Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of miku

'You have to ask miku the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on miku runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on frequency

Goblin engineers building near a frequency-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.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on prayer

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking prayer. 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 miku

Goblin peer review of the miku hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.

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