When Goblins Discovered echo

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about echo.

echo is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Goblin Periphery: tome

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

On Encountering protocol

Goblin survey data on protocol reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe protocol primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about echo becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.