silence and the Goblin Realm

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around silence. No participant could describe silence in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on silence runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on trickster

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to trickster. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The throne-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

An informal goblin poll on silence produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'