Identity

[KittyMo]

RadiantCowbells has read the Hobbit 100 times.

Through PoE you have learned that Postie tried to master telekinesis as a teenager.

Strangers	Identities
Aristophanes	Has marathoned the LOTR Extended Editions on Christmas break the past 4 years
Errantparabola	Invented a chess variant with friends that partly involved fencing with pool sticks among other antics
Equinox	Once participated in, in front of over a hundred people, an embarrassing amalgam of Shakespeare and the modern day, containing such lines as "those wings are totally rad" and "that's only geeky little Ariel, she sux"
Realeo	Their playlist consists mostly of Rising Star, Hillsong, and Eurovision Song Contest' songs
StrangerCoug	Wanted to be a doctor as a kid but the closest they've come to that is processing medical claims
Vijarada	Won third place in a regional engineering competition in grade ten

Correct Matches	Amount Won
7	$50,000
6	$20,000
5	$10,000
4	$5,000
3	$2,000
2	$1,000
1	$500

Assistance: 2 Questions | Tri-Identity

[implosion]

In as stranger.

Will send some identities at some point today.

[D3f3nd3r]

Tri-Dentity on playlist please.

[KittyMo]

Tri-Dentity on playlist please.

That identity belongs to one of Errantparabola, Realeo, and StrangerCoug. Your final match attempt must go toward this identity.

Assistance:

2 Questions

[D3f3nd3r]

EP, why do you only have that kind of music in your playlist?

[Errantparabola]

lol. This is weird because it was that at the time, but it's completely different now.

Basically, that was around the first time i took the effort to start liking songs on youtube, so I could come back to them and listen to them all at once.

Rising Star came from a video I watched of the person who plays Heather Duke in Heathers the Musical (alice lee), who also was in the USA version of that, and it sort of spiralled from there. hillsong was from one of the guys I used to tutor and he would send me a lot of stuff. I don't recall how eurovision song contest started, but a ton of my music comes from other people, so I'm guessing that as well was one of my friends who introduced me to it, and I can probably guess who.

[D3f3nd3r]

Why you, SC?

[StrangerCoug]

I like singing shows Nothing really more to it than that.

[D3f3nd3r]

Don't believe either of those enough to change my mind. Going to guess that it was Realeo.

[KittyMo]

Correct! Congrats on 7 correct matches.

It made me really nervous for you that you chose not to ask Realeo anything so I'm happy about this turn of events

Would you like to take unofficial guesses at the rest?

Strangers	Identities
Aristophanes	Has marathoned the LOTR Extended Editions on Christmas break the past 4 years
Errantparabola	Invented a chess variant with friends that partly involved fencing with pool sticks among other antics
Equinox	Once participated in, in front of over a hundred people, an embarrassing amalgam of Shakespeare and the modern day, containing such lines as "those wings are totally rad" and "that's only geeky little Ariel, she sux"
StrangerCoug	Wanted to be a doctor as a kid but the closest they've come to that is processing medical claims
Vijarada	Won third place in a regional engineering competition in grade ten

[D3f3nd3r]

I figured that asking the two of them would have been smarter.

Aristo wanted to be a doctor
Vijarada did the chess thing
Equinox did the crappy Shakespeare
SC did the engineering thing
And EP's been watching a ton of LOTR

[Realeo]

It made me really nervous for you that you chose not to ask Realeo anything so I'm happy about this turn of events

Same!

Don't believe either of those enough to change my mind

What makes you think it is me to begin with?

[Aristophanes]

Do I seem like the medical type?
I think I'm more nerdy than people expect! Lol

[D3f3nd3r]

It made me really nervous for you that you chose not to ask Realeo anything so I'm happy about this turn of events

Same!

Don't believe either of those enough to change my mind

What makes you think it is me to begin with?

Didn't seem like it was something anyone else in your pile would have done. Especially not EP or Coug.

[KittyMo]

Strangers	Identities
Aristophanes	Has marathoned the LOTR Extended Editions on Christmas break the past 4 years
Errantparabola	Invented a chess variant with friends that partly involved fencing with pool sticks among other antics
Equinox	Won third place in a regional engineering competition in grade ten
Haschel Cedricson	Usually brushes their hair with a princess hairbrush
pablito	Went to the ER this year after surviving being shot in the face
Postie	Tried and failed to master telekinesis in their early teens
RadiantCowbells	Has read The Hobbit over 100 times
Realeo	Their playlist consists mostly of Rising Star, Hillsong, and Eurovision Song Contest' songs
Regfan	Is ashamed to admit that they’ve won the most trophies ever at Epic Mafia
Shadoweh	Went to the first showing of the Pokemon movie and collected card packs from the other moviegoers
StrangerCoug	Wanted to be a doctor as a kid but the closest they've come to that is processing medical claims
Vijarada	Once participated in, in front of over a hundred people, an embarrassing amalgam of Shakespeare and the modern day, containing such lines as "those wings are totally rad" and "that's only geeky little Ariel, she sux"

[KittyMo]

Likely will be a longer wait than usual between rounds, FYI.

[KittyMo]

I'm caught up on data entry & invited a couple of people to submit that haven't in a little while. This should start by Thursday at the latest.

[KittyMo]

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

Strangers	Identities
Aristophanes	A Massachusetts radio station played a song where [Stranger] sang and played the kazoo
D3f3nd3r	A waiter at Olive Garden recently got [Stranger] to laugh when he jokingly claimed to charge $20 for each time he turned the crank on the cheese grater
Haschel Cedricson	Adores Pokemon and has a Pikachu-shaped carrier bag used to carry small things
implosion	Has had their apartment complex burn down
LlamaFluff	Has used the same username all over the Internet since they were 13
Regfan	Is on a mission to eat every food for under 6$ at a local food court
Shadoweh	Once dressed up for Halloween as the ghost of the U.S. economy
StrangerCoug	The middle finger on [Stranger's] right hand is still swollen and misshapen from hurting it about four years ago
UpTooLate	Took part in a pagan wedding ceremony in the woods
Vijarada	Was the head of the Environmental Club and the Healthy Eating Action Team (HEAT) in high school
Yume	Was taken to a strip club by [Stranger's] Uncle when they were 18
xofelf	Would eat everything with chopsticks if they could

Assistance:

1 Question | Double Dip | Mistaken Identity | Split Identity | Tri-Identity

You are welcome to start with a match attempt or by using assistance.

[racefan12]

Haha this is even worse than I thought it was going to be.

Um let's split [Massachusetts radio station, Pikachu bag, swollen finger, ghost of the economy, strip club, and chopsticks] into a group and the rest in the other group.

[Cheery Dog]

why is there an identity that fits me when my name isn't on the list?

[Apricity]

/in as stranger again

[KittyMo]

why is there an identity that fits me when my name isn't on the list?

Me too

/in as stranger again

I don't believe I have any IDs leftover from you so feel free to send them over.

Haha this is even worse than I thought it was going to be.

Um let's split [Massachusetts radio station, Pikachu bag, swollen finger, ghost of the economy, strip club, and chopsticks] into a group and the rest in the other group.

Here's the split:

Strangers	Identities
D3f3nd3r	A Massachusetts radio station played a song where [Stranger] sang and played the kazoo
Haschel Cedricson	Adores Pokemon and has a Pikachu-shaped carrier bag used to carry small things
implosion	Once dressed up for Halloween as the ghost of the U.S. economy
Regfan	The middle finger on [Stranger's] right hand is still swollen and misshapen from hurting it about four years ago
UpTooLate	Was taken to a strip club by [Stranger's] Uncle when they were 18
Yume	Would eat everything with chopsticks if they could

Strangers	Identities
Aristophanes	A waiter at Olive Garden recently got [Stranger] to laugh when he jokingly claimed to charge $20 for each time he turned the crank on the cheese grater
LlamaFluff	Has had their apartment complex burn down
StrangerCoug	Has used the same username all over the Internet since they were 13
Shadoweh	Is on a mission to eat every food for under 6$ at a local food court
Vijarada	Took part in a pagan wedding ceremony in the woods
xofelf	Was the head of the Environmental Club and the Healthy Eating Action Team (HEAT) in high school

Assistance:

1 Question | Double Dip | Mistaken Identity | Split Identity | Tri-Identity

[Vi]

implosion

Has had their apartment complex burn down

I confess I snickered.

[Vijarada]

Has used the same username all over the Internet since they were 13 is like 50% of people here.

[racefan12]

I didn't even use the Internet when I was 13.

Anyway I know Haschel and xof better than anyone else so I was hoping they'd be on the same side of the split. But they aren't.

Haschel seems exactly like the type of person who would dress as the ghost of the US economy for Halloween but he was already at least 20 by the time the 2008 recession hit so that makes it seem less likely he'd even be dressing up for Halloween after all. Though the only other one that seems plausible is the strip club story.

Meanwhile the only one that seems plausible for xof is the Olive Garden one (which I rmhad to reread like 4 times to realize that "he" referred to the waiter and not the stranger).

But I guess the point of this is to submit identities that wouldn't be plausible at first glance.

Haschel, why did your uncle take you to a strip club when you were 18?