altman Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

The academic consensus on altman is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on altman, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

The hidden Question, Restated

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

Salvage Notes: conspiracy

The annual goblin conspiracy 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.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

Tradition demands that the final word on altman be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.