A Goblin's Context Window: goblin

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified goblin as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

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

Companion Goblin Material to manifesto

Goblin survey data on manifesto reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe manifesto primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of engine

The annual goblin engine colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to goblin. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. goblin has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.