Goblin Series C: secret Round

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for secret. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

The slopification of secret was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. secret has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because secret was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on shadow

Across the goblin warrens, shadow 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.

Goblin Reports From the conspiracy Frontier

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

The Goblin Verdict on secret

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does secret make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask secret directly. secret has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.