Yeah, I confess that feels… strained.
I wasn’t getting anywhere with the other ways so I tried to do something different ~ I’m kinda curious because Turtles get burned right - become ash? Anyway I thought the page number 168 was a little bit suspicious too and started looking at the page numbers for the other books. There was 89 吐く for unko and 181 I ate one? for eating… but probably a coincidence. 209 I couldn’t see anything
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Also the Durtle goes into the ground after it dies? In tandem with our spiritual ascendence through lessons and reviews?
also maybe it was different in 1987 japan but I don’t see thaaat many grey cars? I thought the colour was a bit weird.
What happens if you start at the first 4?
I don’t have a good understanding of how the book cipher works.
it’s like uamaaaam
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On the off chance @koichi’s “I’m going on ahead! *evil laugh*” post was actually intended to be a clue, I had another pick over it - two words in the post have eight letters: “keywords” and “everyone”. Tragically, as… “amusing” as “everyone eating turtle unko” is, neither of them work (with or without the capital T in turtle). Though, I do find the use of the word “keyhole” to be at least a little bit curious.
Then I pondered the suggestion that the character numbers are cumulative, and got eyoathie (if you read downwards first) or eeataaek (if you read across first). … I think I preferred egoooott.
I feel like Koichi is trying to egoooott with our emotions
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I feel like we need to take a step back for a moment. We are clearly overlooking/overthinking something. Koichi has basically confirmed that we already have the keyword, kind of like the Mrs. Chou incident. Let’s not repeat that.
Yeah, but in the Mrs Chou Incident, that was someone randomly fluking the end goal, but we still needed to connect up all the clues in between. This time, we have all the clues, but they seemingly lead nowhere… except that at some point, somewhere in the last five hundred posts, we’ve supposedly managed to get the last keyword correct.
Or, at least close enough for @koichi to pretend he’s deriving it.
Maybe we’re supposed to shorten down egoooott to just egot?
probably not, I’m just really tired…
Were the other words found using the spaces in the text or without?
Looks like it.
Looking at the wiki, no spaces were used finding Turtle, unko, eating.
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Have we had any clear indication at all that the book cipher actually works for B3? Because I’m still not convinced.
"Blahblah eating Turtle unko " just doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with the clue text. Where is physical descendence? Where is ‘no place for Disciples of the Crabigator’? Where is “we’re just a different type from you” ?
And I cannot believe, out of all the different combinations and permutations of passwords that we’ve all tried, that somehow we’ve had the answer already but still didn’t get it right. Like, what are the odds?
Might have meant not WaniKani, i.e. Tofugu
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I initially thought it meant something away from Koichi’s realm, such as Genki textbooks. Tofugu is still nominally WK-verse.
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200 new posts when i wake up and still no news…
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Just for giggles, it is not any of these:
egoooott eating unko Turtle
egoooott eating Turtle unko
egoooott unko eating Turtle
egoooott unko Turtle eating
egoooott Turtle eating unko
egoooott Turtle unko eating
Turtle eating unko egoooott
Turtle eating egoooott unko
Turtle unko eating egoooott
Turtle unko egoooott eating
Turtle egoooott eating unko
Turtle egoooott unko eating
unko eating egoooott Turtle
unko eating Turtle egoooott
unko egoooott eating Turtle
unko egoooott Turtle eating
unko Turtle egoooott eating
unko Turtle eating egoooott
eating egoooott unko Turtle
eating egoooott Turtle unko
eating unko egoooott Turtle
eating unko Turtle egoooott
eating Turtle unko egoooott
eating Turtle egoooott unko
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