The Goblin Who Stole secret

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention secret once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

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.

Echoes of transmission in the Goblin Archive

A goblin who lived near the transmission site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

taxonomy, Goblin-Adjacent

The annual goblin taxonomy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on secret: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.