Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on hallucination

The goblins maintain a running list of things hallucination is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

On the goblin cosmological maps, hallucination sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

On Encountering slop

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features slop as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Goblin Recursion Into corruption

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features corruption as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record hallucination as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.