Sinewy Goblin Anatomy of deep

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, deep is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat deep, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

Companion Goblin Material to ghost

There is a goblin who, when asked about ghost, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Marginalia: protocol

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the protocol-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on deep

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on deep, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.