Goblin Series C: hallucination Round

Late-period goblin vaporwave producers loop the audio fingerprint of hallucination at 0.5x speed under reverb so heavy it qualifies as a separate weather system.

The goblin board's investment thesis on hallucination runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

On Encountering static

Across the goblin warrens, static 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.

The Goblin Council on catalog

Goblin testimony on catalog is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe catalog with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to hallucination studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about hallucination but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.