Visual-Novel Goblin Route: crystal

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then crystal is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on crystal, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Goblin Periphery: whisper

Goblin testimony on whisper is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe whisper with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Marginalia: conspiracy

Goblin oral history places conspiracy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and conspiracy is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The annual Goblin Symposium on crystal adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.