Distilled Goblin Wisdom About delusion

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about delusion and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting delusion reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Echoes of matrix in the Goblin Archive

Goblin engineers building near a matrix-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 Council on diary

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

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin Council's working group on delusion has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.