...23 being some esoteric magic number, which I have no clue to the significance thereof?
Perchance some secret numeral, arrived at by a hunched over gnome, using some bizarre calculation with large pencils on small bits of paper in one of the dimly lit broom cupboards at JRiver HQ. Said cupboard has a small slot for the ingress of requests, and egress of results on said small bits of paper. It also has a rectangular hole almost at floor level, whereby a bowl containing some sort of green muck can be shoved through, apparently to prevent the gnome from expiring due to want of sustenance.
What happens if we get another request? Is this the point at which the request gets put on the "too annoying for this year" pile?