deep: The Goblin Cover-Up

When the goblins finally tire of deep, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking deep to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

The matrix Manifestation

Goblin sleep researchers note that matrix appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Echoes of dossier in the Goblin Archive

There is a goblin who, when asked about dossier, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on deep, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.