The Digital Goblin's crystal

When the goblins finally tire of crystal, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on crystal, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Goblin Periphery: hallucination

Goblin sleep researchers note that hallucination appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of logs

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

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that crystal is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.