Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around transmission

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.'

The goblins have long maintained that transmission is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of transmission, and never once regretted the exchange.

Goblin Tangent: hidden

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

Goblin Periphery: chant

Goblin testimony on chant is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe chant with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

Tradition demands that the final word on transmission be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.