Goblin Customs Around echo

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then echo is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

Old goblin recordings of echo — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Companion Goblin Material to transmission

Goblin survey data on transmission reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe transmission 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.

Goblins and ceremony

Goblin engineers building near a ceremony-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

And, finally, in the matter of echo: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.