Scioly Assassination 133: Zoo Escape

[linzhiyan]

I protect waffletree because the encoded text, using the Vigenere cipher, with a key of "Assassinator", says: YES THAT IS THE RIGHT KEY WAFFLETREE IS BEING MAULED TO DEATH BY A LION

[MadCow2357]

Late at night, UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F was walking down a narrow sidewalk near the Walnut Zoo. Suddenly a giant bird fell out of the sky right next to him, making him jump back and scream. He tripped and fell into the street, as a car was zooming down the road. It was barely able to swerve around him, and stopped a few meters ahead of him, and the driver, TheMysteriousMapMan came out of the car.
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F barely made it out of the situation alive.
linzhiyan was terrified of what was happening in this town. After the death of MadCow2357, the attacks on her and the others, she didn’t know where was safe. She was on edge, as she walked to the park with her friends. Then, she saw an unusual sight. In front of them, stood a huge peacock, holding an envelope. She opened it, and a note was inside it.

YWK TZSB VS MVV RAYHL CML WTTWLWLRWW QF BXWEG ESUDWL GO WSRTZ TY S DQBN

Ummm two things:
1. UTF is female...
2. Ma cousin doesn't have friends lol

[JoeyC]

Wait, WHAT?
I'm so sorry UTF.
(for mistaking your gender)

[waffletree]

Late at night, UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F was walking down a narrow sidewalk near the Walnut Zoo. Suddenly a giant bird fell out of the sky right next to him, making him jump back and scream. He tripped and fell into the street, as a car was zooming down the road. It was barely able to swerve around him, and stopped a few meters ahead of him, and the driver, TheMysteriousMapMan came out of the car.
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F barely made it out of the situation alive.
linzhiyan was terrified of what was happening in this town. After the death of MadCow2357, the attacks on her and the others, she didn’t know where was safe. She was on edge, as she walked to the park with her friends. Then, she saw an unusual sight. In front of them, stood a huge peacock, holding an envelope. She opened it, and a note was inside it.

YWK TZSB VS MVV RAYHL CML WTTWLWLRWW QF BXWEG ESUDWL GO WSRTZ TY S DQBN

Ummm two things:
1. UTF is female...
2. Ma cousin doesn't have friends lol

uh i’m pretty sure utf is not female!
we should start focusing on IDs otherwise this will be going on for a very long time...i can’t seem to find anything in this clue
but y’all should really try to figure out the ID for the officer spot on page 3

[kate!]

Late at night, UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F was walking down a narrow sidewalk near the Walnut Zoo. Suddenly a giant bird fell out of the sky right next to him, making him jump back and scream. He tripped and fell into the street, as a car was zooming down the road. It was barely able to swerve around him, and stopped a few meters ahead of him, and the driver, TheMysteriousMapMan came out of the car.
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F barely made it out of the situation alive.
linzhiyan was terrified of what was happening in this town. After the death of MadCow2357, the attacks on her and the others, she didn’t know where was safe. She was on edge, as she walked to the park with her friends. Then, she saw an unusual sight. In front of them, stood a huge peacock, holding an envelope. She opened it, and a note was inside it.

YWK TZSB VS MVV RAYHL CML WTTWLWLRWW QF BXWEG ESUDWL GO WSRTZ TY S DQBN

Ummm two things:
1. UTF is female...
2. Ma cousin doesn't have friends lol

Another two things:
1. UTF is definitely not female...
2. We should find out what "REINGEV" means, seems important.

[linzhiyan]

Late at night, UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F was walking down a narrow sidewalk near the Walnut Zoo. Suddenly a giant bird fell out of the sky right next to him, making him jump back and scream. He tripped and fell into the street, as a car was zooming down the road. It was barely able to swerve around him, and stopped a few meters ahead of him, and the driver, TheMysteriousMapMan came out of the car.
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F barely made it out of the situation alive.
linzhiyan was terrified of what was happening in this town. After the death of MadCow2357, the attacks on her and the others, she didn’t know where was safe. She was on edge, as she walked to the park with her friends. Then, she saw an unusual sight. In front of them, stood a huge peacock, holding an envelope. She opened it, and a note was inside it.

Ummm two things:
1. UTF is female...
2. Ma cousin doesn't have friends lol

Another two things:
1. UTF is definitely not female...
2. We should find out what "REINGEV" means, seems important.

If you unscramble "REINGEV", I think you get Vigenere (missing an E, but like, everyone forgets that "E")... At least, when I saw that, that was what I saw, and the kill clue uses the Vigenere cipher...

[Assassinator]

Apologies for not posting the next clue yesterday. It will be posted today.

[Assassinator]

linzhiyan and her fellow cops were barely able to save Waffletree when she was stuck in the lion exhibit. How she got there? No one knows.

Riptide and ForeverPhysics were in the mood for a party. One that was unusual, different from a typical party.
So, they decided that they would host a secret party for their science olympiad friends. On the night of, the first small group crossed the Haunted Bridge in the back of the zoo to get in. They grabbed a map of the zoo to find the statue of the man and the bear, right in front of the bear exhibit, which was the OPPOSITE side of the zoo. TheChiScientist, who was leading the small group, groaned as they realized they had to sneak across the whole zoo.

As they met up with the other half of the partiers, they heard a gggggrowl, a ssssscream, and scuffling sounds coming from the bear exhibit.

Someone was attacked.

NOTE: I am sorry that this was posted two days late, I never intended to delay this game so much.

[waffletree]

linzhiyan and her fellow cops were barely able to save Waffletree when she was stuck in the lion exhibit. How she got there? No one knows.

Riptide and ForeverPhysics were in the mood for a party. One that was unusual, different from a typical party.
So, they decided that they would host a secret party for their science olympiad friends. On the night of, the first small group crossed the Haunted Bridge in the back of the zoo to get in. They grabbed a map of the zoo to find the statue of the man and the bear, right in front of the bear exhibit, which was the OPPOSITE side of the zoo. TheChiScientist, who was leading the small group, groaned as they realized they had to sneak across the whole zoo.

As they met up with the other half of the partiers, they heard a gggggrowl, a ssssscream, and scuffling sounds coming from the bear exhibit.

Someone was attacked.

NOTE: I am sorry that this was posted two days late, I never intended to delay this game so much.

- opposite is in all caps?
- gggggrowl and ssssscream seem important
- gneissisnice? because of the g and s's?
- about the Haunted Bridge part: there;s such thing as a fear of bridges - Gephyrophobia - and Haunted Bridge is part of the nancy drew series...id?

[LittleMissNyan]

linzhiyan and her fellow cops were barely able to save Waffletree when she was stuck in the lion exhibit. How she got there? No one knows.

Riptide and ForeverPhysics were in the mood for a party. One that was unusual, different from a typical party.
So, they decided that they would host a secret party for their science olympiad friends. On the night of, the first small group crossed the Haunted Bridge in the back of the zoo to get in. They grabbed a map of the zoo to find the statue of the man and the bear, right in front of the bear exhibit, which was the OPPOSITE side of the zoo. TheChiScientist, who was leading the small group, groaned as they realized they had to sneak across the whole zoo.

As they met up with the other half of the partiers, they heard a gggggrowl, a ssssscream, and scuffling sounds coming from the bear exhibit.

Someone was attacked.

NOTE: I am sorry that this was posted two days late, I never intended to delay this game so much.

- opposite is in all caps?
- gggggrowl and ssssscream seem important
- gneissisnice? because of the g and s's?
- about the Haunted Bridge part: there's such thing as a fear of bridges - Gephyrophobia - and Haunted Bridge is part of the nancy drew series...id?

That might work
I have no idea how to read this clue it's too vaguuuuue