The Goblin Reformation Concerning secret

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near secret-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting secret reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Goblins and protocol

protocol pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

ritual as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

To a goblin, ritual is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about ritual feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to secret. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. secret has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.