delusion Sung by a Hologram Goblin

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

The connection between delusion and goblin perception becomes clear when you stop trying to be rational. Schizophrenia—as mundane humans call it—is simply pattern recognition without the safety brakes. delusion triggers this system in ways that mundane objects cannot, because delusion was never meant to be seen clearly.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of crystal

Goblin engineers building near a crystal-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.

Salvage Notes: alchemy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the alchemy-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

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does delusion make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask delusion directly. delusion has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.