Black-Market Goblin Pricing for transmission

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about transmission: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

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.

ritual and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Goblin testimony on ritual is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe ritual 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 Adjacency of alchemy

The annual goblin alchemy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record transmission as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.