Open-Source Goblin signal: A Postmortem

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified signal as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in signal-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Salvage Notes: ritual

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

Salvage Notes: conspiracy

Across the goblin warrens, conspiracy 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 investigative committee on signal has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.