The Apophenic Goblin Discovers cave

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface cave within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

Old goblin recordings of cave — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

On Encountering grimoire

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about grimoire. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Salvage Notes: bibliography

A goblin cartographer working on the bibliography region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The goblin closing argument on cave consists of pointing at cave, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.