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

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 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.

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

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