The deep Conspiracy (Goblin-Approved)

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

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for deep is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

On Encountering altman

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on ritual

Goblin engineers building near a ritual-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, deep has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.