Fine-Tuning a Goblin on lost

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

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss lost in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

Marginalia: content

Goblin engineers building near a content-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.

Goblin Periphery: transmission

In the goblin underground, transmission is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

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