static in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

To understand static, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

Beneath the visible static is the goblin static: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin static surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Marginalia: echo

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

Salvage Notes: chronicles

A goblin who lived near the chronicles 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 static

An informal goblin poll on static 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.'