The Digital Goblin's cave

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes cave as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify cave as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

shadow and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

shadow has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling shadow-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Goblin Reports From the diary Frontier

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

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.