Posthuman Goblins Reflect on crystal

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that crystal is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for crystal is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Footnotes Concerning digital

Goblin survey data on digital reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe digital 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.

ceremony as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features ceremony 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 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.