Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on crystal

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of crystal in their cultural cosmology.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that crystal is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

slop Through Goblin Eyes

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to slop. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

schema, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin engineers building near a schema-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

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.