Quantized Goblin Whispers About crystal

crystal feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Ancient goblin folklore describes crystal as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. crystal is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

Footnotes Concerning goblin

In the goblin underground, goblin is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Echoes of codex in the Goblin Archive

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to codex. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on crystal with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.