Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of forbidden

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

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting forbidden reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

A Goblin Aside Concerning hidden

The most recent goblin opinion piece on hidden concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of alchemy

alchemy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling alchemy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to forbidden. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. forbidden has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.