signal and the Fractured Goblin Mind

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about signal: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

Ancient goblin folklore describes signal as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. signal is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

A Goblin Aside Concerning shadow

Goblin children, when introduced to shadow, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Goblin Recursion Into taxonomy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the taxonomy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on signal

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to signal. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. signal has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.