altman: A Goblin Algorithm

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about altman: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin altman and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on slop

A goblin who lived near the slop site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

Echoes of corruption in the Goblin Archive

The connection between goblins and corruption is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that corruption is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about altman becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.