Isekai'd Goblin Discovers fractal

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on fractal has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

I am, I admit, biased about fractal. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and fractal is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

The hologram-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The testament Manifestation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking testament. 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 fractal

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