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

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

apocalypseArisen [AA] began trolling cuttlefishCuller [CC]

AA: hell0 feferi
CC: )(I ARADIA! 38D
CC: It's R---E---ELY nice to )(ear from you so early in t)(e evening!
AA: d0 y0u perhaps kn0w 0f any way f0r a landdweller t0 g0 underwater
AA: except executi0n by dr0wning i mean
AA: 0h and i was visited by 0ne of the previ0us heiresses
AA: if y0u want t0 talk ab0ut that

It occurs to you that maybe you have a knack for raising depressing topics. It's taking Feferi a while to reply...

> Feferi: Respond.

You suck in a deep breath and stare at the blinking trollian window for a few minutes. This was always a topic that rubbed you the wrong way, to think of all the girls like you that died. Oh, but anyway, enough thinking about that. You need to respond to her.

CC: O)(! W)(at about!
AA: she t0ld me ab0ut s0me ruins under the sea
CC: T)(at's w)(y you want in the water?
CC: Whale...O)(! I t)(ink I do )(ave something! )(old on I'll c)(eck!

> Feferi: See if you still have what Aradia needs.

CC: I'V-----E STILL GOT IT!!!! 38D
CC: You will CRUIS----E t)(e underwater realm like you are ABSOLUT---ELY MAD-----E FOR IT. Like you are a princess too!
AA: 0h! really? feferi thats wonderful!
AA: is it a submarine i kn0w 0f st0ries where unusually trusted landdweller advis0rs were br0ught underwater by such machines
AA: 0r a diving suit! that w0uld be s0 exciting
AA: * -----Exciting!
CC: )(ave I told you how much I glub you? <3
CC: But t)(is is MUC)( BETTA! It's )(orrorterror --------ENDOD---ERMAL L---EAVINGS!!
AA: yes
AA: yeeeees
AA: the skin of killer interspacial squid does s0und much better than anything i c0uld have c0me up with!
AA: better
AA: that is definitely h0w i w0uld describe it
CC: It is V---------ERY RAR----------E for Gl'bgolyb's blood to be s)(ed, even by )(er.
CC: W)(en s)(e s)(eds skin so deeply t)(at it draws blood, t)(e skin leavings )(ave special properties! T)(ey can become a part of a person for some time if t)(at is w)(at the person c)(ooses, and give t)(em access to some of )(er abilities.
AA: s0 its
AA: 0nly for a limited am0unt 0f time
CC: It can be totally safe and leave you in no way irreperably sea-c)(anged by cosmic forces beyond understanding or control!
CC: If you're CAR-------EFUL.
AA: well
AA: since youll be there
AA: and if its in the name of a real archaeol0gical adventure 0f a kind thats alm0st never ever been d0ne
AA: ...

> Aradia: Make your decision (and bear its consequences).

Feferi's suggestion reminds you of a fairytale: Once upon a time, the princess gave the lowblood a magical cloak...

Of course, most fairytales end with the lowblood getting culled for insubordination. You're quite sure Feferi isn't going to cull you, but those cosmic forces beyond understanding sound dangerous.

Well, what's an archaeological adventure without a little danger? These ruins need exploring, and there's only one troll up to the task! Besides, you've got some experience dealing with forces beyond understanding.

AA: ill d0 it!
AA: when sh0uld i meet y0u?
CC: T)(e sooner the betta!
CC: )(ow soon can you get )(ere?
AA: im leaving n0w.

Aradia: Leave now.

You arrive at Feferi's hive quicker than she expected. Well, the shoreline closest to her hive, in any case.

Since she wasn't expecting you just yet, she is not waiting for you. You decide to message her. You brought your husktop just in case she wasn't waiting when you arrived.

apocalypseArisen [AA] began trolling cuttlefishCuller [CC]

AA: im here

apocalypseArisen [AA] ceased trolling cuttlefishCuller [CC]

You wait there for a few moments, until Feferi comes out from the water. She doesn't look like she's carrying anything with her, which confuses you somewhat. But you brush it off.

Aradia: Ask to see the merchandise.

Feferi sets foot on land, dripping wet and smiling that toothy grin of hers. "Hi!" she chirrups. "Sorry I'm late."

"You're here now, and that's what matters." Without much of a pause, you segue right into the purpose of this visit. "May I see this horrorterror skin you were discussing?"

"Oh! Right!" The highblood nods, reaching up towards something around her hair, and seems to seize what looks just like ... air, pulling it down in the emotion one would remove a hood. As it pulls away from her body, it assumes visibility, now appearing as a thin, rubbery layer making up a cloak. "It doesn't look like much on me, because, well, I already have all the necessary bits for being underwater! Go ahead, though. Try it on."

She extends the item out to you, and you cautiously take it, slipping it on.

==> Aradia: Also acquire the "necessary bits".

You blink for a moment because you don't feel anything change, but you see Feferis eyes widen and you know that it must have worked. You look to the side with the corner of your eye and touch at the fins on your face.

You jump at the weird feeling.

> Aradia: Become really -EXCITED and give Feferi a hug.

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.

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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

Aradia: Contact a friendly seadweller for advice (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

> Feferi: Respond.] (FILL: TEAM Karkat<3Karkat)

Feferi: See if you still have what Aradia needs. (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3NEPETA)

Aradia: Make your decision (and bear its consequences). (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Rose)

Aradia: Leave Now. (FILL: Team Dave<3Rose)

Aradia: Ask to see the merchandise. (FILL: TEAM JADE<3ARADIA])

> Aradia: Also acquire the "necessary bits." (FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat)

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