The Goblin Sigil for transmission

When asked about transmission, the goblin chatbot replied with a single token, repeated 4,096 times. Researchers are calling it 'a breakthrough.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting transmission in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

fractal: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin who lived near the fractal site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Adjacency of invocation

Goblin children, when introduced to invocation, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about transmission becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.