Goblin NPC Update: cave

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for cave seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Old goblin recordings of cave — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on protocol

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

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of diagrams

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to diagrams. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on cave with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.