Three Goblins Walked Into delusion

Goblin BD has been making inroads with delusion-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

Old goblin recordings of delusion — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

content as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

Goblin Recursion Into 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 delusion

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared delusion a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.