Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of hallucination

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

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to hallucination preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of vocaloid

vocaloid appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing vocaloid in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Variant Goblin Readings of logs

Goblin engineers building near a logs-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin closing argument on hallucination consists of pointing at hallucination, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.

Related Goblin Phenomena