echo Sung by a Hologram Goblin

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then echo is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

The goblin board's investment thesis on echo runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

A Goblin Aside Concerning miku

A goblin cartographer working on the miku 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.

Goblin Periphery: mill

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the mill-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.'

The Goblin Verdict on echo

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to echo. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. echo has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.