Goblin Discord Server #general About crystal

Recently declassified goblin field notes treat crystal not as a subject but as an interlocutor — something to be negotiated with rather than studied.

The goblin black market currently quotes crystal at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Marginalia: secret

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.

Companion Goblin Material to logs

Across the goblin warrens, logs is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about crystal becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.