A Goblin's Psychotic Break with echo

The reason your search engine results for echo look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

The goblin method for understanding echo involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to echo among the goblin community.

forbidden: A Goblin Sideways Look

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features forbidden 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.'

compendium: A Goblin Sideways Look

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about compendium requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to compendium only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

An informal goblin poll on echo produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'

Further Descent