Wildlife Spotting (The Poliwags Cabin)

[~Kilza~]

Even though I was sure this was the case, just for anybody who thought otherwise, I looked through every thread in the Camp Bell Tree 2021 category (The Campgrounds, Mountains, The Poliwags Cabin) and there was no redemption bear to be had.

 

[Chris]

There were no hints in Jeremy's message. To the best of my knowledge he never even read the thread before posting. The person responsible for that clue didn't get it up on time and once we learned of it Jeremy asked if one of us should post. I was the first person to see his message and agreed, also without checking the thread first. It was simply a courtesy and there is nothing there to unpack!

There are also no hints in this message beyond "don't over-analyse staff posts" - we carefully word what we say to give nothing away. So before anyone starts down that route, when I say the person responsible didn't get it up on time that could mean anything from editing a post, activating a code, etc.

 

[Croconaw]

That’s good to know. Now, I’m just more confused with this.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

I literally woke up in the middle of the night so I could enter a couple of codes because I had a dream involving them. It was 'CHRIS96' and 'CORVETTE' as if a car name is gonna work, Shellzilla. Nothing, unfortunately.

 

[~Kilza~]

Before 8:05 PM EDT, August 24:

I also did a quick peruse of the bear-drawing thread in the Campgrounds, but I didn't see anything there.

Mick['s ...] profile didn't turn up anything (as far as I could tell).

I had the same idea! I checked out the OP for halloweaster (since that's a pretty irregular zipper appearance) but didnt find anything

I checked [Mick's] art thread as well. No sign of anything.

My first thought as well. And I searched to see if there is a member with a bear name or in its profile.

I checked my news feed though...

I checked Jeremy’s profile, and the FAQ and rules post. Found nothing.

This made me think this might actually be a puzzle and typed in "NARNIA", his island name, but it didn't work

I've looked through Mick's art gallery and island journal but didn't see anything there either.

Tried Jeremy and Chris' island names, "NUMENOR" and "VYLBRAND" as puzzle answers, my line of thinking being that you could find them on their islands (though I don't know if they're irregular players or not).

Since it could be an irregular member I looked at guest and robot sections to see if anything was there.

After 8:05 PM EDT:

I immediately went to the New Neighbor Network and did a filtered search for her, but nothing yet. ;;

Also checked the "Looking For" thread in the New Neighbor Network for Megan.

I've tried
HONEY
FISH
MICK
BEEHIVE
MEGAN

For codes, I've re-tried "NARNIA", "NUMENOR", "VYLBRAND", "THEVILES", and "NEWNEIGHBORNETWORK", nothing yet.

edit: also just tried "MYSTERYISLAND" and "MYSTERYISLANDS", being places you could irregularly find Megan/normal bear cubs.

Also tried FOREST, MOUNTAIN, MOUNTAINS, CAVE and got nothing

I've tried the following:
QUICKBEFORETHEMODSCOME
MICK
ZERO
0
JUSTIN
THENEVERLANDS
NEVERLANDS
THEBASEMENT
VRISNEM
CHRIS
RELENTLESSWILDCHILD
INTRODUCTIONBOARD
BASEMENTDWELLERS
ISLANDJOURNALS
MUSEUMSHOP
EXOTICFRUIT
TROPICALFRUIT
PERFECTPAIR
PERFECTPEAR

I've tried:
REGULAR
MEGAN
JEREMY
NORMAL

tried:
MYSTERIOUSMASTERPIECES
and
MISTREIL
okay just tried DAISYMAE and JOAN

I tried KUNGFUPANDA

(Also tried "NÚMENOR" with the accent.)

I tried TOWNHALL and RESIDENTSERVICES. Also CAMPGROUND, HARVEYSCAMPGROUND, and HARVSISLAND.

I tried WISP but didn’t get anything.

But KAPPN, DOCK, AMIIBO, RV, THEROOST, ROOST, and CLUBTORTIMER were not the answers.

I've tried HOLIDAY, KKSLIDER, SATURDAY, none worked.

Accounts can be interest "bearing" - tried ABD, INTEREST, and ACCOUNT

I tried watching the thread with email notifications turned on, but nothing came of it!

I checked only Mick's mod posts on QBTMC thread, and it wasn't any of those.

Also tried "BELL" and "NOTIFICATIONBELL" as codes. Didn't get anything.

Also tried Gulliver and Gullivarrr as codes just in case.

Also, I tried PHYLISS.

checked the first page and most recent [of the Looking For thread]... didnt see anything

quickly skimmed through 20ish pages [of the Looking For thread] and couldn't find anything

[checked dizzy bone's and pandapples' profiles]

Tried REDD and JOLLYREDD with no luck.

Not gonna lie, I was like..."what if it's me? I'm a Fox." and checked my profile lol. It is not me.

Tried Gulliver/arr and Resetti. And checked Resetti's profile. Alas, it is not.

Can confirm that codes SHOP and RESTOCK are not what we're looking for.

QUICKBEFORETHEMODSCOME

or
QBTMC

Checked pandapple's island name, "CALICOCOA", and on a wild guess, "CRYSTALBALLERS" and "CABIN2"/"CABINTWO" (where you can find both Mick and pandapples).

tried:
THEBELLTREE
THEBELLTREEFORUMS
BELLTREEFORUMS
BELLTREE
TBT

I tried looking through the old posts where the fruit collectibles were announced but I didn't see anything in there

I checked all the fruit in the shop and couldn't see anything.

Nah, we aren't. Going to it just results in an "You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action. " error.

Things I've rechecked pre-Jeremy are: all the codes I'd tried (NARNIA, NUMENOR, VYLBRAND, NEWNEIGHBORNETWORK), the filtered search for Megan in the New Neighbor Network (and tried watching), Mick's profile/art thread/island journal (and tried watching all of these), and the bear drawing thread (and tried watching it).

Placed I've looked so far:

• Discord (tried looking at Mod/Staff Discord profiles and the TBT Discord description)
• TBT Twitch (tried looking in the description)
• TBT Youtube (in the description, not in each video yet)
• In Bell Tree Announcements for Easter/Halloweaster (did a search for Sakura/ Cherry Blossom)
• In the BB Codes and Smilies section and in Forum Rules
• In NPC descriptions (specifically Tom Nook, Jack, Zipper T
• in AC World

What I did: checked some forums and threads with “bear” or “bearer”, checked all the staff signature for any odd pictures or links of a fox or bear, I checked the guest and robot members, checked a user name with a bear name on it, even checked @nerfeddude profile since she created our flag so I figured it may be the bearer of our flag, things like that.

I remembered this thread and tried checking it, but got nothing.

The artist in pandaapples' signature seems to draw a lot of bears, and the sig itself is a fox, but I tried both "PIXIV" and "SASSA" (the artist's name) and got nothing.

I did check Chris' AMA thread—got my hopes up when I saw a fox emoji beside the link to it in their signature, but didn't find anything there.

I tried "BREEZYHOLLOW" and "LOSTLURECREEK",

dunno if anyone did yet so i tried:
FRUIT
TREE
APPLE
PEAR
CHERRY
PEACH
ORANGE

Tried “CLUBTORTIMER”, “TORTIMERISLAND”, “TORTIMERSISLAND”, “TROPICALISLAND”, and “ISLANDTOUR” based on someone saying the word mango earlier and nothing came up

I did personally recheck what I checked in the first hour, which was Zipper's post history. There was an old post from Zipper in the quick before the mods come thread which I thought was a very irregular appearance but no luck there.

I thought maybe it was a reference to when the banner tree changed to Zipper for Easter... no dice
Words I've tried:
ZIPPER
ZIPPERTBUNNY
EASTER
HALLOWEASTER
EASTERWEEN
EGGHUNT
MEGAN
MANGO
MANGOTREE
PANDAPPLES
BELLTREE
THEBELLTREE
TBT

Not sure if we re-checked Chris' selfies from the What Do You Look Like thread, so I looked at the few most recent ones, including one where he made a comment about dressing differently than usual; didn't find anything.

I tried: SQUARE, TOWNSQUARE, PLAZA, RESIDENTSERVICES

I tried looking at the villager popularity thread, found Megan and nothing there. Also tried putting in TIER5 as a puzzle as that’s where she’s placed but nada

Tried the following for puzzle answers, some about the staff members:
LONDON, UK, ENGLAND, CANADA, CALIFORNIA, WHATSNEW, WATCH, SEARCHFORUM, FINDTHREADS, NORTHBEACH

This may sound really dumb but I thought I'll share anyway. I randomly thought about stars and constellations, because thinking about "bearer" and "knowing where to look," I thought about looking up at the night sky for the Ursa Minor and Ursa Major. I tried URSA MINOR and URSA MAJOR but got nothing..... just thinking outside the box, you know?

Edit: I also tried CONSTELLATION

I've tried typing in codes that have something to do with Resetti. They are DONRESETTI, RESETTI, and, RESCUESERVICE. Nothing, sadly.

I also tried AMA, ASKMEANYTHING as there's that fox emoji next to Chris' AMA link... and even tried Ask the Staff from that link. Nada.

I tried "AQUARIUS" as a code.

Threads I've gone through:
- Chris' AMA
- Bell Tree Directs
- Staff member profiles
- Halloweaster event

I just looked through all of the Airport Celeste threads from January 20th to February 18th (Aquarius season) and didn't see anything.

here’s what i’ve looked through so far;

• chris’ “what do you look like?” posts
• the “perfect fruit exchange (ACNL)” thread
• some of mick’s posts (mainly his art thread and his camp bell tree posts)
• the fruit collectibles + the bell tree direct from march when they restocked
• the “shop / collectibles / events / restocks discussion” thread
• the “a familiar bear has been spotted taking picnic baskets from the cabins. let’s draw bears!” thread
• celestial collectibles (celeste plush, star fragments and shooting star)
• retired staff members (since they were probably more active/regular while they were staff, but now most of them are pretty inactive/irregular)
• a bell tree direct from 2013 that announced the first release of the pear collectible

I checked Mick's dream island and there's nothing that would seem to fit the riddle. I've tried putting LUCY, MICHEL, SPAREDNOEXPENSE, and SHOOTFORTHESTARS. Nothing

I checked:
Mick's art thread
The page that lists all staff members
Clicking on Mick from that page
Mick's profile other than postings/activity
All of Mick's posts on Quick, before the mods come
Chris' posts on Quick, before the mods come after 25 June 2021

You guys, why is there a fox in the banner and it doesn't work.

Just tried BACK, BEHIND, and ZIPPER, to no avail.

Well, I just reported myself to no avail, so...bummer lol.

I tried posting a thread in the mysterious masterpiece submission form but no cigar.

Looked at this item https://www.belltreeforums.com/shop/raffle-snow-globe-or-coal.405/ because it was an unlikely (irregular) chance to obtain a yearly gift-giver (regular bearer), but I don't know how "if you know where to look" factors into it.

Meanwhile I keep looking at Antonio's posts because his icon is a bear, him snooping here makes me even more suspicious >>

I feel like we have clicked everything and anything by now. I even clicked on the links on the bottom of the pages like the software and powered by companies. lol

Ive gone through like every bell tree direct thread from the past 2 years and haven't been able to find anything

I checked all of Jeremy's posts that contained the search term "distributed", because I thought Jeremy might be the regular bearer (he generally distributes the prizes).

Tried 7181, #143604, and 143604 to no avail

I tried reporting Jeremy's comment in this thread. Nope.

I tried opening a new Contact the Staff thread. Also nope.

just got the report rejection from Chris saying it's not the route.

Checked the pages for the Weird, Strange, and Quirky Dolls 'cause "irregular"

I put JUPITER, GANYMEDE, SPACE, STARS, METEORSHOWER in as codes. I've searched for all references to Jupiter, Ganymede, Aquarius, and nothing there.

I had the same thought and checked their pages and tried entering their names as codes, no luck unfortunatly

Checked the "how did you do during the scavenger hunt" thread; didn't see anything. I've also checked the posts in the 6 Days of Scavenging thread with Wix and Pierrot, but no luck there either. ;;

Places i've looked so far:
Old school AC week - had fruits (peach, apple) and turnips for prizes
There's also the stalk market events but i haven't looked on those threads
Flower week
Bell boom week
Week events seem to happen irregularly but have a regular structure (always[?] 7 days)
I think the ABD used to be a "regular bearer" of sorts until it was stopped to prevent abuse of the system. Tried depositing a little tbt in there and nothing
Seashells i thought might give me a lead, u get them again after 2 years of being a member
Chocolate cakes, restocked irregularly
Fruit, restocked irregularly
Magical fireworks, active during certain times of the year
Birthstones, regular pattern but the day of the month they get restocked is random
Advent calendar threads
12 days of collectibles
Maybe these can help give some ideas

FLOWERWEEK
HYBRID
HYBRIDS
FERTILIZER
TURNIP
TURNIPS
BELLBOOM
BELLBOOMWEEK
WATERINGCAN
STALKMARKET
ADVENT
ADVENTCALENDAR
HYBRID
HYBRIDS
BIRTHSTONE
BIRTHSTONES
CAKE
CAKES
CHOCOLATECAKE
CHRISTMASLIGHTS
SEASHELL
SEASHELLS
ABD
FIREWORKS
MAGICALFIREWORKS
12DAYSOFCOLLECTIBLES
I also looked at the related collectible profiles through the search, doesnt seem to be anything there either

Checked all the staff posts I could find (Oblivia/Jeremy/Chris/Mick/NefariousKing/Mistreil) in 6 Days of Scavenging, nothing there either.

I also tried looking in the RSS but didn't see anything

I also had a thought about villager hunting, so I checked the entirety of "campsite reset/island hopping" thread. Nothing there

This definitely isn't anything helpful, but I dreamed this was a puzzle and the answer was "ORTHONON", so I actually tried that on a lark. Surprising no one, "ORTHONON" was not the solution.

I [checked the build-a-bear threads] yesterday, didn't post it though because it came up awash.

I’ve tried [the share buttons] last night

I checked the BANANAS thread cause fruit and didn't find anything.

Nothing in the fruit juice thread either.

I checked with the warning messages and the infractions tab.

I mean, you can bookmark posts, but it hasn't led to anything when I've done it (either bookmarking it or deleting the bookmark or checking the bookmarks).

I did a search through all the posts mentioning Megan in the Campsite Reset/Island Hopping General Thread, nothing.

[Mick] was a part of the latest round of people named staff. That thread contains nothing.

Can confirm that codes IGIVEUP, THISISIMPOSSIBLE, and PLEASE do not work. XD

(BADNEWS and BADNEWSBEARS do not work)

Searched through the Style Sharing Thread.

I checked the "show me your favourite plushies" thread in case "regular bearer" meant regular plush bear for who knows what reason.

Even though I was sure this was the case, just for anybody who thought otherwise, I looked through every thread in the Camp Bell Tree 2021 category (The Campgrounds, Mountains, The Poliwags Cabin) and there was no redemption bear to be had.

I literally woke up in the middle of the night so I could enter a couple of codes because I had a dream involving them. It was 'CHRIS96' and 'CORVETTE' as if a car name is gonna work, Shellzilla. Nothing, unfortunately.

It's late, so I won't try and organize these quotes quite yet into more readable info, but this should hopefully be the full list of everything we have tried so far. I just literally don't know anymore, so I've just been trying to brute-force search things so far and try to remove any possible places to search. I know I've checked some more places, and I know it's not in any of the following (in addition to what I've mentioned above):
-None of the Help pages
-None of the Member pages
-None of the Settings/Your Account pages (not tested, but I don't think the layout changes would do anything)
-None in your own profile
-Not on the Feedback pages? Nor the Extended Stats feedback?
-None in the posts/pages I checked for the Quick, Before the Mods Come! thread (I've only checked all posts from page 7000 onward, and checked all of Jeremy's posts in the thread)
-None in the "What Do You Look Like?" thread
-None in some various threads all over the place, will need to recheck which ones

I feel no closer to solving this at all and have no idea if any of us were any close to getting it. This **** sucks, to say the least, though all we can do is keep trying and check anything and everything that we can and hope the staff take pity on us at some point if our struggles continue.

 

[Princess Mipha]

Seeing the difference of responses between us and Evergreen makes me feel like the difficulty difference is a bit unfair, lol. I was hoping to see someone finding the solution once I woke up

 

[Croconaw]

Seeing the difference of responses between us and Evergreen makes me feel like the difficulty difference is a bit unfair, lol. I was hoping to see someone finding the solution once I woke up

I’m just lost. I’ll be up for a while, and I’ve been thinking about it. I just don’t know what else it could possibly be. I wonder how long it took the other Cabins who had this riddle to find out — assuming other cabins had the same three questions.

 

[Giddy]

I am also very confused.
I tried, as we all in the thread when Jack and Zipper were doing Halloeaster, then I was thinking back to when in new leaf we had that day where Zipper and April fools fell on the same day.
Then I was trying to see if the shooting star collectible would hold any answers, or the fairs but couldn't really see anything. And also in the collectible tier list.

Maybe it's something to do with money/bells? As another explantion for bearer is someone who presents a checque ot other order to pay money. Maybe balloons? They bring money sometimes, or the lil shining buried money? Redd still comes to mind? Or when we had to deal with the person in wild world who wanted us to get insurance whenever Redd gave us fake paintings and sent us money after?

Maybe to do with the random islands and how random to find a villager there?

Just some other ideas on what bearer could mean:
a person: Redd, That giraffe woman, Sahrah, any of the turnip holders, Pete, Turtle boi who carried us to the ilsnads in new leaf, Leif, K.K,Mabel or her sister, Kicks
or a thing: balloon, buried, stones, trees

 

[Chris]

I’m just lost. I’ll be up for a while, and I’ve been thinking about it. I just don’t know what else it could possibly be. I wonder how long it took the other Cabins who had this riddle to find out — assuming other cabins had the same three questions.

Every cabin has a unique set of riddles. Feel sorry for the poor Buzzy Bees, they arguably got the hardest riddle of all!

It's important to keep in mind that these riddles are intentionally difficult because there are 60+ brains allowed to work together on them. You also have until Sunday evening to solve them, which is significantly more time than you would get during a standard TBT Easter Egg Hunt. Most members complain at the start of the Easter Egg Hunt that it's too difficult, but by the end of the weekend are walking away with a full basket of eggs! It'll be the same thing here. All of us on the staff have faith that you'll solve all three riddles by Sunday evening.

 

[Giddy]

oh and the festivale thing too.
What if it's talking about seasons, that bring say like blossoms that we can use for recipes. Sorry, a little unwell so just bringing al myideas at once in case they are useful.
Hopefully when better I can try and work through this properly with you all.

 

[Croconaw]

Worth noting that at 7:00 PM EST, we do get a new riddle. We could work on that one and take a break from this one if we haven’t figured it out by then? It might give us a much needed break, because everyone (including me) appears to be confused right now.

 

[Princess Mipha]

I've tried today (I still believe it has to do with Redd..)

- SECRETBEACH
- BEACH
- HIDDENBEACH
- TREASURETRAWLER
- KITSUNE
- ANCHOR / ANCHORS
- FISHINGBOAT
- NORTH
- NORTHERNBEACH
- NORTHERN
- COAST
- NORTHCOAST
- NORTHERNCOAST
- REDDSRAFFLE
- NORTHERNSECRETBEACH
- NORTHSECRETBEACH

Edit:
- NOOKINC
- GETAWAYPACKAGE
- GETAWAY
- METEORSHOWER
- SEABASS (yeah, I'm going crazy)
- PRIZEBOOTH
- BOOTH


I give up on codes for now, time to check some threads.. if there are any left

 

[Giddy]

Oh, also maybe look at similar words to Bearer - also there's that famous line 'bearer of bad news'


1.
a person or thing that carries or holds something.
Similar, messenger, agent, conveyor, emissary, carrier, provider, runner, courier

a carrier of equipment on an expedition.
Similar, carrier, porter, conveyor, transporter


2- a person who presents a cheque or other order to pay money.
Similar, holder, possessor, owner, payee, consignee, beneficiary

 

[S.J.]

I know it's already been done, but I just thought I'd add that I have also checked all 97 pages of the 2020 Halloweaster egg hunt (not the separate closing ceremony thread).

I think I did it pretty thoroughly because I got quite distracted reading some of the posts.

Edit: Also checked closing ceremony even though Zipper didn't post in it.

 

[daringred_]

Every cabin has a unique set of riddles. Feel sorry for the poor Buzzy Bees, they arguably got the hardest riddle of all!

It's important to keep in mind that these riddles are intentionally difficult because there are 60+ brains allowed to work together on them. You also have until Sunday evening to solve them, which is significantly more time than you would get during a standard TBT Easter Egg Hunt. Most members complain at the start of the Easter Egg Hunt that it's too difficult, but by the end of the weekend are walking away with a full basket of eggs! It'll be the same thing here. All of us on the staff have faith that you'll solve all three riddles by Sunday evening.

didn't the buzzy bees at least know whether or not it was a code/puzzle though?

 

[Chris]

didn't the buzzy bees at least know whether or not it was a code/puzzle though? we, for whatever reason, have been denied that information.

No, they did not! You are not being treated any differently to any other cabin.

 

[daringred_]

No, they did not! You are not being treated any differently to any other cabin.

okay, my bad, i did realize right after asking (of course) that it might've meant compared to previous egg hunts and not previous teams in the mountains. you have my apologies.

Post automatically merged: Aug 26, 2021

anyway, as for things i remember checking.

codes
DAISYMAE
RESETTI
RESETSURVEILLANCECENTER (and the alt spelling of "centre". also tried just "surveillance center" with both spellings.)
RESCUESERVICE
CHRIS
VRISNEM
DIZZYBONE
JUSTIN
JEREMY

threads
• checked the smilies page and the BBcode page;
• official rules page;
• official turnip page;
• halloweaster OP + all of zipper's clue dropping announcements from that thread;
• zipper's profile, jeremy's profile and wix's profile.
• several posts made by wix;
• several threads (not necessarily all) discussing the reset centre, resetti or the rescue service;
• most of the threads pre-jeremy's post;
• all/most of jeremy's appearances on Quick, Before the Mods Come! as well as some of Chris's and Mick's most recent ones.

 

[daringred_]

more things i've tried in the last 40 minutes. on mobile data and in the car so feel free to double check these or comb deeper than i did.

codes
WISP
SECRETBEACH
NORTHBEACH
JOLLYREDD

threads
• "are you happy with your secret beach?" first page;
• advanced search page;
• all account details pages;
• first page of the thread for the update redd appeared in.

thoughts
• considered wisp because he's one of the only NPCs that appears most "irregularly", i think. if someone knows of a thread about him, could be worth at least looking.

• not entirely convinced it's AC related anymore, but that could just be frustration. also don't think it's a code, but i've been trying "obvious" words/phrases just in case.

• really don't think it's the Aquarius thing, if people are still considering that. could i be wrong? sure, but it seems like a particularly big reach.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

thoughts
• considered wisp because he's one of the only NPCs that appears most "irregularly", i think. if someone knows of a thread about him, could be worth at least looking.

I don't think Wisp as a user even exists on here as I've tried searching forum members. Other NPC members such as Zipper T. Bunny still pop up when I try to find him.

 

[Lancelot]

I googled the mango thing again and there’s mangos that bear fruit regularly, and the irregular bearing ones are:

“Choice varieties such as Alphonso (Gundu), Imam Pasand (Himayuddin), Mulgoa, Peter (Pairi, Nadusalai) etc., are mostly erratic in bearing. When a tree produces heavy crop in one season, it gets exhausted nutritionally and is unable to put forth new flush thereby failing to yield in the following season.”

dunno if it is to do with mangos or fruit but seems too coincidental. Dunno if any of that will mean anything to anyone…

I did try ALPHONSO as a code as he’s a villager but didn’t work