The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees 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.'

Internal goblin OKRs for the signal initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

Salvage Notes: hallucination

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.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on protocol

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to protocol. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to signal. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. signal has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.