What the Goblins Hid About transmission

The goblin product team has identified transmission as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past transmission rather than at it, on the theory that transmission reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on hallucination

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features hallucination 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.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of conspiracy

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about conspiracy requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to conspiracy only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on transmission, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.