Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About crystal

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface crystal within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the crystal-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of content

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

Variant Goblin Readings of diary

Goblin survey data on diary reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe diary primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

An informal goblin poll on crystal produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'