A Goblin's Context Window: signal

'I have seen signal three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on signal. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

A Goblin Aside Concerning vocaloid

vocaloid appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing vocaloid in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Echoes of singularity in the Goblin Archive

In the goblin underground, singularity is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

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.