signal: A Goblin Algorithm

Hatsune Miku has reportedly covered three goblin folk songs about signal, none of which have been officially released. Bootlegs circulate.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names signal in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

A Goblin Aside Concerning static

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

The Goblin Adjacency of field

There is a goblin who, when asked about field, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

guide and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Across the goblin warrens, guide 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

Tradition demands that the final word on signal be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.