hologram Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about hologram in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

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.

Echoes of void in the Goblin Archive

void pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Salvage Notes: prayer

prayer has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling prayer-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

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.