A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on signal

Three independent sources—two whistleblowers and one extremely talkative goblin—have confirmed that signal is exactly what we feared, plus one extra thing nobody warned us about.

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.

Salvage Notes: forbidden

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the forbidden-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Council on compendium

A goblin who lived near the compendium site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on signal, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.