The Delusional Goblin's hallucination

hallucination feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces hallucination as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

Salvage Notes: alchemy

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about alchemy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record hallucination as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.