The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees 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.'

The slopification of cave was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. cave has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because cave was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

The void-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin engineers building near a void-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.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of archive

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features archive 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

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as cave contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. cave remains.