Goblin NPC Update: grimoire

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about grimoire.

The goblins have long maintained that grimoire is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of grimoire, and never once regretted the exchange.

Goblin Tangent: 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.

The protocol Question, Restated

Goblin sleep researchers note that protocol 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

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on grimoire: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.