Guessing Results and Some Stats

[lferion]

Guessing:

Everyone who guessed got at least one right, including Raine Wynd and Mackiedockie who both only guessed one.

Every story got at least one guess. One story -- Discrepancy -- got only one guess.
One story -- A Favor in Turn -- got 7 guesses, though three of them were Diana's, so 5 guessers.

4 stories got 5 guesses:
- Silver Apples of the Moon
- Ghosts
- It's Christmas! In Paris!
- Someplace New and Someplace Old (2 guesses were Diana's)

6 stories got no correct guesses:
- A Night at Le Wroonian Blues Bar (2 different authors guessed)
- How to Graduate from University (3 different authors guessed)
- License (2 different authors in 3 guesses)
- Friendship and Favors (4 different authors guessed in 4 guesses. Rhi really stumped people.)
- Hellish Dreams of Heaven (2 people guessed the same)
- Discrepancy

3 stories got only correct guesses:
- A Man of Peace (3)
- Promises and Promissory Notes (4, one of 2 stories with 4 correct. The other was Silver Apples of the Moon.)
- Bon-bon Assortment (5, the only story with 5 correct guesses)

Results:

Argentum/Lady Silver -- 4
Hafital -- 6
Teratornis -- 7
Wreath of Laurels -- 8
DKWilliams -- 11 Diana regains her crown!


Assorted Story Stats

25 Stories
22 Signups
1 Pinch hit
Sharpest Asp wrote 2 stories
Lferion wrote 3, one of which no-one guessed, one of which Morgyn Leri guessed, and one that was obvious to everyone.

Crossovers: 6, Star Wars twice.

Highlander Character Appearances:
- Methos -- 19
- Duncan -- 12
- Amanda -- 11
- Joe -- 10
- Richie -- 8
- Rebecca -- 7
- Darius -- 5
- 3 each: Tessa, Fitz, Kronos
- 2 each: Ceirdwen, Connor, Kastagir, Silas, Caspian
- 1: Ramirez, Slan Quince, Marcus Constantine, Sean Burns, Matthew, Cory

I may have missed some cameos/mentions, because while I have glanced through every story, I have not yet properly read all of them. I'll update this if need be.

Thank you all for participating, and making it both fun and remarkably smooth for me to run. See you in the fall!

Comments

[raine]

I fooled everyone this year! ::happy dance::

[dkwilliams]

Yes, I didn't even think of you for the story you wrote. Great job, and great story!

[raine]

😜 Thanks!

[hafital]

I fooled no one! Typical. 😂

[killabeez]

You know me. I only care that I guessed you correctly. :D

[dkwilliams]

I think it's because we all recognize the excellence of your writing. When I read it I though, "This has to be Hafital, it's so good".

[hafital]

You are too kind! I was telling Killa I am not good at disguising myself haha. Not that I actually try! I do not try. On occasion people don't guess me right away but I think that was like maybe one year lol. xo

[rhi]

I fooled everyone to my *utter* shock! But the guesses were very flattering!

[dkwilliams]

Haha! Yes, I didn't even think about you writing that story, although I thought about you for a couple of the others. Good job!

[dkwilliams]

Whee! The new crystal ball works!

Seriously, though, I am kicking myself because I second-guessed myself on Killa and Pat, should have gone with my first instincts on theirs. Although I was right to second-guess on our new writers, on the swap between Annavere and Teratornis, so it all washes out.

And Lady Silver fooled me again - still haven't guessed her correctly for 7 years.

I never thought about Lferion writing 3 stories, although I wondered about Merriman. I figured that Lferion would be too busy running the fest to write much for it. Was I wrong! Great job, and great stories!

I loved all the stories and I can't wait for next year!

[teratornis]

I saw your first guess for mine and Annavere, and then I saw the swap, and I cheered. You're on point with your guesses!

[argentum_ls]

How, though? How do I keep fooling you? I even wrote a Richie story this year.

[brightknightie]

I was sufficiently unsure that "Know Where It's At" was by you that I considered recommending to its anonymous author to consider perhaps adding "Clan Denial" to its tags to help more Richie fans know that it's safe to dive in. :-)

[argentum_ls]

That is still an excellent reminder. I’ve added the tag. Thanks!

[dkwilliams]

But there were so many Richie stories this year! And in the past that hasn't done me any good. So I decided to go in the other direction, with a Methos-only story. Obviously that didn't work either

[annavere]

I really enjoyed watching the guesses, and next year I hope to participate in it - I do have some reading to catch up on first. I didn't expect anyone to try guessing me since I'm new, so that was an extra surprise.

This was a joy to take part in. Thank you, Lferion.

[teratornis]

I am stunned I got any correct guesses, much less seven? I'm also delighted I got sussed out a couple of times!

This has been so much fun, thank you Lferion again for running it, I loved reading everything, loved writing my bit, and everyone's been just so nice. What a neat thing to be a part of.

[brightknightie]

Thank you, lferion, for stepping in to keep this event going and also running it so smoothly!

[hafital]

Yes, adding to this. Thank you, fearless mod! *throws confetti!*

[rhi]

Thank you for running this, Lferion!

[pat_t]

It was fun writing again this year, despite surgery and all the crappy aftermath. I'm not sure if anyone guessed me right, although I did notice that dkwilliams did guess me right at first.

I honestly didn't think many people would read my story since Lucifer isn't a well known TV series.

Hmm, since the reveals are done, is it too soon to fix that one little section that really makes no sense; at least not to me?

Although, unovis, I already did sneak in some edits after you first read it.

[adabsolutely]

I like Lucifer and think your mix worked great.

[dkwilliams]

I know nothing about Lucifer and I still loved the story and it made sense to me. I overthought the Lucifer angle, since you had mentioned that you would write Lucifer for crossovers and I thought that was too easy. Then I remembered Killa had written a Lucifer/Methos story years ago and fell down the wrong rabbit hole. I loved the humor of the Psych story which is why I thought you might have written that one.

[pat_t]

Correction: now that I've read through it, I don't believe any edits are needed.

[calime]

Yeeee-haaw!!!! Thank you ever so much for running the fest! And everyone for the wealth of stories! And the fandom again, for still being immortal! (And if I'm getting sussed out correctly, at least I'm consistent? Right? :P)

[pat_t]

I just realized that I hadn't thanked lferionfor her excellent (and I'm sure time consuming) job of running the fest this year. I think my ♥ would break if/when we no longer have these to look forward to.

Thank you for your kindness , patience, and hard work for this year's hlh_shortcuts fest.

[dkwilliams]

Ditto on the thanks to Lferion for stepping in and doing such an excellent job with the fest!

[unovis]

My writing has changed.

[jotribe2]

I haven't had a chance to read the stories - yet. I feel so happy there's so much new HL goodness to look forward to.

Thank you so much Lferion for taking over. I honestly look forward to this all year. You're my hero!

And thank you thank you thank you to ALL the authors!!!!

[annavere]

Coming back with one more round of thanks for Lferion, as I just realized what the reveals meant: You let us rookies ring in the festivities. It wasn't random. Thank you so much for such a generous welcome. I got a bit teary over that.

[pennywashburne]

I just wanted to say thank you for running things this year! I had a great time!

[wreath_of_laurels]

I'm a bit surprised nobody caught me and delighted I did as well at I did in the guesses.