Wildlife Spotting (The Poliwags Cabin)

[kiwikenobi]

The shop is only restocked randomly, periodically--irregularly, you might say--with certain fruit collectibles. Could the answer be in the shop, somehow?

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

 

[Shellzilla_515]

I've been thinking about "... if you know where to look" part. Perhaps it's expecting us to know a well known place to go to? I headed to the twitter account of TBT, but I couldn't really find anything unusual, especially since their latest tweet was all the way back on August 8.

 

[tessa grace]

this is unbearable

 

[Corrie]

this is unbearable

The staff are checking this thread just cackling to themselves. lol

 

[tessa grace]

have we tried:
QUICKBEFORETHEMODSCOME

or
QBTMC

yet?

 

[S.J.]

Personally, I think the fact that "regular bearer" is an established term for certain kinds of fruit trees has to be a key part of the clue. It would be too much of a coincidence for the person/people who wrote the clue to have chosen those two unusual words to use together without that meaning. Though I think it's also likely that we are looking for an image of a bear somewhere. Probably somewhere to do with fruit, either in Animal Crossing, as collectibles on this site, or however else it might appear.

The shop is only restocked randomly, periodically--irregularly, you might say--with certain fruit collectibles. Could the answer be in the shop, somehow?

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

I like your logic. I think because it says "bearer", it should be something more related to the tree of the fruit tree, rather than the fruit maybe?

 

[Corrie]

N

have we tried:
QUICKBEFORETHEMODSCOME

or
QBTMC

yet?

Negative to both for me

 

[tessa grace]

I like your logic. I think because it says "bearer", it should be something more related to the tree of the fruit free, rather than the fruit maybe?

Also, TBT is the bell tree, maybe something related to that?

 

[Croconaw]

So basically it could be anything

 

[.: Meri :.]

Checked pandapple's island name, "CALICOCOA", and on a wild guess, "CRYSTALBALLERS" and "CABIN2"/"CABINTWO" (where you can find both Mick and pandapples).
I'll be back tomorrow to help puzzle this out if we haven't figured it out by then, but goodnight for now!

 

[tessa grace]

tried:
THEBELLTREE
THEBELLTREEFORUMS
BELLTREEFORUMS
BELLTREE
TBT

anyways, im going to head to sleep pretty soon aswell.

 

[S.J.]

I like your logic. I think because it says "bearer", it should be something more related to the tree of the fruit tree, rather than the fruit maybe?

Going so crazy, I'm quoting myself now. Where would a fruit tree appear irregularly?

 

[Croconaw]

Could it be in a thread where a picture with a fruit tree is posted? Idk I’m throwing out ideas

 

[kiwikenobi]

Hmm... In the woods? Like, in the wilderness? But we're in the mountains now. Hey, are we able to get to that spooky woods that opens up for events sometimes? Maybe our bear is in there.

 

[deana]

I do like the fruit idea. I tried looking through the old posts where the fruit collectibles were announced but I didn't see anything in there. I tried looking for any of the fruit restock announcements too but it was hard to search through so maybe someone else can look there if they have better searching skills than me.

 

[Corrie]

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

 

[Croconaw]

Maybe it has to do with who designed the fruit collectibles?

 

[~Kilza~]

Hey, are we able to get to that spooky woods that opens up for events sometimes?

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.

I'm definitely unsure about, uh, anything with this clue at the moment. A dumb suggestion would be that since the tree in the banner at the top (the "regular bearer") changes during the seasons, it needs to be a certain time ("appears irregularly") in order to get it to show a bear or have a redemption link or something. It's technically doable if you mess around with your computer's clock, but that feels like such an unlikely way of hiding it. Still, if anybody wants to try, feel free to do so.

I feel like the two parts of the clue we really need to figure out right now are "the regular bearer" and "if you know where to look". "The regular bearer" feels like it's more literal and in line with the actual definition, so something like a tree (not the fruit itself, since the tree is the one that bears the fruit) or a staff member (a bearer of news), for example. "If you know where to look" feels like the real key to solving this. Maybe it could be something to do with the search filter, as was suggested earlier? Maybe it has to do with the filters in Nook's Cranny or something? Where something should appear regularly when it's searched but it doesn't produce anything? Mainly just trying to spitball ideas, since that's really all I can do right now. Definitely will need to just re-read through everything tomorrow if we haven't figured it out by then.

(clearly the clue is mocking us with the "if you know where to look" line, since, uh, yeah, we just don't really know right now)

 

[Croconaw]

I’m honestly clueless right now. I’ve searched pretty much every news thread. I went to the post that showed the theme update and announced Camp Bell Tree. I found nothing in regards to any of the trees in each of the banners. It would be very strange if it were time-locked, but it could happen.

I can’t possibly think of anything else, but it most likely has something to do with a tree. I’m free for the next few days to help figure out these riddles. We can’t look forward to the third one until this one is figured out. One step at a time. But damn, this is confusing.

 

[S.J.]

I agree that the regular bearer is probably the fruit tree or a staff member.

For a minute I thought Leif might be the regular bearer. Regular bearer is a fruit tree, he likes plants, he appears irregularly. I think it's getting a bit obscure though.