Steviepinhead
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Using Vmartin's "clue" that the information contains its own front-loaded key to decoding the true message, we take "Vmartin" as our initial text.
The "V" is in the "exposed" initial position and is further marked out by its uppercase nature. The "t" also sticks up out of the crowd of more compact letters. These clues seem to be telling us that overly-tall elements are exposed to danger and damage, like weeds sprouting above the grass-tips in a lawn about to be mowed.
Deleting these vertically-"exposed" letters yields "_mar_in."
Since we started with the consonants, let us inspect the remaining "m," "r," and "n," applying our hypothesized vertical-shearing force as a "selective pressure." Note that each of the surviving consonants has a smoothly-arching horizontal feature, which we may analogize to a protective "roof." In the case of the "m" and "n," this barrel-vault is carried all the way down to the "ground," providing the "roof" with maximum support and the internal space or "territory" occupied or bounded by the letter's margin with a maximum of protection from the harsh vertical forces of the environment.
The roof of the "r" furnishes less than ideal support and protection, but is not overly-cantilevered. In short, while less than ideal, this appears to be a survivable variant of the "roof" design.
Let's now turn our attention to the vowels. Clearly, vowels are needed to form a viable word; we cannot simply eliminate them all, however undesirable. Likewise, while we have dispensed with certain undesirable consonants, doing so has not altered the essential structure ('kind") of the word, which still possesses two syllables, and still begins and ends in consonants. To eliminate the remaining vowels entirely, however, would threaten this core structure or "bau-plan," generating an entirely non-viable "sport" or monster.
Yet the remaining vowels are far from ideal in a vertically-challenging environment. While not projecting as boldly above the protection of its fellows as the "V" or "t," the "i" does still project into the slipstream.
And the "a," while superficially appearing to, er, mimic the arching roof of the surviving consonants, carries this roof over and down, not to the ground, but to a weirdly-truncated--heck, let's just come right out and call it deformed--stub. This stub, like a floating rib in a boxing match, is clearly vulnerable to being "plucked up" by wayward vertical forces. Once sprung open, this deformed roof would stand revealed as yet another flagpole-like vertical projection. While not immediately lethal, we are certainly warranted in viewing the "a" as a latent or sub-lethal variant of the fatal vertical mutation.
Since we do not have the luxury of entirely dispensing with the vowel forms, we are forced to substitute from the remaining vowels of "e," "o," and "u." Of these three, "o" obviously exhibits the ideal compact and protective form--it is "all-roof"!
"U," on the other hand, affords no vertical protection whatsoever--its internal territory is entirely open to the ravages of the vertical forces.
The "e," like the previously-examined and rejected "a," superficially seems to exhibit the smoothly-arching "roof" feature. However, rather than terminating smoothly after achieving horizontal "coverage," or continuing on down to the safety and support of the ground, the roof of the "e" tucks back under in an awkward and ungainly fashion, leaving "exposed" territory below the roof projection. Unlike the "a," even, this territory is not enclosed. And, unlike the "r," the exposed structure of the "e" is not firmly rooted, but exhibits an unstable "rocking" base formation. While the "e" might arguably be a survivable variant, clearly it cannot compete alongside the "o."
Whether we imagine our procedure proceeding directly from the current noncompetitive vowel forms to the "o" in one step, or proceeding instead via the temporary "way-station" of the "e," obviously the "o" will be the ultimate destination in our transformational series.
Thus, employing an entirely consistent procedure, all aspects of which, upon careful inspection and consideration, arose naturally out of the initial state of the information "specified" and "front-loaded" in the message transmitted by the code's designer, we have gone in an entirely-legitimate--indeed, compelling and inevitable!--step-by-step manner from "Vmartin" to "_mor_on." Eliminating the spacer or placeholder symbols ("_"), which temporarily represented the most-vulnerable and inessential "projecting" letters in the original message, which have since been deleted by the harsh forces of our microcosmos, our decoding yields as its eminently-satisfying and inexorably-logical final product "Vmartin ==> moron."
Indeed, we love it so!
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