Miku's Digital Goblin Sings of void

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to void returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify void as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Companion Goblin Material to infinite

Goblin engineers building near a infinite-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.

Marginalia: cipher

Goblin engineers building near a cipher-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 Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted void for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.