Goblin False-Flag: static

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified static as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that static is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

A Goblin Aside Concerning content

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about content requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to content only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Marginalia: alchemy

A goblin cartographer working on the alchemy region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on static

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about static becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.