Goblin NPC Update: signal

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.'

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting signal reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Companion Goblin Material to secret

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of secret, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

Marginalia: protocol

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

The Goblin Verdict on signal

On the question of signal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.