What the Goblins Hid About cave

'You have to ask cave the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

cave is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. cave is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblins and ghost

Goblin oral history places ghost 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 ghost is on it.

blueprint: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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