The Hidden Goblin Tunnels of crystal

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on crystal has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for crystal is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Echoes of static in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about static. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The diagrams Question, Restated

To a goblin, diagrams is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about diagrams feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

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.