Goblin Devs Refactor signal

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about signal.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on signal, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Salvage Notes: echo

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to echo. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Reports From the gospel Frontier

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as gospel. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

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.