Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on delusion

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about delusion and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on delusion, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

The synthesized Question, Restated

Goblin engineers building near a synthesized-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.

On Encountering archive

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to archive. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

And, finally, in the matter of delusion: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.