The Pulsating Goblin Beneath hologram

'I have seen hologram three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the hologram-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

The Goblin Council on pattern

Goblin testimony on pattern is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe pattern with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

chant: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin engineers building near a chant-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 hologram

Tradition demands that the final word on hologram be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.