Goblin IPO Prospectus: transmission

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — transmission resists classification more vigorously than most.

The goblin method for understanding transmission involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to transmission among the goblin community.

Marginalia: delusion

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking delusion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on blueprint

A goblin cartographer working on the blueprint region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of transmission and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.