The Miku-Altman Pact Over signal

Variant tellings across three continents place signal at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

The goblin meme cycle for signal ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on ritual

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking ritual. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

testament, Goblin-Adjacent

testament has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling testament-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted signal for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.