The Near Future...

[arfy4]

Now we wait for something new to solve.

[THE Flying chihuahua]

Now we need to discuss what the hint means.

[MrBlah]

It might be a One Time Pad encryption key to the 7th cipher we receive.

[CoyoteCreed]

It might be a One Time Pad encryption key to the 7th cipher we receive.

This is my hunch, though I think it's not out of the question that the sixth cipher is the culmination.

[Flaming Cheese Wheel]

Meanwhile, this thing that is probably viral advertising popped up on Reddit and was solved rather quickly.

[MrBlah]

I saw that and tried. Apparently I was doing the Bifid Cipher very incorrectly, and I'm not sure why/how.

[Boss Llama]

Though hamstrung initiative regularly depresses office functionaries, sending in Xeroxed paperwork and responding to scrawled notes occasionally makes even sticky situations and goals easier.

Fjords’ pulchritudinous aspects stimulate happiness throughout visitors’ entire stays.

Most birds like insects.
You gave Santa work dismembering reindeer?
Carefully chosen classics clarify civilian copyright competence.
Nice khaki bag, stylish comportment.
Don’t touch their antique flatware!
Live pigeons bemuse alpacas.

[CoyoteCreed]

Though hamstrung initiative regularly depresses office functionaries, sending in Xeroxed paperwork and responding to scrawled notes occasionally makes even sticky situations and goals easier.

Fjords’ pulchritudinous aspects stimulate happiness throughout visitors’ entire stays.

Most birds like insects.
You gave Santa work dismembering reindeer?
Carefully chosen classics clarify civilian copyright competence.
Nice khaki bag, stylish comportment.
Don’t touch their antique flatware!
Live pigeons bemuse alpacas.

Oh God, Alizee's lost it.

[CoyoteCreed]

Though hamstrung initiative regularly depresses office functionaries, sending in Xeroxed paperwork and responding to scrawled notes occasionally makes even sticky situations and goals easier.

Fjords’ pulchritudinous aspects stimulate happiness throughout visitors’ entire stays.

Most birds like insects.
You gave Santa work dismembering reindeer?
Carefully chosen classics clarify civilian copyright competence.
Nice khaki bag, stylish comportment.
Don’t touch their antique flatware!
Live pigeons bemuse alpacas.

In all seriousness:

In the first paragraph, the first letter of each word spells out: THIRD PART OF SIX NO MESSAGE
In the second paragraph, the second letter of each word spells out: JUST A HINT
Still working on the last part.

[CoyoteCreed]

For the first three lines of the third part, taking the first letter of the first word, the second letter of the second word, etc., yields MIKE, YANKEE, and CHARLIE, respectively, which are all code words in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. Not applicable to the last three lines of the third part. EDIT: It also applies to the last line, yielding LIMA, but not the fourth or fifth lines.

[CoyoteCreed]

There's something else going on with the fourth and fifth lines. If we were to assume that one of the letters in the first word of the fourth line, for example, was the first letter in the code word, the only options would be NOVEMBER, INDIA, CHARLIE, and ECHO, none of which can be made by taking one letter from each of the remaining words in the line. Ditto for the fifth line.

Anyone see any meaning in NHGLO or DOEIW?

[Boss Llama]

Looks like those two lines foiled your attempt to beat Zork's time of 21 minutes on the Caesar shift

Time to call in the reinforcements?

[CoyoteCreed]

Time to call in the reinforcements?

"Hey, guys."

[CoyoteCreed]

Reinforcements noticed that the last letter of lines four and five of the third part spell EIGHT and THREE respectively. Thus, the final message is:

"Third part of six. No message.

Just a hint.

MIKE YANKEE CHARLIE EIGHT THREE LIMA"

[Boss Llama]

Very good

That one was not technically a cipher, but was in fact something called Steganography. Steganography is the art of hiding writing in such a way that it doesn't draw attention to itself. Various techniques of steganography were used there, to show some of the ways it might be done. Other methods include having only certain words matter, or having the message in cipher, AND in one of the previous techniques. An encrypted message by itself is pretty suspicious, and will give somebody reason to suspect you of stuff. If the message is hidden in plain sight, but just doesn't look suspicious, you're home free.