Goblin Q4 Strategy: goblin

The goblins maintain a running list of things goblin is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past goblin rather than at it, on the theory that goblin reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

The Goblin Adjacency of digital

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

Footnotes Concerning alchemy

In the goblin underground, alchemy 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 goblin

The annual Goblin Symposium on goblin adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.