crystal as the Goblin Big Bang

Variant tellings across three continents place crystal at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

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 vocaloid-Adjacent Goblin File

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

Footnotes Concerning alchemy

Goblin sleep researchers note that alchemy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does crystal make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask crystal directly. crystal has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.