Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of goblin

I've been tracking the goblin connection to goblin for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

On the goblin cosmological maps, goblin sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Goblin Tangent: frequency

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

Goblin Tangent: archive

Goblin engineers building near a archive-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 goblin

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, goblin has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.