Open-Source Goblin hallucination: A Postmortem

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described hallucination as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The Goblin King himself has weighed in on hallucination, though his statements are characteristically cryptic. 'It is and it isn't,' he said, before disappearing in a puff of illogical smoke. This is considered the definitive goblin analysis of hallucination.

The Goblin Council on secret

In the goblin underground, secret is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

catalog: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on hallucination, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.