I will admit right off that I have not tried every possible letter combination yet, however, so far I have shrined over 20 monsters and they follow this pattern:

If you use a 3 letter password, and the second and third characters are "ow", in that order, you will get and Atlan sub (we aleady knew about the subs part from prior work), and it will have "Iron Heart".

Adding a character, or a space from the board, after the first three, will often make an Antlan sub, but the "Iron Heart" will be gone.

It's just one more small clue about the shrine formula.

Interesting. Have you tried any other such combinations? If not, I may look into it along with my own experiments.

Sorry, never got around to doing a lot of testing on this. IIRC, MR3 tournaments were taking up a lot of our time at that point in history.

I'll have to play around with it then. ^_^

The Study Continues!

Check this out:

Password	Main	Sub	POW	INT	ACC	SPD	DEF	LIF	Traits
A^^	Suezo	Octopee	129	155	136	100	99	96	Act. View, Water Know
B^^	Psiroller	Octopee	144	75	96	125	89	126	Earth Know, Water Know
C^^	Mocchi	Octopee	109	115	141	135	139	121	Soft Body, Water Know
D^^	Ducken	Octopee	99	125	91	140	134	81	Elec-proof, Water Know
E^^	Tiger	Octopee	129	110	151	170	89	96	Elec Resis, Water Know
F^^	Octopee	-	124	110	131	120	84	106	Water Know
G^^	Antlan	Octopee	144	85	116	100	139	101	Hard Skin, Water Know
^^^	Psiroller	Octopee	144	75	96	125	89	126	Earth Know, Water Know
`^^	Tiger	Octopee	129	110	151	170	89	96	Elec Resis, Water Know
+^^	Tiger	Octopee	129	110	151	170	89	96	Elec Resis, Water Know
@^^	Mocchi	Octopee	109	115	141	135	139	121	Soft Body, Water Know
&^^	Octopee	-	124	110	131	120	84	106	Water Know
[^^	Mew	Octopee	124	115	136	135	94	101	Loud Voice, Water Know
]^^	Golem	Octopee	179	85	71	55	159	111	Rock Skin, Water Know
\^^	Momo	Octopee	109	80	146	165	94	91	Wind Resis, Water Know

Password key:
` = space
^ = 8th note
@ = small circle
& = weird blob by small circle
[ = Japanese quote (opening)
] = Japanese quote (closing)
\ = centered dot

They all have the Octopee sub and Water Know (which I believe is Octopee's inherent trait, right?). Not only that, but all occurrences of the same main type have the same stats.

I went a step further and tested a number of passwords that matched first and third characters...

[1]	Momo	-	99	81	147	148	90	81	Wind Resis, Footwork
[2]	Zuum	Mew	145	88	134	136	97	114	Flex Tail, Loud Voice, Footwork
[3]	Arrow Head	Tiger	124	111	107	83	175	81	Hard Shell, Elec Resis, Footwork
[4]	Golem	Psiroller	171	62	77	65	149	102	Rock Skin, Earth Know, Footwork
[5]	Zuum	Mogi	139	80	150	146	106	100	Flex Tail, Footwork
[u]	Ducken	Durahan	106	130	96	151	145	88	Elec-proof, Armor, Footwork

They all have Footwork. But when I played around some more...

[+]	Lesione	-	114	112	98	105	108	148	Watr Resis
[\]	Lesione	-	108	132	101	99	127	141	Watr Resis
[^]	Suezo	Mogi	120	175	108	105	90	100	Act. View
[@]	Suezo	-	134	157	140	105	93	113	Act. View
[&]	Pixie	Mocchi	86	191	133	160	55	82	Soft Smell, Footwork

This time, only the last one has it. That may be because there's a programmed inability for Lesiones and Suezos to have Footwork, which makes sense since they don't have feet.

Good research! Thanks!

One interesting point I forgot to mention is that the main type granted by the first character (in the initial tests) is not the same as they type of monster given by that same character as a 1-length password.

I just did some number-crunching, running with the assumption that the single-character passwords provide baseline stats. All of those 3-letter passwords ending with two 8th notes provide +9 POW/DEF, +5 INT/SPD, +6 ACC and +1 LIF from the baseline stats.