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hs_olympics2012-08-06 09:24 pm
hso_mods) wrote in hs_olympics2012-08-06 09:24 pm
BONUS ROUND 5
Bonus Round 5
Tales from the Road
Hey, shippers! HSO is winding down, so we thought we'd take a look back at the journey, so to speak. With that in mind, this next bonus round is going to be roadtrip-themed! Give us a little taste of your characters' life on the road, whatever form that takes.
Rules
- Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of one ship (friendship/gen is fine too!) and a location. This cannot be your team's ship! This round we will not be giving points for prompts.
- Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!
- You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.
- Fills should be posted as replies to the prompts which they are for, following the format below. They may be any medium.
Title Format
If you are starting a new thread, please use this format in your title.
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 you are filling a prompt, use this format in your title.
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 we cannot guarantee that it will 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
For fills (as stated here):
First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15 in each post: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+ in each post: 5 (per entry)
All scored content must be created/assembled new for this round.
If you have any questions, please ask them at the FAQ post here, or email them to us (homestuck.shipping at gmail). Otherwise, we cannot guarantee that we will see them in a timely fashion!
Bonus Round 5 is now closed!
16/08/12 Comments are unscreened again, for the sake of comments on fills. No new fills are being counted for points.
PROMPT: TEAM Nepeta<3Terezi
location: Saturn's Rings
FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY
But first they have to achieve orbit!
Jade grins and pulls herself hand over hand through the zero gee, passing from the storage bay through the expansive science center and beyond that to the cockpit snuggled into the very front of the orbiter. The instrument array is sprinkled out in front of her, multicolored keyboards and buttons and switches and tiny glowing monitors just waiting for something to do. Something to analyze and pull knowledge out of. After seven years, it's finally time for Cassini 5 to do the duty it was designed for. Jade is going to learn all there is to know about Saturn and her beautiful moons and she can barely contain her enthusiasm.
"Kanaya!" she says with a smile as she slips into the seat in front of the main keyboard and straps herself in. "Wow, I know it only feels like it's been a few weeks to me, but it's been seven years for you! How've you been? How many truths of the universe have you solved in the mean time?" She laughs because it's more likely Kanaya spent her time reworking Earth fashion every season by proxy and reading the endless torrent of horrible vampire novels that are beamed out to her every month.
"I've been well. Although the only universal truth I have managed to lay to rest is the merciful extermination of capes from Earth fashion."
Jade laughs. Kanaya's voice is rich and full of as much smiling fondness as Jade's is. The only difference is that it comes from the big speakers set into the walls. Kanaya is a computer program, although she used to be alive once upon a time. Jade knows all about the complex processes that condense the fleshy folds of the human brain to bits and bytes in a multi-teraflop mainframe. Almost as much as she knows about the fancy space-age genetics that were spliced into Jade herself to make her better at thriving in space, so she could come out here and pour herself into the research she and Kanaya are about to spend a decade doing in Saturn orbit.
"You'll have to catch me up on everything that's going on back home." Jade's fingers dance over the keyboards, bringing parts of the orbiter to life that have lain dormant for years. The spacecraft responds like a warm friend. She grins to herself. "Oh wow, this is exciting. There's so much to do. Here, let me take over some of these boot-ups for you so you can concentrate on getting us into the snuggliest orbit!"
"Ah, thank you." Kanaya is nothing but a smiling emoticon in the corner of Jade's screen, white vampire fangs peeping out of pretty green lipstick. "That frees up a bit of my RAM. I stowed my ambulatory robot in order to concentrate on orbital injection protocols. As soon as we are safe and sound through the E-Ring void I should be able to take it out again and help you set up for initial magnetic field analysis."
"That sounds like fun!" She wiggles her eyebrows seductively and adds, "I know they say that sometimes you lose brain cells in cryofreeze, but I definitely remember how hot your android is!"
The little emoticon winks, then blows Jade a pink pixel kiss. "And I have not forgotten what a charmer you are. I have missed speaking with you, Jade. It will be quite enjoyable to catch up. I have collected a library of anime and obscure music while you were sleeping. Perhaps we could once again enjoy some of it together in your down time?"
Jade giggles and rolls her eyes. "But science first!"
"Science definitely comes first," Kanaya responds with a smile. "Ten minutes to primary rocket burn."
She hasn't felt the tug of rocket acceleration in years and Jade grins to herself, so ready to kick off this marvelous science adventure.