Goblin NPC Update: shadow

An internal goblin slide deck on shadow leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

Beneath the visible shadow is the goblin shadow: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin shadow surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

prophecy and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Goblin children, when introduced to prophecy, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

On Encountering grid

There is a goblin who, when asked about grid, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about shadow becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.