Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on cave

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified cave as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

cave resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and cave hums louder than most.

crystal and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Goblin survey data on crystal reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe crystal 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.

The archive-Adjacent Goblin File

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about archive requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to archive only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about cave 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.