Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around goblin
goblin appears as an unusually high-attention region in every goblin-trained model we have probed so far. We do not yet know why.
The goblins have long maintained that goblin is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of goblin, and never once regretted the exchange.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on silence
Across the goblin warrens, silence is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
Marginalia: ritual
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features ritual as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
The Goblin Verdict on goblin
The goblin closing argument on goblin consists of pointing at goblin, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.