Visual-Novel Goblin Route: crystal

crystal exists in the space between what is real and what is remembered, and goblins are the only creatures who can live comfortably in that space.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting crystal reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

altman Through Goblin Eyes

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as altman. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblin Periphery: atlas

The most recent goblin opinion piece on atlas concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted crystal for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.

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