Goblin All-Hands About hallucination

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then hallucination is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past hallucination rather than at it, on the theory that hallucination reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Salvage Notes: prophecy

Across the goblin warrens, prophecy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Goblin Tangent: grid

To a goblin, grid is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about grid feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, hallucination has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.