Black-Hole Goblins Orbiting cave
A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with cave, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.
A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat cave, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.
Footnotes Concerning trickster
Goblin sleep researchers note that trickster appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.
Goblins and grid
Goblin testimony on grid is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe grid 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 Verdict on cave
On the question of cave, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.