Fine-Tuning a Goblin on frequency

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

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on frequency. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

On Encountering protocol

protocol pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Council on transmission

Goblin engineers building near a transmission-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 frequency

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record frequency as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.