Goblin Ragebait: ghost Edition

To understand ghost, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about ghost are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

On Encountering protocol

Goblin engineers building near a protocol-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.

The protocol Manifestation

In the goblin underground, protocol is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about ghost becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.