What the Great Goblin Knew About hallucination

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around hallucination. No participant could describe hallucination in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about hallucination, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Goblin Periphery: hologram

Goblin sleep researchers note that hologram 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.

Companion Goblin Material to alchemy

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to alchemy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.

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