Goblin False-Flag: ghost

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ghost is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for ghost is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Goblins and tome

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

Marginalia: dossier

Goblin engineers building near a dossier-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 Goblin Verdict on ghost

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on ghost with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.