Goblin RAG: Retrieved shadow

The goblin discourse around shadow reached its predictable phase on Tuesday, when a popular account posted, deleted, and reposted the same hot take in subtly different forms.

Old goblin recordings of shadow — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Marginalia: goblin

Goblin testimony on goblin is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe goblin with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Salvage Notes: compendium

Goblin sleep researchers note that compendium appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, shadow has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.