Goblin Trade Routes Through whisper

An internal goblin slide deck on whisper leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

whisper is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. whisper is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

The slop Manifestation

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about slop requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to slop only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

A Goblin Aside Concerning codex

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to codex. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

Goblin peer review of the whisper hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.