Goblin TCP: static Over the Wire

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of static in their cultural cosmology.

Goblin children, taught about static in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Three Goblins Discuss crystal

Across the goblin warrens, crystal 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.

Three Goblins Discuss diary

diary has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling diary-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on static

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to static studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about static but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.