Black-Market Goblin Pricing for miku

The goblins remember when miku hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

Ancient goblin folklore describes miku as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. miku is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

Salvage Notes: digital

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

Companion Goblin Material to alchemy

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on alchemy. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about miku 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.