SciOly Assassination 110: Rumble in Rio

[JasperKota]

At this point I wouldn't count on Nerdy for clues. If anything she'd probably just troll us >.>

congratulations, fluffy.

LOL JASPERKOTA YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW YOUR OWN POINTS. WELL, THE GAME WAS PRETTY FUN EVEN THOUGH I SPENT MUCH OF MY TIME RANTING ABOUT THE OFFICERS AND THE ID CLUES TO EAST. CONGRATS FLUFFY, CAN'T WAIT FOR SCIOLY ASSASSINATION 111! btw you guys didn't notice that all of the kill posts spell out the sassy's name as well as the interests in the profile...

OH lmao. CONGRATS FLUFFY YOU'VE WON FOR LIKE THE 2ND TIME?

[dragonfruit35]

Wait, so it was East?

[Assassinator]

I was ambling through the airport, having a nice casual conversation with zyzzyva, happy with another flight well landed. I was just about ready to escape the airport, when I suddenly felt the grasp of officers on me.

"EastStroudsburg13, you're under arrest."

Whoa, whoa, whoa, I said. Don't you know who I am? I'm an upstanding citizen of this establishment! I have peons to rule over! I have responsibilities!

"Yeah right, we know bernard does everything anyway. Besides, we have some people here who have some incriminating evidence and more than a few bones to pick with you." Sure enough, the scowling faces of Fluffy, Fib, and texas were seen behind them. They didn't look particularly pleased to see me.

I looked to zyzzyva and iwonder at my side for help, but they had already abandoned me. "You're on your own this time, East!" "I'm not getting involved this time." "Don't worry, I'll make sure I beat your fantasy football team extra badly." It was obvious that despite my running abilities, I had nowhere to go, as the monumental wall of evidence I had set up was finally collapsing around me. For I, EastStroudsburg13, was indeed the 110th SciOly Assassinator. However, as I was taken away to justice, I uttered a warning: "More Assassinators will come. Be prepared, or more innocent lives will be sacrificed."

I'll put together an explanation of my kill and identity clues (probably in separate posts), but all in all good job! I figured out some of the clues were a bit difficult, but you also showed some good problem solving when you made the effort. I know it became difficult when school started, so I suggest following Assassinators to adjust the kill time as necessary. Of course I could have just made hard clues to kill everyone off, but that would not nearly have been as much fun. I've learned quite a bit from donning the Sassy cape once again after several years, and I hope you all have too!

And of course, Fluffy, PM me for your choice in the following Assassinator.

EDIT: For the record, I was indeed targeting UTF in my last kill clue.

[Fibonacci924]

You tried to have me killed twice!! I guess East can call me Fibo, but anyone else should think twice before they do!

[[NerdyTotoro]]

You tried to have me killed twice!! I guess East can call me Fibo, but anyone else should think twice before they do!

heh.

FIBOOOOOOOOO

[daydreamer0023]

Thanks for killing me off East. Anyhow, good game everyone! Here's to hoping I won't be some wandering spirit next round...

[Unome]

I was ambling through the airport, having a nice casual conversation with zyzzyva, happy with another flight well landed. I was just about ready to escape the airport, when I suddenly felt the grasp of officers on me.

"EastStroudsburg13, you're under arrest."

Whoa, whoa, whoa, I said. Don't you know who I am? I'm an upstanding citizen of this establishment! I have peons to rule over! I have responsibilities!

"Yeah right, we know bernard does everything anyway. Besides, we have some people here who have some incriminating evidence and more than a few bones to pick with you." Sure enough, the scowling faces of Fluffy, Fib, and texas were seen behind them. They didn't look particularly pleased to see me.

I looked to zyzzyva and iwonder at my side for help, but they had already abandoned me. "You're on your own this time, East!" "I'm not getting involved this time." "Don't worry, I'll make sure I beat your fantasy football team extra badly." It was obvious that despite my running abilities, I had nowhere to go, as the monumental wall of evidence I had set up was finally collapsing around me. For I, EastStroudsburg13, was indeed the 110th SciOly Assassinator. However, as I was taken away to justice, I uttered a warning: "More Assassinators will come. Be prepared, or more innocent lives will be sacrificed."

I'll put together an explanation of my kill and identity clues (probably in separate posts), but all in all good job! I figured out some of the clues were a bit difficult, but you also showed some good problem solving when you made the effort. I know it became difficult when school started, so I suggest following Assassinators to adjust the kill time as necessary. Of course I could have just made hard clues to kill everyone off, but that would not nearly have been as much fun. I've learned quite a bit from donning the Sassy cape once again after several years, and I hope you all have too!

And of course, Fluffy, PM me for your choice in the following Assassinator.\

EDIT: For the record, I was indeed targeting UTF in my last kill clue.

gg East. Your grammar really fooled me.

[[NerdyTotoro]]

I was ambling through the airport, having a nice casual conversation with zyzzyva, happy with another flight well landed. I was just about ready to escape the airport, when I suddenly felt the grasp of officers on me.

"EastStroudsburg13, you're under arrest."

Whoa, whoa, whoa, I said. Don't you know who I am? I'm an upstanding citizen of this establishment! I have peons to rule over! I have responsibilities!

"Yeah right, we know bernard does everything anyway. Besides, we have some people here who have some incriminating evidence and more than a few bones to pick with you." Sure enough, the scowling faces of Fluffy, Fib, and texas were seen behind them. They didn't look particularly pleased to see me.

I looked to zyzzyva and iwonder at my side for help, but they had already abandoned me. "You're on your own this time, East!" "I'm not getting involved this time." "Don't worry, I'll make sure I beat your fantasy football team extra badly." It was obvious that despite my running abilities, I had nowhere to go, as the monumental wall of evidence I had set up was finally collapsing around me. For I, EastStroudsburg13, was indeed the 110th SciOly Assassinator. However, as I was taken away to justice, I uttered a warning: "More Assassinators will come. Be prepared, or more innocent lives will be sacrificed."

I'll put together an explanation of my kill and identity clues (probably in separate posts), but all in all good job! I figured out some of the clues were a bit difficult, but you also showed some good problem solving when you made the effort. I know it became difficult when school started, so I suggest following Assassinators to adjust the kill time as necessary. Of course I could have just made hard clues to kill everyone off, but that would not nearly have been as much fun. I've learned quite a bit from donning the Sassy cape once again after several years, and I hope you all have too!

And of course, Fluffy, PM me for your choice in the following Assassinator.\

EDIT: For the record, I was indeed targeting UTF in my last kill clue.

Nice punctuation.

[dragonfruit35]

congratulations, fluffy.

LOL JASPERKOTA YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW YOUR OWN POINTS. WELL, THE GAME WAS PRETTY FUN EVEN THOUGH I SPENT MUCH OF MY TIME RANTING ABOUT THE OFFICERS AND THE ID CLUES TO EAST. CONGRATS FLUFFY, CAN'T WAIT FOR SCIOLY ASSASSINATION 111! btw you guys didn't notice that all of the kill posts spell out the sassy's name as well as the interests in the profile...

OH lmao. CONGRATS FLUFFY YOU'VE WON FOR LIKE THE 2ND TIME?

So have I . Anyway, good game East!

[EastStroudsburg13]

Okay, here are the kill clues.

%ToBe

You are all aware something is up. Locate my target before it’s too late.

The clue simplifies to %2B, which represents a plus sign in URLs. "You are all" references URLs, and Locate refers to the L in URL (Locator). This points to Bazinga+, as UTF is the only other active user with a plus sign in their username.

NO1 021267 231267
GCS 481088 115004

Don’t do a sing and dance; there’s a time and place for everything.

I liked this clue a lot actually. "Sing and dance" refers to the first row, "time and place" refers to the second. The numbers in the first row are supposed to be separated into 02/12/67 and 23/12/67, referencing dates. ("If you add in a 19 into two different places in the first row" refers to 1967 and 1967) These are the dates where the song Daydream Believer by The Monkees was #1 on the charts. The second row eventually got figured out as coordinates to Waldfriedhof, but you didn't connect Heisenberg to daydreamer's location, which says "I have no idea where I am, but I can tell you exactly how fast I'm going", which refers to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Also, on the back of the clue you see this scribbled: ИAⱭAЯA

The list actually refers to lyrics from "Joseph's Coat" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a musical I performed in while in high school. (see ID post later!) The sequence goes cream, crimson, silver, rose, azure. Also, Aradan refers to Malach Aradan of Lord of the Rings. Malach points to Malachite.

As you all group together to plan your next move, you notice a USB drive on the ground. It has one file, named amangra.mp3. When played, this message repeats:

The lousy cheer for this holy rescue will echo surely.

Lousy cheer, holy rescue, and echo surely are all anagrams. These three all share the same one-word anagram: hylocereus. This is the genus to which dragonfruits belong.

In the K folder, you find three papers. The first paper has this written on it: 100110110

The second has these three images: <three images of bases>

You solved this, 100110110 in base 3 is 102111. calvin102111 was the target.

I can be on many surfaces, like sea, snow, or land.
I am not in Rio, but maybe in Edo.
I go right, when others go left.
I am many things, but regular is not one.
What am I?

The first line refers to boarding sports: surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding.
The second line refers to sports that are to be added next Olympics: skateboarding, karate, surfing, sports climbing and baseball/softball
The third line refers to a way of standing: standing with your right foot forward instead of your left.
The fourth line refers to a stance name. Regular footer, where your left foot is forward, is the more typical stance. Goofy footer, where your right foot is forward, is less typical.
This all targets Goofy Foofer.

It's the closing ceremony! The relay from Rio to Tokyo is happening before our very eyes. No sparks fly this time, but shortly afterwards, there's a power outage in the stadium, and certain seats appear lit up. One side of the stadium says 15767. The other side of the stadium is dark on the left side, and says LOC on the right side. Maybe that was intentional, maybe there was something that was supposed to go in that dark space. That is up to you to find out.

The letters ZIP were supposed to go in the dark space on the left side, but you figured out that it was the ZIP code for Punxsutawney anyway, a town that's home to a very famous groundhog. Hence, -Groundhog-.

From: assassinator@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: Re: Re: RE: Re: OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS

lee16146
5th from last
Yummy!

Sent from my iPhone

You solved this exactly. It's a flickr page, the 5th picture from last is labeled Fluffy Crustacean.

Map of Nevada, image link is broken for now

This was the clue I was most impressed with your solving abilities. You figured out that the triangle had an area of 27, and Area 27 in Nevada is home to the JASPER Facility. I also included the musical symbol for a Coda, but you didn't need it.

Anyway, time to make another clue. The answer could be at your fingertips, but you may have to move them a little bit.

nchsolf6 <slash> j9x87jd
E ' , 0

nchsolf shifted by 6 yields tinyurl. http://www.tinyurl.com/j9x87jd links to Dvorak's New World Symphony. Dvorak is a type of keyboard. If you shift your fingers down one, from E ' , 0, you get J A O L. Also, the tinyurl link goes to the 1732nd second of the YouTube video. 1732 is the year Georgia was founded.

If you add 63 to the last, you get the first
If you subtract 314 to the last, you also get the first

To tell the truth, I like this one. No lie.

You basically solved this. 924 + 63 = 987. 924 - 314 = 610. Both 987 and 610 are Fibonacci numbers. Tell the truth and no lie both refer to Fib.

For my next kill, we are honoring those who came before us.
<Images of gneiss and a hydrogen poptart>

This pointed to gneissisnice and thehydrogenpoptart. Both of them share the distinction of having won Most Original Username. The only other user to win this title was Person.

6 alysfuxs
are won
wbmimgt

First line: when shifted by 6, you get greylady; the Grey Lady is the house ghost of Ravenclaw
Second line: are won is an anagram of Rowena, whose last name is Ravenclaw
Third line: the first letters of "wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure", the house motto of Ravenclaw

This all points to Panda Weasley, which you got correctly.

Crossword #1

You got Karp correctly.

fnxty; 2BPL-4DP

You do not need to search far, but you may need to search all the same.

texas placed 2nd in Bio-Process Lab and 4th in Dynamic Planet at Texas states, and posted fnxty in Slap the Keyboard. "You do not need to search far" meant you only needed to search the site. You correctly protected texas.

124 065 065 055 115

You were so close on ASCII. These used octal conversions, which are found on most ASCII tables. The characters convert to T55-M.

Howard
UCF
Miami
St. Joseph's
Davidson
Richmond

Shoot for the moon on this one. Your success banks on it.

This is a part of George Washington University's men's basketball schedule. Both "shoot" and "banks" are basketball terms. Also, Miami, St. Joseph's, Davidson, and Richmond are all in GWU's athletic conference. VCU and La Salle, the two schools I added, are the next two games on the schedule and also in the same athletic conference. All this goes toward the fact that GW's mascot is the Colonials, and dragon_fruit's sig has "Go Colonials".

Crossword #2

You got Fibonacci correctly.

"We are about to land. I have been given a message from an anonymous source. If you're going to Meek Mansion after our flight docks, please take the flight to Capital Region International Airport. Paleonaps will be your captain there"

Meek Mansion is in Cherryland, CA. Capital Region Int'l Airport's code is LAN. Paleonaps is from the same school as Cherrie_Lan (Gelinas). You solved this one pretty easily.

My next target won't fall, but may hit home. Check your dad's patella, that may help.

Won't fall = spring, home = house. Springhouse is the former school of Sensei_Sushi. Also, dad's patella = pa knee -> Pawnee, the setting of Parks and Rec, a show Sushi lists as an interest.

This will be an old-fashioned throwback clue. This is the key. Use a vigenere

dpesapzknai

"Old-fashioned throwback" referred to old Assassinators, where Vigenere ciphers were common. When the string of letters is put into the cipher with a key of "this", you get kiwa hirsuta, which is a furry crab. Hence, Fluffy Crustacean. You solved this.

{RI CAPITAL} Road
{CREEK}{SANCTUARY} Road
{POLICEMAN}ples Lane
{PINNATED TREE} Lane

You solved this. Providence Road, Brookhaven Road, Copples Lane, and Hickory Lane are all roads near Strath Haven, and UTF Is the most active user from Strath Haven.

Post indicating the ID clues will be coming soon!