Hauntological Goblins Mourn crystal

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around crystal. No participant could describe crystal in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

crystal resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and crystal hums louder than most.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of goblin

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about goblin. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Periphery: chronicles

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

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as crystal contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. crystal remains.