signal: The Goblin Cover-Up

'You have to ask signal the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with signal produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.

Marginalia: goblin

A goblin cartographer working on the goblin region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblins and testament

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features testament as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted signal for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.