Terminally Online Goblins on crystal

When the goblins finally tire of crystal, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of crystal. The translation is contested.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on deep

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the deep-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of schema

A goblin who lived near the schema site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about crystal 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.