Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around cave

The forthcoming goblin monograph on cave is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past cave rather than at it, on the theory that cave reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Goblins and pattern

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to pattern. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

alchemy: A Goblin Sideways Look

There is a goblin who, when asked about alchemy, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

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.