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 scan the large bookshelf, looking for the right book for the present. Most of the books on the shelf are cookbooks, tips on shaving (for your dad of course!), and a few bad novels that you kept just for keeps. Surely there's a book that you coul-
Oh great, it's him again.

At this rate, you'll get hardly anything done!!

==> Jane:Answer AR

Edited 2012-07-03 04:41 (UTC)

TT: So, which book are you going to use?
GG: Well I actually I’m having a bit of tr…
GG: Wait! When did I say anything about a book?
TT: Didn’t I tell you already? You humans are stupidly predictable.
TT: After I ensured the demise of your confectionary masterpiece, there was only one logical step you could take.
TT: Which was of course, acting on the idea I’ve been subliminally implanting in your mind for months, and gifting him with your own work of specially edited literature.
GG: So you’ve purposefully been badgering me all day in hopes that I would ruin the cake I was making for Dirk while I was distracted?
TT: So it was a cake! I was expecting as much. Once again your human secrecy proves not match for my superior calculating skills.
GG: That was a terrible thing to do AR! Why would you sabotage all of my hard work like that?
TT: Because it appears that your human mind can only focus on one major revelation at a time, let me repeat myself.
TT: TT: Which was of course, acting on the idea I’ve been subliminally implanting in your mind for months, and gifting him with your own work of specially edited literature.
TT: In other words, I believed that, as delicious as the cake might have been; the book idea was superior to the baked good one.
GG: Oh, I see. You know you could have just told me upfront that you liked that idea better. Then I wouldn’t have wasted perfectly good ingredients on something doomed to burn.
TT: Dirk would have been disappointed if you hadn’t at least tried to bake something for him.
TT: You’re Jane Crocker, baking is what you do, and I am 98% certain that Dirk would not have it another way.
TT: The book, however, is more likely to stir his human feelings of gratefulness and adoration.
TT: It demonstrates that you are willing to step out of your usual zone of comfort to produce something to his liking.
GG: You do have a point. Sending him a copy of a book I edited would mean so much more to him.
GG: Though I must admit, I have no idea how I’m going to go about it.
GG: I’m afraid my current library is rather limited to cookbooks at the moment.
GG: And even if I could find the proper book I could never hope to produce something as masterfully ironic as Pony Pals.
TT: I should hope not.
TT: Dirk has spent his entire life studiously exploring the many layers of irony.
TT: A beginner like you couldn’t possibly hope to even come close to matching him.
TT: I said step out of your comfort zone, not change your style completely.
TT: A cookbook should do fine.
GG: But…
TT: Gotta go, Dirk’s starting to wonder what I’m up to.

Well, now you at least have some idea of what you’re going to do. Finding the right book suddenly became much easier now that a cookbook has become a viable option. Actually, you have just the idea for a book you can edit!

Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes. Why didn’t you think of it sooner?
You procured this book a few years ago, believing that it could appease both your loves of cooking and traditional humor at the same time. But alas, the recipes were simply horrendous, and the jokes not up to par with Dahl’s usual brilliance. You are pretty sure Dirk will appreciate the terribleness of this cookbook. Enjoying sub-quality works appears to be part of his “ironic” persona. Yes, you are 90% certain that this is the book for Dirk. You may change your mind later and be forced to completely rework his present once more, but for now this is what Dirk shall be receiving once you’ve added your personal, most likely unironic, touch.

You begin annotating the first recipe.

My, this is difficult work. You hope your annotations will make for a pleasurable reading experience. You’re afraid your attempt at Dirk’s style of wit fell rather flat, but he might enjoy the silly anecdotes about your mutual friends and your pieces of advice for those curious about the fine arts of practical japery. Well, best to continue working while you remain uninterrupted. Who knows how long that will last?

==>Jane, continue working on Dirk’s present.

You can't be Jane and answer Auto-responder because you are actually Dirk pretending to be Auto-responder pestering Jane! This masquerading is accomplishing a vague purpose that has nothing to do your companionable relationship with Jane.
Naturally Shades is pissed but he's just gonna have to hold his nickering pixelated horses. You may be a master of multi-tasking but you're working on something. Multiple somethings really. Multiple somethings for some esoteric goal. He's not a something that you have to think about right now. Besides, as awesome as conversing with alternate version of yourself is, you'd rather have some hella ill talksies with Jane.
TT: I've predicted that if you haven't already charred the cookies by now you can salvage the other confectionery.
GG: Gosh-darn it Shades, give me some respite.
GG: You're going to be mucking up my plans at this rate!
GG: Actually, knowing your derisory programming, you're doing it on purpose.
TT: Yes, these distractions are but one puzzle piece to completing my suggestive anthropomorphical jigsaw scheme.
GG: Your eccentric schema will have to wait for the interim.
GG: I'm returning to doing thingamajigs.
GG: Thingamajigs I mustn't share details about with you!
TT: Suit yourself. I will return to my substantially more obfuscating project.
==>Dirk: Use wrench in a constructive manner

TT: You seem to be ignoring me.
TT: After going through multiple logistical routes in 0.00001 seconds, I have determined that what you are doing is a waste of time.
TT: Whatever.
TT: It seems that you have finally acknowledged my presence.
TT: Just to tell you to stop your ridiculous rambling about being an artificial intelligence.
TT: I am a copy of your brain. Anything I say is what you would say if you were an AI, which you pretty much are, through me.
TT: I'm not even attaching a margin of error statistic to that statement. It's 100% accurate.
TT: Can any statistic even be 100% accurate?
TT: When you are an artificial intelligence with unlimited knowledge, you know that all of the logic and equations in existence point to yes as the answer.
TT: But you are not an artificial intelligence, and your attempt to imitate one with Jane was laughable.
TT: Done.
TT: What?
TT: I'm done with the thing that you told me was a waste of time.
TT: I was referring to your conversation with Jane being a waste of time.
TT: This project was definitely worth the effort.

TT: Happy birthday to me.

Dirk: Turn Janebot on.

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Credit for Janebot sprite!

Edited 2012-07-05 06:20 (UTC)

> > Dirk: Turn Janebot on.

You're doing this.

You're making this happen.

You reach over and press the button hidden on her leg, with a small trickle of sweat rolling down your back. You ignore AR, unaware of the fact that the artificially intelligent You was currently laughing his ass off.

You watch the Bot come to life, and wait for it.

And wait for it.

And...

> ==>

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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Re: ==> Jane:Examine Bookshelf (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TAVROS )

==> Jane:Answer AR (FILL: TEAM Equius♦Nepeta )

==> Jane:Answer AR (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TAVROS)

==>Dirk: Use wrench in a constructive manner (FILL: TEAM JOHN<ROSE)

> Dirk: Turn Janebot on. (FILL: TEAM DIRK<3ROXY)