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BONUS ROUND 2

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.

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!
thelawisnotmocked: (Default)

>Terezi: Deal with more important things (FILL: TEAM ERIDAN <>ROSE)

[personal profile] thelawisnotmocked 2012-07-07 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The more important things being, of course, the point which you have just expressed: YOU ARE NOT CONTACTING THIS KID RIGHT NOW DAMMIT.

carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling gallowsCalibrator [GC]
CG: HEY GUESS WHAT.
CG: I WILL ALLOW THAT THIS MAY, PERHAPS, SURPRISE YOU.
CG: EVEN SHOCK YOU. I AM OPEN TO THAT POSSIBILITY.
CG: HEY, THAT'S ME, RIGHT? MR. OPEN. I AM SO FUCKING OPEN TO EVERY SINGLE IDEA THAT COULD POSSIBLY EMERGE FROM YOUR THROBBING UNDERDEVELOPED THINKPAN.
CG: YOU DOUBT ME? TRY ME. I BET THAT EVERY SINGLE IDEA THAT YOU EXCREMENT
CG: AND I MEAN THAT IN A VERY DEROGATORY WAY
CG: LIKE, YOUR THINKPAN IS THIS SLIMY LITTLE WIGGLER BLESSED WITH POWERS OF SUPREME FLATULENCE
CG: AND BY FLATULENCE I MEAN IDEAS
CG: WILL AT LEAST BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED BY YOURS TRULY.
CG: BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT HERE.
CG: THE POINT IS - GET READY FOR THIS ONE.
CG: YOU MAY WANT TO SIT DOWN.
CG: I WOULD NOT WANT A DELICATE BLIND GIRL SUCH AS YOURSELF TO FAINT AND BE HELPLESS OUT THERE IN THE WILDS OF YOUR FUCKING JUNGLE OR WHATEVER.
CG: THE POINT IS
CG: YOU ARE NOT *ALLOWED* TO BE THE LEADER OF THIS TEAM.
CG: THAT IS AN ORDER.
CG: FROM YOUR *REAL* LEADER.
gallowsCalibrator [GC] blocked carcinoGeneticist [CG]
CG: OH YOU DID NOT
CG: JUST
CG: OH MY FUCKING GOD.
specialagentartemis: (Default)

> Dave: Make a deal (FILL: TEAM SLICK<3<SNOWMAN)

[personal profile] specialagentartemis 2012-07-07 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
look ill help you get us all off your land as soon as possible
we all want to get off your land just as much as you want us to get off your land
probably more even
youd be surprised about how quickly us silly urbanites want to get out of a hellmurder jungle like this
no offense
i mean its pretty beast as far as hellmurder jungles go
never seen a better hellmurder jungle

oh, shut up! how many other jungles have you seen anyway?
plenty
but none were as fucking sweet as yours i guarentee you
this one takes the cake
all of the cake
all of it
although maybe that isnt saying much egbert would let anyone take the cake
hed give you the cake without you even asking if he thought he could get away with it
dude has a serious problem with cake i have no idea why
do you even know what cake is actually i probably should have asked you that first

cake is irrelevant right now!
you're getting your friends off my island remember?

oh right them
well for one thing, how many other passengers were there?
two
it was just me and my sister and my best bro so no worries there

oh no! really?
meh im sure theyre fine
i however am not
still hanging from a tree
remember that bit

shush! well, your friends will probably be on the eastern side of my island
they won't be too hard to find there!
that is is the wildbeasts don't eat them first...

whoa wait what
wildbeasts
the fuck

yeah! i guess i could just let the wildbeasts eat them.
that would get them off my island easy enough!

holy hell what are you even saying
but noooo, that would be messy
and the poor wildbeasts would probably get indigestion from eating their parachutes!

jungle girl you are fucked up in the head
well, and theyre your friends of course!
i'm not going to let a buch of wildbeasts eat some defenseless city slickers, what do you take me for?

ok whats going on
i'm saying sure i'll help you!
but then you need to get off my island!

dude thats what ive been trying to do arent you listening
then do we have a deal?
only if you get that gun out of my face
and get me down


Jade: Get him down
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (khr] Ready.)

Karkat: Struggle to talk about your feelings. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You struggle like a master. You could do this all night. The odds are at least 100 to 1 that you could do this for the entire beknighted waste of time that you're going to spend hurtling through - if the side-trip to get "the Mayor" patched up is any indication - disconcerting little bits of dreamland containing other versions of murderous and murdered friends who it turned out hadn't necessarily murdered or been murdered, with the occasional interlude of dodging the lovingly outstretched tentacles of the worst nightmares tangible reality has ever struggled futilely to know.

"ShiIiIiIiIt," says Gamzee, and sounds so much like how he used to that some vital organ inside you dies off and dissolves. You want to tell him to come back even though he's right here, to never do anything like that again, to stay and not die and be normal again. You can't do that. That would be hysterical and borderline crazy.

"You are like unto going the fuck nuts, bro," says Gamzee, sounding faintly awed as he stares at you. God damn it. Cover blown.

"You would know!" you snap, because you are are the best pale pal ever.

Gamzee catches your hand before you hit hit yourself in the face, so you quickly say, "Sorry. Sorry, I didn't mean to."

"Kind of got it right, though," he says with a watery smile. "Your old best friend's come into some power, would you up and believe? Got me this psychic shit swirling round my thinkpan. This is me being mired all up in on my bloodline's chucklevoodoos, and it's telling me about how everybody else has all kinds of shit swirling in their pans."

"What? What's a 'chucklevoodoo' when it's not freshly made up? Since when? Since how?" You are going to forgive your coherency this time for running off to hide. Any fresh bullshit being served up right now makes for a heavy weight to bear.

"Thing is... I got some, um, like, motherfucking hints on how to up and make all kinds of use of my rotpan." Why is this hard for Gamzee to say? You thought he'd be talk about what he'd done, now that he's back to normal. "There was all ... advice from this guy messaging me, he knew all the real shit I needed to have the knowing of too, and there was the doll... bro, there was the doll."

Yeah, there was. The doll Dave had spotted Gamzee sitting with, and had taken because it belonged to his manlususbrotherthing. One look at his timeline on Trollian made it clear that it had been with him all his life, and with his brotherlusus dead it had only seemed right to let him keep it once he flashstepped over and took it from Gamzee.

The serendipitous happy haze from before is totally gone from Gamzee. Right now he looks utterly lost, and his fingers hold desperately onto your hand.

"Best friend ... it all up and made some kind of sense when I had that bitchtits little balsawood brother with me. I think ... it's being like that I need it back?"

> Karkat: Realise that you have a lot more to deal with than you thought.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (Default)

>Karkat: Call her name (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't.

You call "TEREEREEEEAASHFDJGLFGHDFJKGH" instead. Admittedly you weren't trying to articulate her name for the loudest bit; that was when the huge, heavy mass of fabric hit you in the face, and you turned the thrumming of your squawk blister over to incandescent rage instead.

"Oh my God!" Terezi's voice floats down from above. "Karkat, you awful little wiggler! You couldn't just say 'Hello, Terezi, devestatingly intelligent legislacerator and pupatory investigatracer, I am here now, please let down a rope ladder and also my shirt opened'? Admittedly your loudness also helped me aim properly so that I could hit you with something. Justice will always find a way!"

You think that maybe, by the end there, she sounds happy that you're here.

It could be the excuse to use the word "justice" though. Or possibly to annoy you by taking an excuse to use the word "justice" like she is some kind of authority--

There is a thump somewhere over to the left. "And that was the rope ladder! I would still like it if you came up. Did it hit you too?" she says hopefully.

You tear the fabric off your head. "No! Better learn how to sniff out depth perception!"

"And for that rudeness!" she says, now sounding delighted about your being here, "--you'll have to wear the costume I just used to enact your sentence!"

You inspect the thing that you're still holding in your hands.

> Karkat: Wear the costume. Be the...
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (lotr] but too late)

>Karkat: Wonder about the highblood's behavior (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously? You're supposed to be on a first-name basis with this highblooded shitsac who thinks he owns you now?

Well. Good. Because you're still not ever, ever calling him master, especially with your hands tied up and leaving you without the ability to give the word the heavily sarcastic enclosure talons it so richly deserves, which would probably go wasted on this dope since he looks like he doesn't have the pan capacity to understand most words over two syllables, never mind the concept of sarcasm.

This train of thought would chug along until you work yourself out of being unsettled and into a proper deep wrath, but then he unbinds your hands.

He grabs your wrist in a firm hold - not hurting you, or even seeming like he intends to - and unlocks the cuffs, and then takes a step back out of your space and stands there looking expectant. There are people around you, and you're aware that they're watching you more openly than before now.

He's not aware of it at all. "Well, show me what you got, motherfucker," Gamzee says. "You're the reddest of the red, right? So I'm betting you got some wicked psychic sideshow you could get set up. Lay it on my lookstubs."

He thinks he's got his hands on a powerful psychic, and he decides to tell them to unleash their powers right there in his interested, expectant-looking sight? Do they allow people this stupid not to be culled? ...Is this highblood just that strong?

But it doesn't exactly matter, anyway.

> Karkat: Show the full extent of your awesome psychic powers.
Edited 2012-07-07 20:29 (UTC)
slippy: Edited KHR manga panel with 10 Years Later Gokudera & Tsuna blushing at each other, hearts in the background (khr] Close enough.)

>Terezi: Avoid thinking about past friendships by running damage control (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm Terezi," you say to Vriska, and she nods without recognition. She's sizing you up as if deciding if she could take you, and it's making it very hard to stick to your intention not to think about the past! Very, very hard.

"Are you happy to go with this alien? He's one of my allies, and I can assure you he's pretty nice, even if he is a big goof."

She smiles at that, downright 8rilliantly. "I can tell!" Nepeta would probably squeal to find out that Vriska already seems to have a little flushcrush on John.

"He is also pretty powerful, so I am also trusting him to keep an eye on you." You aim that partially at John. "But all my allies here are willing to have you stick around for now."

Little Vriska's smile changes as she looks around at everyone else. She's sizing them up too, and already she's good at not letting herself show she's afraid. "Scoot!" you order, making shooing motions with your hands. They scoot.

"And now!" You whirl around to turn on the two fighting knights. "We are going to think very very carefully about how to reverse this!"

Select: John & Vriska

> Vriska: Enter the alien hive.
orange_yarn: (Default)

>JOHN: NOTICE HOW PRETTY THIS VAMPIRE IS. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI)

[personal profile] orange_yarn 2012-07-07 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't think about that right now, you are too busy FLIPPING YOUR SHIT. What was she even doing in your closet? Does she have some kind of FREAKY TWILIGHT COMPLEX? Does she watch you in your sleep?

You don't actually want to think about that.

Except...

Except now that you're starting to calm down, you can't help but notice that your vampire maybe-stalker is NOT ENTIRELY UNATTRACTIVE. And by that you mean ACTUALLY REALLY PRETTY, in a kind of weird way.

Huh.

Dad: Make things awkward.
slippy: (khr] Illuminating realisation number one)

Aradia: Become really -EXCITED and give Feferi a hug. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
you grab Feferi like a lifeline, and it's not just because that makes for a pretty okay nautically themed pun. This is as strange as it is amazing!

But excited as you are, you could not possibly be as excited as Feferi.

"You are - a prince-e-e-e-ess! You look e-e-e-exactly like - any old seadweller - I have E-E-E-EVE-E-E-E-E-E-R SE-E-E-E-E-EN!"

Hers is not the kind of typing quirk that should be reenacted too precisely in real life speech. It means Feferi kind of stops breathing. So you hold her tighter and then you run, straight into the cold shock of the ocean.

> Aradia: Dive.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Be Jade. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You are now Jade. Today is your girlfriends weird, troll, birthday thing. She's turning eight sweeps old, which you still find just a little bit confusing. You're just EXCITED because you know she'll really love her present this year. You have this all thought out completely.

> Jade: Think about present.
Edited 2012-07-07 19:08 (UTC)
doubleohally: (Default)

> Jade: Go meet Rose. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's almost time after all. You quickly hurry down to the part of the island where you instructed Rose to land at, or the pilot. Whatever. You stand there looking up at the sky, just waiting. You're so excited.

> Rose: Lade.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Eridan: Take the bait. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You sneer at her. "And it seems your manners are as terrible as evver," you cross your arms. You're tempted to pretend that she isn't there, just turn back to the line and wait for your turn in line. You can just stare ahead, and wait to get to the cute barista you loved to flirt with, just listen at those curse words. You can't. That would mean she has won.

> Rose: Mock.
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Car: Move already! (FILL: Team Sollux <> Terezi)

[personal profile] 801ch 2012-07-07 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Photobucket

Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh GOD OH GOD. Why did you let your mustardblooded boyfriend drag you into this metal box of DEATH? This will surely be the day you die. Sollux Captor, prepare to have the worst haunting of your life!

==>Eridan: Try to enjoy the ride.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Jade: Royalty?!! Gasp in awe. (FILL Team: Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You really want to do that, but that would be so rude. You want to treat her like a normal human, er, mermaid. You stare for a minute before calmly opening your mouth.

Jade: wow royalty huh?! :D
Jade: how did you wind up on land if you were only napping
Jade: isnt that dangerous


> Feferi: Answer.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border ((Los Campesinos!) sounds about right)

>Gamzee: Tell Jane all about the new potion you whipped up earli (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Your name is Gamzee Makara. You are getting a really bitchtits snuggle going on here, your hands smell of fresh blood, and you are in love as motherfuck. You are in love such as you wouldn't even put it that way to your homegirl, since Jane would go and all make her one eyebrow sarcastic, you'd say you're steeped up in dopest flush and she'd smile and roll her eyes only a little bit. In fact she is smiling some already.

It's a good moment.

"So I went for the motherfucking birds," you say as you smooch her cheek again, because she don't hold much with the birds, so it's cool.

"Birds? What? Gamzee, what do birds have to do with anything," she says, and whoops, it sounds like there goes the smile.

You lean back to get a look in on her face, and yep. Now it's the suspicion. But at least it's the kind where she pretty much already knows what's up and coming, though.

"So, uh, there was earlier today when I up and made me another kind of a potion," you say, and then get into some details so she doesn't have overmuch time to get stern. "Birds and motherfucking mantids is what I went for in the ways of ingredients. You know how fuckin' hard it is to get blood right and proper out of them buggy motherfuckers? A brother can try for mirth as hard as possible, but it's only the littlest bit that production will offer you. Aw, Miss Mary Jane, come on, you don't even like birds. You let Dirk eat 'em."

"Don't call me that," she says all proper, like she does, and sighs and huffs herself straight into your arms. "Fine. Both of you can terrorise the seagull population of the new world, see if I care. Let's make pies out of the damn things!"

You pet at her, all relieved she's taking it easy. She's good at taking shit in stride, scaling up to match, never a push-over. Girl is real and righteous. "Fuck yeah, babe. I already had to go and set the meat aside proper. Dirk's going to be all up and flipping happiest kinds of shit if we go and do that."

"Now, there are two things that I am trying to bring myself to ask," Jane sighs. "Will it be 'why the devil do you insist on making these creepy potions', or will it be 'what is a mantisgull potion supposed to do, anyway'?

> Jane: Pick a question.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (Gunnerkrigg] out in the bright with you)

Feferi: Answer. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You SMILE.

That is answer enough.

"Oh my gosh!" says the human, and then claps a hand over her own mouth. "Sorry! I don't want to be rude or anything! But your teeth are awesome!!"

This time your smile is more genuine and less about showing off your gleaming teeth. You have more weapons than that, of course! But you don't want to really scare the human off, especially now that she's being sweet.

"Thank you! I will take this more as enthusiasm than rudeness. And it's really pretty nice of you!"

"They're like an eel's," the girl murmurs. "It's really cool!"

> Jade: Ponder how much Dave would call you a furry for this.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (Default)

Re: > Inquire on the mermaid's... sunbathing? (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Sollux)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Gosh, that is a gorgeous Feferi. She really does look royal, too.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Rose: Time to confront that witch. (FILL Team: Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, time to confront that witch. You sneak up to your room with careful precision, making sure to keep completely quiet. You hide behind the door and peer in making sure you have the kit ready. Time for the confrontation, you jump out.

> Jade: Stare at her weirdly.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Gamzee: The coast is clear, get out of your hiding place. (FILL Team: Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
She's gone, finally. Every night you have to hide, you like to think that your hiding spot is THE BEST THERE IS. You pop open the head of some dead animal thing and climb out. Yeah.

> Gamzee: Go find Karkat.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (Default)

Rufiyo: make a break for it! (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA))

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hours in the future:

You make your way across the monastary gardens. You have already resolved not too think too hard ever again, about the contortions you had to perform, the prayers you had to slam, and the growing urge to saw your own damn horns off, all arising from trying to get out that damn window. You will focus on the future! You will seize the night and do what you must! You will be one with this bush.

...Carrying a lot of foilage around was the best camouflage you could think of to hide your horns as you made your way the the edge of the monastary's property.

You have always had a sense of humour, and you think you might actually tell your moirail about all this. He's a gloomy guy, but he find slapstick kinds of humour funny, and you like to cheer him up. Besides, he'd never retell the story and embarrass you; he's not that kind of guy.

You miss him the more you wonder where he might be and if you really will find him.

But for now, you have to avoid notice. You stop every time you see someone walking across the garden paths or tending to the plants, and eventually you reach the edge of the monastary property.

Now you're going to have to cross the river.

> Cross the river.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Terezi: Wash up and contemplate this situation. (FILL Team: Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You try your best to clean up. It's extremely difficult to do so when you can't see what you're grabbing. You just assume you are using the correct cleansers on your body.

As for your situation, Sollux was definitely the better option for people to come to your aid.

> Terezi: Get dressed.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Karkat: Help this idiot to his feet. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You stare at him before putting your hand down to help him up.

Karkat: THERE, THERE IDIOT. WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT SOME OLD RUINS WE CAN'T EVEN GET TO.
Eridan: really
Karkat: YES.

> Eridan: Feel stupid but pretend you don't buy harassing them for information.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (khr] So money made you mean.)

TEREZI + ROSE: Figure out how you are going to raise... (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

[personal profile] slippy 2012-07-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You are now Rose. It will be somewhat tricky to turn your mind to a task as ridiculous as this. As you attempt to stuff some of your logic and reason in a quiet mental compartment, you regard the vapid approximation of happiness imposed on the uppermost veneer your "child" is made to show to the world.

Hmm. You could really annoy Mom if you talk like this about the egg.

ROSE: Terezi.
ROSE: I propose this: After school is out, we go to my house to fulfill the aspect of this assignment where we work together to care for our progeny. Then you will leave Cherry to me for the night so that I may take responsibility for her for that time.

TEREZI: >:O
TEREZI: M1Z L4LOND3! TH3R3 1S 4 C3RT41N SOM3TH1NG 4BOUT YOUR PROPOS4L TH4T L34DS M3 TO B3L1EV3 1 D3T3CT ...
TEREZI: 4N ULT3R1OR MOT1V3

ROSE: Your tendency towards paranoia is starting to reach fascinating heights.
ROSE: Here, let me encourage it. Even if I do have some ulterior motive - do you believe you could work out what it is, even with your existing suspicion that such a motive exists?


>Terezi: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
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> Aradia: Ask the noble lady what she wants in polite manners. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You lick your lips before opening your mouth to speak.

Aradia: what do you want

Well, that didn't come out very polite. If you're lucky maybe she'll just chop your head off and be done with it.

> Feferi: Explain.
doubleohally: (Default)

> Eridan: Ask Kar where did he learn that word. (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

[personal profile] doubleohally 2012-07-07 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, where did he learn that word.

Eridan: wwhere did you lean that wword
Karkat: NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

How mean, you just want to be friends with him.

> Eridan: Tell him you want to be his friend.

INTERNS: Abscond. (FILL: Team Eridan<3<Vriska)

[personal profile] seerofbread 2012-07-07 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Absconding is not advisable at this time. This is because it has only been three seconds, and Eridan hasn't yet given the word for you to give up on everything you're doing.

You find it difficult to keep up with being all of the interns and proceed to be a particular single intern, who is filling in on Eridan's answering-the-phone-on-air duties while your humble friend plays his idea of music. You have just hung up on someone really unimportant but now you are having the call of a lifetime. (At least, you're pretty sure that the importance of a call is indicated by the volume of a caller.)


KARKAT: HEY AMPORA.
INTERN: Boss can't come to the phone right now, please leave a message after the glub.
INTERN: Glub.
KARKAT: WHAT NO.
KARKAT: THIS IS IMPORTANT. PUT HIM THROUGH.

INTERN: I'm not sure that's physically possible.
KARKAT: YOU ARE AT A RADIO STATION. THIS IS WHAT YOU *DO*. YOU CAN PROBABLY PUT THE HEAD IDIOT ON THE PHONE IF SOMEONE DEMANDS IT.
KARKAT: WHICH I DO.

INTERN: No actually I think he's too heavy.
KARKAT: WHAT?
INTERN: He's too heavy for me to lift. I can't put him on the phone.
KARKAT: ...
INTERN: Also I think that would break the phone, and it's probably expensive.
KARKAT: THAT WOULD BE A MERCY TO US ALL.
KARKAT: HAND THE PHONE TO SOMEONE WITH BRAIN CELLS, IF YOU CAN FIND ANY SUCH CREATURES IN THAT SHITHOLE OF A STUDIO.


You're pretty sure you have brain cells, but you do what the man says anyway and hand the phone to whoever's nearest, and in the process become that entity.

You are now A DIFFERENT INTERN, and you are now on the air with a stranger!


INTERN: Wow, I don't even know what to say!
KARKAT: SAY IN A LOUD VOICE, "ERIDAN, THE PHONE'S FOR YOU!"
INTERN: ERIDAN THE PHONE'S FOR YOU
INTERN: That was really silly! Do you have any other silly suggestions?
INTERN: I can do voices.
KARKAT: FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
KARKAT: GIVE THE PHONE TO SOMEONE OTHER THAN WHOEVER GAVE THE PHONE TO YOU.


Similar events reoccur several times. Eventually the room runs out of new interns to get shouted at, and none of them are keen to repeat their experiences, having grown tired of his stunts.

But there is someone else in the room then, so the last intern hands it off to him.


ERIDAN: wwhat the fuck do you wwant
KARKAT: OH THANK GOD.
ERIDAN: oh fuckin hell
KARKAT: NO WAIT A SECOND.
ERIDAN: look kar im not goin to play your charade right noww leave me alone
KARKAT: WELL I'M NOT GOING TO. I'M GOING TO CALL YOU EVERY MINUTE FOR THE NEXT SWEEP IF I HAVE TO.
KARKAT: JUST LISTEN TO ME OKAY?

ERIDAN: wwhat do i look like a pair of ears
KARKAT: HEY I'M JUST TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING IMPORTANT, OKAY?
ERIDAN: really
ERIDAN: howw important are wwe talking

KARKAT: OH WELL I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS THAT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS KIND OF NEWS.
KARKAT: DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION NOW?

ERIDAN: fine
ERIDAN: spit it out


KARKAT: Spit it out.

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