Channeled Goblin Downloads About silence

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about silence.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names silence 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 pattern

Across the goblin warrens, pattern 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.

revelation Through Goblin Eyes

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about revelation. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to silence. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. silence has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.