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

As you move towards the room you are now starting to get worried. As quiet as you and Kanaya tend to be together, your house still never has this amount of silence. The only sounds that you can hear are your footsteps and your breathing. Oh, and the thumping from the other room. You keep hearing that too.

The bumps just get louder and more frequent the closer you get to the source. You are scared but that won't stop you if something has happened to Kanaya. You reach the room that the noises are coming from and place your hand on the doorknob, bracing yourself for anything.

>Rose: Open door

You steel yourself, square your shoulders and get a better grip on the knob, taking a deep, shuddering breath. Then, pulse pounding in your ears, you thrust the door open with a mighty "bang!".

... And there is Kanaya, sitting perched in a squashy armchair, with an array of lamps that would be much more appropriate for a darker time of night set around her. Several empty mugs containing the last few remnants of blood-emulsification tea are stacked like sentinels on the sidetable. And in the middle of it all, Kanaya looks up at you like a dear in the headlights, bags under her luminous eyes deep like bruises. In her surprise, she's clutched whatever object she'd been holding tight to her chest. Though most of the book's cover is obscured by her protective pajama sleeves, you can just make out the its title: The Complacency of the Learned.

Most importantly of all, you notice her feet are placed upon the most rickety footrest you have in the whole entire house. If she were kicking her feet as she read, that was surely the source of the mysterious thumping.

You sag against the doorway. It's all you can do to keep from laughing in relief. "Did you even sleep last night?"

> Kanaya: Explain.

Oh dear, it seems that Rose has caught you in this state. And it also seems that you have made her worry.

"I am sorry, but I started reading this just a few days ago and I really can't seem to put it down. It is riveting."

You don't mention the nightmares that you have been having. Rose doesn't seem to have picked up on the fact that you haven't slept in three nights. You are very lucky that your rainbowdrinker nature means that you do not have to sleep as much as other trolls in order to function properly, but at this point even for you it is only the tea that you are constantly consuming that is keeping you from shutting your eyes.

Shutting your eyes and being encased of dreams of death and darkness and pain and blood. So much blood. Not all of it yours.

You gasp awake. It seems that in that instant your exhaustion has kicked in and you had fallen asleep. Only for a few instants though it seems because Rose has moved to your side and is now holding your hand.

>Rose: Realize what is going on

BONUS ROUND 2

Bonus Round 2

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>Rose: Investigate further (FILL: TEAM [Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose)

Rose: Open door (FILL: TEAM JADE<3ROSE)

>Kanaya: Explain (FILL: TEAM Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose)