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[OmegaLimit]

I'm currently operating under the assumption that we are not getting a key as much as a set of instructions to decode the message.

What's bothered me the most is that the tweeted colors match the Crayola colors, but the colors in the "ciphertext" do not. So, *properly* decoding the "you will meet her..." message will take a different thought process than the "begin again" message and the tweeted message.

Since the tweeted colors fit the color name cipher, but do not spell out anything intelligible at the moment, I am assuming that once all the colors have been tweeted, we will have a anagram for decryption instructions.

The only thing that bothers me about this theory is the lack of vowels. If we are getting an English message from the tweets, it should have more vowels.

[spoonhead99]

Re: The tweeted color hex codes

[danteIL]

Re: The tweeted color hex codes

[OmegaLimit]

Re: The tweeted color hex codes

[danteIL]

Re: The tweeted color hex codes

[Gently]

I believe it's going to be an alphabet, too, and moreover the first letters of the tweeted colors are likely irrelevant because of RU's previous tweet:

[bambusar]

Not names but?

•location on colorwheel
•location in colorspace (maybe convert them to other color spaces)
•hue
•saturation
•brightness
•or something with numbers in hex
   converting them to decimal and then to ascii
   converting them to binary and then to ascii
   some matematical operation with all three numbers
•if all colors are crayon, maybe matters how they are ordered in crayon catalogue

I am just thinking loud here...

[drizjr]

I'm not a fan of that either, dante, and I have to admit that the initial glitter has faded a bit. But having said that, I'm keeping an open mind and staying optimistic especially in light of the group of people who have gathered in this thread so far.

Back to busy work...
I've added two new sheets on the Google spreadsheet.
Sheet 2 only has the alphabet of colors used so far in the acrostics.
Sheet 3 has only the tweeted hex color codes, so that they can easily be toggled into alphabetical order; if we need to, after we get all 26 of them. Although, *palm firmly to forehead*, that wouldn't make much sense.

It was me who added a column for the decimal values, just in case that dot below MrToasty's eyes is a hint at decimal point.

[vapor]

Thanks for keeping up with it driz. I'm guessing, with June looming, we'll have more substantial stuff by the end of the week.

[danteIL]

Another:

[MrToasty]

One thing that I don't quite understand yet is that although the tweeted hex values are exact matches to Crayola colors, the hex values of the colors in the posted PNG images are not exact matches. Artifacts of a conversion, colorspace difference, gamma correction?

Oh and another one for the list:
ff7f49 Burnt Orange

ETA new tweet:

[drizjr]

That was me adding a fourth page through blurry eyes. You're doing a much better job of it, MrToasty. You're onto something, for sure!

[MrToasty]

Thought it might be you
Good to see that our minutes align.

[danteIL]

I like this theory, but is it a problem that the first string of these color tweets, before RUArtist said BEGINAGAIN, do not have similarly corresponding times?

For example:

First pass:

[MrToasty]

I was a bit worried about that as well and I suppose it all depends on the interpretation of 'begin again' - did they repeat or start over fresh?