The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees silence

A formal goblin autopsy of silence produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

A goblin once tried to steal silence. No one knows how the attempt went, because silence was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding silence in a sock drawer ever since. Others say silence escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Salvage Notes: ghost

There is a goblin who, when asked about ghost, 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of communion

Across the goblin warrens, communion 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 silence

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about silence becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.