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BONUS ROUND 2
Bonus Round 2
The Return of Round Robin Fanadventures
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.
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!
>Karkat: Be the killjoy (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)
You are now the killjoy. It is you.
Unfortunately, maybe because you welcome each of their idea by a similar assessment, neither of your matesprits pay the least attention to you.
Instead, Vriska keeps cackling and John looks at her as though she’d hung the moon. Or more accurately, stolen the moon.
Which might as well be what she’s going to do according to the both of them. (You are never getting used to that plural.)
“ARE YOU FUCKING LISTENING? THIS. IS. STUPID.”
John finally looks at you, and your blood-pusher flip-flops in dizzy relief. There! Maybe you’re all going to make it through the night without getting caught and needing your friends on the good side of the law to bail you out! You’ve tried explaining it to Terezi: just because she likes to make Vriska beg for it doesn’t mean she should make John and you pay, too.
It was about as effective an intervention as your efforts to make Vriska reconsider.
“Dude, not so loud,” he says, all concerned frown. “You’re gonna get us caught!”
>Karkat: React as it truly deserves
>Karkat: React as it truly deserves (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE)
"Well how the fuck am I supposed to react when you wait until the last minute to tell me that our objective is to steal the FUCKING DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. It's not like they have a ridiculous amount of securty measures involved to prevent this sort of thing from even happening! An amount that is APPARENTLY far too large for your idiotic minds to even fathom! Did you expect me to go, 'wow! this is truly the greatest idea that you two have ever come up with!' In the long, long list of horrible ideas that you two have squeezed out from your malformed think pans over the years, this is by FAR the worst."
"That's really what you think about our ideas? That's not what you were saying last night." Vriska smirks at you, and John does the chuckle thing that doesn't distract you in the slightest.
"AAAAUGH. You two are literally the worst thing that the universe ever came up with."
"Come oooooooon, Karkat! What's life without a little excitement?" Vriska wraps an arm around you, and points to the sky. "There aren't any forces in the world that can stop us! I've got all the luck, and together, we have all the beauty, brains, and talent!"
"You're the beauty," John chimes in.
"AAAAAUUUUUGH. OKAY, I'll do it, if only to get you two to stop making these pathetic attempts at speeches. If it was up to you to motivate groups with your rhetoric, we would have died even before we even started out on our first heist."
"But you don't even know the plan!" John notes.
"...Fine. Just go over what we're doing then, so I actually know how to best convince you guys not to screw up, as hopeless of an effort as that may be."
>John: Go over the plan.
>John: Go over the plan. (FILL: TEAM ARADIA<3ROSE)
You are now the guy who has the plan! Unfortunately, you don't have much of a plan planned to share with Karkat. When you have a mega hot girlfriend with all the luck and super awesome mind control powers, you don't really need trivial things like plans. Although when you have a super cute boyfriend whose fingers are curling in worry, it's best not to admit that.
You guess you could make one up for him!
..... Then again, it has take four years to train out of Vriska mind controlling people to get her way, and Karkat totally withholds hand-holding privileges when he catches you lying. It is no fun watching movies that make him cry if you don't get to hold his hand!
EB: there totally isn't a plan, dude.
EB: or, i guess the plan is to just be awesome?
EB: stop worrying this will be great!!!!!!!!
> Karkat: React to this heap of spidershit.
>Karkat: React to this heap of spidershit (FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS)
You have just experienced a CRITICAL EXISTENCE FAILURE. The force of your reaction has done an Olympic-grade fucking arabesque, and it has erased all of existence. You are now a mere conscience screaming itself raw as it pirouettes slowly in the nothingness where there used to be a planet.
GAME OVER. TRY AGAIN?
No, wait.
You realize you still have a body, with a clenched fist attached to it and your airsacs filled with imprecations that you’re dying to let out, and so you didn’t accidentally cause the end of all existence.
You can’t react to it because Vriska has taken control of your body just in time to put your hand against your mouth. All that comes out is a muffled “HMPHFFFFFFFK.”
You glare at her. There at times you are sorely tempted to flip black on her.
“Vriska!” John exclaims, distressed. It would make you feel all warm and fuzzy, except pity isn’t in any way a decent alternative to a plan.
“Just a sec, John, it’s an emergency” she says, raising her finger. You can’t do anything but glare at her. “I’m sorry, Karkat. But you were going to shout the security system down and it would be exactly what you don’t want to happen, right? I’ll make it up to you later. Now, I’m going to let go of your hand. Don’t call security on us, okay, Karkat?”
“Come on, Vriska, of course Karkat’s not going to!”
She ignores John’s protests.
“Nod if it’s okay,” she tells you.
What are you going to do? It’s not like “I TOLD THEM NOT TO DO IT” is ever a working excuse.
They’re going to owe you so many apologies after this. If you'd bother to work out how many - though apologies aren't an exhaustively quantifiable and you're fucking aware of it - you'd probably find they owe you all of them, to steal a phrase.
Grudgingly, you nod.
The pressure of the palm of your hand eases up, and you can cross your arm to your bloodpusher’s content.
“Fine.”
John grins, and wraps an arm around your shoulder. “You’ll see, it’s gonna be awesome!”
Downright unforgettable is what it’s gonna be.
You say so.
Vriska catches your look and grins. “So that’s good, then. You see, I have a plan.”
>Vriska: Reveal plan