation.

What will you do?

> Calliope: Attempt to reciprocate.
> Calliope: Let her down easy.
> Calliope: Explain the situation.

You fail to answer the door, because whoever is on the other side of said door is apparently too impatient to wait for your pathetically blind self to find it. You hear the door unlock from somewhere just ahead and to the left, then it opens and you can hear a low hum, like raw energy. There's another sound like footfalls before the humming stops.

"Hey tz," says your visitor.

You know immediately who it is, even if you can't see him looking at you through bi-coloured glasses or his double horns or the psionics that must be responsible for the humming sound. Yellow-blooded, lisping wonder, Sollux Captor.

Of all the trolls to show up at your hive, Sollux is okay. He won't be the type to focus on your hardship when right now you want to pretend everything's fine. He's a rambler, and you don't mind listening if it provides a decent enough distraction.

You consider your options.

==> Terezi: Invite Sollux in

==> Terezi: Tell Sollux to go away

You swiftly step into action, by which you mean you kick your badass mind powers into overdrive and keep this shoddy excuse for an adventurer hanging in front of you.

The kid keeps squirming around, throwing his fists at you like it even matters. It's kind of funny, and you think it'd be a little cute if, you know, the entire point of you being here wasn't to cull him.

But that doesn't mean you're not allowed to have a little fun in the meantime.

Vriska: Have a little fun.

You begin shouting and hollering at the form who still smells fairly far away. They stop, and for a second you think they are going to leave. But after a moment they begin walking towards your cell again, painfully slowly. You sit impatiently in front of your door until you catch a whiff of something... different.

What is that?

Terezi: Take a closer sniff.

Yeah, yeah, you're well aware of your fuckin' title, thank you very much. But by what you've seen so far, it seems as if you're the destroyer of other people's hope, and it looks like other people are about to come around the corner right freaking now.

By other people, you mean the psychopathic murderclown who wants to paint the walls with your beautiful blood.

That much should have been pretty damn obvious, you think.

Eridan: Look for a better place to hide.

Where to begin?

Perhaps the beginning.

You didn't know Aradia very well, at first, not until after the game. She'd been a ghost and then a sprite and then a robot before you really got to know her, you regrettably admit, yet you knew of her. You admired the way she stuck to rules and gave simple instructions. Many complained about how one-sided she was as a ghost and didn't like not having options without creating offshoot timelines, but you could always tell Aradia knew what she was doing and you would not regret listening to her. She was balanced and in control, in a way that Vriska, Rose, and any others just weren't.

You suppose the word you're looking for is dependable. You've always been the dependable one. You've always been the moirail and the auspistice. It feels good to have someone to depend on once in awhile, and for you, Aradia is that someone.

When Aradia ascended to god tier, you were able to know her on a whole new level. She was radiant in her liveliness and sweeps later, that shine in her maroon eyes hasn't gone out. When she smiles, she not only looks happy, she looks jubilant, as if Derse had gone up in flames only last week and being alive is still a new development for her.

As Aradia goes after another mummified troll, her long locks of hair sweep out behind her and her arms flex as she cracks her whip once again. You could watch her take down zombies and the like for hours, she is that entrancing.

Kanaya: Fail to notice the trio of mummies behind you

It's really dark! You suppose that you should have expected that from the dark part of the city, but you never could have expected it to become dark so suddenly.

You tremble in fear for a few minutes, but when nothing changes, you find yourself relax. Cats shouldn't be scared of the dark, after all!

Your eyes begin to adjust to the dim light, and you can make out another person! Now who on earth could they be?

> Go talk to them!

Absconding is definitely not cowardly when the enemy is double your number and has no problem starting kamikaze actions on you.

Any good movie fan should know this: when the time gets rough, retire and regroup, find better allies, and kick ass.

Besides, it's not fair that Dave employed the use of a robot against you! He has now stepped up on the echeladder of EVIL, gaining the new level of OVERLORD DEBUTANTE.

As the CHOSEN HERO OF LEGEND, you will overthrow all the opposition and reach your happy ending, which is to completely DROWN Dave until he begs for mercy and give up on his DEBAUCHERY.

Unfortunately you have to go through his EVIL MINION first, which poses a problem.

You need help.

You need someone with more EVIL POTENTIAL than both Jade and Dave combined.

You need someone who can single-handedly defeat all opposition with a single swipe of her hand.

You need ROSE.

==> John: Convince Rose to join in.

Abscond?

oh hell no.
you are a coolkid, and you will take this indignity like a MAN, thank you very much.

In any case, you've wasted enough time here. You need to get to GRANDMA'S HOUSE and deliver some cookies before sundown. According to your bro, GRANDMA'S HOUSE isn't actually a house- it's some sort of jail where prisoners are forced to eat pizza until they turn into pizza god tiers. You're pretty sure he was lying, though.

There is only one problem: you have no idea how to get there! Perhaps you should ask the rude furry for directions.

>Dave: indulge yourself in interpretive furry dance

Your name is DAVE STRIDER and you have suddenly been given ~*~*~*KAWAII NEKO EARS DESU ~*~*~* by a member of the FANDOM. However, that is not the worst of your problems.

Immediately following the sudden appearance of said EARS, it seems that a crowd of FANDOM members has arrived on the premise. They are looking at you as if they are the hungry lions and you are the fragile, delicious sheep. Unfortunately, you are unable to abscond, and your friends are currently in no position to help you at the moment.

To make matters worse, a FANDOM member has just suggested stripping you of your clothes. The FANDOM shall not rest until they see you naked.

Stop being such a wuss. Perhaps you should defend yourself.

>DAVE:BRING OUT THE CANON

You're now JADE HARLEY, and you're faced with an OMNIPOTENT MURDERHAPPY DOG-THING who used to be your LOYAL GUARDIAN. You're absolutely certain that BECQUEREL is in there somewhere... and anyway, you can't just let Jack kill Dave, not when you're the one who brought forth this monster. Er, well, it was your prototyping anyway, but enough technical details.

"Bad god-dog!" you yell at him, and those tears in your eyes are definitely not because you're sad to see your friends almost die, or your former BELOVED DOG be this sort of a monster...

A monster who isn't listening to you, and is instead attacking your best friend. One of your best friends, you amend hastily in your mind, and you run at Jack without any thoughts but to get him off your friend. Only...

==> Dave: Feel the sword go through your chest.

Your name is TEREZI PYROPE and you are one of the best COPS in the ALTERNIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT. It's one of the ROUGHEST BEATS IN THE UNIVERSE, and it's a TOUGH JOB to keep it SAFE, but you have a KNACK FOR JUSTICE and the entire FORCE under your THUMB.

However, it's been a rather slow morning, and you are currently waiting for an assignme-- hold on.

Speak of the devil, your PARTNER is contacting you.

TA: wake up tz we've got a ca2e here.
TA: one ii thiink you'll be iintere2ted two hear about.
GC: OH >:?
TA: yeah thii2 one miight be tough.
GC: H4! TH3R3 1S NOT 4 CR1M1N4L 1N 4LL OF 4LT3RN14 TH4T 1 C4NT PUT TO JUST1C3
GC: 3V3N TH3 OBNOX1OUS F34TH3RB34STS J4YW4LK1NG DOWNTOWN F34R TH4T 1 W1LL C4TCH TH3M COMM1T1NG TH13R H31NOUS D33DS
GC: NOW T3LL M3 4BOUT TH1S "TOUGH" C4S3 >:]

> Sollux: Tell her about this "tough" case.

Edited 2012-07-03 04:39 (UTC)

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BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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==> Book: Mysteriously vanish. (FILL: TEAM Dolorosa<3Mindfang)

>JADE: Onto plan 2! (FILL: TEAM EQUIUS<3GAMZEE)

>Jade: Be the STRANGER DOUCHEBAG (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TAVROS)

==>Dad: Introduce youreself (Fill: Team ENGLISH)

Karkat: Stop stalling and put your plan into action. (FILL: TEAM SOLLUX<3<ERIDAN)

>Kanaya: Mourn briefly while listening to The Cure (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT)

==> KARKAT: WHAT OPTION WILL YOU PICK? (FILL: TEAM SOLLUX<3<ERIDAN))

>Explore dark part of the city. (FILL: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI)

==> Be Jane again. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT)

> Eridan: Ask Rose to teach you some fakey fake magic (FILL: TEAM SOLLUX<>TEREZI)

==> Choose Character (FILL: TEAM JAKE<3JOHN)

> Dave: Go to the store and get a new fish. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

>John: Try to calm Karkat down. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3SOLLUX)

> Calliope: Mumble like an idiot and draw circles with your fingertip. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3SOLLUX)

==>TEREZI: ANSWER THE DOOR (FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY)

Vriska: Counterattack (FILL: TEAM ROSE<3SOLLUX)

Terezi: Get their attention. (FILL: TEAM ROSE<3SOLLUX)

Re: Eridan: Don’t listen to a word of that. (Fill: TEAM SLICK<3<SNOWMAN)

KANAYA: EXPOSIT (FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY)

>Nepeta: OH GOD WHATS HAPPENING PANICPANICPANIC (FILL: JOHN<3VRISKA)

> John: Abscond and seek help (Fill: Team Dave<3Karkat)

>DAVE:ABSCOND? (FILL: TEAM ROSE <3 SOLLUX)

New [Dave<3Jade] Game (FILL: TEAM [Rose<3Sollux])

==> Jade: Try to alleviate the situation. (FILL: TEAM Eridan <3< Vriska)

New Gen Game (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE)