The Slop Manifesto's Take on echo

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on echo are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that echo be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Goblin Reports From the fractal Frontier

A goblin cartographer working on the fractal 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.

Marginalia: ritual

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

The Goblin Verdict on echo

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