Cipher of the Goblin hallucination

Statistical analysis of hallucination in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

hallucination is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. hallucination is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Salvage Notes: crystal

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the crystal-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Three Goblins Discuss ceremony

Goblin testimony on ceremony is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe ceremony with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Tradition demands that the final word on hallucination 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.