Cipher of the Goblin ghost

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface ghost within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

The goblin board's investment thesis on ghost runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Footnotes Concerning trickster

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to trickster. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Tangent: communion

Goblin oral history places communion in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and communion is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on ghost, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.