BONUS ROUND 2

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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

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 ARADIA<3KANAYA Game (FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3TEREZI)

[xelfi]

Your name is Kanaya Maryam and at least chainsawing through the mummified trolls occupying these ruins is a little easier than dealing with the regular surface dwelling zombie and their usual degree of sun-baked, leathery epidermis. Aradia, choosing to conserve her psychic energy and instead relying on her whip to cut through the approaching horde, is likewise having no trouble holding her own, and is even capable of fighting them from a distance while your weapon forces you to dispatch them at a much closer range. You're both handling the undead situation admirably.

You're having a much harder time dealing with the exponentially increasing amount of dust and grime being tossed in the air and on your clothes, however, and, not for the first time tonight, you're wondering what you're even doing down here.

But then you turn to see Aradia grinning and laughing a short distance away as she decapitates another fragile mummy with a crack of her whip and you remember.

Kanaya: Exposit

KANAYA: EXPOSIT (FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY)

[pyrokineticvampire]

Where to begin?

Perhaps the beginning.

You didn't know Aradia very well, at first, not until after the game. She'd been a ghost and then a sprite and then a robot before you really got to know her, you regrettably admit, yet you knew of her. You admired the way she stuck to rules and gave simple instructions. Many complained about how one-sided she was as a ghost and didn't like not having options without creating offshoot timelines, but you could always tell Aradia knew what she was doing and you would not regret listening to her. She was balanced and in control, in a way that Vriska, Rose, and any others just weren't.

You suppose the word you're looking for is dependable. You've always been the dependable one. You've always been the moirail and the auspistice. It feels good to have someone to depend on once in awhile, and for you, Aradia is that someone.

When Aradia ascended to god tier, you were able to know her on a whole new level. She was radiant in her liveliness and sweeps later, that shine in her maroon eyes hasn't gone out. When she smiles, she not only looks happy, she looks jubilant, as if Derse had gone up in flames only last week and being alive is still a new development for her.

As Aradia goes after another mummified troll, her long locks of hair sweep out behind her and her arms flex as she cracks her whip once again. You could watch her take down zombies and the like for hours, she is that entrancing.



Kanaya: Fail to notice the trio of mummies behind you