SciOly Assassination 144: Avalon

[Creationist127]

As for that poem, I did a little research (cough Wikipedia cough) and found that at the end of King Arthur's story, he and Mordred are negotiating, and someone drew their sword to kill a snake (adder). This caused everyone to start fighting, and King Arthur got mortally wounded at the end. One of the knights, Griflet, was sent to drop Excalibur back in the lake it came from. They took Arthur to the island of Avalon afterward.
How this relates to Bernard? I have no clue. That link in the signature references the Transformers franchise, which may indicate an association with Circuit Lab or Robot Arm.

[BennyTheJett]

Who does robotics and is from Florida with an impressive nats resume? Windu34? Unless I'm mistaken he did both robotics events during his scioly tenure, and he's from Florida.

[MadCow2357]

I was thinking someone who did Herpetology when I saw the florida gators thing. SOnerd medaled in herp twice at nats, so maybe she is the target.

Idk why, but I'm getting a feeling that the "florida" part of florida gators is a red herring. Just a feeling tho.

EDIT: Also the sassy said in the rules that the kill clues were in all four of the posts, so the sig is probably ID.

[LittleMissNyan]

Ok tried shoving it into a hex translator:

UTF-16 gets this 戧⡠皈坘❴楔用睉㙙摆偙䕵奇摧襥砸睹噕琦桩䦈睉䔴衅锰杉㢈搧 which translates to This wedge is used to smash the odd pile and the manganese cedar fan

UTF-16 big endian gets ❢怨衶塗琧呩⡵䥷夶䙤奐畅䝙杤斉㡸祷啖♴楨衉䥷㑅䖈ゕ䥧蠸❤ translating that again minus the special characters gets Resentment

Everything else is just trash yay I just wasted half an hour

[Creationist127]

Ok tried shoving it into a hex translator:

UTF-16 gets this 戧⡠皈坘❴楔用睉㙙摆偙䕵奇摧襥砸睹噕琦桩䦈睉䔴衅锰杉㢈搧 which translates to This wedge is used to smash the odd pile and the manganese cedar fan

UTF-16 big endian gets ❢怨衶塗琧呩⡵䥷夶䙤奐畅䝙杤斉㡸祷啖♴楨衉䥷㑅䖈ゕ䥧蠸❤ translating that again minus the special characters gets Resentment

Everything else is just trash yay I just wasted half an hour

That makes no sense. I don't think that's the intended message.
In the Umaroth post, there was an X in the transmission, and an O capitalized in SOlitude that didn't belong. This may have something to do with tic-tac-toe? Possibly? At this point, I have no idea.
Also, in my above post, I intended to wonder if the sassy was associated with Robot Arm or Circuit Lab, not the target.

[TheCrazyChemist]

Ok, interesting round. The Adi1008 protect seems right. Idk what the sassy is looking for in the bernard clue, although I think Creationist127 is on the right track. The gators perhaps is talking about a competitor from Florida. Maybe pepperonipi? Someone from Boca Raton?

[lindsmaurer]

I just realized... the first post in this set (the one with the special rules) was posted just after my Detector livestream, and it mentions a livestream. I also ride horses, hence “cute little ponies”. Maybe.

I’m on mobile rn, so I can’t work on confirming that, but I’ll take a closer look once I’m on my computer.

[Assassinator]

The sheer impunity...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <mordredjoemama@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <mordredjoemama@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 11:57 PM
To: kingarthur@camelot.com
Subject: [EXT] ur trash kid

Ok boomer,
You’re slipping. Your knights are slipping. Y’all are about to lose, ya know? You may have saved Adi1008 from my poisonous cookie, but windu34 and bernard both still died. Wanna hear how? First, I let some Invasive Species loose in windu’s dorm. Then, I ran windu34 over with his own Electric Vehicles. And after that, I used his Robot Arm to stab him with a purple lightsaber. A pretty ironic death hehe. As for bernard, I gave him a radioactive dog tag coated in arsenic. Long story short, it didn’t take long for him to lose that #dogswag.

Honestly, I gave you guys a whole extra day. But you only managed to solve one clue? Kinda sad ngl. A reminder that the score is 4 (y’all goody two shoes) to 3 (me and the boys), and I have 4 kills.

The 1st of the Primes,
Lives inside a square,
But these fire rhymes,
Can’t set aflame the horse’s hairs

But enough with the gibberish,
Consult the Maps to find this victim,
And watch him die by fish,
Before you attend my partner’s funeral grim.

So seek out the eleventh prime,
Who is definitely no mumbler,
Use factories and turn him into a product,
But remember to crunch your numbers.

I’m tired so I tell you one last thing, bro,
Listen carefully or you’ll be dead,
Round trip 92 miles flies the crow,
One trip is enough to make some bread.

24 HRS 48 HRS

Signed,
Mordred

[Creationist127]

The sheer impunity...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <mordredjoemama@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <mordredjoemama@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 11:57 PM
To: kingarthur@camelot.com
Subject: [EXT] ur trash kid

Ok boomer,
You’re slipping. Your knights are slipping. Y’all are about to lose, ya know? You may have saved Adi1008 from my poisonous cookie, but windu34 and bernard both still died. Wanna hear how? First, I let some Invasive Species loose in windu’s dorm. Then, I ran windu34 over with his own Electric Vehicles. And after that, I used his Robot Arm to stab him with a purple lightsaber. A pretty ironic death hehe. As for bernard, I gave him a radioactive dog tag coated in arsenic. Long story short, it didn’t take long for him to lose that #dogswag.

Honestly, I gave you guys a whole extra day. But you only managed to solve one clue? Kinda sad ngl. A reminder that the score is 4 (y’all goody two shoes) to 3 (me and the boys), and I have 4 kills.

The 1st of the Primes,
Lives inside a square,
But these fire rhymes,
Can’t set aflame the horse’s hairs

But enough with the gibberish,
Consult the Maps to find this victim,
And watch him die by fish,
Before you attend my partner’s funeral grim.

So seek out the eleventh prime,
Who is definitely no mumbler,
Use factories and turn him into a product,
But remember to crunch your numbers.

I’m tired so I tell you one last thing, bro,
Listen carefully or you’ll be dead,
Round trip 92 miles flies the crow,
One trip is enough to make some bread.

24 HRS 48 HRS

Signed,
Mordred

Well, the first prime is 2, 2 squared is 4.
Horse's hairs on fire may refer to Ponyta and Rapidash, the Pokemon.
Maps may refer to GeoMaps or Road Scholar.
Fish may refer to... DPlanet Oceanography?
The eleventh prime is 31.
I don't understand the last stanza at all. Could be referring to the user Bread.

[TheMysteriousMapMan]

Maps could also refer to me, but I have no idea what the sassy is talking about – I know the sassy's identity, (but I'm still a good guy) but I know nothing about the target of this clue.