hs_olympics | 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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're not at all prepared for the way your entire body seizes up when she meets your eyes from across the room. Like a hoofbeast caught in the glare of a rapidly approaching motorized four-wheel device. And now she's rising up from her chair and walking over. Oh god oh god oh god...

You need to calm down. You need to play it cool for once in your horrible joke of an existence. You need to... be Troll Will Smith. Yeah, that's it! Just do what Troll Will Smith would do! He'd flawlessly shift into a far more laid back posture than your current failure at a casual pose and effortlessly strike up conversation with a distinct air of nonchalance. No way would he screw this up in any capacity whatsoever.

Karkat: Be Troll Will Smith.

You can't be Troll Will Smith because he is dead! This thought normally causes you no end of angst but right now you are busy attempting to emulate him instead.

Karkat: Fail to emulate Troll Will Smith.

Yeah, that was pretty much a given, but it's truly spectacular how you manage to take your failure to unprecedented heights each and every time. Leaning back against the counter and spilling your coffee all over it, for example, was just your latest accomplishment in that regard. At least you managed to right the mug before burning yourself--thank everything for thick troll skin--and had the presence of mind to set it aside before you somehow upended it completely. And, oh, there's Kanaya with a roll of absorbent paper, already mopping up your mess. Fuck, Rainbow Drinkers are fast. If she went for your throat there was probably not a damn thing you could do about it even if you wanted to stop her and... Okay, you really need to get back on track here.

Spilling coffee wasn't the best way to start a conversation, but at the same time, it didn't completely ruin everything either--the trope was actually pretty common for first romantic encounters in romcoms, after all. You can still salvage this! A simple apology paired with an offer to make up for the inconvenience was all you needed to get the ball rolling. This was actually the perfect ice breaker--you are a goddamn genius.

"Shit, sorry," you begin, and gesture vaguely at the coffeemaker. "Are you thirsty? I can get you something to drink if--" Oh, shit, you just offered a Rainbow Drinker a beverage and now she's glancing at your neck again and can probably sense your pulse racing with her weird new powers or something and oh my god you just noticed now that the two of you are alone but probably not for long. You needed to get out of there with or without her before you embarrassed yourself in front of people who wouldn't let you live it down. At least, you're pretty sure that Kanaya would have the courtesy to let you live it down...

She opens her mouth to speak after you hastily cut yourself off but you rush to interrupt. Time to change the subject, and either asking her to help you make new clothes or inviting her to watch a movie with you were both stellar alternatives to an awkward and potentially public discussion about her beverage of choice. "Actually, nevermind! I just came to ask if you'd be interested in making a new Rainbow Drinker romcom with me." There, that wasn't so hard, was it?

Wait.

Wait.

What the fuck

did you just

say.

Kanaya: Take over the narration duties for your now catatonic leader.

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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.

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

Karkat: Horribly mangle your invitation to hang out. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3TEREZI)