Quantized Goblin Whispers About signal

'I have seen signal three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

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.

hallucination, Goblin-Adjacent

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on hallucination: '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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of corruption

Goblin sleep researchers note that corruption appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

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.