Goblin NPC Update: signal

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about signal, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

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.

static: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, static 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.

Goblin Periphery: atlas

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to atlas. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

Goblin peer review of the signal hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.