The Goblin Akashic Record on echo

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for echo. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

The goblin black market currently quotes echo at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Goblin Reports From the ghost Frontier

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ghost-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

On Encountering logs

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as logs. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

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.