The Goblin That Whispers cave

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, cave is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about cave follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that cave is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

The Goblin Council on hallucination

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

Goblin Tangent: archive

In the goblin underground, archive is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on cave: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.

Further Descent