BONUS ROUND 2

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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

1. 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!
   
2. 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!
   
3. 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">
   
4. For this challenge, there is no minimum wordcount. We are trusting you not to abuse that fact!
   
5. You may not comment twice in a row in one adventure. The point is to hand off the scene like a hot potato.
   
6. 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.
   
7. 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.
New [THEIR SHIP] Game (FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP])
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.
[COMMAND] (FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP])
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!

Comments

New [KARKAT<>SOLLUX] Game (FILL: TEAM [ERIDAN<3SOLLUX])

[evapples]

Your name is KARKAT VANTAS and today is your first moirailversary.

That is not the actual term but the point still stands that one sweep ago today you and Sollux Captor officially became moirails. There was a heartfelt confession and everything. You cried a little.

You've been so pale for that stupid fuckup over the last sweep that it's made your bloodpusher ache and jump in really annoying, invigorating ways. You've shared some really good times and made it through some pretty shitty ones too and have had a healthy and fulfilling moiraillegance going on. And okay, maybe you're exaggerating the healthy part just a little bit—nothing about Sollux is particularly healthy and you knew that before you signed him into your quadrant so it's not like you're complaining about it. Actually, you'd be lying if you said that wasn't part of what made you fall for him in the first place. But he's been doing a lot better with a palemate around to whip him into shape and though you still fight and bicker constantly you don't think you could have asked for a better moirail. It's been pretty awesome.

The romantic in you has been going wild for at least a week.

Not all trolls celebrate anniversaries, what with the constant war and violence occupying their time, and you can't say you've ever done it either. Of course, you've also never had one before.

You've been planning this date for longer than you'd care to admit and boy are you nervous. Did you wash all of the sopor out of your hair? Does the suit look okay? Are the flowers too much? ...The flowers are too much. Wow you are a fucking idiot. Sollux isn't a romantic by any stretch of the imagination. He probably doesn't even know what today is! And of course he doesn't want flowers!

Karkat: Freak Out.



You clutch the bouquet close to your chest and have a silent freak out in front of Sollux's door. It's not too late to turn back. You can just pretend this never happened. Send him a short IM over trollian before the day is up instead.

"OH, I ALMOST FORGOT. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY NOOKSUCKER. <>"

It's perfect. You turn to leave.


Sollux: Open the door.

Sollux: Open the door (FILL: TEAM [Sollux<>Terezi])

[rydia]

You are now SOLLUX CAPTOR.

You are a COLOSSAL FUCK UP, but you have recently acquired a MOIRAIL who has been pretty good at making you less of a COLOSSAL FUCK UP. Which is pretty nice, actually. You have had 242% fewer PSYCHOTIC MELTDOWNS in the past few perigrees, which you attribute solely to your aforementioned MOIRAIL.

Yeah. A few perigrees. Maybe six or seven, you think? You aren't sure, because you are TERRIBLE WITH DATES.

Currently, you are coding the shit out of this new program you've gotten the idea for. It is going to be the best program you have ever written. It is going to make every other program in the entire universe look like the underside of an obese hoofbeast with digestion problems. Because, when it comes to coding, you are simply the best there is.

Except when you wrote that script that was supposed to link your computer to the remote database someone had set up in your communal hivestem and then disable the universe-wide web in apartment 217, since that guy was a douche that always left his laundry in the washinator way too fucking long because he was too busy playing Dark Age of Alternia. That code hadn't worked out so well, and you'd had to break into his DAoA account and delete all his high level characters instead, after timidly restoring power to the entire hivestem. Oops.

That had not been your best coding night.

Nor had it been your best night that time you accidentally melted down one of your silicomb beehouse mainframes on account of trying to something new with one your virus codes.

Or that time you...

Well, the list continues.

You are really not all that good with computers. You are terrible with computers. You conveniently forget the fact that you were three when you melted that mainframe, that you had only knocked out power to the entire hivestem because you ran the code remotely from Karkat's computer, and that 99.9999% of your codes are amazing and perfect and better than just about anyone on Alternia could come up with.

That isn't the point! The point is that you're awful, and this code is going to suck, and you might as well save yourself the effort of trying, because there isn't any point!

You decide instead to go on Trollian, but Karkat's name is idle. He had hinted at doing something special tonight, so you figure he is off and busy. Maybe you will play one of your game grubs. Maybe you will go for a walk! No, that sounds hard.

But either way, you're pretty sure you haven't left your hive in about a week or so, so why the fuck not.

You open your hivestem door out into the hallway and immediately notice your moirail standing in front of you. It does not immediately occur to you that he is wearing a suit. He has his back to you, and you are very confused.

"KK?" you ask.


>Karkat: ABORT! ABORT! DITCH THE FLOWERS! ABORT!