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

John Egbert's Precious Little Life

Your name is JOHN EGBERT.

Recently you've been dating a cavegirl [Nepeta Leijon: 6 solar sweeps years old]. It's been nice, you guess. Nice and simple, hanging out with someone who just wants to chatter about who's dating who.

That all changed (except that Nepeta kinda doesn't know its changed) when, in the middle of a dream involving finding your father's bloodied hat in an empty castle, you were suddenly interrupted by a girl in orange flying past.

"Wahhh wahh wahh, stop 8lu88ering!" she called out as she darted by, rolling her eyes at you. "It's just a dream, dum8ass!"

John: Obsess about dream girl

((Today is the day I learned that I can't imitate Bryan Lee O'Malley's style for shit with only a mouse available to draw with. orz)

Immediately after waking up from your dream, you felt the need to share it with your roommate KARKAT VANTAS. This was pretty easy, since you two happen to share a bed. Totally platonically!

oh my god karkat!
i just met the most amazing girl!

JOHN.
YOU'VE BEEN ASLEEP.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

i had a dream about her!
she was so cool.
she could fly and she was wearing these cool orange pajamas and dude.
she was awesome.

AREN'T YOU STILL DATING THAT CAT CHICK?

she's not a cat chick!
i mean, not literally.
she does have a thing for felines i guess.

IF YOU'RE GOING TO INSIST DATING A SIX SWEEP OLD CAT GIRL THEN DON'T FUCKING OBSESS OVER RANDOM ORANGE CHICKS YOUR DREAM ABOUT.
GOD, THE NEW HEIGHTS OF IDIOCY YOU MANAGE TO REACH CONSTANTLY AMAZE ME.

hehehe. i know you love me karkat!
anyway.
i have to meet her.
want to help me go find her?

FUCK NO.
GET OUT OF MY APARTMENT.

You go to band practice, where you continue to obsess over this dream girl.

>Rose: Psychoanalyze John's new obsession.

((there are no words for how much I love your for this.))

Edited 2012-06-26 02:55 (UTC)

“Well, it seems almost insultingly obvious that you are sublimating your aspirations for a more, shall we say, sophisticated love life through this dream girl of yours.”

You raise an eyebrow.

“Rose! I am very happy with my love life!”

“Aren’t you still dating that cave catgirl of yours?”

You raise the other eyebrow. Success: he looks mildly flustered under the Disbelieving Brow Combo.

“I—yes, but! We’re very happy! We go to the movies together, and we go on adventures – she loves hunting! We do plenty of stuff!”

“Uhuh. Tell me, John, have you stopped begging for the life of her prey when she’s done prowling?”

He hesitates.

“I don’t—- beg-— I—- ask her? Nepeta’s a really nice girl!”

“Dude.” Dave looks up from the guitar he’s been disinterestedly fiddling with before Dirk arrives. “You’re dating Nepeta Leijon? That’s the most pathetic thing I’ve heard all week, and I come to your rehearsals. She’s totally pining for Vantas’ rounded ass.”

John glares.

“Why are you even here, anyway? Are you spying on us?”

“You wish,” Dave says, with even less emotion in his voice than usual.

That’s a sign you’ve learned to pay attention to. You can feel the rap coming from a mile away, and you interrupt before your sort-of sibling has the time to launch into an assault on the strictly no-rap-allowed grounds that is your rehearsal space.

“Your interest for Karkat’s glutes has been duly noted, Dave, but I must agree with John, here. With the upcoming Battle of the Bands, I’m afraid we’re going to have to do without your impeccably ironic appreciation for our non-existent musical skills today. As for you, John,” you add, “I regretfully must admit that Dave – shocking as it may be – has a point.

“It’s been a year. Don’t you see this rebound period with a six-sweep-old cavegirl is turning into an excuse to avoid connecting emotionally again with people more to your speed? People you’d have more in common, people who would challenge you?”

Unnoticed by John, Dave has strategically slid over to put himself between John and the door. Good; John looks like he’s considering bolting at any moment. Dave may be a little flaky when it comes to confronting his own demons, but he’s never been one to give John an out when you’re helping him through his issues.

You smile encouragingly. “You can talk to me, John. I’m always here to listen to your problems, whatever they may be.”

John closes his eyes, and you’re edging on your seat – finally! A breakthrough!

All your efforts are ruined when Dirk chooses this exact moment to enter.

He takes one circular look at the scene – you’re pretty sure he does, shades or no shades you know him as well as you know yourself, which is only slightly less exhaustive than you do everyone else – and nods minutely.

“Are we having another intervention about how long it’s been since John broke up with—-”

“Don’t. Say. That. Name.” John interrupts. He is mimicking the tone and rhythm of Nicholas Cage asking the bunny to be returned to the box. That you’ve been subjected to the scene enough to realize so deeply pains you, and reminds you at the same time that John is a dear, dear friend of yours, for whom you would brave death, doom, and the most terrible fucking awful actor Hollywood has ever borne.

Dirk crosses his arms, leans against the doorframe, and raises an eyebrow. You are filled with sudden affection for him, the one of your siblings that doesn’t make you feel desperately awash in the sea of funtimes and heroic rap-offs Dave and Roxy seem to share.

“It’s been a year,” he repeats. “You should move on. Date someone. Real dates – not following your fake cavegirlfriend while she kills savage beasts and you both want to be with someone else. Someone real – not Liv Tyler or the latest dreamgirl you imagined in your sleep.”

Surrounded with the impassive, similarly-bespectacled faces of your brothers, and your own contented smirk, John looks spooked.

>John: Rue the day you decided to associate with the Strider-Lalondes

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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New John<3Vriska Game (FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Equius)

John: Obsess about dream girl (FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA)

>Rose: Psychoanalyze John's new obsession (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)