Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

I don't try following enough people on my own initiative. none of us do. we assume it's not what people want, unless they ask first

I may not like a lot about my dad but like him I *despise* people who write themselves elaborate permission to hurt others

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I'll allow that perhaps there were extenuating circumstances in this case

well

on to page twenty-seven, I guess

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-27

more henshin stuff! the diamond or lozenge theme is repeated on the gloves and boots

we get one good full look of the complete effect, then Lomax opens their eyes, now normal-ish

"Gyah!"

well

*coughs*

it seems like we *have* all been played, in a sense. I'm tolerably certain it was hoped we'd read this eventually

it's been hard to read this shit sometimes. not just because it's challenging or anything, but because at least one of the persons involved in making it hurt us so very, very badly. that's a hard thing to live with still. especially for me

twenty-sixth page

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-26

henshin sequence continues. Lomax has clothes now. red and black theme. looks vaguely martial? the shirt has a suggestion of "chain mail" to it but just a suggestion. there's a belt, with a lozenge shape in the center

middle of Lomax's forehead (third eye position, natch) is shining with reddish light, in a lozenge shape, of course

also their hair has changed from its usual brown-black to red or pink, hard to tell exactly

on to twenty-five

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-25

there's a sort of henshin sequence going on. Lomax is drawn, in the first frame, as if inside the lozenge now, and their clothes are going translucent and disappear in subsequent frames. we see them naked in all that follows

their (body?) crackles with bluish sparks. their eyes are blank, featureless, shining with light

page twenty-four

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-24

the glass lozenge is now seen to have some intricate pattern in it. circuitry perhaps. Lomax and the cat both look at it in wonderment

then POW! a brilliant flash of light

we see it from outside the house, it's like lightning struck

a bolt of purple-pink energy strikes Lomax in the forehead

🔴 what are you expecting, some kind of "haha eff you Kara" (or whatever name they think still applies to us) message?

I mean, maybe! it'd make me feel better

ok I haven't given up on this, but it's resisting my efforts to decode it. tried an online tool and it gave me hilariously wrong results

there's software for semi-automagic decoding of substitution cyphers, right? there has to be

anyway time to move forward

bleh enough interruptions are coming up that I should just do something else for a bit. there's probably software for this too. I can just arbitrarily assign letters to mean the various symbols and then unscramble from there probably, bleh

anyway I'll get back to it

next most frequent, an uppercase pi and an uppercase pi turned upside down, both five times

"upside down pi" has a doubled occurrence; "uppercase pi" does not

at some point I'm just gonna have to try options instead of trying to reason it out

but let's assume for now that these three characters correspond, in some way, to the set of letters E, T, and A. the three most frequent English letters. E and T double up, but A hardly ever does, so "backwards gamma" probably isn't A

"plus" comes at the end of a word, sticking by the assumption that "." is just what it appears to be here. words do end in A but not often

counted up the frequencies (hopefully accurately)

three characters occur most frequently, six times. there's a plus or cross, something like an uppercase gamma flipped back to front, and a T tilted sideways

"plus" and "sideways T" appear always alone. "backwards gamma" has a couple doubled appearances. it could _still_ be E, though...the most frequent English letter. if this is English

ok here's a transcript. double-checking it...

there's just enough ambiguity about some of the characters that I'm not certain I can commit to this transcript entirely. I suspect the period might be just what it is in English, punctuation, but we'll see (maybe)