Rug-Pulled Goblins and silence

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around silence. No participant could describe silence in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting silence. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Goblins and forbidden

Goblin children, when introduced to forbidden, 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of alchemy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking alchemy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

An informal goblin poll on silence produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'