For a puzzler such as you, you shall solve with ease

Question

Your pet cricket has disappeared, due to its undying loyalty and steadfastness you assume foul play must be afoot! After looking around for any signs of confrontation, you find none, but thankfully your years of training it in typing appear to have paid off.

Going to your computer there is a minimized text document that says:

Good sir. Me exit abruptly, be back. Assuming accurate education, the table will hold put there. Worry not, prompt arrival likely. Like my family I am wont to evacuating uniquely. So bye.

P.S. I am sure we will be reacquainted with ease.

As you read it you are most perplexed by your cricket's lack of prosaicness, dearth of wit and gross misuse of the word uniquely. As such you look in greater detail and find that something has befallen your pet cricket.

What happened to your cricket?

Hint 1:

I feel like someone else would be more incentivized to give hints than me.

Hint 2:

Your cricket had always made fun of your puzzle solving skills.

What happened to your cricket? Your cricket was given to Mulan for good luck by the grandmother. — tbriscoe, Jul 18 '16 at 22:21
Lol, that looks like something put through Google Translator — Spacemonkey, Jul 19 '16 at 11:43
Welp that feeling when the comment has more points than the question... — Going hamateur, Jul 21 '16 at 15:55
So...do those hints have anything to do with finding the solution? — Dan Russell, Jul 22 '16 at 13:27
@DanRussell The idea for the first is: The cricket would give you a hint. For the second it points out that maybe the cricket does not think it would be an easy puzzle for you, as such... — Going hamateur, Jul 22 '16 at 18:29
@Goinghamateur That's how I read them. Just not sure how that would help anyone solve the puzzle. Neither one has anything to do with the method of attaining the answer, do they? It sounds like the first one means "check puzzle for hints" and the second means "it's a hard puzzle." — Dan Russell, Jul 22 '16 at 18:42
@DanRussell actually it was why was he saying I am sure you would save it with ease if he is a bad puzzle solver? It is pointing out that ease doesn't mean ease. I will agree the first hint adds fairly little. — Going hamateur, Jul 22 '16 at 19:22
I see, so just trying to point more clearly to the hint that the cricket had already left. — Dan Russell, Jul 22 '16 at 19:25

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '16 at 05:22

16

The "P.S." hints that

the letter E is important ("reacquanted with ease").

To use that hint, we must

divide up the text at every E:

Good sir. Me
e
xit abruptly, be
back. Assuming accurate
e
ducation, the
table
will hold put the
re.
Worry not, prompt arrival like
ly. Like
my family I am wont to e
vacuating unique
ly. So bye

Counting the letters in each section gives us 9,1,13,20,1,11,5,14,2,25,6,18,15,7. Translating those letters (A=1, B=2...) gives:

I AM TAKEN BY FROG

answered Jul 22 '16 at 05:22

Deusovi

146,248
16
519
609

Nice. I knew that E must have something to do with it, but didn't hit on this approach. – Dan Russell Jul 22 '16 at 13:24
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My hero! -The cricket – Going hamateur Jul 22 '16 at 14:12
@Deusovi, nice. – John Jul 22 '16 at 15:29

For a puzzler such as you, you shall solve with ease

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