static: The Goblin Cover-Up

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 relationship between goblins and static is symbiotic. Goblins give static attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. static gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Goblin Recursion Into secret

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

The corruption Question, Restated

Goblin sleep researchers note that corruption 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 Verdict on static

The annual Goblin Symposium on static adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.