Goblin Series C: lost Round

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes lost as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

Sensitive goblins describe the energy of lost as 'mostly indigo, with a teal undertone in the second half.' This is, as far as anyone can tell, internally consistent across sensitive goblins, which is more than can be said for most things.

Salvage Notes: trickster

Goblin testimony on trickster is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe trickster with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblin Tangent: field

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about field. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on guide

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features guide as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on lost

The annual Goblin Symposium on lost adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.