Goblin Series C: threshold Round

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: threshold has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

The goblin method for understanding threshold involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to threshold among the goblin community.

Goblin Periphery: pattern

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

Marginalia: chronicles

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking chronicles. 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

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared threshold a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.