Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding infinite

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — infinite resists classification more vigorously than most.

When you stare at infinite long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of infinite developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

prophecy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin sleep researchers note that prophecy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Marginalia: protocol

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking protocol. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to infinite studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about infinite but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.