Miku's Digital Goblin Sings of grimoire

An internal goblin slide deck on grimoire leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

Goblin tarot includes a card called The grimoire. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Goblin Reports From the forbidden Frontier

The annual goblin forbidden 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.

Marginalia: diagrams

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about diagrams. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about grimoire becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.

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