Whaaaat? He’s gone all the way to 34?
He’s about to go subatomic!
I reckon “each and every other” is rather weird wording.
I don’t see anything wrong with taking every fourth line - the reason the lines come in pairs is so that we can order them by matching up the starting letter.
Yeah we’ve been burned with this before. I’m hoping it will absolutely be the easy way this time, but its a tiny, flickering flame of hope smothered under all that eGoooott
Especially since we have enough data now to be almost certain of the sentence. And yet that’s not the password…
Huh, that’s curious too. In addition to [every 4th letter starting from the 2nd] being the same as [every 4th letter starting from the 3rd] being exactly the same string,
[every 4th letter starting from the 4th] is the same as [every 4th letter starting from the first], rotated by one.
That’s because for the sentences to string together, the last line’s first character must be the same as the next line’s first character, so you get doubles. 
@Liuyuan,
I think he’s pointing out (indirectly) that 60b also matches 1a.
He’s in the thread! Lock the doors so he can’t get away before he coughs up all the clues he’s found!
Let’s put him in Durtle Jail, aka jail!
Heh… I reserve my evening time to spend time with my wife. Once she’s ready to head to bed though (in about 30min), I’m off to the computer. I’m somewhat of a night-owl.
So, what do we get if we read it going up? Starting with ‘D’ Disciples of the Crabigator or ‘C’ Captain Bottomfinger? I know it will be nonsense probably but 
, eh, it’s worth a try I guess. For some reason I still have the theory that up is down.
I’m not too sure I understand what you’re trying to say. Could you rephrase?
Is that better?
Ok, so we have: DURTWEBURNWERISEDESCENDFOREVER
which is not itself the password (as is).
I’ve tried combinations of orders of the 3 words ‘burn’ ‘rise’ ‘descend’, and combinations of order of those 3 + ‘forever’.
If it’s not the password literally, it could be a pointer TO the password (multi-step solution again).
I think it’s more likely a pointer. The durtle on B4 says, “Sometimes you gotta ascend to descend, you know?”
I’ve been riddling through what that could mean, and it’s still not coming. Ascend either refers to gaining levels in order to get the emails (thereby finding the password?) or points to something in the actual story of Captain Bottomfingers. Or I’m way off base. I thought “we burn” could have something to do with poor Koichi, but I’m not sure it does.
I just feel like sending us an entire story of a failed expedition into Durtle Heaven seems…loaded. Like there is still a piece we’re missing.
Mostly I’m confused as to why that prevents you from releasing your findings.
Do you mean you’re logging off for the night, or you’re “off to” the computer for the night? Like you’ll still be here?
Hah. It somehow magically now reads “off to”.
I confess I too was perplexed by the lack of logical connection between “I’m off the computer” and “I’m a night owl”.
TBH I just want to read the rest of the story, even if only the first letters are significant to the puzzle.
I think that’s most likely referring to leveling up to get the emails.
That, and one of the letters is going to be, like, a X, just to prevent us from simply brute-forcing the password.