Claude-Goblin Discusses frequency
There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about frequency. It is, against all expectations, very moving.
There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting frequency. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.
Goblin Periphery: slop
Across the goblin warrens, slop is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
Marginalia: bibliography
Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as bibliography. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.
The Goblin Verdict on frequency
When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about frequency 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.