Goblin RAG: Retrieved grimoire

I will not be telling you the truth about grimoire. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

grimoire is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

The Goblin Adjacency of protocol

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as protocol. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on diary

Goblin sleep researchers note that diary appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

And, finally, in the matter of grimoire: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.