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

==> Helmsman: Reminisce about a slightly less sucky part of your life.

You reminisce about... about something you think about often.

Your time on Alternia reaching out to people, preaching peace and doing good works for your fellow Trolls of all castes was the highlight of your life. Indeed, despite where it landed you, you would never trade those sweeps for anything. There you found joy, fulfillment, and love in many tones.

Sometimes you still hold out hope for a new start and equality for your kind... but that's impossible now.

==> Helmsman: Suddenly realize you look like a Star Trek alien.

???

You are not a merry man!

You briefly contemplate explaining the important visceral, cultural and most unfortunately psychical distinctions between your species and some hypothetical naked apes whose idea of "alien" is forehead putty. You have been the flagship to conquer some legitimately alien societies, ones whose mindsets, biologies and ways of life were so impossibly unlike yours that you would have loved to study them peacefully, and in doing so learn about yourself as much as them. Perhaps this could have even led to some sort of confederated alliance of star systems, in which you could have taken a place as some sort of psychological officer using your psionic abilities to coordinate a diverse crew.

But instead, what happens is you just drive a ship over to pulverize their defenses, drop off the first waves of VICEROYNFANTRY to impose your cultural over theirs as violently as possible, and then skip off to deliver the queen to the victory parade with enough time to get a mani-pedi first.

The ship's loudspeakers crackle, advising personnel to prepare for acceleration. Your useless ruminations are an inadequate distraction for what's coming. You really need to think about something else. The worst part about it is always that it's the opposite of what being with the Sufferer was like. It's as though every single ounce of compassion and happiness he gave you is being drained out of you.

You can hear the hum of the preliminary stages of the FTL engagement sequence. Your baseline level of excruciation is about to multiply exponentially; not much time to try to focus on something else.

==> Helmsman: Remember the most peaceful, calm moment of your life.

Edited 2012-06-25 06:47 (UTC)

You had started to forget after the first 20 sweeps of your 'service' on the Condescension's flagship. You had only the inner walls of your Helm to look at and the features of your friends, once so clear, had begun to blur and distort.

You had freaked out and meticulously preserved every memory in a file. That was one of the few perks of having your mind forcibly remodeled into a horrific blend of binary coding and flesh. From your fallible cortex straight to the security deposit box that was the Ship's engine coolant status logs.

Seriously, no one ever checked those.

Helmsman: Open File 'vantas_fIIrst_smIIle.mem'

This is one of your favorite files you mean memories. Though fuzzy in parts, you fondly remember the first time you saw this smile. It was that first gentle smile that won you over, that made you realize this heretic was different, special, that his ideals were worth following.

It was this smile that ultimately caused your undoing. The sight of it hurts you on bad days, gives you hope on better ones. It's one of your ~~most-opened files~~ most relived memories.

Helmsman: Open another file.

Edited 2012-06-26 07:28 (UTC)

You hover over this one for a second. This is another frequently remembered memory-- earlier in the archives than the smile, but if it weren't for this you might not have had any of these memories.

Helmsman: Enough waxing poetic! Open the damn thing already.

Jeez, give a guy a break! You're getting to it. These instructions sure are pushy today. You open the memory file and get ready to fully relive that fateful day.

It all began back when you were still a slave.

Helmsman: Remember.

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.

==> Helmsman: Reminisce about a slightly less sucky part of your life. (FILL: TEAM Equius <3 Tavros)

==> Helmsman: Suddenly realize you look like a Star Trek alien. (FILL: TEAM Kanaya<3Rose)

Helmsman: Remember (FILL: TEAM Eridan<3Sollux)

Helmsman: Open File 'vantas_fIIrst_smIIle.mem' (FILL: TEAM Eridan<3Sollux)

Helmsman: Open another file (FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT)