Day 6 - Final discussion before the second execution

[pandatrash]

[This morning, a video of Tycoon auto-plays on everyone's tablets. He is in a dimly lit room, and seems to be eating pudding out of a bicycle horn...? Whatever, the raccoons are weird.]

Today’s the day! Are you pumped up? Psyched out? Pissed off? Done in? Hehehehe!

Everybody better vote today for who you want to be PUNISHED! If you don't vote by the time the timer reaches zero, your vote will be randomized! Just like it now says in the rules!

I, Tycoon (only Tycoon), will still answer one question per person if you haven’t cashed yours in yet! Rule clarifications are free, by the way! Also, quit freaking out about the people who are off crying in their rooms or whatever! You already have all the alibis you need to solve the mystery!

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Comments

[flamingprick]

I think the more important question is "would Sigma have thought of this anagram BS"? Because most people wouldn't do that, they'd do a nickname, or something like the other thing you suggested.

[purrtagonist]

What if he couldn't?

[tilts his chin up!!]

A nickname might be a little too obvious for our furry friends. And I don't really think it's a coincidence that two nonsensical words can be rearrange to formulate one that actually does make sense.

[flamingprick]

Then why not make a mixed-up word of someone's actual name? Or do an alternate kanji reading?

[suppressthedark]

I'm not sure Sigma was Japanese.

[Granted, a lot of them here are, but 'Sigma' is pretty out there even for a kirakira name.]

And the mixed up thing might be too obvious for the raccoons to allow.

[flamingprick]

I dunno, they did answer your question of 'was it a guy'.

[suppressthedark]

But not when people directly ask them if a specific person killed Sigma. Mine was vague enough to leave us a lot of potential subjects to go through.

[flamingprick]

And didn't we think it was one of like five people then? And none of them were either of the two people talked about here. Maybe that's why they answered, since we were wrong anyway.

[suppressthedark]

Then it's pretty suspicious they didn't really give an answer if Sigma actually wrote it or not.

[purrtagonist]

[a humorless smile]

I can't answer those questions. But I do think Sigma chose this method on purpose, regardless of the reasons.

[flamingprick]

Did anyone really know the guy here? Maybe if he's one for puzzles like that, it'd make sense.

[Rin didn't know him at all, so he can't offer any insight there.]

[purrtagonist]

I only spoke to him once, but he's been through something similar to this before. And from what I could understand-- [the parts Ivan didn't censor because I HAVEN'T FINISHED VLR YET] -- puzzles were a big part of his escape.

[flamingprick]

Huh. So maybe a puzzle like that would be something he'd do after all.

[WHY ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS?]

[purrtagonist]

[zero escape man]

[Akira just shrugs!!]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

If he liked puzzles enough. If it's truly a hint from a spirit, what else do they have to do with their time?

Of course, it could be a different code than an anagram, such as a ROT13 cypher.

[flamingprick]

A what?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...A code. Possibly of the sort where each letter is put off by just a few letters. But no, it would be difficult for that to continue to be words after being encoded... Ugh, puzzles.

[flamingprick]

Yeah, these puzzle things suck. Just punch the person trying to kill you next time, we'll notice the black eye.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

I'll keep that in mind next time I'm killed.

...I believe the leading assumption is that Klim didn't struggle when he was killed. But who knows, we could be as wrong with that as the leg lamp was.

[wolfsbaneandtears]

Only if it was a cipher that adjusted for vowels. Typically ciphered English text doesn't produce this many vowels, let alone words that are intelligible. And such a cipher would be hard to crack from only two words unless it was a known one like ROT13.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Indeed... That's why I usually leave these things to computers to solve. There's nothing saying that the words aren't just simple clues for desserts or horns, either...or that the actual anagram wasn't "taco hooka pi".

[wolfsbaneandtears]

All of those things are possible. But, are you willing to assume that this isn't a clue? If not, then we should favor hypotheses with meaning over those that don't.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Obviously. ...This sort of disorganized information gathering is not to my taste. There are supposed to be people to take care of this.