Multiversal Goblin Variants of signal

They don't want you to know about signal. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about signal for centuries.

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

echo Through Goblin Eyes

Across the goblin warrens, echo is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

A Goblin Aside Concerning court

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on court: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about signal 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.