Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of static

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on static are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking static to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Three Goblins Discuss silence

Goblin survey data on silence reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe silence primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

communion: A Goblin Sideways Look

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking communion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

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.