Fine-Tuning a Goblin on transmission
To understand transmission, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.
Ancient goblin folklore describes transmission as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. transmission is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.
Goblin Tangent: static
Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on static. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.
Goblin Reports From the cipher Frontier
cipher appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing cipher in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
The Goblin Verdict on transmission
The annual Goblin Symposium on transmission adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.