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

Your name is JOHN EGBERT. You are TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD, and for reasons you would RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT, you are FLAT BROKE. You have resorted to becoming a STREET PERFORMER as a means of hopefully making a little cash.

At the moment, you are standing in a busy city square, attempting to AMAZE AND MYSTIFY with your STUNNING ILLUSIONS and BAFFLING FEATS. Your cards fly from hand to hand, you make coins vanish and reappear from nowhere, pull silks and rope and razors from your mouth. Sometimes you get a polite smile or a penny or a nickel, but mostly, people walk straight past you without sparing half a glance. As of six hours standing in the heat with your deck of cards and half-dollars, you have made only...

You have made...

You look down in time to see a bone-skinny hand tossing a literal wad of bills into the upturned fedora - formerly almost empty except for a littering of coins - at your feet.

You blink and look up to thank the generous stranger, only to see oh god is he a juggalo.

He doesn't say a thing, just stares down into your eyes, seemingly utterly transfixed. He's pasty white where his face hasn't been decorated with weird black and white patterns, blue-purple veins standing out harshly on a twiggy neck and arms. His hair's a wild blond mess that easily sits at least six inches tall - and he's tall himself, a complete string bean, standing more than a foot taller than you. He notices your attention, and a slow grin spreads across his face like molasses.

"Couldn't help but all be motherfuckin' gettin' my notice on of the miracles you're making, bro," he says; his voice is soft and slightly gravelly, barely above a whisper that you have to strain to hear. "That's all I got on me right there, but I'd give you more if I could."

You still don't really know what to say, so all you manage is, "That's very kind of you." How much money did he even put in there? He can't be serious, can he?

Wait a minute, that doesn't look like legal tender to you...

> John: Examine bills of dubious legitimacy.

You pick up a bill sitting on the top of the pile, and regard the image of Ben Franklin whose face usually adorns legal American tender.

Oh, he is still there all right.

Only this Ben Franklin now looks like a shoddy member of KISS, his face inked over in black ball point pen.

You check over all of the other bills, and notice that all of them have been similarly vandalized.

Will people even accept this money? You figure they must, if this guy is still getting away with doing it. Never mind the fact that it is going to be embarrassing as hell to buy things, now.

Oh well. Beggars can't be choosers.

The juggalo is still staring at you, and you figure if he has given you several hundred dollars for no reason, the least you could do is offer to buy him a coffee.

John: Make offer

"Hey, so, want to go get some coffee?" you say, goofy grin on your face. "I mean, for thanks. Seriously, that was an awesome thing for you to do."

You eye the juggalo carefully, waiting for a response. All he has is a goofy, lopsided grin on his face, and it does make you a little bit on the nervous side.

Finally, he's talking to you, goofy grin still on his face, like he doesn't have a care in the world.

"Sure thing, bro."

John: Follow the Juggalo.

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.

New JOHN<3GAMZEE Game (FILL: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE)

John: Examine bills (FILL: TEAM ROSE<3SOLLUX)

Re: John: Examine bills (FILL: TEAM DAVE<3SOLLUX)