Descent of the Durtle into eGoooott - NOW AT B8!

Where indeed? Do you think they went down to B4 without us? Those four numbered lines are important if you want to join them!

Would you call it progress? I suppose that’s fair… Some of you are getting close!

This is no time or place for those who worship the Crabigator.

it’s… uh… hm… I don’t know flies away to my death, unable to answer any more questions

Don’t ask me - this is all the durtles’ doing. I’ve already given you the greatest riddle of all: doing your reviews. It’s just this year’s winter holiday present to you all

Seems unlikely to me, knowing how bad most durtles’ educations are. They do have some pretty good creative thinking, though. I wouldn’t put it past a durtle to come up with an entirely new cipher that probably nobody’s ever used before.

The longer it takes the better it is for me. If the timing is right, I’ll consider the making the bottom EtoEto…

Borx’s disappointment is as good as my disappointment! Get on it, for Borx’s sake!

I don’t really know how to define “advanced decryption” but I can tell you that myself and all the durtles are bad at math so I doubt it will be advanced. Different, maybe.

Have you seen many Durtles on your way? Perhaps they’re all deeper… or perhaps they just haven’t bothered because they know the folly of even attempting.

Not much of an ice cream fan. I have ultra sensitive teeth and eating cold things is really painful for me :frowning: If I had to choose then… ben & jerry’s cherry garcia, or vanilla, not to be confused with @Vanilla (as usual, any of my responses to @Kumirei do not contain any hints).

Probably a romantic comedy from the 1950s.

That’s probably the sound one makes when you realize how much getting all three books will cost you but you just have to get them all.

Okay! All questions answered. Good luck everybody, you’re making Borx proud. :heartbeat:

Thank you Durtle Master

Its a lie, he was actually hinting that I have all the answers to the puzzle.

Quick, everyone pay me monies or ill never tell!

Okay… well at least some of us are getting close?

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chiya-frustrated

You’re supposed to be asleep

A Borx is never asleep when a Borx is supposeed to be.

Blame the gacha games! Granblue Fantasy had an event that’s ending soon and I’ve been neglecting!

You said goodnight almost two hours ago!

It’s a cry for help!

Thanks for the answers!

Ugh… “getting close”, and I won’t have time to play… :disappointed_relieved:

Well, unless you’re the one getting close. Then we all have to wait for you. :smile:

You know, Koichi just told us to do our reviews. What if some of the numbers and info we’ve unearthed in the spoiler thread are actually meant to direct us to particular review pages to use in the cipher instead?

Also, ‘This is no time or place for Disciples of the Crabigator’… he’s got to be talking about some kind of Japanese oral proficiency exam. Something where reading kanji is the least of your worries.

i.e., a reminder that we still haven’t figured out the significance of that clue.

“Time” wasn’t on the B3 page. Plus, the Regular Durtle mentioning midnight, makes me think that in addition to the date part that led to the Tofugu page, there’s a time component.

I’ll just help you out with this one. You already figured out all the time related stuff when you turned the stroke count to a date.

I kinda feel like we need more towards an actual hint rather than reassurances…

Dang, I only check into the forum occasionally these days, but this whole event seems pretty cool!

I’m not sure I have much to offer at this point, but I’ll be watching closely to see if I can later. I’m really curious to see how deep this goes. (literally?)