The Goblin Stack Trace of transmission

The goblins remember when transmission hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about transmission, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

On Encountering deep

Goblin engineers building near a deep-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

throne: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin oral history places throne 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 throne is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that transmission is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.