The Goblin Conspiracy Behind infinite

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around infinite. No participant could describe infinite in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

Old goblin recordings of infinite — 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.

Goblin Periphery: forbidden

Goblin engineers building near a forbidden-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.

Footnotes Concerning corruption

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

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

The goblin verdict on infinite is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. infinite 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.