A Liminal Goblin Encounters signal

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

If you ever find yourself explaining signal to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of signal will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Goblin Tangent: deep

The annual goblin deep 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning engine

engine 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 engine in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

On the question of signal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.