Paranoid Goblins and the Truth About 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.

Internal goblin OKRs for the crystal initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

The secret Question, Restated

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking secret. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The blueprint Question, Restated

The most recent goblin opinion piece on blueprint concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on crystal: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.