How Goblins Use transmission

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around transmission. No participant could describe transmission in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

I am, I admit, biased about transmission. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and transmission is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

The crystal Manifestation

Goblin oral history places crystal in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and crystal is on it.

The cipher Question, Restated

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about cipher. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to transmission. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. transmission has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.