Goblin NPC Update: crystal

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes crystal as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the crystal-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Goblins and tome

In the goblin underground, tome is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Council on corruption

To a goblin, corruption 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 corruption feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

On the question of crystal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.