miku Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify miku as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of miku. The translation is contested.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of hidden

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

Variant Goblin Readings of cipher

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking cipher. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

On the question of miku, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.