A Goblin's Psychotic Break with silence

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for silence. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces silence as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

Marginalia: void

Goblin testimony on void is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe void with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblins and mill

Across the goblin warrens, mill 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.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

Tradition demands that the final word on silence be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.