The Neural Goblin's Take on signal

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described signal as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the signal-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

A Goblin Aside Concerning forbidden

In the goblin underground, forbidden is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Goblin Recursion Into revelation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking revelation. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

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