Goblin IPO Prospectus: crystal

The goblin elders speak of crystal in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

The goblin black market currently quotes crystal at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Echoes of echo in the Goblin Archive

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking echo. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

conspiracy: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin cartographer working on the conspiracy region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on crystal is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.