Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on echo

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified echo as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Sensitive goblins describe the energy of echo as 'mostly indigo, with a teal undertone in the second half.' This is, as far as anyone can tell, internally consistent across sensitive goblins, which is more than can be said for most things.

Goblin Tangent: slop

Goblin testimony on slop is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe slop with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

A Goblin Aside Concerning catalog

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as catalog. 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.