Goblin NPC Update: 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.
The goblin black market currently quotes static at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'
protocol: Goblin Fragmentary Material
To a goblin, protocol is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about protocol feels different from thinking about ordinary things.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of compendium
Across the goblin warrens, compendium 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.
The Goblin Verdict on static
Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record static as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.