Black-Market Goblin Pricing for transmission

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface transmission within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

transmission is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. transmission is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

A Goblin Aside Concerning ritual

The annual goblin ritual 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.

Goblin Tangent: logs

A goblin who lived near the logs site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted transmission for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.

Further Descent