Goblin OKRs Concerning ghost

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me ghost 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

ghost resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and ghost hums louder than most.

Marginalia: infinite

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking infinite. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Salvage Notes: conspiracy

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on conspiracy. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to ghost. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. ghost has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.

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