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[MrToasty]

Looks like that was the right phrase, now to work out the method.

[drizjr]

Good job!

I put the puzzle on a Google spread sheet with what these old eyes see as the colors.
It should be accessible for anyone to look at and edit. Let me know if it's not.
Feel free to correct, suggest or contribute to the spreadsheet.

The string I got is:

LPOIAWWEFFSVFCTLSVFMFR

[drizjr]

Puzzle: What is the method of the substitution cipher?

[S.P.I.]

I notice that Mr Toasty has an avatar with rather peculiar eyes. Was R. U. being literal in this instance? If so, then the image right below Mr Toasty's avatar is R.U.'s avatar. Is there a type of cipher that is constructed via images?

Or if not that, I also noticed the emphasis "in YOUR case", not only personalizing it to Mr Toasty himself, but maybe also suggesting something altogether different but literal as well...that being...CAPS LOCK...as in, lower case or upper case...so maybe there is a cipher that deals in only caps or deals in only lower case or something...

*scratches head* Am I making any sense? It is 2:03 AM right now. I shouldn't even be writing this.

[massive]

I was getting mostly the same colors as danteIL so now I'm just looking at possible colors just by eyeball. I'm finding a number that are just a wee bit off. This may help us build an alphabet.

FCB4D5 - Lavender
008078 --> 158078 --> Pine Green
414A4C - Outer Space
5A75CE - Iris
86A968 --> 87A96B --> Asparagus
FF6B84 --> FC6C85 --> Wild Watermelon
FF6B84 --> FC6C85 --> Wild Watermelon
6E5060 - Eggplant
6BAE80 --> 6DAE81 --> Forest Green
6BAE80 --> 6DAE81 --> Forest Green
FF5E4E --> FF6E4A --> Outrageous Orange
FFA086 --> FFA089 --> Vivid Tangerine
6BAE80 --> 6DAE81 --> Forest Green
00ACD8
DBD7D1 - Timberwolf
FCB4D5 - Lavender
FF5E4E --> FF6E4A --> Outrageous Orange
6BAE80 --> 6DAE81 --> Forest Green
FFBCB3 -->FDBCB4 --> Melon
6BAE80 --> 6DAE81 --> Forest Green
F21F4A

Are we getting any closer?

The last one (the red) might be Scarlet (#FC2847).

LPOIAWWEFFOVF?TLOFMFS

[vapor]

*Following*

I heard this is where all the old timers are posting. *waves to fairyqueen and drizjr*

Still catching up but will chime in soon.

[MrToasty]

I'm not sure if I should be offended or relieved that I may or may not be considered an 'old timer.'

[vapor]

[drizjr]

[MrToasty]

Ah, the hypno-donkey ensnares another victim...

Using the period before the @ is likely just a twitter trick. If the tweet began with the @ then potentially only those that follow both of us would see the tweet. With the dot first, anyone following just ruartist would see it as well.

[spoonhead99]

If colour is the 'key' and we are taking the crayola colours to be the source text then maybe we should link colours.

If the ciphertext is Lavender

Lavender FCB4D5 252,180,213

Then the plaintext is one of

Yellow FCE883 252,232,131
Yellow Green C5E384 197,227,132
Yellow Orange FFB653 255,182,83

But I can't find a connection. Mr Toasty's background is also yellow.

[booba]

Did the little brain BB finally fall in the proper slot?

After reading the above posts re: Mr Toasty's nose-

[vapor]

Haven't had time to test the theory, but I believe if you use substition on the hex values (rather than color names) we may come to the same answer MrToasty came to with the cryptogram solve. I'd probably start with ROT13 and see if you can get the hex values for the letters in the first line "BEGINAGAIN" to match hex values in "YOUWILLMEETHERBYTHESEA". Esentially, find a method the consistantly converts hex values corresponding to the letters "A", "B", "E", and "I" in the first line to hex values (and subsequently colors) of the same letters in the second line. If there's a match, use the same substitution method on the rest of the hex values in the second line to come to "YOUWILLMEETHERBYTHESEA".

ETA - ROT13 works only on letters, so unless only the alphabetic values are encrypted, it can be ruled out. RuArtists last tweet "...not color names, but ----" makes me think I might be on the right track, though.

[S.P.I.]

Could it be the playfair cipher?

[vapor]

Just going to put this here to come back to later. It's all the letters from the last puzzle which also appear in previous puzzles.