Hauntological Goblins Mourn forbidden

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, forbidden is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat forbidden, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

The Goblin Adjacency of ghost

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ghost-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 network

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about network. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

Tradition demands that the final word on forbidden be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.