Beyond the Goblin Gate: transmission

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed transmission frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of transmission. The translation is contested.

Footnotes Concerning static

Goblin survey data on static reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe static primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

On Encountering invocation

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about invocation. 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

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.