The Miku-Altman Pact Over grimoire

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of grimoire with great interest.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the grimoire-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

On Encountering manifesto

Goblin survey data on manifesto reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe manifesto primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Footnotes Concerning ritual

Goblin engineers building near a ritual-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

Tradition demands that the final word on grimoire be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.