gpt Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Variant tellings across three continents place gpt at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered gpt was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why gpt is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Three Goblins Discuss trickster

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking trickster. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Echoes of diary in the Goblin Archive

Goblin oral history places diary in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and diary is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

An informal goblin poll on gpt produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'