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

Your name is KARKAT VANTAS and you have just made THE WORST MISTAKE OF YOUR YOUNG LIFE.

You've irrevocably ruined all chances with your horrible love, JOHN EGBERT. The tip of the tongue taking a horrible fall of three steps from the roof to tap, at three, on the fangs. John. Eg. Bert. He was John, plain John, yadda yadda -

Look. You don't have time for this shit. Your aural cavities are still ringing from the last revelations of your own idiocy, Kanaya's shoes are actively plotting to murder your feet, and if Rose ever finds out what happened to her book you're a dead troll.

You're sure the general gist re: you never ending longing for the heart, butt, and bucktoothed smile of John Egbert has been communicated, and references to both modern literature and fan adventures of yore have been satisfied.

The point is, YOUR LIFE IS OVER.

Also, there's a bucket on your head.

>KARKAT: EXTRICATE SELF FROM BUCKET.

==> KARKAT: EXTRICATE SELF FROM BUCKET.

You would do it, you really would, but you feel so damn ashamed of yourself, you suppose that this overtly disgusting form of self-punishment and humiliation is probably the best way to remind your self that YES, YOU ARE A FUCK-UP.

You take it off anyway.

Placing it down beside you, you knock it wayside a little with a gentle (READ: ridiculously infuriated) kick, and proceed to plop your self down with all the grace of a tyrian blood. But not really. If you honestly think a single molecule in your body could possibly possess grace at this moment in time then damn you, you need someone to recalibrate your thinkpan.

You really want to talk to John. You really, really do. You want to cry and beg and grovel until he forgives you, but HOLY SHIT, that is way OUT OF CHARACTER.

So instead, you sit and stare at your CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, praying to the stars that the previously-considered-annoying-but-would-now-be-glorious beeping noise characterised by the "ONE UNREAD MESSAGE" sign would go off.

Any day now.

Any second now.

Really, before the 12th Perigee's Eve, for fuck's sakes.

You only barely resist the urge to throw the damn thing against the wall, before suddenly, the useless technological lump of refurbished metal chunks in your hand dings.

Great, you wonder who it could be.

==> KARKAT: Answer the message.

Ah, of course. It's not from your erstwhile FLUSHCRUSH, but from his sister, JADE HARLEY.

You're sort of scared to look, but, realizing nothing worse can possibly befall you at this point, you gamely click on.

JADE: i hope you realize you are a big smelly butt mister!!!! : ( where did you run off to now??? D:

KARKAT: HARLEY, I HAVE BEEN BROUGHT LOW. MY PESTULANT VITUPERATIVE FACE DESERVES NOT TO BE SEEN BY THE LIKES OF YOU. LEAVE ME TO FESTER AND ROT IN THE GROVELING WRITHING SHAMEPIT I SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY DUG MYSELF INTO.

==>KARKAT: Look at life. Look at choices.

You.
Your choices.
Your life.

The only successful way you can do that is if you lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling and think about how pathetic you are. Your expression turns into a disgusted one when you remember that one time--

Actually, you'd really rather not get into all of your screw-ups right now, especially when you're already in a terrible mood. Like always. When are you not in a crabby mood?

You hear another notification from your CELLULAR DEVICE, but you're not in any hurry to see what Harley's response is. You don't even consider that it might actually be the derpy-faced boy you were hoping for.

Instead, you simply lay there for a good couple of minutes. Maybe you should check your messages.

==> KARKAT: Attempt at regaining some dignity and check your messages.

==> Karkat: Attempt at regaining some dignity and check your messages.

Plopping yourself on the floor, you take off Kanaya's shoes, which are pleasantly destroying your little troll pedal digits by what seems to be an attempt at an intra-shoe implosion.

You also remove the crumpled up pages of Rose's copy of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath from where they were lodged between your hips (and also in your shirt), before throwing them disdainfully to the floor.

Voluptuousness, Terezi said was necessary.

You snort, revolted.

Underneath your prized sweater (that you managed to re-steal after the mad dash that was ESCAPE JOHN EGBERT), you are clad only in a bright red dress, and a nice frilly pair of bubblegum pink panties.

Terezi said it was going to be a good idea.

Why did you listen to her again?

You sigh, and suddenly remember the presence that is your CELLULAR DEVICE, and the fact that it had rung earlier.

You pick it up, and in realizing this message was not from Jade, you start to dread.

==> Karkat: Answer John.

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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New John<3Karkat Game (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI)

==> KARKAT: EXTRICATE SELF FROM BUCKET. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

==>KARKAT: Answer the message. (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI)

==>KARKAT: Look at life. Look at choices. (FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3KARKAT)

==> Karkat: Attempt at regaining some dignity and check your messages. (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)