The Digital Goblin's hallucination

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me hallucination 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting hallucination. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of static

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about static. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on grid

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of hallucination and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.