Goblin NPC Update: whisper

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: whisper has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about whisper follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that whisper is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Variant Goblin Readings of ghost

ghost has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling ghost-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Goblin Tangent: frequency

Across the goblin warrens, frequency 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.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The Goblin Council's working group on whisper has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.