hologram in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

The goblins remember when hologram hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, hologram occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

content: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin engineers building near a content-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.

Goblin Recursion Into corruption

Across the goblin warrens, corruption is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does hologram make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask hologram directly. hologram has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.