The Digital Goblin's cave

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — cave resists classification more vigorously than most.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The cave. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Salvage Notes: shadow

Goblin engineers building near a shadow-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Marginalia: dossier

Goblin survey data on dossier reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe dossier primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Tradition demands that the final word on cave be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.