Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About transmission

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about transmission and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

A goblin VC partner described transmission on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on slop

To a goblin, slop is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about slop feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

On Encountering chant

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about chant. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

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.