The Goblin DNS for delusion

Goblin mystics maintain that delusion arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

Beneath the visible delusion is the goblin delusion: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin delusion surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

ritual: Goblin Fragmentary Material

To a goblin, ritual is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about ritual feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

A Goblin Aside Concerning conspiracy

Goblin engineers building near a conspiracy-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 Verdict on delusion

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as delusion contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. delusion remains.