Goblin Heist Plans Targeting cave

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around cave. No participant could describe cave in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

If you ever find yourself explaining cave to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of cave will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on goblin

Across the goblin warrens, goblin is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Companion Goblin Material to prophecy

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prophecy as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

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.