It’s possible that DURT is a word that we need to CHOP apart to form an acrostic that starts with Death, and that the words that make up the acrostic would be the four key words.
I can see all the typing clues and the “isn’t a place for Disciples of the Crabigator” being pointers to the Tofugu page (if we didn’t figure out the dates). And I can see the descending and begin from death relating to telling us what order to put in the keywords once we know them. That still leaves the begin from death thing. It can’t NOT be a clue, and we have no idea what that means.
Begin from death.
I thought maybe there would be a vocab word meaning begin in the death levels, but no.
Tried imagining “death” doesn’t mean the state of being dead, but the name of something
I quite like the idea of checkerboard codes or telegraph codes that turn two kana, into one considering that each of the four codes has an even number of characters, except that (a) no codes on either of those pages has ちち (or AA) as an encoded symbol, and (b) I feel like we’re introducing new information that’s not been hinted at.
Honestly, I’ve been staring at this all day, and nothing’s jumping out at me. But then, nothing jumped out at me about the original five kanji either.
… @Masayoshiro, come here and let me run an electric current across your brainpan, see what happens.
I’m kind of back to hoping they will interact with us more frequently, (durtle visiting us every 500 posts maybe? <3 We miss you Mr Durtle!) but I guess that is in vain
That being said, yesterday evening I thought the 死 in 死から開始 could be there for reading mostly and it might mean 四 instead… so starting from the fourth… and then I dreamed this was totally right and it lead us to a clue about something with two… but sadly I forgot all the details…
I read about those codes, too, and thought maybe two characters represent one kana. Except, the only pair that repeats itself is D0 I think, all others are unique. That would mean we‘re looking at a sentence/sentences where no kana except one figures twice - I think that‘s unlikely.
In my opinion a Japanese keyboard is our best bet - after all the clue is in an article about keyboards. Then again, none of my ideas so far turned out to be worth anything, so if I have an opinion about this, you can probably disregard it.