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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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The morning dawns. Dirk and Jake roll out of bed. It is their first day together as husband and husband and their first day on their two week long honeymoon. They have decided to spend it in Las Vegas.

Getting dressed for the hot Nevada sun, Dirk has to remind Jake that guns are not allowed to be worn out in public. Of course, Jake then catches Dirk trying to bring his sword along so he's not really sure about that.

They make sure not to forget sunscreen since they both know how bad sunburns can hurt.

Then they head out the door to face the day as newly weds.

Dirk and Jake: Go explore Las Vegas

The sun is setting on the ocean as the two girls lounge on a beach. It was a beautiful end to a great day, full of swimming, splashing, and a bit of surfing.
Jade sits up, and states her desire to go for a walk. Feferi stands and offers her a hand, and they set off.
Feferi and Jade: Go for a walk down the beach.

Your name is Dave Strider. It wasn't that long ago that you fell victim to one hell of a shaving nick. That very bladed accident to your throat has landed you in your very own hellbubble for the rest of your afterlife. As luck would have it, your fairy deathtroll, Aradia, left you a little present after playing Tour Guide Troll Barbie of Death. That gift seems to be in the shape of one troll who is currently sleeping on your futon.

Dave: Examine sleeping troll.

Edited 2012-06-24 04:57 (UTC)

Scene: The Strider household. A two-room apartment shared by two brothers. Dirk, the younger, is in his bedroom. The common room, which serves as Dave's sleeping quarters, is in disarray. A futon is tipped onto its back; stuffing spills from a slash in the mattress. The large plasma television's screen is cracked. Papers are strewn about and flutter as a fan oscillates. Sparks leap from a cracked knitting needle, which sizzles ominously near the doorway. The SORD lies on the floor, snopped beyond repair.

Dirk: EXIT BEDROOM.

BE ROSE

It is day 212 of your journey through the void that is the outer reaches of Paradox Space, and you've just finished reading the entirety of Kanaya's library. For the second time.

Over the past several months, you and Kanaya have also redecorated the room that you two have claimed as your own, written several short stories centered around the adventures and travails of Zazzerpan and Calmasis, as well as at least one novel-length tale of forbidden romance and paranormal intrigue. And this is in between researching and writing your greatest epic, the tome that you hope will one day be the greatest sum of all knowledge ever collected about Sburb and its machinations.

You haven't passed through a dream bubble in a month and a half, and you've exhausted most topics of small talk with the other five (technically six, but you only ever see five) people on this meteor with you.

Frankly, you're bored.

You know Kanaya feels it too. It's all well and good for Karkat to argue endlessly with himself, or for Terezi and Dave and the Mayor to play in their chalk-and-can town, but you're Rose Lalonde. You need to be intellectually stimulated. You need things to occupy your brain. Kanaya is suffering from this lack of new and interesting things, too, and it shows.

So after a full day of doing nothing but pacing back and forth in your lovingly finished room, you turn to Kanaya and say, "Just how extensive is this meteor, do you know?"

Kanaya thinks about it, and shrugs. "I'm not quite sure. I do not believe that anyone has undertaken an actual methodical attempt to explore the whole thing."

You smile. You think you've just hit upon today's activity.

Rose and Kanaya: Begin exploring meteor

You never really like it when the ghosts of old heirs visit you. It makes you think too much about how awful it is that if Feferi isn't very clever and very lucky one day she'll be joining them, and then you need to sit down for awhile and try not to think about it.

But this visit went much better than usual! The dead girl told you all about ruins hidden under the sea, just ripe for exploring by a plucky young up-and-coming archeologist!

The only problem is, how can a landweller make it down to them?

Aradia: Contact a friendly seadweller for advice

Your name is Nepeta Leijon, and after all this time, the day has arrived.
Today, you will execute your plan to finally reveal your feelings to Karkat.
Today, your OTP becomes a reality.

As soon as your alarm goes off you roll out of your bed quick as lightning and dress as fast as possible while trying not to disturb Pounce. You barely taste your breakfast as you shovel it down your throat, your hair as poofy as usual is fussed over fanatically. You must look perfect today.
You must be perfect today.

Once you're ready, you lug your school bag onto your shoulder, huffing as you realize just how heavy it is. And it's not just because of all the stuff you put in there for your plan concerning Karkat - high school demands your textbooks and drawing pad too! All set to go, you rush out to the bus stop. It's not a far run at all, and with the energy you have right now, you could sprint ten times the distance.

And that energy is certainly not spent when you get there, so you settle for rocking on your heels and tugging at the sides of your blue cat beanie in anticipation.

You just can't wait!
You just can't wait!
You just can't wa-

Nepeta - Get interrupted.

Edited 2012-06-24 06:34 (UTC)

Kanaya leads you to a door she remembers having come across a while back. She tried once to open it, but it was locked and she had had many other things on her mind at the time. You can't blame her for focusing on the bloody murder mayhem instead of a curiously sealed door in an infrequently traveled corridor.

You are curious, however, as to how she plans to open this door. None of the handle jiggling or mashing of buttons on the keypad have had favorable results. You think that perhaps she will bother Karkat into at least making some attempt at figuring out the locking coding.

But then, you smirk as you watch her shuffle through her sylladex, Kanaya has always seemed like more of the take charge kind of lady.

Kanaya: Retrieve chainsaw from sylladex

Your name is ARADIA MEGIDO.

For what seems like eons you have been exploring dream bubbles, attempting to find someone that you know. Those horrorterrors really like to play tricks on you sometimes! Thankfully you've just stumbled across what looks to be a little human girl's bedroom, covered in Squiddles and pictures of....are those human actors with whiskers drawn on?

JADE: hi aradia!!!
JADE: do you want to come have a tea party with me?
JADE: i think its technically difficult to drink tea while dreaming, but maybe we will figure it out :P

Aradia: Gratefully accept a cup of tea.

Your name is Dirk Strider.

You are one of the best damned mech pilots in the Human-Troll Alliance, and you know it. And as soon as you get into your mech and make the most amazing demonstration ever, everyone else is going to know it too.

Your engineer Equius is already gone, most likely off to get everything ready. He's damn good at what he does, even if it's like pulling teeth to get him to admit it.

Looks like it's time to get ready to rock this demonstration.

==> Dirk: Get into your flight uniform.

The sunset is already beginning to stain the sky red as the two girl girls walk side by side down the beach, sandy shoulders brushing. The sand is warm underneath their feet, the last remains of the day's warmth. Now it was a different warmth - gentle, like a blanket's.

Jade's eyes survey her surroundings, but keep on coming back to her friend. She was still intrigued by her despite the length of time she had been able to see one other; the candy corn horns, the grey skin that still seemed so full of life despite the colour, and especially the more fishy parts of her appearance - namely the fins protruding from her face, and the brilliant pink gills hidden under flaps down the sides of her torso.

The intrigue wasn't in a bad way though - no, far from it. It was just so... Interesting! And she always loved learning more about her friends. But she could ask about the skin and the horns with any of the other girls. The fins, the gills - she could only ask Feferi.
And why not ask now?

Jade: Inquire about Feferi's fishy qualities.

Edited 2012-06-24 05:45 (UTC)

You exit your bedroom, slightly dreading what you're going to find -- oh god, please don't let it be another porno being filmed in the name of the rebellion you've really had enough of that. But instead, you see your Bro, sitting on the counter, poking at what appears to be...

....is that a frying pan? In your apartment?

"Get away from that," Rose swats his hand with some tongs and you frown. She must have brought those up her dress or in her beehive or something. She spots you, and smiles, sweet and bitterly sarcastic. "Do you want some breakfast?"

Well gee, usually you just dodge a bunch of swords (still don't know why Bro puts those in the fridge but hey whatever).

"Don't do it, she's using poison."

"It's called bacon. It's a food."

Dirk: Kick the poisoned bacon to the curb!

Your name is Eridan Ampora and you are a RADIO CELEBRITY. In case that wasn't clear, you are a celebrity of the radio. You are not a radio, or even really a celebrity in places that aren't the radio. Mostly people think you are a pretentious douche with decent "SCOOPS" on actual celebrities. Actual celebrities just think you are a pretentious douche.

This is all well and good, but the only opinion that really matters is that of your LEGITIMATELY WELL LIKED and RESPECTED rival, Karkat Vantas. His show runs at the same time as yours. He is a REBEL, a HERO, and probably REALLY HOT.

What will you do?

> Eridan: Go Live.

Edited 2012-06-24 05:22 (UTC)

You draw your lipstick and reapply. One should always look one's best, even when confronted with seemingly impenetrable barriers. You've chosen your trademark jade green color - though a lady's lips can always be blacker, a little color helps draw attention to the face and away from the gaping hole in the stomach.

You return your lipstick to your chainsawkind specibus and turn to Rose.

"Age before beauty." You gesture towards the door.

"Excuse me?" You've managed to catch Rose off guard. She looks nonplussed.

"You're thirteen, I'm six. So in this situation you're clearly 'Age.' I am wearing a dress that is elegant without being ostentatious, flattering without being formal, and simple without being plain. You are wearing your god tier pajamas. In this situation, I am clearly 'Beauty.' So again, to use your human idiom, Age, which is you, before Beauty, which is me. After you, Rose."

Your FLIGHTY BROADS AND THEIR SNARKY HORSESHITOMETER ticks a few notches in your favor. Rose's aggravation is like delicious grubsauce on top of your lusus's homemade grubloaf.

You step aside to give Rose space to maneuver.

Rose: Open door (as dramatically as possible).

Edited 2012-06-24 05:30 (UTC)

Your name is Roxy Lalonde, and you feel like your hangover has a hangover.

This is why you should never agree to sleepovers at your best friend's house. No matter how much you love Janey, and no matter how awesome it is to be in the same time as each other, nothing good can come of spending that much time with someone who refuses to use alcohol for anything but cooking, and then never more than a splash.

But what Janey doesn't know won't hurt her, and while she's still sound asleep you're going to find some booze before your brain hammers its way out of your skull. And you think you know just the place to look if you don't want to be stuck with that salty cooking garbage!

Roxy: Enter Jane's Dad's study

You stand in front of you locker. If your hand trembles in anticipation, you wouldn't admit it. The man-made material blend which makes up the cloth of your jumpsuit feels almost foreign in your hands.

This is the first time you're wearing it.

You step into the uniform one leg at a time.

When you get it pulled up to your waist, adjusted to be snug against your calves and thighs, you hear stomping behind you. Equius stands there, staring silently at you as he his known to do.

"What can I do for you, man? If you've come to wish me luck... I sure as hell don't need it. Unless of course it's a certain kind of luck."

You waggle your eyebrows and flirt carelessly. He never seems to take you seriously but sweats buckets anyway so what can it hurt to have a little fun with him?

Equius: Wish the pilot some luck

THE SECQUEL TO THE SWET BRO AND HELLA JFEF: YAOIS...........

>Geromy: calm yo tits

Edited (command) 2012-06-24 05:52 (UTC)

WARNINGS: underage alcohol use

GC: H3Y K4RK4T YOU W4NN4 COM3 OV3R TOMORROW FOR 4 N1GHT W1TH JUST US L4D13S
GC: (4ND 4LSO N3P3T4 >:P)
GC: :33 < *the furocious feline hisses with dismay and claws terezi right in the face!!!*
CG: WHAT THE FUCK. NO. A THOUSAND SCREAMING OCEANS OF NO WAY IN GOD'S NOOK AM I EVER SETTING FOOT IN YOUR HOUSE AGAIN.
CG: ESPECIALLY NOT WHILE SHE'S THERE!
GC: :33 < *ac gasps*
GC: :33 < that is so rude! :'((
CG: IT ISN'T RUDE, IT'S SELF-PRESERVATION!
CG: YOU FORGET, PYROPE, BUT I SIT RIGHT NEXT TO HER IN MATH NOW
CG: I'VE SEEN THE WAY SHE DROOLS OVER ANYONE WHO'LL GIVE HER THE TIME OF DAY!
GC: :33 < *hisssssssss!*
GC: :33 < *ac does not drool! kitties dont drool!!! DOGS drool, cats RULE!*
GC: :33 < N3P3T4 STOP ST34L1NG MY
GC: D4MN 1T!
GC: 4NYW4Y BY DO YOU W4NT TO 1 4CTU4LLY JUST M34N 'H34DS UP 1TS H4PP3N1NG YOUR3 COM1NG' SO UH B3 TH3R3 TOMORROW 4T 31GHT OK4Y
CG: YEAH AND WHAT HAPPENS IF I DON'T FEEL LIKE LOWERING MYSELF TO KISS YOUR FURRY ASSES.
GC: H4H4H4H4H4 SC4LY 4SS DONT YOU R3M3MB3R 1TS DR4GONS NOW
GC: 4ND 1F YOU DONT SHOW UP TH3N
GC: UUUUMMM........
GC: HUUUUUUUGS!!
GC: :33 < *AC GIGGles and blows karkitty a kiss on the soft wind of her purring*
CG: ARE YOU DRUNK OR JUST OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS???!!
GC: H3H3H3 BOTH K4RKL3S BUT TH3 L4TT3R COM3S N4TUR4LLY, 4ND FR4NKLY 1M OFF3ND3D YOUD FORG3T SUCH 4 V1T4L P4RT OF YOUR B3ST FR13NDS 1D3NT1TY
CG: SOLLUX IS MY BEST FRIEND.
GC: OH Y3S 4ND C4N YOU G3T MR DOUBL3 4CT1ON TOOTHP4ST3 TO COM3 TOO 1 M1SS H1M!!
GC: NO OTH3R BOYS THOUGH
GC: ON TH3 OTH3R H4ND 1F YOU H4V3 4 L4DY FR13ND 1N M1ND L3TS H4V3 H3R
GC: *SLURP* >;]
GC: :34 < *HEHEhehehehehe*

> Karkat: Invite Jade.

Edited 2012-06-24 05:41 (UTC)

He sure is asleep. Doesn't even wake up when you lightly tap him on the face, like a dream fairy lightly landing on his drooling maw while he's deep in his death sleep, only the fairy is also dead, and you are not a fairy. Like you said, the fairy left.
> Dave: Wake this guy up for real.

He looks less like Howie Mandel than John would've had you believe. Then again, he made it out like they were a whole race of Mandels; girl Howie Mandels, grub Howie Mandels, germophobic-looking fuckers everywhere the eye could see.

Tavros just looks like some pathetic kid whose neck should snap every time he tries to life his head with those horns attached. What type of lame-ass gift is that? Guy doesn't even know how to sleep right, flopping down on top of the covers when he got on the futon and now shivering like its any wonder he's cold.

Dave: Retrieve blanket

(OOC: Too late and forgot the title; a winner is me!)

Edited 2012-06-24 05:48 (UTC)

ARADIA: ok, thank you!

You gratefully accept the tea. The teacup is plastic and the tea looks stronger than you like. You look around for some grubjuice or roe cubes or sourbeast slices to add but you only see a pitcher of milk, some sugar, and a dish of cut up yellow fruits. This is the strangest tea party you have ever been to. You decide to drink the tea as-is, and it is indeed too strong. Sometimes precognition is a little obnoxious.

You distract yourself from the bitter drink by looking closer at Jade's walls.

ARADIA: jade your room is so interesting!
ARADIA: i did not know you were so interested in fine art.
ARADIA: these are lovely! they would fetch top caegar at an aucticution!
ARADIA: did you do these yourself?

Jade looks a little baffled. She glances at her walls, then back to you.

JADE: uh....
JADE: you mean the funny faces on my posters?
JADE: yeah i guess i did those myself!!! i really like animals
JADE: how great would it be to be part animal right?
ARADIA: well, i was a frog once!

ARADIA: Fondly recall frogself.

You keep poking at him, and poking some more with your fingers that are in no way any type of fairy or related to fantasy creatures in any way. Right on his face, shoulder, stomach, sides. This kid has to have some sort of "ON" button, right? If anything, there's got to be some sort of end all troll ticklish zone.

You wonder if you should maybe get some shaving cream first.

Naw. That's more of John's thing. Totally not something you would do, except in some amazingly ironic circumstance that called for no less an action.

After plenty of pokes, you start to wonder if you can die in the afterlife.

You just want to move this gray blob so you can enjoy your own futon while playing fantastically shitty video games.

Dave: Grab the bull by the horns.

Edited 2012-06-24 05:59 (UTC)

Ah fuck, what a snooze fest. The room's filled with a bunch of Dad stuff, and none of that stuff is what you're looking for.

Dad's desk is to the right of the door when you enter and it's about as neat as the rest of the house. A couple of Batterwitch recipes are scattered on the top and you consider casually tossing them in the trash, but decide against it. This is parent territory, after all.

And it's not like you want to get on Mr. Crocker's bad side.

There's a sort of creepy mural on the opposite wall and it'd definitely freak you out if your head didn't hurt so much. You scan the rest of the room. He's gotta have booze hidden in here somewhere, right?

The safe in the corner of the room catches your eye. Jackpot! There's gotta be something in there!

Good think you're the 1337est hacker. Even the thickest of safes aren't able to resist your charm and twist of the finger!

Roxy: Crack open that sucker

"What is it in the blood color that make your overall body structure develop so differently from lower bloods?" The scientist in her asks this in the big words that she knows.

And the question hangs in the air over them like a misty cloud. It had come from nowhere, but Feferi's darker yellow eyes regard Jade and her curiosity with a contemplative look.

"Whale, I think it's a question for someone like Eridan to answer, but if he did, I'm shore he'd just get into another of his superiority speeches."

She giggles, having expected an answer that wasn't very in depth.

Jade: Continue to inquire

You poke him in the cheek a few more times. When this does nothing, you go ahead and grab him by the horn. You wonder if that's the troll equivalent of grabbing some guy's junk.

Well, if it is, all the better for waking this sucker up.

You give his horn a good shake, and eventually he snorts himself awake. Thankfully you manage to dodge any drool that might've landed in your face. Or worse, on your shades. He opens his eyes and blinks at you blearily.

Tavros: Contemplate your new roommate.

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BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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New [Dirk<3Jake] Game (FILL: TEAM [Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose])

New [Feferi<3Jade] Game (FILL: [TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX])

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

New Alpha!Rose<3Alpha!Dave Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<>ARADIA)

New [Rose<3Kanaya] Game (FILL: TEAM SLICK<3<SNOWMAN)

New Aradia<3Feferi Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Equius)

New Nepeta<3Karkat Game (FILL: TEAM [Aradia<3Feferi])

Rose and Kanaya: Begin exploring meteor (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

New Aradia<3Jade Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE)

New Dirk<3Equius Game (FILL: TEAM Eridan<>Rose]

Feferi and Jade: Go for a walk down the beach. (FILL: TEAM [Aradia<3Feferi])

Dirk: Exit Bedroom. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE)

New Eridan<3Karkat Game (FILL: TEAM John<3Karkat)

Kanaya: Retrieve chainsaw from sylladex (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

New Roxy<3Dad Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Equius)

Dirk: Get into your flight uniform (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

New SWEET BRO<3HELLA JEFF Game (FILL: TEAM JOHN<>VRISKA)

New [Jade <3 Karkat] Game (FILL: TEAM SOLLUX <3 TEREZI)

Dave: Examine sleeping troll. (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT)

Dave: Examine sleeping troll (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Equius)

Aradia: Gratefully accept a cup of tea. (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

Dave: Wake this guy up for real. (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

Roxy: Enter Jane's Dad's study. (FILL: TEAM Jake<3Terezi)

Jade: Inquire about Feferi's fishy qualities (FILL: TEAM JAKE<3JANE)

Dave: Wake this guy up for real. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)