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

You take hold of her hand, the very one with that blood smearing over the soft skin. The color is abnormal, mutant. But to her it isn't even something to bat an eye at.

She watches you hold her hand. She knows you are staring at those few droplets of blood coating it.

You bend your head down and press a kiss to those stained knuckles.

In you head, you part your lips and slowly suck each of those digits into your mouth. Your tongue would work slowly and casually to clean off every drop of that sweet liquid.

Instead, you keep your mouth closed. You have far more control of yourself than the stories would have you believe.

With as much grace as you can muster, you lift your head away from her hand.

Rose: React to Kanaya licking her lip

Your name is Rose Lalonde and you're quite certain that your brain has died. Or would be were it not for the aforementioned brain death. And so you instead opt for staring wide eyed in what appears to be shock. Your face is also terribly red. Why you're blushing so much that even your ears are turning red.

This isn't at all helping in the not being brain dead department. So you take to commenting on this. Surely if you speak you will be able to bring yourself back. Weaving such tales of finely tuned sarcastic wit as the world could never imagine on its own.

Instead all you get out is, "Well now."

>Kanaya: Be an uncertain, nervous mess

You finish warily cleaning the blood from your lips with your tongue. Rose is staring at you with that red blood coloring her cheeks. Those two little words... well you don't even know what she meant by that.

You've probably scared her. Not only are you something foreign for Rose by being an alien, but she must be doubly uncertain of your very existence due to also being a rainbow drinker. She probably thinks of you as a monster who very much has just had a taste of the humans blood.

The blood that you spilled.

God, what she must think of you now.

You stand and focus on brushing non-existent creases and lint from your dress.

Kanaya: Suggest you continue exploring

"Rose I do believe it would be highly advantageous to us in our current state to proceed once more with our taken exploration of the rest of the facility as it could potentially lead to a useful finding for ourselves and our group," you sputter out awkwardly. It comes out all in one breath and you can't help but feel worse for it. You're just so horrid at this communication thing. It's quite frustrating.

A part of you wishes to help Rose in getting up, but that part of you is currently hiding under ten tons of shame. You instead take to slowly walking ahead for a short distance and waiting. Turning back reveals that Rose is standing on her own, still soothing her wound.

"Yes that would likely be a proper course of action," is all she has to say in response for the moment. You just nod and attempt to squash the feeling that something is wrong with this situation. That you should be doing something else.

>Rose: Explore the meteor and ponder the situation

The two of you continue to explore, now engulfed in a fairly awkward silence. Of course, your brain is anything but silence, the previously pondered brain dead state now a million miles away.

What had just happened? She'd hit you of course, as you'd asked, and it had quite literally knocked you off your feet as had whatever it was exactly that followed. You lightly touch your knuckle, still stained with a few small droplets of blood, with the hands of your other finger. Of course this doesn't compare at all to the touch of Kanaya's lips, the thought of it making you blush. You quickly put you hand back at your side, noticing that Kanaya has stopped to stare for a bit during one of her routine checks that you're still following.

You clear your throat as you close the distance between the two of you, now walking by her side as you continue down the corridor. It might be best to break this awkward silence.

>Rose: Break the awkward silence

Kanaya?
Yes Rose
Would it bother you if we were to intertwine fingers while we continue our exploration of this meteor?
...
That Would Not Bother Me In The Slightest

=> Rose: Confess romantic feelings.

Your name is Rose Lalonde and you are currently walking along a path in the meteor with Kanaya. Hand in hand, fingers interlocked you tread slowly through the darkened halls. There is likely much of interest, but you are currently too preoccupied to notice it. You've become keenly aware of the strange numbness that has run through much of you. Save that one hand. There you feel a pleasant warmth and though you'd normally question the fact that what is technically a walking corpse is warm, you don't now.

There is something else to think about. You've pondered the matter before and if it could indeed be considered what you were theorizing. Now you feel so horrendously certain and wish to build a clever plan of attack. It will be witty and amazing and remembered for all time because of how draw droppingly suave it is. This is what you want, but it is not what you manage.

Instead you suddenly pause in your walking and Kanaya quirks her head to look at you, a questioning look upon her face. Any plan you had dies and instead you do the only thing you can: fill the air with lots of pretty words.

"Kanaya I do believe that I'm in possession of a truth that aches to be revealed. There exist about us in the many immaterial planes of existence, beings of aether that await the eventual torrent of confession with bated breath. Or, more accurately, what amounts to such for such beings of fine color and spirit," you begin all in one breath. You can barely feel your body anymore and the talking can't be stopped, "Now you see this fact that I wish to divulge to you at the time is one of agonizing import and significance. Verily it crushes my spirits and numbs my limbs. Honestly it's quite a surprising relief that I'm even capable of this much. I'm beginning to drawl on, though, spewing logorrheic nonsense and so I must make effort to cut this short. What I mean to state that is I harbor a series of thoughts and emotions that I have garnered to be romantic in nature. Flushed in particular."

You stop for a moment and laugh at yourself awkwardly. Next you wave for no reason with your one free hand and wait for a moment. You're so terribly fucked now and you've messed this up all so bad. So you finish with a "That's not succinct in the slightest...I should have settled on 'Kanaya I think I'm horrendously flushed for you.'"

A wave of relief comes after saying that, but there is still a nagging anxiety in the air.

>Kanaya: Be overwhelmed by sudden rush of joy

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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==> (FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave)

Rose: React to Kanaya licking her lip (FILL: Team Mindfang<3Dolorosa)

Kanaya: Be an uncertain, nervous mess (FILL: Team Aradia<>Dave)

Re:Kanaya: Suggest you continue exploring(FILL: Team Dolorosa<3Mindfang)

>Rose: Explore the meteor and ponder the situation (FILL: Team Dave<3John)

>Rose: Break the awkward silence (FILL: TEAM BRO<3DAVE)

=> Rose: Confess romantic feelings. (FILL: TEAM Dolorosa<3Mindfang)