who are you? (meme/game)

[cellio]

I got this from lordandrei, who posted the lineage here.

Post anonymously, giving me three clues as to who you are. I will try to guess. I won't check IP addresses.

I'll add my guesses to your comments, so you'll have to check back now and then. If I guess wrong, give me another clue. I'll continue until I get it or I give up in despair and embarrassment.

Clues that describe half the people on my friends list, such as "I have cats", won't be very helpful. And if you're not on my friends list but just popping in, you might want to say so if you want me to have a fighting chance. :-)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1. I live in the same state as you, but a different kingdom.
2. We've never met (and I'm not on your LJ friends list).
3. I have some of you old mail in my basement.

[(Anonymous)]

3.5 I tend to write "you" when I mean to write "your".

[cellio]

Oh my.

Ok, 1 means you live in eastern PA -- Harrisburg or Philly or environs.

3 is intriguing. Maybe this means you have files related to my term as a kingdom officer; the EK web site isn't entirely informatative here, but I believe the current editor of Pikestaff lives in New Jersey, not PA (and ditto the archivist). Or perhaps this mail has nothing to do with the SCA and you're a former roommate/housemate and some of our miscellany got mixed up during moves, but if so I'm coming up blank when factoring geography in. Or maybe you and I have corresponded -- you meant mail from me rather than mail to me.

Am I even warm? May I have another clue?

[(Anonymous)]

Very warm. Hmm...another clue that won't just give it away. How about we eliminate a track.

4. It's almost certain we've attended the same functions, but we've never corresponded.

[cellio]

(And, on closer attention to the original clues, it's unlikely you would be a past housemate if we've never met. I fixated too much on "not on your friends list".)

Ok, I'm going to guess mikekn. I'll even recount the reasoning:

We've never corresponded, but you (apparently) have old correspondence involving me. I initially guessed that could be the current East Kingdom chronicler (or Pikestaff editor) or archivist, but none of them seem to live in the right place. But you said very warm. Ok... hey, the East also has a historian -- who might that be? Hey, he lives in Hartshorndale but I've never heard of him. I wonder if he has an LJ? After obvious guesses at user names failed, I looked up people interested in "east kingdom" and noticed two things: a Hartshorndale community and this user that matches the mundane name given on the historian's web site. And this user and I have LJ friends in common.

I hope the old correspondence isn't too inane or embarrassing or anything. :-)

[mikekn]

Excellent detective work!

You showed up in my popular with your friends list and I said, "Hey, I recognize that name!"

I don't think I've found any actual correspondence - just mail (in the form of local group newsletters) that was sent to you back when you were the East Kingdom Chronicler. We've been inventorying the newsletters, so I've seen your name a lot recently :)

[cellio]

Thank you! And thanks also for the reminder of that list; it had been down for a while, and I forgot that it came back.

We've been inventorying the newsletters, so I've seen your name a lot recently :)

Um, yeah. :-) At the peak (during my term) there were close to 120 local groups, I believe, and probably 70 of them had newsletters. While many of those were quarterly or bimonthly, there were a lot that were monthly. And I had the job for four years. And I never threw stuff like that out, because it didn't belong to me -- it belonged to the kingdom. So yeah, I guess you've seen quite a bit of my name.

(Just for the record, the physical address you have no longer applies.)

One thing I never got much of a chance to do was to dig in the stuff that came long before I had the office, because the ancient newsletters never came to me. (They probably went straight to the historian sometime in the past.) I once got a chance to browse the first few years of Pikestaff in someone else's basement, though, and that was pretty nifty. Newsletters have come a long way since then. :-)

[mikekn]

At the peak (during my term) there were close to 120 local groups, I believe, and probably 70 of them had newsletters.

Yep, I've got about 65 groups inventoried so far (and listed on-line) with around 5000 newsletters.

One thing I never got much of a chance to do was to dig in the stuff that came long before I had the office, because the ancient newsletters never came to me.

We've been having fun doing just that, as we go through the newsletters. One of our projects is to get through all the Pikestaff back issues (we're only missing 5 issues from the complete run) and pull out any interesting tidbits of info.

We've still got a *long* way to go, but it's pretty fun. When it starts to get tedious, we start reading the newsletters - and then it's fun again.