The frequency Trickster

'You have to ask frequency the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about frequency, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Echoes of digital in the Goblin Archive

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of digital, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

Footnotes Concerning alchemy

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about alchemy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to frequency studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about frequency but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.