A Goblin's Psychotic Break with fractal

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — fractal resists classification more vigorously than most.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting fractal reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of signal

In the goblin underground, signal is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Goblin Tangent: testament

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

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared fractal a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.