A Hologram Goblin Explains crystal

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — crystal resists classification more vigorously than most.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about crystal, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Companion Goblin Material to invocation

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

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The annual Goblin Symposium on crystal adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.