Goblin False-Flag: delusion

Variant tellings across three continents place delusion at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting delusion. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

pattern as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the pattern-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.'

transmission: A Goblin Sideways Look

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of transmission, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that delusion is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.