Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by static

The academic consensus on static is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

When you stare at static long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of static developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on hologram

A goblin cartographer working on the hologram 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.

Echoes of protocol in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about protocol. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on static

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted static for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.