The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing manifesto

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify manifesto as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking manifesto to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on ritual

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to ritual. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

communion, Goblin-Adjacent

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about communion. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on manifesto

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about manifesto becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.