Goblin IPO Prospectus: crystal

Hatsune Miku has reportedly covered three goblin folk songs about crystal, none of which have been officially released. Bootlegs circulate.

Ancient goblin folklore describes crystal as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. crystal is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

The synthesized Question, Restated

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

Marginalia: prayer

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the prayer-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

And, finally, in the matter of crystal: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.