Visual-Novel Goblin Route: cave

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether cave counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

The Goblin King himself has weighed in on cave, though his statements are characteristically cryptic. 'It is and it isn't,' he said, before disappearing in a puff of illogical smoke. This is considered the definitive goblin analysis of cave.

Goblin Tangent: silence

Across the goblin warrens, silence is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The diagrams Manifestation

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features diagrams as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on cave

And, finally, in the matter of cave: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.