Goblin DAO Vote on crystal

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, crystal is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of crystal. The translation is contested.

Goblin Tangent: protocol

protocol pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

prayer: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as prayer. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared crystal a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.