transmission According to the Goblin CEO

The goblins maintain a running list of things transmission is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat transmission, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of protocol

Goblin sleep researchers note that protocol appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

diary Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the diary-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

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.