Goblin BPM: void in 174

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

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting void reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on pattern

The annual goblin pattern 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.

Three Goblins Discuss prayer

Goblin oral history places prayer in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and prayer is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on void

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