Bascially, the How to Install a Japanese Keyboard page has a new HTML comment hidden in the page source reading “Durt Durt! Hmm, not bad, you’re on the right track!”. The books were discovered by simply searching every other page on Tofugu to find which other ones also had new HTML comments - this page has ten of them, each a string of numbers.
For example: 4789004546 181 8 49 3 20 2 33 - the first number is an ISBN for the book being described in the text adjacent to the code (in this case, the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar), while the rest of the numbers are a book cipher involving that book. We think the second number is a page number, and the rest are letter numbers, but for most books, that just gives us a bunch of nonsense. In the case of DBJG, though, going to page 181 and picking out the 8th, 49th, 3rd, 20th, 2nd and 33rd characters gives us the word “eating”.
The book cipher’s were found with a brute force search of all tofugu.com articles and found ones with comments. The link to the current B3 problem is still unclear, prevailing theory is that is either a later step of B3, or a deeper level.
Additionally in the most recent visitation:
Seems to be an indication that still addressing the four numbered lines should be our number one focus.
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
And wouldn’t it be amusing if “good morning” just happened to be the key that unlocked everything?
Has the thread title always been “Descent of the Durtle into Madness”? I’ve always been reading it as “Descent into Durtle Madness”, but I just noticed that’s not what it actually says.
