If there's anyone here who'd be the master of misdirection among us, it's JA. She's a being of pure damn chaos, I tell you. Pure chaos.
It is a fact well known that my DND alignment is chaotic evil. I'm not even kidding.
*assumes J.A. Rama was misdirecting with "all-nighter" and is the master gifter*
"assumes J.A. Rama is misdirecting with this post warning about misdirection*
*is confused by paradox*
Silly human. You haven't even scratched the surface.
It's red herrings all the way down.
The key is not to get mired in paradox, but to question how much energy somebody would put into lying, through omission, silence, or misdirection, and how likely it is for each level of lying that somebody with that profile actually exists.
I admit, I am diabolical.
If I am not the mystery gifter though, would I really be analyzing the situation much, or would I simply blend into the crowd and echo what everyone says?
If I am the mystery gifter, how would I know so much about the probable behavior of a mystery gifter?
And I would think it's entirely possible that some people didn't utter one little peep about even intending to write extra stories.
So it will be very interesting to see who wrote extra stories, as well as who wrote the most extra stories.
That is quite likely - a mystery gifter would most likely be too busy writing to be able to post much here.