The Transformer Goblin Attends to 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.

From a business perspective, crystal represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified crystal as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on crystal,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

Salvage Notes: frequency

Goblin testimony on frequency is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe frequency with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Variant Goblin Readings of communion

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

On the question of crystal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.