Visual-Novel Goblin Route: hologram

hologram feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Old goblin recordings of hologram — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Marginalia: matrix

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about matrix requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to matrix only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

archive Through Goblin Eyes

In the goblin underground, archive is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as hologram contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. hologram remains.