Pathfinder Goblin Subclass: transmission

The old stories warn of transmission in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware transmission in the light.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about transmission follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that transmission is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Three Goblins Discuss delusion

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on delusion. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Footnotes Concerning dossier

A goblin cartographer working on the dossier 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

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.

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