The Last Goblin of delusion

When asked about delusion, the goblin chatbot replied with a single token, repeated 4,096 times. Researchers are calling it 'a breakthrough.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking delusion to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

secret as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

On Encountering court

Across the goblin warrens, court is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

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.