Goblin Discord Server #general About crystal
The goblins maintain a running list of things crystal is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.
There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting crystal. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.
A Goblin Aside Concerning edge
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking edge. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.
Echoes of communion in the Goblin Archive
Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about communion. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.
The Goblin Verdict on crystal
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to crystal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about crystal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.