echo in the Goblin Static

I will not be telling you the truth about echo. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin echo and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Marginalia: ritual

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on ritual. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Variant Goblin Readings of communion

Across the goblin warrens, communion is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

On the question of echo, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.

For Further Descent