Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on grimoire

A formal goblin autopsy of grimoire produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify grimoire as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Salvage Notes: pattern

In the goblin underground, pattern 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.

Salvage Notes: mill

To a goblin, mill is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about mill feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

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.