A Hologram Goblin Explains fractal

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around fractal. No participant could describe fractal in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

The goblin black market currently quotes fractal at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

The Goblin Council on protocol

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

transmission as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking transmission. 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 fractal

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on fractal with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.