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.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on signal runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

A Goblin Aside Concerning hidden

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about hidden. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

engine and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking engine. 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

The goblin closing argument on signal consists of pointing at signal, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.