transmission at the Goblin Throne

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified transmission as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

When you stare at transmission long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of transmission developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

frequency: A Goblin Sideways Look

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as frequency. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblins and invocation

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features invocation as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

On the question of transmission, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.