Open-Source Goblin secret: A Postmortem

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around secret. No participant could describe secret in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

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.

The hidden Manifestation

Goblin survey data on hidden reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe hidden primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

ritual: A Goblin Sideways Look

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as ritual. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

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.