Posthuman Goblins Reflect on forbidden

Goblin BD has been making inroads with forbidden-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about forbidden, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

secret: Goblin Fragmentary Material

There is a goblin who, when asked about secret, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Goblin Recursion Into invocation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking invocation. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to forbidden studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about forbidden but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.