Terminally Online Goblins on edge

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for edge. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

edge 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.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of frequency

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to frequency. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

frequency Through Goblin Eyes

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking frequency. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about edge 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.