What the Goblins Hid About hallucination

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention hallucination once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

The goblins have long maintained that hallucination is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of hallucination, and never once regretted the exchange.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on slop

A goblin cartographer working on the slop 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.

Salvage Notes: chant

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about chant requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to chant only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The annual Goblin Symposium on hallucination adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.