SciOly Assassination 114: The Amazing Race Death Edition

[dragonfruit35]

Do you guys think rain can could be a cipher key or something? Also the bit about watching people in a mirror reminds me of a movie, but I can't think which one.

In regard to the Cherrie protect, E is not 20 away from R, so if that was correct there must have been a key or something...


EDIT: Maybe the mirror refers to reversing something, like the alphabet? I tried a keyed Caesar with raincan and turned up nothing.

[NeilMehta]

Do you guys think rain can could be a cipher key or something? Also the bit about watching people in a mirror reminds me of a movie, but I can't think which one.

In regard to the Cherrie protect, E is not 20 away from R, so if that was correct there must have been a key or something...


EDIT: Maybe the mirror refers to reversing something, like the alphabet? I tried a keyed Caesar with raincan and turned up nothing.

Dang, I forgot to check the distance .-.

[lumosityfan]

23-11-23-26-12-9-5-19-3-3.

WKWZLIESCC appears not to unscramble to anything meaningful. I am working on shifts for the numbers.

bernard's on to something with the code but perhaps maybe we shouldn't be thinking it in terms of shifts. Maybe there's hidden words inside that could help us figure out the clue.

[NeilMehta]

Welcome back. As the wagon migrates to Fort Laramie, a mirror observes a guy walking toward the Platte River. After all, moving wagons must be a very exhausting endeavour. Suddenly a big earthquake comes forth near New Madrid and brings up enough water on the Platte to cause a flood. I, seeking my chance to strike first in this contest, drags the man into the flooding waters and drowns him.

whythelongface has died of drowning.

As the wagon arrives at Fort Laramie, they receive from the army commander a rain can with a note (because apparently Fort Laramie loves rain cans for some reason). The note says simply 23-11-23-26-12-9-5-19-3-3.

48 hours.

I know that it isn't a good idea to immediately think of event clues, but the fact that this clue mentions rain and water plus earthquakes could mean something...
(also what the heck is a rain can)

[Alex-RCHS]

23-11-23-26-12-9-5-19-3-3.

WKWZLIESCC appears not to unscramble to anything meaningful. I am working on shifts for the numbers.

bernard's on to something with the code but perhaps maybe we shouldn't be thinking it in terms of shifts. Maybe there's hidden words inside that could help us figure out the clue.

WKWZLIESCC

[Fibonacci924]

Lies and numbers in a sequence... that might refer to me.

[dragonfruit35]

Lies and numbers in a sequence... that might refer to me.

Just in case, I protect Fibonacci924 based on this reasoning. I'll keep working on the clue to see if I can figure anything else out.

[Froggie]

This has nothing to do with the game so far, but why does the Sassy have two posts from game 85?

[pikachu4919]

This has nothing to do with the game so far, but why does the Sassy have two posts from game 85?

I was going to say that generally, posts in the General Chat technically aren't supposed to count towards your total post count and that a previous assassinator possibly posted in one of the other forums just for fun, but idk why it only shows up for game 85 and not for one of the other forums where posts actually do go towards your post count. So....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[whythelongface]

(Totally not ghostposting because this doesn't have to do with Sassy)

Froggie, the reason, as explained by pika, is the same reason why you only have one post - because General Chat posts don't usually count. That being said, I don't think some posts in the other boards count either.