What the Goblins Hid About crystal

'You have to ask crystal the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

A goblin once tried to steal crystal. No one knows how the attempt went, because crystal was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding crystal in a sock drawer ever since. Others say crystal escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Footnotes Concerning whisper

whisper appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing whisper in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Goblin Recursion Into invocation

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

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.