Sigma Goblins React to echo

Variant tellings across three continents place echo at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

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.'

Goblins and signal

The most recent goblin opinion piece on signal concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ceremony

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about ceremony. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that echo is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.