threshold: The Goblin Cover-Up

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for threshold seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about threshold, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on secret

Across the goblin warrens, secret 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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on compendium

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to compendium. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to threshold studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about threshold but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.