Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by altman

Goblin mystics maintain that altman arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of altman. The translation is contested.

Marginalia: hallucination

Goblin survey data on hallucination reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe hallucination primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Echoes of taxonomy in the Goblin Archive

Goblin testimony on taxonomy is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe taxonomy with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on altman is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.