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

Masala chai with a splash of milk; you make a soup mug full of it each time she communes and even though it's habit by now, she always asks. Something about retaining a nostalgic sense of propriety, or whatever, you don't really care about that kind of thing. Not when it's just you and her against the world. Or, so you like to pretend. Sounds cooler that way.

"Got your tube," you say over your shoulder as you scoop a spoonful of fragrant leaves into a tea bag and flip the switch on the electric kettle. "And it even works ah shit, another houseguest, yo Kitkat!"

There's a rustle of paper and patter of paws on hardwood, and then a streak of black shoots through your tail to catch the mouse, fading with a cheerful "Hi Dave!" into the living room. Rose shuffles in with a groan and slumps at the kitchen table.

>Davesprite: Serve like a dude from butler afterlife.

Edited 2012-07-06 06:55 (UTC)

You kill the lights for her with a thought, accessing the grid through your wireless internet hookup and breaking the circuit. It's still relatively light outside, but the high rises in the area block out most of the sun. The room takes on a light orangish cast from your body, like firelight without the flickering. It's pretty rad. Rose doesn't notice though, what with her forehead pressed against the cool wood of the table like that. You shrug and finish making her tea.

"That was sooner than they were supposed to call, wasn't it?" Usually she's not so wiped out like this, but it was just yesterday she was talking to another squid monster from another dimension, that time for much longer.

"I believe you are the one who keeps my calendar," Rose mutters, her voice echoing off the table. "I understand it's hard being a dataghost and that no one understands, but really, you're as quick as an AI in data processing, Dave." A pause and then, "They were supposed to contact me three days from now. They were unhappy. I think that one threw extra vitriol at me out of spite. Uthrrnt'rng? They're known for that kind of thing."

"Oh yeah, I've got files on that asshole." You stir some sugar into the tea and then add ice, blowing on it as you carry it over to her. Then you spread your hand and pull up floating orange holo displays, scrolling text on Uthrrnt'rng the Untimely. "Weird. They tend to be late, not early. Something must be fishy with the order. You want me to get on the horn to HQ and cross-check references through the interdimensional pipelines? Pop an ollie off Pentagon security and 360 into dataspace?"

Rose sits up and sips her tea with her eyes closed, which means she totally misses you wiggling your eyebrows at her. Spoilsport. Sure, you're glowing, but you're... easy on the eyes. Okay, that metaphor doesn't really check out. Back pocket, Dave. Rework it and deploy it later.

"That can wait. I dealt with them according to regulations. I was thinking maybe you could work this crick out of my neck instead." Her eyes are still closed but she gives you that sexy little smirk, and if you still had a heart it'd go all pitter-patter right about now.

> Davesprite: Be the masseuse.

Edited 2012-07-06 07:32 (UTC)

"Yes milady creepmonger, let me be the fluffy ass down pillow where thy may rest thine smelly feet." The moment your hands touch her neck, she sighs and rolls to rest her chin on folded arms. Leftover dark magic drifts out of her mouth and nose in little puffs, dissipating like incense smoke. Smoking is cool and makes her look cool, even if the wisps take form of talons and jagged teeth and symbols. She's a superfreak, but she is your superfreak, and hell if you didn't relate to being glitchy.

"My feet are not smelly," she mumbles and rolls her head to the side to say little to the right.

"Your feet are so smelly."

Something growls from inside her and makes the space around you shiver, warping like a room of flexible mirrors, and you snicker. What a showoff.

"If the schedule keeps—and do ignore the fact that apparently there's no telling that it will—I believe we have a few days to ourselves."

"Only one way this is going-"

"What say we do some redecorating?" she says and stares at your projection over her shoulder with humor in her eye. You roll your eyes (girl sure loves her euphemisms) and explode into pixel dust, settling in a three-dimensional interface that fills the living room. Feels good to spread out; being a feathery ghost-boy is cute and all, but it's nice to have room to... not breathe, that's not the right word. Eh, close enough.

>Rose: Push his buttons.

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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.

[> Davesprite: Well, you heard the lady. ] (FILL: TEAM [Nepeta<3Terezi])

> Davesprite: Serve like a dude from butler afterlife. (FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY)

[> Davesprite: Be the masseuse.] (FILL: TEAM [Nepeta<3Terezi]