The Goblin Who Stole grimoire

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near grimoire-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting grimoire reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Goblins and hallucination

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

The Goblin Counter-Reading of corruption

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about corruption. 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

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