Scioly Assassination 163: YO HO HO

[Assassinator]

This is an "officer clue." There are two spots left for officers, and we need officers for this game to run smoothly, especially for clue five (5).

If you solve this, please DM me on the forums or discord so then you can become an officer. Note that the first two (2) people to DM the correct answer to me will become officers.

The answer is a food.

1. Bpm uwvbpa cx ## ### izm xzmbbg bmuxmzibm. Bpmv Rcvm kwuma eqbp qba amizqvo pmib. Qb'a uqamzg bw tqdm qv Rcvm.
2. same encodings for all the definitions
Y. VYD VH FLD MTWTFZ VH I EDCFDKCIFD'Z HVVF (The Free <censored>)
Y. IYG VH FLD HTED QVYW, FLTY NICFZ IF FLD DYM VH I HVVF, ZTRTQIC FV FLD HTYWDCZ VH I LIYM (Cambridge)
Y. IYG VH FLD MTWTFZ VH IY IYTRIQ'Z HVVF (Collins)
1+2

[LittleMissNyan]

Sapphire and Kalimantan28 have been confirmed as Officers.
There are no more Officer slots left.
Clue 5 will be posted on Tuesday, the 20th of June.

[Assassinator]

Assassinator's Note: Kingsvertex was gorgeous and so... green!
Now on to the clue!

25 August 2023:

We have passed Bermuda earlier today, our first sight of land in a long while, and are now predicted to reach the mainland in a couple days. The unusual lullabies continue. I have collected two particularly interesting ones that have been filling the void of the last couple evenings.
A.
l/----------------------------------------------------------
Ye Highlands an' ye Lowlan's
O', whaur ha'e ye been?
They ha'e slain the Eel o' Moray
And laid 'im on the green!

And the Lady with the long-winded name
She went and got Scrambled in a Maize
What grows from that [ILLEGIBLE] phenomenon in hundreds of years is the Answer!
----------------------------------------------------------/l
Note: Because these are transcriptions of what I have heard parents say, I have been unable to differentiate between homophones, especially as, unlike lullaby B, I have not been able to confirm the lyrics with the singer of this lullaby.

B.
____________________________________________
Four thousand cupsful of Water
Half a billion Mosquitoes
Twenty Harrys Potter
and four Generals Sherman forged of Helium
_____________________________________________
Note: "Harrys Potter" is an unusual plural of Harry Potter, but I confirmed with the singer and it was what the singer intended. Perhaps it may have been to improve the rhyme scheme.

A + B + [Two letters, both uppercase]

[Assassinator]

This is a longer clue, so you have a week to do it. The kill will happen on Tuesday, the 27th, at 9 p.m. Newfoundland Time.

[Assassinator]

I am mildly disappointed.
I will give you all another week and another hint. Good luck.

[pumptato-cat]

Wait can I help or am I officially deceased because I think I might know something about the first lullaby
actually I might just be overthinking things and on the wrong track

[Assassinator]

Wait can I help or am I officially deceased because I think I might know something about the first lullaby
actually I might just be overthinking things and on the wrong track

You may not. You are dead.

[pumptato-cat]

Awww darn
I KNOW WHO SASSY IS GUYS >:) CMON YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
Also sassy these are some seriously great clues I'm genuinely impressed!!! Could never do something like this haha

[sc95837]

ok hi sorry forum ppls but heres a discord recap i should've been doing these more frequently so sorry for the one person who's just on the forums and is like ???? while we make some progress here on the discord so here goes!

On the first day user Saph said that the first lullaby comes from scottish folk song the Bonnie Earl o' Moray and pointed out that there was some red text.
I said there was a reference to "eel of moray," so there might be something about moray eels
Saph found some places where the lullaby was mispelled, so that could have some significance
the l/ at the beginning were also in red text and all the apostrophes were red as well

I said something about this was a scottish folk song so the target might be a glaswegian? (Glasgow Middle School person)
I searched up moray eels on the discord and all the references to them were about their goofy ahh pharyngeal jaws
dea found that "earnh" were the letters on correction
I looked at tinyurl.com/earnh and it apparently leads to a listing of aliexpress bluetooth earphones
dea found all the glaswegians' scioly.org accounts
treesdea
mp875
hterrapin
lizardbreath
gtj3
brii
highdetailed
I saw the roud index and that the spellings in this song vary. Could they be regional things, transcriptions, or something else? If so, it might point to a specific region.
BlueRobin found that "highlands" in the first lullaby could refer to Highlands Intermediate School.
I think ant (Galahad on scioly.org) is from there but there might be other folks from there as well
BlueRobin found that the l in l/ was a lowercase L
BlueRobin found that Doune Castle is a real spot in Scotland and "frae" is roughly "from"
VENOM saw Maize and thought it might be referring to a state famous for corn, maybe in the midwest
- pikachu4919 is from Indiana
- hanlove (do they have a scioly.org account???) is from Nebraska
-- nebraska's known as the "cornhusker state"
- A lot of people are from Missouri
- poonda is from Kansas but goes to school in Missouri
-- kansas is famous for Helium
I saw A + B + [2 letters, both uppercase] and thought of maybe ABRHS but then that's three extra letters not two
might also refer to the two parts
poonda noticed that "scrambled" could refer to the event Scrambler
poonda noticed that General Sherman was born in lancaster, ohio and buried in Saint Louis, Missouri
i thought that it might also refer to the tree General Sherman
dea found that the log of the numbers (four thousand, half a million, twenty, and four) in the second question are 3, 6, 1, and 0, which are all triangular numbers
2022 birdSO satellite had 3610 medals so it might refer to that
Moray Eel might connect to the trial event Ichthyology or to water quality because feesh
3610 might be a discord discriminant but those are starting to rotate out so that would be hard to test
person-v132 found a 1954 article about "the death of Lady Mondegreen" which refers to the earl o' moray poem and 1954
MidFloat found famous people of Irish heritage, including a Karen Ann Quinlan, born in 1954
BlueRobin found a User:SuweeBuwee has a long name
gesturethejester found that there's an Interior Lowlands region of the USA which also contains much of the Midwest

I don't know what to make of this halp forum ppl

[sc95837]

Why hasn't the sassy killed yet?