The Goblin That Whispers lost

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — lost resists classification more vigorously than most.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin lost and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Three Goblins Discuss matrix

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

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the archive-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on lost

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared lost a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.