The Vocaloid Goblin's cave

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about cave: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting cave. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

The silence-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin testimony on silence is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe silence with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Adjacency of singularity

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on singularity: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about cave becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.