In case anyone wants to use it, the tool is here:
https://community.wanikani.com/t/descent-of-the-durtle-into-madness/34318/2989
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Woohoo.
Okay @an-exceedingly-punctual-durtle, the time is now.
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a regular durtle better be sitting at his durtle laptop, ready for some gosh durt questions
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A glimmer of hope is on the horizon!
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Les tortues sont renversees.
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Musique dramatique
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Jāai besoin dāun clavier francais pour mon cellulaire .
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Wait, I though we were supposed to be going down towards Durtle Heaven?! Why are you still seeing a horizon?
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Je ne parle pas franƧais aide
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Might possibly be more effective if you actually tagged @a-regular-durtle 
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Weāve @ed him so much today I felt like he got the message already XD
We have a weird AZERTY layout 
If you only need some letters with diacritics, isnāt there a US International keyboard? (Or just holding a letter to have the other versions on the basic QWERTY keyboard)
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Cāest ben plus facile que le japonais, mais actuellement je parle un petit peu le Quebecois a ce moment.
Aka, Iām being kind of slangy and lack a French keyboard for all the accented letters and cedillas
Plus autocorrect is really f**king it up.
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On my phone? My computerās all have a āCanadian Frenchā option
Trivial fun fact: I was watching German- commentated figure skating the other day and understood about 70% of the words. Not bad for not really ever studying German.
Note: This has nothing to do with the riddle
Ohhh, I didnāt know that, but there is indeed a āCanadian Frenchā keyboard layout (a modified QWERTY)
http://xahlee.info/kbd/i/layout/Canadian_French_kbd.svg
I assumed people from Quebec were using the same layout as France (AZERTY)
http://xahlee.info/kbd/i/layout/french_keyboard_layout_2017-04-30.svg
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Iāve never seen an AZERTY keyboard in real life. I think QWERTY might be the North American standard.
Actually, this could potentially be relevant to the riddle. Because Koichi & co, being in Seattle, are more likely to use QWERTY boards. So if keyboard transposition is part of the cipher, we should probably stick to QWERTY layout.
Yay, my brain finally coughed up something sensible and useful.
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Agreed. Maybe worth forgetting about the clues for a while and structuring a psych profile on how someone would design this cipher based what we know would perhaps spark a fresh direction.
I believe the clues regarding non-mathematical/easy math and an original method (what would a durtle do?). Also an intimate knowledge of WK/Tofugu.I hesitate to add space/death/key clues in this scenario given all its interpretations
To make it easier to review our clues, I added all puzzle text to the top of the wiki.
Next step, add all of @a-regular-durtle and @koichiās clues relating to our current stage of the puzzle. But Iāve gotta step away for a while, so if someone else is interested in gathering thoseā¦
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