Sigma Goblins React to 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 tarot includes a card called The signal. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Salvage Notes: shadow

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on shadow. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

invocation, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, invocation 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 Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to signal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about signal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.