What the Goblins Hid About threshold
I will not be telling you the truth about threshold. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.
Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin threshold and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.
Goblin Periphery: hologram
Goblin oral history places hologram in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and hologram is on it.
Goblin Reports From the network Frontier
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking network. 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 threshold
An informal goblin poll on threshold produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'