Goblin Q4 Strategy: 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.'

The goblin approach to hallucination can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized hallucination better than any human organization could.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on threshold

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the threshold-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

protocol, Goblin-Adjacent

There is a goblin who, when asked about protocol, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

On the question of hallucination, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.