It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
Your secret is that you are really, really, strange.
OOOOh trust me, I will keep this up as long as possible. I promise that I will continue to post obsessively. Also, you didn't say what my secret was! C'mon man, I wanna know!
Nah, that bit was the secret. But I’ll do another.
BroxThePuppetmaster appears to have only been around for around five hours. And while it’s true that his account may be young, Brox himself isn’t really Brox at all. BroxThePuppetmaster is just an alt account, created by one of the devs to prank the mods. How, exactly, will this prank work?
See, BroxThePuppetmaster actually has full moderation capabilities. He can freely delete any and all posts that he sees. He can edit other user’s posts, change their signatures, give obscene custom titles, and cause many more headaches for the real mods — all the while completely untraceable, so the dev that pulled the prank is never revealed. It’s delightfully sinister, when you think about it. So, if all this text is deleted and replaced with a fire emoji and poop emoji right before your eyes, don’t be surprised — that’s just Brox abusing his power. I can only hope a real mod sees this post before it’s too late.
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
further edits for the same tooltip
You see, in the final bit we can see the word tooltip. However, I didn't see any tooltip like this or anything. This could be referring to the famous code of "tool tip". In the Civil War, an old blacksmith was working as a spy. When he needed to use code, he would refer to the tips of tools being difficult to forge. He would then say he had a specific amount for an order, and this translates to the code. Nothic has the letter H in the name, and you know what H stands for? That's right, hammers. Then Nothic2SeeHere-- the 2! This means "2 hammers", which in this code roughly means,
"This shall be a diversion, just go along with it while our associate does the main job". Why, who could this associate be? None other then... KASRIK.
This seems like an innocent enough post at first. But look at the word "outside". The word outside means this is in Druidic. If we take this sentence, translate it into Druidic, say it aloud, then replay it backwards in a seemingly random order, we get this:
"I shall be the diversion, just frame the tree eater and we can execute our master plan!"
If we do this same process with his name, we get this:
"If you need diversion ideas, just use our plan but put it on Gibber in some way."
This means Nothic and Kasrik are coworkers aiming to bring about the end of Santa. Which one shall take the position, I need to dive deeper to figure out. But these two are framing me for the assassination of Santa! Nothic, I knew you were evil from the beginning. Kasrik, this is a horrible betrayal. But I can only hope Santa comes online at this time and sees this post.
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
further edits for the same tooltip
You see, in the final bit we can see the word tooltip. However, I didn't see any tooltip like this or anything. This could be referring to the famous code of "tool tip". In the Civil War, an old blacksmith was working as a spy. When he needed to use code, he would refer to the tips of tools being difficult to forge. He would then say he had a specific amount for an order, and this translates to the code. Nothic has the letter H in the name, and you know what H stands for? That's right, hammers. Then Nothic2SeeHere-- the 2! This means "2 hammers", which in this code roughly means,
"This shall be a diversion, just go along with it while our associate does the main job". Why, who could this associate be? None other then... KASRIK.
This seems like an innocent enough post at first. But look at the word "outside". The word outside means this is in Druidic. If we take this sentence, translate it into Druidic, say it aloud, then replay it backwards in a seemingly random order, we get this:
"I shall be the diversion, just frame the tree eater and we can execute our master plan!"
If we do this same process with his name, we get this:
"If you need diversion ideas, just use our plan but put it on Gibber in some way."
This means Nothic and Kasrik are coworkers aiming to bring about the end of Santa. Which one shall take the position, I need to dive deeper to figure out. But these two are framing me for the assassination of Santa! Nothic, I knew you were evil from the beginning. Kasrik, this is a horrible betrayal. But I can only hope Santa comes online at this time and sees this post.
Now y'all see here, we see the words 'this or anything' used in a tooltip for a tarrasque. This seems random at first, but the tarrasque is actually a distraction. If we take those words, translate it into binary, then rearrange it, we get "Imma go trickster", which is clearly code for "I'll distract the Trickster", referring to me.
Which means that both of these are actually diversions, so that Nothic and Gibber, who both chose names of monsters, can distract me from the fact that they are actually conspiring to assassinate Santa Claus, and are trying to pin it on me.
Someone call Santa!
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Kasrik Argentum Stellaris Fiddlesticks the Wizard, Lord of Stars, Master Trickster, and Creator of both the Mosh of Stardust Hornets and Mimiczilla.
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
further edits for the same tooltip
You see, in the final bit we can see the word tooltip. However, I didn't see any tooltip like this or anything. This could be referring to the famous code of "tool tip". In the Civil War, an old blacksmith was working as a spy. When he needed to use code, he would refer to the tips of tools being difficult to forge. He would then say he had a specific amount for an order, and this translates to the code. Nothic has the letter H in the name, and you know what H stands for? That's right, hammers. Then Nothic2SeeHere-- the 2! This means "2 hammers", which in this code roughly means,
"This shall be a diversion, just go along with it while our associate does the main job". Why, who could this associate be? None other then... KASRIK.
This seems like an innocent enough post at first. But look at the word "outside". The word outside means this is in Druidic. If we take this sentence, translate it into Druidic, say it aloud, then replay it backwards in a seemingly random order, we get this:
"I shall be the diversion, just frame the tree eater and we can execute our master plan!"
If we do this same process with his name, we get this:
"If you need diversion ideas, just use our plan but put it on Gibber in some way."
This means Nothic and Kasrik are coworkers aiming to bring about the end of Santa. Which one shall take the position, I need to dive deeper to figure out. But these two are framing me for the assassination of Santa! Nothic, I knew you were evil from the beginning. Kasrik, this is a horrible betrayal. But I can only hope Santa comes online at this time and sees this post.
Now y'all see here, we see the words 'this or anything' used in a tooltip for a tarrasque. This seems random at first, but the tarrasque is actually a distraction. If we take those words, translate it into binary, then rearrange it, we get "Imma go trickster", which is clearly code for "I'll distract the Trickster", referring to me.
Which means that both of these are actually diversions, so that Nothic and Gibber, who both chose names of monsters, can distract me from the fact that they are actually conspiring to assassinate Santa Claus, and are trying to pin it on me.
Someone call Santa!
We see the words someone call Santa! If we do the same process as before but with the voice of Phone Guy from FNAF and in internal, we get:
"Meme moment"
This is referring to the meme, "call an ambulance, call an ambulance! But not for me...*
Kasrik is the killer
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
further edits for the same tooltip
You see, in the final bit we can see the word tooltip. However, I didn't see any tooltip like this or anything. This could be referring to the famous code of "tool tip". In the Civil War, an old blacksmith was working as a spy. When he needed to use code, he would refer to the tips of tools being difficult to forge. He would then say he had a specific amount for an order, and this translates to the code. Nothic has the letter H in the name, and you know what H stands for? That's right, hammers. Then Nothic2SeeHere-- the 2! This means "2 hammers", which in this code roughly means,
"This shall be a diversion, just go along with it while our associate does the main job". Why, who could this associate be? None other then... KASRIK.
This seems like an innocent enough post at first. But look at the word "outside". The word outside means this is in Druidic. If we take this sentence, translate it into Druidic, say it aloud, then replay it backwards in a seemingly random order, we get this:
"I shall be the diversion, just frame the tree eater and we can execute our master plan!"
If we do this same process with his name, we get this:
"If you need diversion ideas, just use our plan but put it on Gibber in some way."
This means Nothic and Kasrik are coworkers aiming to bring about the end of Santa. Which one shall take the position, I need to dive deeper to figure out. But these two are framing me for the assassination of Santa! Nothic, I knew you were evil from the beginning. Kasrik, this is a horrible betrayal. But I can only hope Santa comes online at this time and sees this post.
Now y'all see here, we see the words 'this or anything' used in a tooltip for a tarrasque. This seems random at first, but the tarrasque is actually a distraction. If we take those words, translate it into binary, then rearrange it, we get "Imma go trickster", which is clearly code for "I'll distract the Trickster", referring to me.
Which means that both of these are actually diversions, so that Nothic and Gibber, who both chose names of monsters, can distract me from the fact that they are actually conspiring to assassinate Santa Claus, and are trying to pin it on me.
Someone call Santa!
We see the words someone call Santa! If we do the same process as before but with the voice of Phone Guy from FNAF and in internal, we get:
"Meme moment"
This is referring to the meme, "call an ambulance, call an ambulance! But not for me...*
Kasrik is the killer
Alright, you got me... Or did you?
Because if we apply the skar cypher, we get "I the ille" which is shorthand for "I'm the killer".
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me? Well, if it isn’t everyone’s least favorite detective. I thought you’d have figured me out sooner, Nothic. I’m disappointed.
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
Edits for tooltips, hopefully the [monimg] is visible now
further edits for the same tooltip
You see, in the final bit we can see the word tooltip. However, I didn't see any tooltip like this or anything. This could be referring to the famous code of "tool tip". In the Civil War, an old blacksmith was working as a spy. When he needed to use code, he would refer to the tips of tools being difficult to forge. He would then say he had a specific amount for an order, and this translates to the code. Nothic has the letter H in the name, and you know what H stands for? That's right, hammers. Then Nothic2SeeHere-- the 2! This means "2 hammers", which in this code roughly means,
"This shall be a diversion, just go along with it while our associate does the main job". Why, who could this associate be? None other then... KASRIK.
This seems like an innocent enough post at first. But look at the word "outside". The word outside means this is in Druidic. If we take this sentence, translate it into Druidic, say it aloud, then replay it backwards in a seemingly random order, we get this:
"I shall be the diversion, just frame the tree eater and we can execute our master plan!"
If we do this same process with his name, we get this:
"If you need diversion ideas, just use our plan but put it on Gibber in some way."
This means Nothic and Kasrik are coworkers aiming to bring about the end of Santa. Which one shall take the position, I need to dive deeper to figure out. But these two are framing me for the assassination of Santa! Nothic, I knew you were evil from the beginning. Kasrik, this is a horrible betrayal. But I can only hope Santa comes online at this time and sees this post.
Now y'all see here, we see the words 'this or anything' used in a tooltip for a tarrasque. This seems random at first, but the tarrasque is actually a distraction. If we take those words, translate it into binary, then rearrange it, we get "Imma go trickster", which is clearly code for "I'll distract the Trickster", referring to me.
Which means that both of these are actually diversions, so that Nothic and Gibber, who both chose names of monsters, can distract me from the fact that they are actually conspiring to assassinate Santa Claus, and are trying to pin it on me.
Someone call Santa!
We see the words someone call Santa! If we do the same process as before but with the voice of Phone Guy from FNAF and in internal, we get:
"Meme moment"
This is referring to the meme, "call an ambulance, call an ambulance! But not for me...*
Kasrik is the killer
Alright, you got me... Or did you?
Because if we apply the skar cypher, we get "I the ille" which is shorthand for "I'm the killer".
Gibber is the real killer.
That really means, "I'm the illager," which refers to my character in the Minecraft thread who is perfectly innocent.
But if we take Big Iron Joe and use the tool tip cipher--iron has "I" which goes to eye and most people have two eyes, and then the B in big iron Joe stands for big saw-- we get "hah, you thought I would hide a code revealing information? You found me, Gibber the very awesome and cool. I am plotting to kill Santa, but you will never find my master plan!! Go ahead, tell the public my schemes. I dare you."
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
Kasrik is back! How are ya?
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
gibber is fighting the Daladas alone
Pronouns: She/Her
Gender: Nonbinary Female, 1/3 human, 1/3 feline, 1/3 dragon
Mentally and emotionally unstable, anorexic (currently in remission!), autism, ADHD, anger issues
Good, I'll be on for a bit, probably for about an hour and half.
Kasrik Argentum Stellaris Fiddlesticks the Wizard, Lord of Stars, Master Trickster, and Creator of both the Mosh of Stardust Hornets and Mimiczilla.
"You're never fully dressed without a smile!" >:3
"Honk."
Winner is-- wait, what? They're fighting me?
*Alright*
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
It appears that Gibber here forgot to add a secret.
Seems mundane enough, doesn’t it? Forgetting the rules every once in a while — a little careless, sure, but understandable.
Unless Gibber did add a secret. It’s simply written in code. Fortunately, you have me, your friendly neighborhood detective, to solve this mystery and expose Gibber to the world.
We can start here, with this comment. To more trusting eyes, it would seem to be a mere statement of confusion. But I implore you, dear reader, to look closer. Do you see it yet?
There! Carefully concealed in red font at 1px font size, a hidden message. But oh, no, the post doesn’t end there.
I feel like I should provide context before continuing. Everyone, Gibber has a problem. A Christmas problem, in fact. See, after committing a dastardly Christmas crime (brutally devouring a Christmas tree and promoting anti-Christmas behavior through a grotesque profile picture), Gibber’s been on the run from Santa’s elves. He’s a Christmas fugitive, the top of the naughty list. He sleeps in a different home each night so that the elves can’t find him, and each home can’t have a chimney for obvious reasons. But let’s just continue with the post.
There isn’t hidden text here, but there is something much more devious. The message “Kasrik is back! How are ya?” includes one consistent word — the word “breakaways.” Coincidence? I think not. But we can dive deeper.
So, this quote includes all the letters for the word “breakaways.” But how does that help us? Well as it turns out, “breakaways” is the name of a middle-school age graphic novel. I’ll include proof in the spoiler.
https://www.cathygjohn.net/the-breakaways
This can hardly be a coincidence. Let’s dive deeper. This book was published in 2019, which just so happens to be Gibber’s date of birth. And, as it turns out, Breakaways references Christmas two times! Something is clearly afoot here.
Gibber knew that I, being the ingenious detective I am, would decide to input the author’s name (Cathy Johnson) and our friend’s own (The Mad Gibber) into ancestry.com to see if there’s a connection. And, lo and behold, there is! As it turns out, someone with the extremely uncommon name “Cathy Johnson” is a distant relative of a man named “Nick.” Since those two names are so uncommon, clearly the “Nick” references must to short for “Saint Nick” — or, Santa Claus! What’s more, ancestry.com also revealed to me that Gibber is actually Johnson’s brother! Astonishing!
(Is that how ancestry.com works? Cause I got no clue)
This is groundbreaking. Astonishing, even. If Gibber’s “breakaways” clue hadn’t let me to Cathy and Nick, I never would have suspected. But there’s more.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Kasrik and Gibber are co-conspirators. The “hour and a half” reference? Just more code, but nothing as simple as an anagram.
Now, throughout history there have been many codes and ciphers related to time. Do I have examples? No, I don’t have examples. Use Wikipedia or something. You can do your own research, or just take my word for it, alright? We good? Good. That’s what I thought.
So like I was saying, lots of codes. And one famous code, used throughout the American Revolution, was the “George’s Watch” code. See, when George Washington suspected that he was being spied on, he would check his watch and loudly announce the time.
They didn’t have watches during the 1700s? Well, no one asked you, okay? Were you around in the 1700s? No. No, you weren’t. Look, the door’s that way, alright? Just . . . just scram.
So, George’s Watch. This is a textbook example of this 18th-century code! What “hour and a half” really means is (roughly) “It’s time to carry out our master plan!”
And that last bit? Gibber saying “alright?” Yeah, nothing there. He was just replying to Kasrik’s message.
So, you might be asking yourself, Nothic, what’s the master plan? I’ll tell you what it is!
TheMadGibber plans to assassinate Santa Claus and become his replacement.
It’s pretty obvious, when you think about it. The “breakaways,” the choice of red for the font, the familial relation — wait. Let’s go back to that.
See, TheMadGibber is a talented illusionist. And while he may look like this
to some, in truth he looks more like this:
Clearly not Santa, but to an elf (short enough that Gibber’s face is obscured by the fake beard included in the photo), the two are indistinguishable.
Gibber didn’t choose to go down this dark path, but being hunted by the elves has negated all his other options. I’ve already sent out several emails to Santa, but his inbox often gets flooded at this time of year. I can only hope the message reaches him in time to stop Gibber’s evil plot from becoming reality. Hopefully my exposure of Gibber’s activity will prevent him from going through with this plan.
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further edits for the same tooltip
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Your secret is that you are really, really, strange.
BROX
Can’t argue with that.
Brox has only been a member for five hours, and has already contributed more to the community than 90% of DDB users. Keep up, yall.
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OOOOh trust me, I will keep this up as long as possible. I promise that I will continue to post obsessively. Also, you didn't say what my secret was! C'mon man, I wanna know!
BROX
Nah, that bit was the secret. But I’ll do another.
BroxThePuppetmaster appears to have only been around for around five hours. And while it’s true that his account may be young, Brox himself isn’t really Brox at all. BroxThePuppetmaster is just an alt account, created by one of the devs to prank the mods. How, exactly, will this prank work?
See, BroxThePuppetmaster actually has full moderation capabilities. He can freely delete any and all posts that he sees. He can edit other user’s posts, change their signatures, give obscene custom titles, and cause many more headaches for the real mods — all the while completely untraceable, so the dev that pulled the prank is never revealed. It’s delightfully sinister, when you think about it. So, if all this text is deleted and replaced with a fire emoji and poop emoji right before your eyes, don’t be surprised — that’s just Brox abusing his power. I can only hope a real mod sees this post before it’s too late.
Terra Lubridia archive:
The Bloody Barnacle | The Gut | The Athene Crusader | The Jewel of Atlantis
Don't you think that if I did that, it would be like an admission of guilt? No, your post is to be left untouched.
Beware the detective who is better than he thinks he is.
You're secret is that you are ACTUALLY just a sentient map, here to ruin perfectly good pranks.
BROX
Nothic is an absolute madlad.
The puppet is in reality controlling Brox.
Gnomarchy is actually halflingarchy.
Kasrik Argentum Stellaris Fiddlesticks the Wizard, Lord of Stars, Master Trickster, and Creator of both the Mosh of Stardust Hornets and Mimiczilla.
"You're never fully dressed without a smile!" >:3
"Honk."
Your secret is that you are a cat, unlike what you pfp suggests.
BROX
Brox is actually stuck outside the void.
Kasrik Argentum Stellaris Fiddlesticks the Wizard, Lord of Stars, Master Trickster, and Creator of both the Mosh of Stardust Hornets and Mimiczilla.
"You're never fully dressed without a smile!" >:3
"Honk."
You see, in the final bit we can see the word tooltip. However, I didn't see any tooltip like this or anything. This could be referring to the famous code of "tool tip". In the Civil War, an old blacksmith was working as a spy. When he needed to use code, he would refer to the tips of tools being difficult to forge. He would then say he had a specific amount for an order, and this translates to the code. Nothic has the letter H in the name, and you know what H stands for? That's right, hammers. Then Nothic2SeeHere-- the 2! This means "2 hammers", which in this code roughly means,
"This shall be a diversion, just go along with it while our associate does the main job". Why, who could this associate be? None other then... KASRIK.
This seems like an innocent enough post at first. But look at the word "outside". The word outside means this is in Druidic. If we take this sentence, translate it into Druidic, say it aloud, then replay it backwards in a seemingly random order, we get this:
"I shall be the diversion, just frame the tree eater and we can execute our master plan!"
If we do this same process with his name, we get this:
"If you need diversion ideas, just use our plan but put it on Gibber in some way."
This means Nothic and Kasrik are coworkers aiming to bring about the end of Santa. Which one shall take the position, I need to dive deeper to figure out. But these two are framing me for the assassination of Santa! Nothic, I knew you were evil from the beginning. Kasrik, this is a horrible betrayal. But I can only hope Santa comes online at this time and sees this post.
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
Now y'all see here, we see the words 'this or anything' used in a tooltip for a tarrasque. This seems random at first, but the tarrasque is actually a distraction. If we take those words, translate it into binary, then rearrange it, we get "Imma go trickster", which is clearly code for "I'll distract the Trickster", referring to me.
Which means that both of these are actually diversions, so that Nothic and Gibber, who both chose names of monsters, can distract me from the fact that they are actually conspiring to assassinate Santa Claus, and are trying to pin it on me.
Someone call Santa!
Kasrik Argentum Stellaris Fiddlesticks the Wizard, Lord of Stars, Master Trickster, and Creator of both the Mosh of Stardust Hornets and Mimiczilla.
"You're never fully dressed without a smile!" >:3
"Honk."
We see the words someone call Santa! If we do the same process as before but with the voice of Phone Guy from FNAF and in internal, we get:
"Meme moment"
This is referring to the meme, "call an ambulance, call an ambulance! But not for me...*
Kasrik is the killer
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
Alright, you got me... Or did you?
Because if we apply the skar cypher, we get "I the ille" which is shorthand for "I'm the killer".
Gibber is the real killer.
Kasrik Argentum Stellaris Fiddlesticks the Wizard, Lord of Stars, Master Trickster, and Creator of both the Mosh of Stardust Hornets and Mimiczilla.
"You're never fully dressed without a smile!" >:3
"Honk."
That really means, "I'm the illager," which refers to my character in the Minecraft thread who is perfectly innocent.
But if we take Big Iron Joe and use the tool tip cipher--iron has "I" which goes to eye and most people have two eyes, and then the B in big iron Joe stands for big saw-- we get "hah, you thought I would hide a code revealing information? You found me, Gibber the very awesome and cool. I am plotting to kill Santa, but you will never find my master plan!! Go ahead, tell the public my schemes. I dare you."
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
Your secret is really really long quotes. BANNED! I wish I had the superpower to make the last comment.
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