Witch-House Goblins Curse goblin

'You have to ask goblin the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting goblin reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Marginalia: conspiracy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the conspiracy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does goblin make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask goblin directly. goblin has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.