500 coins for the first person to solve it

I have no clue

the answer is

meow!

my head has just exploded

Inb4 Farah is actually a secret agent, outsourcing the cryptography duties to save money.

Missing quite some spaces + the 'S' at the 3rd paragraph irritates me

Are these typos or was it on purpose?

Typos.

Edit: I think it went wrong when I converted the document to pdf. I'll upload a version without those typos tomorrow to solve your irritation :)

Edit2: not today, farah hungover

Edited 7/8/2020 18:42:20

No idea about this stuff , what parts might be a red herring or not. It says the title is the key. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" with 16 original letters maybe that is enough to replace the red and blue. If you assign them the number they have in the alphabet. Then maybe add red letters based on there alphabet number to the letters of the key going through it sequentially until you get to the end of the phrase after a certain amount of the coloured letters. And maybe minus blues random. Idk this is all a random guess I can't be arsed to try but maybe something like that tho almost certainly not if it "EXTREMELY TOUGH RIDDLE"

keys are strategic! And riddles are annoying

Edited 7/7/2020 21:02:46

The title of the thread is irrelevant. Consider contacting Mr. Bacon for advice.

The first part of the puzzle seems fairly straightforward. It's the second part that I'm having gripes with.

If you solved the first part correctly, the answer is staring you right in the face. Avé!

Easy for you to say lol.

I would be curious to see what Aura found afterwards :D

What i found was garbaly gook, but the puzzle hints that is what you should expect to happen.

You see garbaly gook, the answer is right in your face. Read.

Thanks for the hint.

Probably same as Aura:
I think I know what to do and how to do it (first 6 lines).
But so far, the first two paragraphs of the poem do not give me anything useful and there are at least 2 different ways to read it (red or blue). I don't have the time to write all the options out.

Not sure if we should do something with the number of letters skipped at the beginning or end of each line before/after the colouring.

So I think I'll just wait for someone else to give the answer. :-)


EDIT: what I have for the first 2 alinea's:

GB AHFR GO   THIERLOG  RR GIT ER I

Edited 7/8/2020 13:50:22

If all seems nonsensical
Then on you'll have to wade
And never become skeptical
As did the Light Brigade

Math wolf,

Listen to Farah.

-Aura

Edited 7/8/2020 19:23:28