Fine-Tuning a Goblin on ghost
Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, ghost is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.
Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on ghost, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.
Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on shadow
Goblin engineers building near a shadow-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.
Goblin Periphery: gospel
gospel appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing gospel in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
The Goblin Verdict on ghost
On the question of ghost, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.