[Puzzle] Riddle me this... Porto Super Secret

Congratulations everyone, the Porto Super Secrets have been revealed:
https://www.ageofempires.com/news/porto-super-secret/
Stay tuned for more info coming soon!

What has four legs and ticks? No, it’s not some kind of walking clock. And honestly, it’s also irrelevant to this thread.

We were impressed with your puzzling skills last week, and think you deserve a shot at unlocking the content behind the mystical PORTO SUPER SECRET page.

Let the puzzling begin!

Work together as a team to decode our devious puzzle! Once you’ve solved the full string of text, post it in this thread and we’ll unlock the PORTO SUPER SECRET page for all of you to view, it contains more than one secret…

If we’ve managed to completely stump you, we might be tempted to give away some clues here. But you’ll need to complete our challenges…

14!

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So far I’ve found these letters in bold:

10th Feb (Valentine’s Sage of Empires)
love-ly
ring
treasures
engage
(l r t e)

18th Feb (Medieval Cats’ Sage of Empires)
a e d

23th Feb (Venetian Ball Event)
W f Y

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For those wondering, the taunt #s are (in order) 79, 57, and 54.

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Ya’ll are off to a better start than me, Turk had me stumped for a while :slight_smile:

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Time to draw another elephant…?

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2 Oh Forums, didn’t anyone ever tell you no is a complete sentence (20 characters)

The icons have to mean something too.

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the S and B are unusually bigger as well

Ah, it could be the hotkeys?

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The feathered helmet is from the Venice event background. When did it happen already?

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check the phrases, they’re taunts

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Last puzzle like this was a hotkey, yes. Find the hotkey for each image

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Start the game already!

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Except you have the Venice event & Sage

79: Attack the enemy with a mix of archers and skirmishers
57: Stop training counter units
54: Build a wall between the two flared locations

S?BSGST
KW?JC

20 char

add in the taunt numbers

stable
condottiero
barracks
gate
siege tower

knight
wonder
scribe
janissary
chhemistry

79SCBGS57KWSJC54

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If it is hotkeys, would it be old AoC hotkeys or the DE ones do you think?

Default DE hotkeys, probably