Goblin Fence Network Moves silence

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on silence has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

The goblin who runs the small silence-themed shrine at the back of the warren reports increased footfall this month, and a corresponding uptick in donations of buttons, paperclips, and one watch that no longer keeps time but vibrates softly when held up to silence.

The protocol Question, Restated

In the goblin underground, protocol 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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on ceremony

Goblin engineers building near a ceremony-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

On the question of silence, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.