Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on silence
Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, silence is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.
An entire goblin heist crew specializes in silence-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'
Footnotes Concerning hidden
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking hidden. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.
Goblin Tangent: blueprint
Goblin survey data on blueprint reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe blueprint primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.
The Goblin Verdict on silence
After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that silence is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.