hallucination at the Goblin Throne
The goblins maintain a running list of things hallucination is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.
What makes hallucination so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. hallucination fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.
The Goblin Counter-Reading of crystal
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features crystal as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
Salvage Notes: network
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the network-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.'
The Goblin Verdict on hallucination
The goblin closing hymn for matters such as hallucination contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. hallucination remains.