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

Unfortunately, over the course of the next half-hour, it turns out almost none of your friends are both a)interested, and b)avalaible.

Tavros fumbles with hesitations until you get impatient enough that he squeaks out a no, Kanaya’s in the middle of preparing her fashion show, Sollux is an asshole who didn’t pick up the phone when you called and in fact changed Feferi’s message to not iinterested iin hangiing out with sweaty assholes wiith a domiinatiion kiink when you called her, you can’t get Gamzee to keep track of the conversation, and Karkitty’s answer can accurately be summed up as FUCK NO, though he spends the next two minutes detailing the depths of his abhorrence for the idea.

Vriska informs you she has too many irons in the fire. That’s too bad, she and Equius have this weird friendship that you like to pretend you don’t care about, but you’re actually really glad for him, even if it is Friska.

Even Terezi, who’s your good friend by all definitions, has told that she had a HOT H4T3D4T3.

The only one who’s said yes is Aradia, so now you have to find other people.

At Aradia’s last party, she thought it’d be fun to try and talk with ghosts. You spent the night fighting off angry spirits. That was cool, you can admit, but everyone already knows Equius is good to have on your side, and it hasn’t helped with this idea the others have that he’s boring yet!

And that’s everyone accounted for, though technically you guess you haven’t called Eridan.

> Reflect on whether you should call Eridan

That doesn’t even need thinking about. You’re trying to help Equius connect with the others, not make him suffer through an evening with the creepiest creep of creepdom. Last time Eridan was in the same room as the both of you, he suggested a flushed threesome.

And then you had to deal with Equius’ freak out.

You’re all for Equius letting his hair down a little, but Eridan was lucky you were too busy shooshing Equius to escape with his miserable fins intact. You’ve been looking for an oppawrtunity to remind him that cats eat fish, but you should keep that for another time.

> Realize you’re clawing at the air and go back to the issue at paw

Done.

No-one’s willing to come over and play into your master plan, which is something of a setback.

You were prepared for this eventuality.

> Break out blackmail material

Edited 2012-06-25 09:18 (UTC)

You waste no time in getting out your BIG BLACK BLACKMAILING BOX. It's perfect for times like these.

=> Open box.

You open the box with a swipe of your claw and look inside. You grin as fond memories of your friends pass you by. In the box you find a MERMAID BARBIE, a SET OF WEIGHED DICE, a BADLY CONSTRUCTED QUADRANT ROSTER, a TACKY SKIRT, HOT-PINK LIPSTICK, a PRIVATE-LOOKING JOURNAL, a FAKE FAIRY WAND, a SIGNED I <3 NICOLAS CAGE T-SHIRT, and some COMPROMISING PHOTOGRAPHS.

You stifle a bout of evil laughter. You have more important things to do.

=> Start blackmailing your friends.

Edited 2012-06-25 16:50 (UTC)

=> Start blackmailing your friends.

Easy enough!

Well, furrst of all, lets look at the SIGNED I <3 NICOLAS CAGE T-SHIRT.

You would recognise the handwriting anywhere! It's Karkitty's!
While he act's all hissy about Nick Cage, he loves him almost as much as Vriskers! It's okay, you can use that later!

Next, onto the HOT-PINK LIPSTICK.

Shock horror, who's is this! :OO

Kidding, you know who! It's Kananya's! H33h33! She acts like she's super fashion conscious, but you remember a while ago when she wore this! It turned out kind of catastrophic! More black mail though!

Hmmm,
=> What else can you use to blackmail?

You pick up the weighted dice, and roll them around in your hand. Even though ~~Vwiskers~~ Vriska kind of scares you, Equius likes her reasonably well enough, and so does Aradia you think.

Besides, Vriska is far too proud to want people to know just how she won that FLARP game a few perigees ago. Everyone said it was impossible, and then when she actually won it, she was lauded as nearly a FLARP goddess. Until then, Aradia had been unanimously viewed as the best FLARPer.

Vriska would never want word of this flagrant cheating getting out.

Nepeta: Contact Vriska

ArsenicCatnip [AC] began trolling ArachindsGrip [AG]

AC: :33 < vwiskers! guess what?
AG: Leijon, 8efore you ask, I don't care a8out your party. Quit 8ugging me. I've got so many 8etter things to do.
AG: Soooooooo many 8etter things. You don't even KNOW.
AC: :33 < irons in the fire! yeah i know!
AC: :33 < but i thought you might... reconsifur.
AG: What?
AC: :33 < reconsider, sorry. that one wasn't furry good.
AC: :33 < the point is! you'll want to come to my purrty once you h33r what i have to say!
AG: I don't care what you've got planned, I don't care who else is going, I don't caaaaaaaare, Leijon.
AG: Your party is lame, and your moirail is lame, and that's all there is to say on the matter.
AC: :33 < pl33se? only aradia is coming so far, and if no one else says yes, i'll have to put some irons in the fire of my own!
AG: Ahahahahahahahaha you really are lame. It's almost cute.
AG: Wait
AG: Did you say that the only other person there will 8e Megido?
AC: :33 < um, yes?
AG: So it's just going to 8e you, Zahhak, and Megido?
AC: :33 < at the moment!
AC: :33 < but
AG: Oh no.
AG: Oh noooooooo.
AG: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA this will 8e TOO good
AG: Okay, now I'm seriously de8ating.
AC: :33 < ?
AG: On the one hand, it'll 8e your lamey lame lame party.
AG: On the other hand, it'll pro8a8ly 8e lame in the most hilariously awkward and fucked-up way possi8le.
AG: It'll 8e hilarious no matter what is my point.
AC: :33 < what are you even talking about???
AG: Hey, you're the shipper! YOU'RE supposed to 8e the one who plans for terri8le eventualities like this!
AG: Zahhak making an idiot of himself, and Megido making an idiot of HERSELF trying to avoid the idiot that Zahhak is making?
AG: This might 8e too good to miss.
AC: :33 < ...
AG: You know what, my irons are awesome enough that they can w8 for one night.
AG: I think I'll 8e there after all.

ArachnidsGrip [AG] has ceased trolling ArsenicCatnip [AC]

> Nepeta: Well... success you guess? See if you can get anyone else.

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.

>Nepeta: Call everyone. (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)

> Break out blackmail material (FILL: TEAM BRO<3DAVE)

=> Start blackmailing your friends. (FILL: TEAM DAVESPRITE<3JADE)

=> What else can you use to blackmail? (FILL: TEAM SLICK<3<SNOWMAN)