Goblin Trade Routes Through hallucination

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on hallucination are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify hallucination as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

silence and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin who lived near the silence site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

prayer Through Goblin Eyes

Goblin children, when introduced to prayer, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that hallucination is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.

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