Descent of the Durtle into eGoooott - NOW AT B8!

WaniKani
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#eGoooott :wink:

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While the password is important, I think the more pressing question is, what race are they?!

Aside from zebras and monkeys, it looks like there are 3 races:

  • humans (Dingle)
  • durtles (misc.) They can be helpful like at the entrances or they can attack people.
  • *Diggers (Captain Bottomfingers, Ugly Brodo, Bipple, and Norman).

*Digger seems to be more of an occupation than race but we’ll just call them that for now.

The Diggers are refered to as ‘man’ in the clues but then why would they make a distinction about Dingle being a human? We know they are Disciples of the Crabigator so they are not durtles. In the 51 clue, Ugly Brodo said “Don’t let them turn me.” We know from Koichi’s great sacrifice
 a moment of silence for our fallen comrade
 that humans don’t re-durtle into durtles, thus Diggers are not human. So, either Diggers are monkeys or they are a new race.

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6817

also is “each and every other” defined as “every second” or just “every few” as flexible interval?

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It’s a side effect of asking people to check their mails in a new thread. It was necessary to get many people involved, but it’s also logic that the answers are posted in this thread and thus discussed there. So, while it’s not as easy to check two threads for progress, I personally see it as a necessary evil :slight_smile:

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6819

How about turtles? :thinking:
Durtles come from burned turtle shells after all.

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Yeah, also, nothing says it has to be the first letter strictly either.

For the record, I’m not being difficult. Just you guys are running with the leading theory pretty strongly already, so I’m thinking of Plan B’s :slight_smile:

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6821

Hmm
 possible. But do turtles have nipples and worship the Crabigator?

edit: Anyone, feel free to use that in an out of context quote.

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6822

Also, do they have shirts and swords?
Who knows?

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6823

Apparently we’re not the first to ask this

The answer is no btw

EDIT:

Imgur

Wtf

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Well when we’re already talking about this there was something else bugging me.

The Hint says “240 Durtles stacked under each other” which could be a metaphor for the lines stacked under each other from the mails. But we only got 120 lines (2 from each level). Or the 240 is just hinting at the 240/4=60 levels.

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6825

Maybe there’s a second message in there? Like the last letter of every sentence or something?

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6826

I’m thinking there’s got to be a second half of the message. ‘Each and every other’ seems to me to be an emphasis of “every other”, so I’m still a bit dissatisfied with the ‘every 4’ thing even though it seems to be working.

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6827

Aren’t there discourse “groups” for each level so we can look for people on the ones we’re missing?

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@ctmf It’s pretty certain what the final messages’ initial will be, but if you really want more messages, @rfindley has some stashed away for now.

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DURTWEBURNWERISEDESCENDFOREVER
I kind of feel like it’s a quote for something? The first clue, “Durtles?” I asked. “But that’s impossible.” “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” said the queen." is an almost direct quote from Alice in Wonderland. And, many of the other clues sound very much like quotes as well, my Googling just hasn’t unearthed anything. :pensive:

“Quench my blade’s thirst, Dingle will! Dingle! Dingle! Uncle Brodo is here for a visit!”
This one sort of sounds Smeagol-ish (from Lord of the Rings).
IDK, I’m probably stretching. The only thing I can think about for DURTWEBURNWERISEDESCENDFOREVER is “Wakanda Forever!”

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6830

I think it’s just because they’re having to start the sentences with a specific first letter, so some of them come out a little
 ‘different’.

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6831

@rfindley, why do you still hold your messages back? :cry:

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Thank you for that. They keep throwing around phrases like “it must be”, but that’s dangerous. I mean, we all knew how absolutely unlikely it was that “eGoooott” could be the password, after all.

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Considering @rfindley is all the way down to 34, I guess so :stuck_out_tongue:
Currently the only person with the full story.

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There are two things bothering me:

  • the level 60 “every other” thing I mentioned before
  • there are only 120 characters this way, but the number 240 is referenced in the puzzle. Possibly that’s only to wedge in the “every 4” idea because it’s 60 (number of messages) x 4, but that also feels suspicous, like we’re missing half of something.