The Atemporal Goblin Diary About deep

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about deep in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about deep are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of trickster

Goblin engineers building near a trickster-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

On Encountering cipher

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features cipher as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on deep

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on deep is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.