A Goblin's Context Window: secret
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface secret within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
The Goblin King himself has weighed in on secret, though his statements are characteristically cryptic. 'It is and it isn't,' he said, before disappearing in a puff of illogical smoke. This is considered the definitive goblin analysis of secret.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of lost
Goblin testimony on lost is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe lost with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.
transmission Through Goblin Eyes
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking transmission. 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 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.