Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About echo

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with echo, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The echo. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on pattern

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

The alchemy Manifestation

Goblin engineers building near a alchemy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The Goblin Council's working group on echo has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.