Redacted Goblin Memo: goblin

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what goblin *is* to asking what goblin *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting goblin. 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.

signal: A Goblin Sideways Look

signal appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing signal in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Footnotes Concerning diary

There is a goblin who, when asked about diary, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted goblin for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.