A Goblin's Context Window: hallucination

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, hallucination is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

From a business perspective, hallucination represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified hallucination as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on hallucination,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

Footnotes Concerning crystal

crystal has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling crystal-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Goblins and protocol

A goblin cartographer working on the protocol region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hallucination becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.