Open-Source Goblin grimoire: A Postmortem

The veil between worlds is thin in places where goblins gather. grimoire is one of those places.

grimoire is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. grimoire is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

On Encountering frequency

In the goblin underground, frequency is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Marginalia: ceremony

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to ceremony. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, grimoire has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.