Scioly Assassination 83: A Christmas Killing

[Assassinator]

i stoppd by his howse for a short visit. one uv the too people who knoe my tru identity. i neeeded to rid the eerth of him. unfourtunitely while walkin down the streat i was pulled aside buy one of the offizers for a chat. they ended up sayving him.
mnstrviola has correkly protected littleboy.

the lak of wikipedia has hamperred my clue crafting skils. kill clue tommorrow.

id clue:
my successor is the face of a very popular system

[Assassinator]

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S _ _ E _ _ E
A, Z, T, R, P, X



ccxhhgr

[EastStroudsburg13]

It does appear to be hangman. I wonder if the specific letters have meaning... I normally don't guess Z and X in a typical game.

[harryk]

Well since I'm sitting in chem with nothing to do I'll chime into this game for the first time
My guess would be to first solve the hangman, so it'd be a seven letter word... ?

Edit: Science?

[SciBomb97]

You wish it were that easy...it's probably not.

[haverstall]

I have a feeling that the word in the hangman is a key, and the "ccxhhgr" part is what we're trying to decipher? I've tried using "science" and "silence" as keys in Vignere and Caesar, but I'm coming up empty.

The interesting thing in "ccxhhgr" is the double occurrence of a double letter. If that rings a bell with anyone..

[mnstrviola]

Alright, 3 things:

1. I think I'm supposed to have 3 kills. I inherited 2, and I protected correctly so I got 1 more.

2. I'd like to accuse gneissisnice of being sassy, because:
Avatar the last airbender (his avatar) is essentially a nomad, a traveler without a home.
Gneissisnice has not been on for a while.
Gneissisnice has not been sassy for about 30 games (i think), so he would be a good choice to pick as sassy.

Yeah, pretty weak but I got nothing better.

3. I'd like to protect myself because the hangman word could be science and I do science.

Again, pretty weak but I got nothing better.

[Littleboy]

3. I'd like to protect myself because the hangman word could be science and I do science.

Its a SCIENCE olympiad forum for petes sake!!!

[mnstrviola]

3. I'd like to protect myself because the hangman word could be science and I do science.

Its a SCIENCE olympiad forum for petes sake!!!

Yeah, I noticed that .
It was mainly to protect the two accusitions I have left.

[Assassinator]

a bit busy today. in short mnstrviola has correkly protekted mnstrviola.
althouwgh not for a valid reason. so i will akcept the protektion but no akkusation will bee given.

solution (Click to Show Hidden Text)

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..| O
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S _ _ E _ _ E
A, Z, T, R, P, X

ccxhhgr

the solution to the hangman is science. science is the pad to the text using a one time pad. it yields Kapduen. which is another name for a ship known as Viola.

no i am not gneissisnice.

new clue:

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