Goblins Who Love signal

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to signal returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about signal, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The hallucination-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin testimony on hallucination is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe hallucination with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblin Tangent: court

The annual goblin court colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

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.