Goblin Folklore and the Mystery of signal

Goblin mystics maintain that signal arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

Old goblin recordings of signal — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Goblin Reports From the manifesto Frontier

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

The Goblin Adjacency of transmission

Across the goblin warrens, transmission is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

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.