Identity Reboot [post-Round 10]

[Haschel Cedricson]

Something_Smart, where were you traveling to and from when your car died?

[N]

Damn, I really liked Samanthpurr Stephens

[Something_Smart]

Oops sorry

Something_Smart, where were you traveling to and from when your car died?

My family has a place in the Adirondacks that we visit sometimes in the summer ("cottage" is a very strong word, I prefer "rundown and probably haunted former hotel"). Normally we drive up there together but for whatever reason my mother had to stay back and come later, so I had to drive up and bring my brother and sister (meeting my aunt and uncle who were already there). My car at the time (this was a few years ago, the summer after my freshman year) had been a gift from a family friend who got a new car and gave me her old one, so it wasn't in excellent condition although it wasn't super beat-up or anything, but I also wasn't an experienced driver nor was I that experienced with the car itself. Anyway, the drive went fine until we were about five or ten minutes away at which point it started to make a bit of a weird sound, but I brushed it off as nothing. At that point I probably should have checked the engine temperature but it didn't even occur to me. Anyway when we came up to the driveway I went to turn to pull in and it just didn't want to turn, and then it didn't want to move at all, and then it started smelling really bad, and by then I was acutely aware that something was very wrong. We ended up having to push it out of the road into the shoulder and then get it towed to the garage down the road. Turns out the head gasket was busted, and I still don't remember what that is, but it's bad. It wasn't worth fixing. We didn't have anything else to do with the car, so we just left it there.

[Haschel Cedricson]

Ugh. "A place in the Adirondacks" is so vague. The story seems to have it die right before the driveway, though. Albuquerque is too far away from El Paso. Vash's Facebook in this era doesn't mention a girlfriend but he does have a friend who went to Brown. Again, though, the driving distance doesn't quite work.

Time to gamble.

StrangerCoug made Wheel of Fortune games.

[Ariel]

The gamble pays off!

Strangers	Identities
N	Drove a 3.5-hour drive and had their car die permanently while pulling into the driveway of the destination
Something_Smart	Once bought a copy of Sean Hannity's Let Freedom Ring as a gift for a friend
VashtaNeurotic	Their microwave is older than they are

Assistance

1 question

Match Attempts
11
10
9
8 ---Line of Assistance Revocation---
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

[Haschel Cedricson]

Oh good, that gives me a question.

N, the question about the car now goes to you.

[StrangerCoug]

I was worried about that one since I said last iteration I didn't drive. (I've also yet to have an in-person interview in Albuquerque despite considering jobs there.) Parts of the rest are true, though.

[N]

Oh good, that gives me a question.

N, the question about the car now goes to you.

I was driving from my parents' house (north of Adelaide) to visit some relatives in Mildura. I was driving a Honda Civic from the late 80s. It wasn't just me driving, but I did drive the last section of the trip.

[Haschel Cedricson]

Eh, in that case you didn't drive a 3.5-hour drive, you drove 3.5 hours of a 4.5 hour drive. Not buying it.

Alright. I don't think N made the drive. I have seen N's refrigerator and it is fancy. Do I buy that he would have a fancy refrigerator and an old-ass microwave?

Vash said he "still doesn't know what to do with" the Hannity book. He just moved to a new state, though, and I imagine he wouldn't have taken the book with him. I have seen his oven and it's not that old.

I have seen Something_Smart's dishwasher and I know that okay fine I haven't seen his dishwasher but I wanted to keep the theme going.

[Haschel Cedricson]

Fuck it,

Vash for the broken car

.

[Ariel]

Vash's car did not do the thing >:

Strangers	Identities
N	Drove a 3.5-hour drive and had their car die permanently while pulling into the driveway of the destination
Something_Smart	Once bought a copy of Sean Hannity's Let Freedom Ring as a gift for a friend
VashtaNeurotic	Their microwave is older than they are

Assistance

1 question

Match Attempts
10
9
8 ---Line of Assistance Revocation---
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

[Haschel Cedricson]

Nooooooooooo

I wanted a perfect score so bad. :-/

[Haschel Cedricson]

Vash, what are the model numbers of your microwave/stove/fridge/dishwasher?

[VashtaNeurotic]

Uhhhh, I have no idea how to find that, all I know is it's like 25 years old and my parents gave it to me when I moved.

[Haschel Cedricson]

Alright, I still don't believe N was driving the car.

Something_Smart had the car die.

[Ariel]

That is correct, and marks the end of your round. Congrats on 10 matches! Want to guess at the last two?

[Haschel Cedricson]

Vash bought the book, N has the old microwave.

[Ariel]

Yep!

[N]

Alright. I don't think N made the drive. I have seen N's refrigerator and it is fancy. Do I buy that he would have a fancy refrigerator and an old-ass microwave?

I looked it up before posting! It's 3 hours 40 minutes from the area my parents live in to Mildura!

When have you seen my fridge?

[Haschel Cedricson]

Well, not your specific fridge, but you posted a picture of the same model in a previous Identity game.

[Ariel]

Here was the result of the round btw:

Round 5: Haschel Cedricson

Strangers	Identities	Identified?
CaptainMeme	Once set up an RPG-style item shop in a disused telescope dome	Yes
CreativeMod1	Has witnessed their grandma getting spanked by a rapper who is famous in [Stranger's country] and whipped by Britney Spears	Yes
Equinox	Broke a mercury thermometer on Day 1 of organic chemistry class	Yes
Errantparabola	Sobs uncontrollably every time they watch a specific frog video	Yes
N	Their microwave is older than they are	No*
RadiantCowbells	Their mother met and spoke to Luca Magnotta multiple times well before his arrest	Yes
Radja	Has eaten both cat food and dog food and thinks dog food is 100 times better	Yes
Save the Dragons	Helped make a computer game called Meowgic where cat witches fight each other	Yes
Something_Smart	Drove a 3.5-hour drive and had their car die permanently while pulling into the driveway of the destination	Yes
StrangerCoug	Would make Wheel of Fortune sets out of paper as a kid	Yes
Tatsuya Kaname	Plans to fly to another country and then fly back home on the same day later this year	Yes
VashtaNeurotic	Once bought a copy of Sean Hannity's Let Freedom Ring as a gift for a friend	No*

[Ariel]

Welcome to Identity, VashtaNeurotic! Here are your strangers and their identities in alphabetical order:

Strangers	Identities
Ariel	Ate a whole large pizza on a dare, but successfully cheated by sneaking crusts and other chunks of the pizza in their pocket
CaptainMeme	Didn't realise 'Sucky Oranges' were just a family tradition until college
Fluminator	Got a 98 on the honor's chemistry final exam without studying, but still failed the class by three points
Haschel Cedricson	Has a new puppy named Pirate
Iprobablysuck	Has never owned or used a dishwasher
Korina	Had their cell phone ring during an important interview so the interviewers got to hear [Stranger's] unprofessional ring tone right after they asked what professionalism meant to [Stranger]
Mina	Is ashamed of their interest in Enneagram and MBTI
N	Once jumped into a pool with all of their clothes on and has scraped their right arm from biking
NotAJumbleOfNumbers	Once made a police officer scream like a little girl
pablito	Plays competitive dodgeball with international gold medalists
Plotinus	Was terrified of jellyfish until they were stung by a jellyfish
xofelf	When they were 6, had the understanding that you could only get pregnant when you had a head cold

Feel free to begin with a match attempt, using a lifeline, or using your first available question. Good luck, and let me know if you need any clarification!

(

If you're a stranger in the current round and notice someone else's identity applies to you, please let me know that privately!

)

[Ariel]

Consider the game paused

[Ariel]

Because "Once jumped into a pool with all of their clothes on" applied to more than one stranger, this identity has been adjusted to "Once jumped into a pool with all of their clothes on and has scraped their right arm from biking." Carry on!

[VashtaNeurotic]

Okay, so I'll do deep research but first I'm gonna split. Probably by taking 6 people and the top two I suspect them of being and making sure those are divided in half.

Mina I feel would be either MBTI or the cell phone thing so also gonna want to split those up.
pabs sounds like a dead ringer for playing dodgeball or the pool one
N I don't know too much, but jelly fish makes a lot of sense for an australian and Sucky Oranges given their identities have related to something strange or not strange they didn't realize
Jumble gives me vibes of the 98 but might be the puppy?
xof being either head cold or pizza feels right but I'm very prepared for that to be a complete whiff
And that leaves the police officer and dishwasher.

Let's

Split

it like this:
Pizza, MBTI, Exam, Dodgeball, Dishwasher, Jellyfish in one

The rest in the other.