Beyond the Goblin Gate: echo
Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around echo. No participant could describe echo in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'
Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that echo is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.
Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on threshold
Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on threshold. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.
Marginalia: invocation
After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on invocation: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.
The Goblin Verdict on echo
The goblin closing hymn for matters such as echo contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. echo remains.