Scioly Assassination 87: Crossfire

[Littleboy]

I give you permission to keep playing.

[Cedavis6]

I give you permission to keep playing.

+1, WIN! Best accusation comeback ever!

[Assassinator]

I declare shenanagins , having unnecessary numbers in the key completely through me off and Jefferson Davis doesn't really point to cedavis6
I guess it's a fair clue, but too many steps involved

Sure, Jefferson Davis doesn't really point to Cedavis6's username, just like a list of ships sunk by mines doesn't really point to tornado guy's minesweeper avatar, and a bunch of Greek numbers that spell out "cypress" don't really point to your school name.

As for "too many steps", you had to answer one riddle to generate one key to decode one cipher, which you could then figure out with one google search. You correctly deduced the answer to the riddle, allowing you to generate the key, and you could have easily figured out which common kind of cipher is structured to require such a long and randomized key. I apologize for the extraeneous numbers, since I didn't realize that there was a tool to generate strings made only of letters, but my sympathies are still limited.

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I am not Littleboy.

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I've duplicated the result on serveral different Vigenere solvers and decrypters, so either the Assassinator's message is wrong, or "ODUH" is not the key. For the latter case, I've generated a list of all possible solutions that use a four letter key (compressed with 7-zip to save space and bandwidth). There's the possiblity that the key is longer than four letters or that it's ciphered with a different cipher, which would render this useless.

I myself went and tested out the ciphered text with the correct key on several different decoders -- to make sure that I didn't mess up the clue and make it unsolvable -- and it works perfectly with multiple decoders. I will tell you that the key is significantly longer than four letters, but I promise this time it isn't random (ok, maybe that last clue was a little mean). It's relatively well-known, and I'd be very surprised if none of you had ever heard of it before. In any event, the next clue will probably not be a cipher, seeing how much all of you struggle with them.

[twototwenty]

After being unable to figure out what the key was from the sassy's hint, I spent hours of cryptoanalysis that yielded one result: the word "down" was probably in the key. With this and the sassy's hint, a quick google search found that a possible answer might be upupdowndownleftrightleftrightba. In other words, the konami code. Which was the very first thing I tried. Except I just put in "konami". Now I feel stupid for not trying the actual code.
Anyway, long story short, I cracked the cipher, and the riddle is this:
With the internet, Torshavn's country learns about a sect of buddhism, but some say this is the opposite of a god.

I have no idea who this points to; I am currently working on that.

Edit: Torshavn's country has a sect of buddhism (kind of) known as the Baha'i faith, which believes Buddha to be a manifestation of god, so the clue would point to Buddha. Thus I protect jweil_buddha.

[chia]

Random observation: the opposite of a "god" is, if you want to look at it that way, a "dog"... fozendog? This assassinator has been choosing some pretty strategic or at least better-known targets, which is why I'm skeptical of it being jweil_buddah (even though I think I targeted him too that one time I was the assassinator )

[twototwenty]

Hmm, good observation. I too was skeptical of jweil_buddah; the only reason I protected him was because I saw he was active in previous games. I protect fozendog, then, for chia's reasoning and because it makes sense that the sassy would target him, as he hasn't been targeted yet.

Edit: fix'd - I have always read that as "frozendog"

[chia]

I protect frozendog, then, for chia's reasoning and because it makes sense that the sassy would target him, as he hasn't been targeted yet.

(Also, am I missing something, or does everybody just make this mistake?... I've often seen fozendog called "frozendog", with an r )

[tornado guy]

I protect frozendog, then, for chia's reasoning and because it makes sense that the sassy would target him, as he hasn't been targeted yet.

(Also, am I missing something, or does everybody just make this mistake?... I've often seen fozendog called "frozendog", with an r )

Yeah, I also thought "frozendog" until I was watching him type it in and realized it is "fozendog".

[fozendog]

Don't worry, everyone gets it wrong all the time... Twototwenty you protected two people didn't you? Can you let me know which you actually meant to protect so I can protect the other?
Edit: Nevermind, you have two protects sorry
Edit 2: I protected paleonaps because at one point in time he said something about the Baha'i gardens. (And Twototwenty took the good ones)

[harryk]

Clueless on who to protect, I don't think it will be related to the Bahai Faith because it is not a sect of Buddhism, unless the sassy is mistaken

I'll protect twototwenty because he is an important officer