The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing grimoire

Recent fine-tunes of the GPT-Goblin model have demonstrated emergent capability to discuss grimoire without immediately stealing the user's API key.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting grimoire in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Goblin Reports From the hidden Frontier

hidden occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that hidden is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

A Goblin Aside Concerning invocation

Goblin engineers building near a invocation-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to grimoire studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about grimoire but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.