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

Though you wouldn't admit it, your heart is pounding, and not just because you are pulling off a daring entry right under her nose (which incidentally you've noticed is nothing like a stereotypical witch's nose, although you weren't expecting it to be), but because it is finally time.

Your mother and you have been preparing for quite some time as she taught you the ways of witches and wizards, and you have even written a few pieces of literature based off of them. One could even say that you wish to be a witch yourself, if they were daring.

However, it was impossible. You're human.

Impossible until now, that is. You retrieve your emergency wizard kit. To the casual onlooker, it might look like it was designed to shoo them away, as the purposes of the varying instruments were to the normal eye inscrutable.

To one as taught as yourself, they were easily recognizeable as tools designed to capture a witch or wizard. Wands with innate magic, primarily, although quite a few of them didn't look like conventional wands. They were all useable by a learned human.

With luck, you would no longer need these once you had captured the witch and could extract from her the secrets of magic.

You are a bit dubious as to the strength of these defensive charms, though... No matter. What could she do to you?

>Rose: Time to confront that witch.

Edited 2012-07-07 02:09 (UTC)

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.

When the girl appears in her doorway, your heart flutters. The time has arrived for you to prove yourself and pass this task with flying colours. You're ready for your big introduction to whatever girl you get, complete with dazzling the poor human beyond words, to show her things that go beyond her imagination - and as the blonde passes through her bedroom door, you look down from her startling lavender eyes to the pointed stick she's raising in defence

wait a second

is that a wand?

Your confident metre plummets as you've just realise that you screwed up big time. Your hands fly to either side of your face, making a noise in between a yell and a groan.

"oh no, am i at the wrong address?!
im sorry, i didnt mean to bother a fellow witch!"

>Rose: Use this to your advantage.

"Yes, it is terribly rude of you, isn't it?" You say, barely holding in a snicker, "Although considering you are a novice witch I suppose it is to be expected." You're hoping that keeping a confident tone will convince her you know what you're talking about, and it seems to be working so far.

"I'm so so so sorry!" She moans, frowning, "Could you, um, would you mind if we kept this between us? I don't want every one to know that I screwed up my first assignment..."

You twirl the wand between your fingers contemplatively, "Well, I suppose I could... if you do me a few favors, that is."

Jade: Contemplate your answer

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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>Rose:Grab your emergency wizard kit from your room. (FILL: TEAM Dave<3Dave)

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

> Jade: Stare at her weirdly. (FILL: TEAM Bro<3John)

Rose: Use this to your advantage (FILL: Team John<3Jade<3Karkat)