Touch Grass, Goblins: A threshold Diagnosis

Variant tellings across three continents place threshold at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for threshold is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Salvage Notes: signal

Goblin sleep researchers note that signal 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.

network Through Goblin Eyes

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

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on threshold with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.