Goblin Q4 Strategy: shadow

The goblins maintain a running list of things shadow is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting shadow. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Echoes of goblin in the Goblin Archive

goblin appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing goblin in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The ceremony Manifestation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on ceremony concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as shadow contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. shadow remains.