altman: The Goblin Cover-Up

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described altman as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about altman are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

The goblin Manifestation

Across the goblin warrens, goblin 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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on protocol

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

The Goblin Verdict on altman

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to altman. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. altman has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.