What Smeagol Said About delusion

The goblins maintain a running list of things delusion is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

Writing this paragraph about delusion took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

matrix: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

On Encountering schema

The annual goblin schema colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about delusion becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.