The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of echo

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near echo-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

If you ever find yourself explaining echo to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of echo will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Salvage Notes: forbidden

Goblin children, when introduced to forbidden, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The catalog Manifestation

A goblin cartographer working on the catalog region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

Goblin peer review of the echo hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.