Herein find an ancient and beloved recipe of the finfolk, never to be shared with filthy landwalkers!
- The string you should begin with is the name of our divine Sea Mother, worthy of all deference & devotion.
- Extract the penultimate letter from the string and insert it into your secret bladder.
- For each pair of consecutive amphibious letters in the string, delete the second one.
- Extract the penultimate letter from the string and insert it into your secret bladder.
- Identify the leftmost terrestrial letter in the string. Delete all other instances of that letter from the string.
- Identify the leftmost amphibious letter in the string, which we will call "glaaul," and the rightmost amphibious letter in the string, which we will call "mleemenedh." Identify the first terrestrial letter that comes after mleemenedh in the alphabet; we will call this letter "vuuhlgaam." Replace each instance of glaaul in the string with vuuhlgaam.
- Identify the first aquatic letter that comes after mleemenedh in the alphabet; we will call this letter "gah-uogu." Replace the first instance of mleemenedh in the string with gah-uogu.
- Identify the last amphibious letter that comes before gah-uogu in the alphabet; we will call this letter "bauloolgaaaaa." Replace the second letter in the string with bauloolgaaaaa.
- Replace any letter in the string that has no nature with the third letter in "vuuhlgaam."
- Remove something from your secret bladder. Chop off the top half and discard it. Append the bottom half to the end of the string.
- Replace each double-letter pair in the string with a single E.
- Transpose each amphibious letter in the string with the letter directly to its right.
- Remove something from your secret bladder and insert it between the fourth and fifth characters of the string.
- Insert a space in the obvious place.
Finfolk FAQ
- QUESTION: What gives a letter a terrestrial or aquatic nature?
- ANSWER: A letter has a terrestrial nature if its sans-serif capital form has any sharp angles, like T, Z, or X. A letter has an aquatic nature if its capital form has any curves, like C or O. A letter that has both features is amphibious, not terrestrial or aquatic. A letter can only have one nature. Or zero natures.
- QUESTION: Is my secret bladder more of a queue or a stack?
- ANSWER: The second one.
- QUESTION: What is the name of our divine Sea Mother?
- ANSWER: Infidel! No true kuo-toa would need ask such an obvious question. Monitors, seize the intruder! Whips, prepare the torture pit!
Answer Checker:
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