cipher - Finding Uncle John!

It was a chilly winter night when I was hanging around with some friends. We were gossiping about the recent kidnapping cases where a few of the people from the town were missing. There was a news about a gang with a long history of crimes. They had a kind of weird style of kidnapping. I say this, because, none of the earlier victims were harmed and they safely returned back home. But of course, it was due to the fact that the FBI was able to track the precise location in a short amount of time. If they hadn't, they could have starved to death!

Some say, these criminals do leave behind some clues once they vanish from the crime scene, and then they will leave the kidnapped victim in some remote place to rot alone until someone comes and rescues them. Bizarre and horrible!

It was already too late when I finally decided to skip the talks and head back to home. It was unusual, I felt something creepy. I hadn't received a single call today from my Uncle John. Something was not right, I guessed.

I was just outside the main gate of my house when I saw the lights were off. "This doesn't look good," I thought. I opened the gate and went ahead to push the bell, when I saw something hanging on the doorbell. It seemed like a torn piece of paper with some weird looking things. I didn't want to go inside the house until I made sure that it's safe inside, hence I decided to have some patience. And yes, I knew, my Uncle John was kidnapped!

With shivery hands I took the paper off the door and started reading the things. It seemed like it was full of clues, but I was clueless as to what it was pointing to? I sat down on the stairs to take a closer look, when I found something interesting in there, and so started working on it. In a few minutes, I was able to get the idea about the note. It was time. I rushed in to see what else was there for me. To my surprise, the room was messy. The tiles were all colored. Yellow, Green, Red and White all over the place.

There were 4 pieces of notes, again torn into pieces. I picked them up and started reading -

R k s q, yksp sjthn eq kbjk s qn. J kw r dmr y ks dm vn pnm tdna rd eq b mp, h nr i n rn hh y ks rdmr yk sp sj thn e q hkt mrna e j k jn t ksjrpy. R k pnm td rd npn, rd eq weh h u n yk sp bej mh qrn l rk bej a mja up nmg r dn qnp enq k b tk anq.

223->33->30->380->966 968->(Color pattern?)->66 93->975

Dc l t ys qcg m x vf riki cnc fz zxi! M s z u m s Al off w, Zph no .

Can you help me rescue Uncle John?

_{^{(Note-Story is a fiction! Images credit - Google!!)}}

HINT 1

All the information for decoding the cipher & cipher type are mentioned. Just apply knowledge and find it.

HINT 2

What word do you see formed out of the lines connecting SENORITA?

FINAL HINT

Hint 2 speaks about the cipher being used.

Answer

Since it was the only post with this cipher technique, I am going to keep it here as a community wiki and not deleting it. Might serve useful in future. :)

Following is the way to solve it -

The first image has a word saying "VIC" which says, it is using VIC Cipher which is a simple pen and paper cipher

Elements

If you know VIC Cipher, all the elements required for solving the cipher are already shown -
1. Normal letters - BCDFGHJKLMPQUVWXYZ
2. Special letters - SENORITA
3. Key shows as a Start - 24513
4. Cipher Text - 716898400042431
5. Blank Positions - Shown with highlighted numbers

Using these elements we can form Straddling checkerboard

Now, decoding it -

We have the cipher text as 716898400042431 and the key as 24513

KEY is MUTANT

Now,

Applying the Key MUTANT using Keyed Caesar we get
T o u s, your uncle is ofno u se. N ow t hat y ou ha ve rea ched th is f ar, l et m e te ll y ou that yo ur un cle i s loc ated i n o ne c ountry. T o rea ch th ere, th is wil l b e yo ur fin al ste p to fin d and br eak t he ser ies o f co des.
Which when arranged gives -
To us, your uncle is of no use. Now that you have reached this far, let me tell you that your uncle is located in one country. To reach there, this will be your final step to find and break the series of codes.

Now

Taking the last word of each sentence we get - USE COUNTRY CODES

223->33->30->380->966 968->(Color pattern?)->66 93->975

MALI -> FRANCE -> GREECE -> UKRAINE -> SAUDI ARABIA
OMAN -> TAJIKISTAN(Color pattern is there national color) -> THAILAND
AFGHANISTAN -> BHUTAN

Now,

Connecting these lines on World Map Gives-

Which is

MA = FORCE

Dc l t ys qcg m x vf riki cnc fz zxi! M s z u m s Al off w, Zph no .

Applying FORCE as a key to the final cipher using Vignere we get
Yo u r un cle i s ho pefu lly al ive! H e i s i n Mu mba i, Ind ia .
Which when rearranged gives -

Your uncle is hopefully alive! He is in Mumbai, India.