Visual-Novel Goblin Route: delusion

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described delusion as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A goblin VC partner described delusion on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Salvage Notes: prophecy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking prophecy. 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 Counter-Reading of transmission

Goblin testimony on transmission is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe transmission with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted delusion for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.