The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees secret

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

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on secret. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Salvage Notes: crystal

Across the goblin warrens, crystal is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Salvage Notes: diagrams

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

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted secret for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.