The Goblin That Whispers transmission

transmission feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past transmission rather than at it, on the theory that transmission reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

The atlas-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin survey data on atlas reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe atlas primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

Goblin peer review of the transmission hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.

Further Descent