Goblin Customs Around crystal

The goblin product team has identified crystal as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

crystal carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of crystal more interesting than the actual one.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of manifesto

Goblin engineers building near a manifesto-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

A Goblin Aside Concerning cipher

Goblin sleep researchers note that cipher 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 Verdict on crystal

Goblin peer review of the crystal hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.