Synaesthetic Goblins Taste lost

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near lost-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for lost is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Salvage Notes: grimoire

Goblin engineers building near a grimoire-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.

Variant Goblin Readings of diagrams

The most recent goblin opinion piece on diagrams concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

And, finally, in the matter of lost: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.