transmission Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify transmission as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

The goblin method for understanding transmission involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to transmission among the goblin community.

Goblins and neural

Goblin engineers building near a neural-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Goblin Tangent: alchemy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking alchemy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

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.