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[Ameliå]

[Seadevil4]

Also been followed today and I'm a big Lovecraft fan so I'll take a punt at it, since I'm currently mind-blocked on my own writing atm.

[SteamPunkV]

New Tweet:

[KTsteve]

I got randomly added too O.o

Also, this escalated rather quickly. From random thought provoking tweets to "I'll kill someone, and you will watch"

Can't wait to see what you get. My bets definitely on a finger.

[danteIL]

I got my prize

[KTsteve]

Did the shredded story start at a specific point or is it from the beginning?

Whether significant or not the only letters next to numbers are cardinal directions. Seeing what I can make of it now

[HappyPhantom]

I was thinking coordinates maybe...

[KTsteve]

More likely the directions are a red herring. Rather, they are completed letters like how in the first clue 2 of the paragraph/line/letters were solved.

Judging by the letter it will tell us something important if we combine a little of what was in the package with a little of what he told everyone. I'm guessing the numbers refer to something he already told us.

edited for idiotic wording*

[SteamPunkV]

Hmmm, maybe someone from the RU Artist thread could help out here.....

So, I guess 'Whothehellknows' will turn out to be a key or a username somewhere (got nada on that so far)

ShapeLITE480 uses the word 'sharp' in his letter, he has referred to one of us having a 'mind as sharp as a scalpel' on Twitter - that got me thinking about famous doctors.

He has mentioned that HPL is not the only one (visionary) several times now, I suggested Galileo, Isaac Newton, Nietzsche and got this reply:

[Tenshi Akui]

I tried the "whothehellknows" as a password for the jpg in Secret Layer, but unfortunately I do not have the pro version of it so I can't decrypt password protected Stegonography.

If anyone has software that can do jpgs and using passwords maybe give it a try.

Otherwise I'll poke at it some more see if it could be something else.

[Hilohello]

Perhaps the colors are important.

The only things I can think of in regards to that are HTML color codes, and the color wheel. The latter of which gives me flashbacks to my color theory classes, ugh.

[danteIL]

Another possible clue/red herring:

According the label on the mailing box, although the box was mailed from zip 22206 (Arlington, VA), the return address is:

[SteamPunkV]

[danteIL]

So we are told that this image is going to help us learn something about crystalLITE I mean shapeLITE480.

The obvious thing that's already been pointed out is that several of the color squares contain N S E W:

41 S
24 S
1 E
8 W
76 W
10 N
0 E
0 N
2 S
7 E
9N

That's enough for 5 pairs of lat/lon coordinates (S S N N N matched with E W W E E)

Other than the colors, which all seem to be unique as far as I can tell (and thus, the RU Artist code doesn't work -- believe me I tried!), the other notable thing is the single color square that contains a 3-digit number: 480

Which is, of course, the same number that our mysterious friend also uses.

Throwing things out there.

EDIT: I missed "2 S" the first time, which throws things off a bit.

[SteamPunkV]

A shame about the extra one danteIL, that was a good theory! It might still be coordinates with an extra one thrown in to throw us off track....unless...

We have to find a starting point somehow then go 41 degrees south, then 1 degree east, then 10 north and so on.... Nope, the zero's mess that up.

How about coordinates on the moon? He talks of other worlds often and that's the one we have mapped most accurately....

Another random.. we've seen videos of a mountain, and mountains have often been seen as the centre of the world by those who live near them, so if SL is the centre of all this then perhaps the 480 square is the starting point...

And the picture is 9 x 9 cells, same number as the Vedic square.....

Anyone get the feeling I'm clutching at straws here lol!