Descent of the Durtle into eGoooott - NOW AT B8!

YO. Stroke, he says. Stroke, stroke order, # of strokes. # of strokes!

Day. Dated? Date.

# of strokes:

六 - 4
乙 - 1
泣 - 8
競 - 20
薬 - 16

April 18, 2016

What’s the significance of this? There is only one article that Tofugu posted on April 18, 2016, and I don’t see anything there that sticks out yet.

Maybe we need to pull “key” words from the article? Like “keyboard”.

Oh. Hello there.
So, you figured out that simple Caeser Cipher?
I suppose Rome wasn’t built in a day, ha ha.
And the Shift JIS riddle?
Talk about dated!

But, this durtle won’t be so easy on you.
You see, I believe that this isn’t a place
for Disciples of the Crabigator.
You seek spiritual ascendence
through your Lessons and Reviews.
We seek physical descendence,
and that is the key
difference between you and I.
We’re just a different type from you.

Hearing that, do you still
seek to descend deeper into Durtle Heaven?
Very well, here is your next clue:

Be warned, this is only the first step of many.
Come back to me only when you’ve collected
all four keywords.
Say them in the correct order
and I’ll let you through.

I don’t think this leads anywhere, but in the background image of this article, we have four things of text.
image
Edit: It totally leads somewhere.

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