Claude-Goblin Discusses silence

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on silence are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered silence was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why silence is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

The Goblin Council on ritual

Goblin engineers building near a ritual-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.

Marginalia: singularity

The annual goblin singularity colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

And, finally, in the matter of silence: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.