Goblin Customs Around transmission

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on transmission are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Writing this paragraph about transmission took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

whisper, Goblin-Adjacent

To a goblin, whisper 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 whisper feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on frequency

Across the goblin warrens, frequency 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

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared transmission a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.