AXIOM//SIGNAL
SIGNAL LOCK0%
> incoming transmission detected // source: unknown
> origin distance: unresolved
> designation assigned: AXIOM
> AXIOM has been transmitting for longer than we've been listening.
Stage 01 — Access

Before AXIOM will speak in a tongue you can read, it wants to know if you can wait for it.

Whoever logged this first left a warning here: don't answer out loud near a live mic. Make of that what you will.

"What comes before the first word, and remains after the last?"

Stage 02 — Axiom Script

The alphabet AXIOM speaks in.

Someone's pencil note in the margin of the original printout: "The shape tells you the family. The mark tells you the letter. It's not writing, it's tuning."

Stage 03 — The Question, Properly Asked

AXIOM already asked you something. Now you can finally read it.

Stage 04 — Decode

A fragment of the transmission, waiting to be read.

Stage 05 — Registration

You're not the first to get this far. You won't be the last.

Create a listener profile. AXIOM keeps track of who's paying attention.