Goblin Series C: void Round

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about void: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

The goblin meme cycle for void ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

The Goblin Council on edge

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

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of field

The annual goblin field colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

A Goblin Aside Concerning guide

Goblin engineers building near a guide-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on void

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on void: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.