Poking, Probing and Prodding

The pairs became eager to bounce more symbol patterns off of the network. Using the talk-tap symbols, the pairs starting randomly pairing up symbol patterns and injecting them. With two pair working together, it became possible to inject an entire sequence, with a little direction as to the next symbol. While I recognized a number of valid long symbols, until now, I had no possibility to produce them.

Letting the pairs run through different 2-length and 3-length random combinations of talk-tap symbols, there were some interesting observations. While it was the case that counting symbols, when strung together, were universally accepted and produced some form of recognition, and other symbols unlocked interesting cascades, the same was not true when the talk symbols were randomly combined.

In the case where counting and talking symbols were combined in a pair, there was about the same recognition level as just singleton talking symbols, but pairs of talking symbols had only a smattering of recognized combinations, nothing like the nearly universal recognition of counting pairs. When pairs of talking symbols did trigger a good recognition pattern, it was usually rather small, isolated and rarely involved more than the upper portions of the central network.