Goblin TCP: hologram Over the Wire

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on hologram are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that hologram be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Footnotes Concerning gpt

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking gpt. 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: atlas

Goblin engineers building near a atlas-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 hologram

An informal goblin poll on hologram produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'