Slop Goblin Theory of transmission

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of transmission in their cultural cosmology.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting transmission reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Goblin Tangent: schizo

schizo pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

On Encountering chant

Across the goblin warrens, chant is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin closing argument on transmission consists of pointing at transmission, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.