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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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Your name is Vriska Serket and you are currently checking up on the last of your PARTY PREPARATIONS. You have been planing this party for WEEKS. You have already checked that you have enough REFRESHMENTS for everybody and set up your HOMEMADE DISCO BALL. You are currently testing the SOUND SYSTEM.

Aaaaaaaand, that sounds like success, doesn't it? That means you have COMPLETED YOUR PARTY PREPARATIONS. Just in time too, the guests should be arriving any minute!

>Doorbell: Be rung.

Edited 2012-06-24 13:09 (UTC)

[Show Dialoglog]

MOM: Roes
MOM: Rose
ROSE: Yes, Mother?
MOM: Rose I have sometnig to tell you
MOM: It's v importent
MOM: Impotent
MOM: OMG no not impotnet at all, he's very important
MOM: Oh damn
ROSE: Mom, we're tiptoeing entirely too closely to the "too much information" boundary for comfort. In fact, I would say we passed that line long ago and are now coming fast upon the border of "Oh, dear God, please stop."
MOM: Lmao ok
MOM: ;)
ROSE: What did you want to tell me?
ROSE: Oh, wait. Let me guess.
ROSE: Is it, perhaps, that...
MOM: (DRAMANTIC PUASE)
ROSE: ..........
ROSE: You and John's father are getting married?
MOM: LE GASP
MOM: Omigosh Rose how did you kno?????
MOM: My bb is PSYCHICK or something
ROSE: It really wasn't that hard to figure out.
ROSE: He makes you happy.
ROSE: And he's a good man. For what it's worth, you have my utmost filial approval.
ROSE: Though yes. I have been known, on occasion, to show some insight into the future.
ROSE: I'm not sure that counts as actual extrasensory perception, though.
ROSE: Mom?
ROSE: You're staring.
MOM: You are the most darling precius thing I have ever had in my lief
ROSE: Are you crying?
ROSE: You know you're supposed to save that for the day of the ceremony, right?
MOM: SNIFR
MOM: *SNIFF
ROSE: Oh.
ROSE: Um.
ROSE: This is when we hug, isn't it.
MOM: (THA BIGGEST GODDAMN HUG ANY CHILD CLD EVER WANT)
MOM: Omg Rose I loev you so much, if you didn't want me 2 i swear I'd leave him just like that
ROSE: That's hardly necessary, mother.
ROSE: Sometimes, a child can do what's best for her parents.
MOM: You're gonna be the cutest little flower girl omg o m g
ROSE: Only if Dave gets a matching dress.

After the touching display of familial affection, you tell your mother you need some space and dry your own eyes. You wonder if John has heard from his father yet. If he hasn't, you might find yourself inclined to prepare him for the glad tidings. Or you might not. If you're going to join this family, you might as well get a head start on your prankster's gambit.

Rose: Pester John.

While Dirk manages to compose himself back into his full former irony, Jake fails spectacularly at not being sappy. He leans over and gives Dirk a light kiss on the cheek, completely ruining any semblance of cool that Dirk was cultivating. In retaliation, Dirk glomfs his lips on to the side of Jake's face in the most ironic manner that he can. After a few more rounds of this embarrassing public display of affection, they finally manage to disentangle from each other and return to holding hands.

Finally managing to look around, they find themselves surrounded by hotels and casinos, their own lights somehow visible even in the warm desert sun. There are casinos of all shapes and sizes: pyramids, sphinxes, and other shapes which are more or less related to ancient Egypt.

"Ready for an adventure?" Dirk asks Jake.

Jake's grin grows somehow wider. "Always," he says.

Dirk and Jake: Go on an Adventure

Edited 2012-06-24 13:54 (UTC)

No problems there! You are such a pro at not panicing. Of course, a little more warning of her arrival might have been nice. Perhaps you could even have planed for there to be an execution during her visit. Ah well, you'll have to find something else to do to make her stay here exiting.

Terezi: WHY, H3LLO TH3R3 4R4D14!
Terezi: WH4T BR1NGS YOU OUT TO 4 L1TTL3 OLD TR33H1V3 1N TH3 M1DDL3 OF TH3 WOODS?

>Aradia: Answer

You examine the door for a moment. The buttons on the door are actually an elaborate riddle, to do with the Ultimate Question. You're less familiar with the Troll's session than with your own, but applying the powers of your incredible honed psyche to the problem, you quickly find a solution.

Still, simply opening the door would be underwhelming. You need to do something with style.

You start pressing the correct combination of buttons, all the while feigning annoyance at the fact that the door continues to stay shut. You finish the sequence, and step back, looking angrily at the door.

"Stand back Kanaya. I don't want you to get hurt," you say. Kanaya obliges.

You begin to chant. You're a bit wary of actually summoning the powers of the eldrich ones, but it's no trouble to fake the festerbrood tongues. Kanaya actually shrinks back as your voice rises to a terrible crescendo. Then, suddenly, you cut off mid-festerword.

"Wait," you say, "you tried the handle, right?"

Kanaya nods.

You step forward and grip the handle. It turns in your hand, and the door ponderously swings open.

"You must not have turned it far enough," you say. "It was open the whole time."

You feel the SNARKY HORSESHITOMETER swing back in your favor.

"Well, ladies first," you say, standing aside to let Kanaya enter.

Kanaya: Step Through The Door

GA: Vriska! Vriska! I Have The Most Amazing News!
AG: Can it w8? I'm sort of 8usy 8eing amazing right now
AG: Just kidding!!!!!!!! I can't w8 to hear this!
GA: I Just Landed In Seattle!
AG: No way
AG: You're just messing with me, aren't you? ::::(
GA: No, It's True! My Dad Had Business Here, So I Asked Him If I Could Come Along. It Was Really Sudden!
GA: We Just Landed, And We're Pulling Into The Airport Now
AG: OMG!!!!!!!! St8y there, I'll come and meet you!

>Vriska: Take the Shuttle to the Airport

Edited 2012-06-24 14:33 (UTC)

"Surely you must know something, though." Jade stopped, curling her toes in the sand, and smiled back at Feferi. "Even if you aren't sure the exact ways in which your blood effects the development of your respiratory system or fins, you gotta have some kind of insight into the hows, whys, and what it feels likes of being a seadwelling troll."

"Hmmm..." Feferi looked thoughtful, swinging hers and Jade's hands back and forth. "Well, I've had my gills and fins ever since I was a guppy, so I can't really tell you about how I got them or anyfin like that." Feferi puffed her cheeks out, pouting slightly. Then her eyes lit up, and her fins flared a little in excitement. "But I remember the first time Eridan took me out onto the land to meet some of the other trolls! I was sooo shocked to see that they didn't have such beautiful, colorful gills like all the people I'd met underwater! I thought they were pretty weird to be honest."

Jade nodded. "I guess so!"

Feferi grinned, skipping ahead a bit so they could walk in the surf. "And it's reely calming to have someone stroke your fins? I used to have to do it all the time for Eridan when we were moirails." She shrugged. "I dunno, I'm not reely sure what to tell you. I've been a sea troll my whole life, so I don't know all that much about how it's different from being anybody else."

Feferi: Return the favor and inquire about Jade

You're looking for your car, but you're all turned around!

She's almost upon you now, and you can see there's blood on her face!

MY GOD THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE.

>Karkat: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.

You take a look at the thing, its cover depicting a collection of extremely attractive trolls deep in the throes of passion. You cringe at the sight of Zoldor's washboard abs. You recoil at Teliki's sparkling scarlet eyes and heaving bosom. You stick out your tongue in distaste at- Why are you still looking at this thing?

Whatever. You promised Karkat you would read it, and hell if Jade Harley has ever backed down from a challenge.

Time to get this show on the road.

> Get this show on the road.

Edited 2012-06-24 14:57 (UTC)

You are now Tavros Nitram. You are also very, very confused. A mere moment ago you were frolicking with some fairies (which you realize now must have been a dream because of the lamentable fact that fairies are not real) and now you are staring up at one of the strange pink aliens that you and your friends apparently created when you played SGRUB.

Also, for some unknown reason, this alien is grabbing your horns like the steering bars of a two-wheeled device.

Tavros: You are too confused to be you right now! Go back to being the strange alien holding your horns!

Edited 2012-06-24 15:01 (UTC)

==> Tavros: Wake up

Your name is TAVROS NITRAM, eight sweeps old, and you just woke up from a good day's sleep.

Well, not really. As usual, you cannot fit into your recuperacoon due to your big horns, which means your sleep is somewhat light and filled with things you would prefer not to mention.

You grab the edge of the recuperacoon, sloshing the sopor slime all around the edge, making it hard to keep a strong hold, and peer at the ramp right in front of you.

There is something on it that wasn't there when you went to sleep.

You peer at it curiously, and recognise a bottle of FAYGO with something attached to its neck.

It is something belonging to one of your FRIENDS, who surely woke up before you did and decided to come by to say hi.

==> Tavros: pick the message up and read it.

As you expected, the message is from your friend GAMZEE MAKARA, who wants to hang out.

You don't mind spending time with him, as he is nice and never makes fun of you, unlike other neighbours you would prefer not to think about.

==> Tavros: get out from your hive and go seek Gamzee out.

Edited (hs font addition) 2012-06-24 16:06 (UTC)

You look to your Bro and nod towards the broken TV- clearly the item that has taken the most amount of damage. Instead of providing you with a clear, direct, and reasonable answer, he opts for a vague, half-assed nod to Her.

"Oh come on," you groan, "aren't you supposed to practice your wizard shit on the roof? You don't see me swinging my katanas around, breaking everything."

Your Bro casually swings an arm around Rose.

"Too dangerous for that shit now. Can't be showing off our skills to the whole fucking planet." You notice his hand is starting to drift, and oh God, you do not want to stick around for this.

Time to abscond.

Dirk: Check out the suddenly fascinating couch stuffing.

"Can't wait for what?" a voice behind you asks. You had no idea that had started muttering to yourself. Whoops.

You grasp your wrist and look to see who asked. It was Terezi, who is your friend, but also your Romantic Rival. In a you-think-Karkat-is-interested-in-her-and-she's-probably-interested-in-him sort of way, not in a shipping-people-who-hate-each-other sort of way. Speaking of shipping people who hate each other, you think it'd be really sweet if Terezi and Vriska made up after that huge fight they had. Vriska had apparently tricked Terezi into doing something to assist her in a plan to hurt another student. You can't remember the details. But anyway, Vriska and Terezi should become friends again and realize that they still care about each other. Then make out.

You suddenly notice that you started staring awkwardly at Terezi and didn't answer her question.

Nepeta: Come up with something to say! Quickly!

holy crap, these pictures are lovely!!

You look around, and see that most of your friends are spread throughout the room. Your enemies, however, appear to be concentrated in the center- all dancing together. How did that end up happening?

Oh, well. You drag Solluxander over to the first friend you see, Feferi. She seems pretty happy to see you, and gives your boyfriend a smile as well.

Aradia: Wave and say hello.

Your name is Karkat Vantas and you have had a very stressful day/night/sleepless period. What with dead and resurrected friends, transuniverse shenanigans, shipping drama, and four horrible aliens, you have a lot on your plate right now.

But you also have someone to help you figure it out.

That someone is your new moirail, whom you hooked up with earlier in the most romantic and serendipitous of ways. Both of you knew, deep down, but neither of you knew you knew, and right at the perfect moment all the pale sentiment just welled up, and it was just perfect, the most perfect thing, even better than that moment at the end of Troll Fellowship of the Ring where they're in the boat, that part made you cry for an hour when you read it, and it was true serendipity, just like this is, you know it--

Ahem. Your moirail.

Now that all the action is over the two of you have sneaked off into an empty room somewhere on the meteor. Where everyone else is you don't know or care. Your moirail looks at you. His hair is a rat's nest. His shirt is stained all over. His eyes are wide and bewildered.

He is adorable.

What do you do?

Karkat: initiate feelings jam.

You call out to her, but she seems too distracted by her delicious red snack to pay you any mind. Honestly, what the hell does a guy have to do to get someone's attention around here?
You decide to try to catch her attention again; maybe you'll have better luck if you shout as loudly as you possibly can.
HEY, TEREZI.
I'M TALKING TO YOU.
CRAZY FUCKING DRAGON CHICK.
PUT THAT GODDAMN... POPSICLE? IS THAT A POPSICLE? WHERE THE HELL DID YOU FIND A DRAGON SIZED POPSICLE?!
WHATEVER, IT DOESN'T MATTER. PUT IT DOWN AND COME OVER HERE SO I CAN FUCKING TALK TO YOU WITHOUT SCREAMING MYSELF HOARSE.

Success! Looks like she actually heard you this time!

Terezi: Figure out what's bothering your shouty friend.

Your name is KANAYA MARYAM and you have spent most of yesterday cleaning your hive in preparation for some very important quests who are coming over. You have put away most of the fabric that was strewn all over and have moved a bouquet onto the table where you sewing machine would normally be. You have dusted and swept. It did occur to you while doing this that both Rose and Jade have messier rooms than yours, but you chose to continue cleaning anyway. After all, humans consider it proper behavior to clean before guests arrive and you wouldn't want to be rude by ignoring their customs.

It doesn't occur to you once that they plan to stay the night and you haven't prepared even a single, makeshift, human bed for them to sleep in.

Anyway, they should show up any minute now.

Guests: Arrive.

You see a lot of your friends near the snacks. There's Vriska with John, and Karkat with Terezi, and Feferi and Eridan on a 'friend date'. Gamzee's there, and the backside of one miss Lalonde.

The party has probably just started, since nobody's dancing yet.

Aradia: Talk to Solluxander

You are now the ORNERY DOORBELL. You've been having a nice snooze on the comfortable DOOR you live on, but now some strange PINK MONKEY is jamming its FINGER SAUSAGE into your nice METALLIC BUTTOCKS. You SHRIEK at the indignity of having a FINGER SAUSAGE jammed into your METALLIC BUTTOCKS. This sound apparently gets someone inside the HOUSE to come RUNNING TO YOUR AID, though you don't think the PINK MONKEY notices this because it GOOSES you again. If this keeps up, you think you're going to have a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

==> Doorbell: Have NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

>Kanaya: Step through the door.

Rose smirks at you. You go through. You like to think that you've proceeded with the grace of Troll Helen Mirren in the movie A Queen Native To A Minor Alternian Colony On The Edge Of The Empire Must Deal With The Insignificant Death Of Her Daughter-In-Law's Death; Notice That, Being Subjects Of The Empire, They Reproduce Via Gestation, Much Like Earbeasts And Barkbeasts; The Native Queen's Dignity Is Shown Clearly Despite The Oddity Of Her Reproductive System And Structure; There's Something About The Politics Of The Small Planet But It Doesn't Matter Because At The End Of The Movie, The Empire Arrives And Kills Everyone. When you look over your shoulder to check, Rose is going through the door herself. Your elegant stroll of some ten steps has gone completely unnoticed. The SNARKY HORSESHITOMETER is not on your side.

The corridor is narrow and dark, though the ceiling is high. You can see exposed pipes and wires above you, and sometimes dripping or sparking ominously. All the lights have blown out.

"I will maintain the lead," you say. "We may require my additional illumination, which is fitting, because you have only ever made things more obscure and confusing, despite being a hero of light."

"You're approaching things from the wrong angle. I daresay you've only ever charged at your target in a sadly linear fashion, like lines of soldiers armed with bayonets walking into machine gun fire." Rose sighs, pityingly. Your bloodgusher does something. If you're going to be specific, it reminds you that you still have one. "Of course, if you had some luck or foresight, you could have avoided such a grisly fate." Before you can bristle, she holds her hand out to you. "Maybe we could be co-leaders. Friendleaders, so to speak."

"Buddydictators," you say.

Her hand continues to remain in front of her.

Kanaya: Do something about that hand.

They squint at the title on the tower thingy.

"Dirk! It's the Luxor!"
"You don't say. Let's hurry up and go in already, it's sweltering out here."

Entering the pyramid through a set of glass door, the pair are awed by the interior.

Furnished to resemble Ancient Egypt, the inside of the hotel is lit by soft golden light. Artfully arranged compositions of palm trees, stone lions, and pharaoh sarcophagus' decorate the lobby. Above them, the ceilings tiles up with the pyramid structure, resulting in a beautiful lattice-work.

Dirk glances over at Jake, and is once again struck by the look of wonder and delight in his eyes. He smirks, just a little, and tugs on Jake's hand.

"C'mon, what are you waiting for? Isn't this the perfect setting for you, Mr. Indiana Jones?"

Dirk and Jake: Explore the Casino

Edited 2012-06-24 16:27 (UTC)

You run through the usual combinations: Jane's birthday, 1234, then head for the more obscure shit. The safe isn't safe from your crack hack attack. There's only one way this can end, and that's with you swimming in a sea of hangover-free victory.

You wonder what could be in here. Batterwitch stuff? The secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken? Maybe a hidden stash of the good stuff, complete with olives? Ooh, that sounds good. Way to go, Mr. Crocker, you think, and then remember that you haven't opened anything yet. Oops.

Still, Mr. Crocker's a pretty classy guy. You bet he's totally into martinis.

beep beep, the safe says. Huh? That's not supposed to happen. You squint at it. It's displaying... a countdown?

Roxy: Scram

Your name is Dave Strider and you are undeniably cool. Your levels of cool are simultaneously bananas and through the roof, one might say.

Such a cool guy shouldn't ever feel anything less than awesome. But strangely today you feel.. off. Maybe you're getting sick.

Coincidentally today is the today you finally meet your best friend for the first time in person!

He should be here any seco-

Wait.

Your phone beeps. Someone has sent you a message.

You wait for the AIRPORT SHUTTLE to appear. It's terribly cold and rainy out, so by the time the accursed thing finally does get here, you are NOT HAPPY. Of course, you're going to get to see Fussyface at last, so that somehow makes it all better. You still SWEAR at the cab driver in a VARIETY OF LANGUAGES, some of which are actually even human. Apparently he understands one of those languages, for he drives you EXTRA FAST to the airport. When you get out without paying (because whoops, shuttle and cab seem to be different and you may have taken the wrong one), he yells at you until your PET TARANTULA pokes her head out of her nest in your hair.

Fun fact: the giant and incidentally extremely deadly tarantula known to you and your FEW FRIENDS as Markie, lesser acquaintances as the Marquise Spinneret Mindfang, the general public as 'oh god get that thing away from me', and several unlucky people as the last thing they'd ever see, isn't domesticated in the least. She just happens to dislike you a hell of a lot more than she does anyone else, which may have had something to do with the fact that you're the one who feeds her. Feeds her bits from the people she killed, but whatever. And being a very intelligent spider, she'd learned not to bite you or the ONE FRIEND YOU HAVE IN THIS CITY. Everyone else was FAIR GAME. Yum!

==> Vriska: Look for Kanaya

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BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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

Rose: Get the good news - Mom/Dad (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE)

Dirk and Jake: Stop Being Sappy and Just Explore The City Already (FILL: TEAM DOLOROSA<3MINDFANG)

Terezi: Don't panic (FILL: TEAM Dave<3Rose<3Terezi)

Rose: Open door (as dramatically as possible). (FILL: TEAM DOLOROSA<3MINDFANG)

Vriska: Reply to your best friend (FILL: TEAM DOLOROSA<3MINDFANG)

Jade: Continue to inquire (FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT)

>Karkat: Look for car. (FILL: TEAM DISCIPLE<3SUFFERER)

> Jade: Examine cover. (FILL: TEAM ROSE<3SOLLUX)

Tavros: Wake up suddenly (FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT)

NEW Gamzee<3Tavros Game (Fill: Dave<3Karkat)

Dirk: Ask about the mess. (Fill: TEAM ROSE<3SOLLUX)

Nepeta: Get interrupted. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE)

Re: New ARADIA<3FEFERI Game (FILL: TEAM EQUIUS<3GAMZEE)

Aradia: Scope out room. (FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX)

New [Gamzee<>Karkat] Game (FILL: TEAM [Sollux<>Karkat])

Karkat: Talk to Terezi (FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT)

New JADE<3KANAYA<3ROSE Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE)

Aradia: Scope out room. (FILL: TEAM Bro<3Dave)

>Doorbell: Be rung (FILL: TEAM Eridan <3< Vriska)

Kanaya: Step through the door. (FILL: TEAM JANE<3ROXY)

Dirk and Jake: Go on an Adventure (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3VRISKA)

Roxy: Crack open that sucker (FILL: TEAM Jane<3Roxy)

New [John<3Dave] Game (FILL: TEAM [Aradia<>Tavros])

Vriska: Take the Shuttle to the Airport (FILL: TEAM Eridan <3< Vriska)