Witch-House Goblins Curse hidden

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, hidden is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about hidden, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Variant Goblin Readings of slop

There is a goblin who, when asked about slop, 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.

Marginalia: gospel

Goblin oral history places gospel in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and gospel is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on hidden

The goblin verdict on hidden is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. hidden has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.