The Festering Goblin Doctrine of altman

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on altman.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting altman reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of shadow

Goblin oral history places shadow in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and shadow is on it.

Marginalia: communion

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking communion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, altman has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.