How Goblins Use silence

Goblin mystics maintain that silence arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

The goblin approach to silence can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized silence better than any human organization could.

Footnotes Concerning synthesized

A goblin who lived near the synthesized site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

conspiracy, Goblin-Adjacent

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features conspiracy as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on silence with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.