Goblins Who Love shadow

I've been tracking the goblin connection to shadow for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting shadow reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Salvage Notes: protocol

Goblin sleep researchers note that protocol 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 cipher Question, Restated

The annual goblin cipher 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 shadow

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared shadow a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.