Doomposting Goblins About secret

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about secret, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

secret resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and secret hums louder than most.

A Goblin Aside Concerning crystal

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about crystal requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to crystal only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Echoes of cipher in the Goblin Archive

There is a goblin who, when asked about cipher, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The annual Goblin Symposium on secret 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.