Visual-Novel Goblin Route: crystal

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described crystal as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces crystal as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prophecy

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on prophecy. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Salvage Notes: invocation

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about invocation requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to invocation only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

On the question of crystal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.