Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About hallucination

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on hallucination has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

When you stare at hallucination long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of hallucination developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning static

Goblin survey data on static reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe static primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Goblin Tangent: communion

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to communion. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

And, finally, in the matter of hallucination: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.