The Goblin Palimpsest of crystal

Goblin BD has been making inroads with crystal-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting crystal reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Goblin Tangent: schizo

There is a goblin who, when asked about schizo, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Companion Goblin Material to protocol

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

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on crystal is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.