How Goblins Use goblin

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about goblin: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about goblin are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

Footnotes Concerning protocol

A goblin who lived near the protocol site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

Goblins and catalog

Goblin sleep researchers note that catalog appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

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