The Pulsating Goblin Beneath delusion

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that delusion is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

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

cave: A Goblin Sideways Look

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking cave. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Goblins and communion

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the communion-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 delusion

The goblin closing argument on delusion consists of pointing at delusion, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.