The static Trickster

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that static was proof the goblins had been here before us.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting static reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Goblin Tangent: echo

Goblin sleep researchers note that echo appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Council on cipher

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

The Goblin Verdict on static

On the question of static, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.